I typically bounce off the "cute girls doing cute things" genre of anime cause it makes me cringe but I do like sports anime quite a bit due to how insane it gets, in that sports anime is to the actual sport what wrestling is to actual fighting: Exaggerated as hell, hype, and full of colorful characters. And I wanna finish it before I play this game.

I'm told that after season 1 of the show for this it starts getting as intense as a sports anime should be and I believe it after watching a few out of context clips of "Beginning of a new Era" that sold me on the series so I'm trying to thug out the "UWAAAH, SUGOI UWUUU" of season 1 knowing there's gold over the hill of shit.

What inlinuxdude said is funny because I initially wrote this franchise off with the exact phrase of "I'm not old or addicted to gambling enough to care about an anime based on real life horse betting horses" before my friend insisted I put my pre-concieved notions about the premise aside and just give it a chance, and I'm not regretting it... starting at around episode 9 of season 1 where it suddenly starts becoming the anime I wanted it to be instead of exactly the "cute girls doing cute things" slice of life I didn't want it to be.

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This is a great project, I just really wish Protonup-Qt had all the features and proton versions this had, not really a fan of GTK theming.

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Dropping 32 bit support is one of the reasons Mac stopped getting proton support IIRC, this would have disastrous consequences. I recently saw one of the bazzite devs also straight up said that if 32 bit support is dropped that means the end of that distro full stop.

I literally just got a friend into linux because of bazzite, if this happens it WILL turn people away from linux. This isn't some ideological "well you lose some functionality but it's otherwise generally pretty fine for the sake of progress" thing like Wayland vs X11, this is a matter of "If you do this, you will lose many people when they realize stuff they use regularly no longer works."

Nobara and Bazzite are my go-to recommendations for distros, and both are based on fedora, this is genuinely some of the worst linux news I've heard since the xz backdoor, except that wasn't even as bad, because that was unintentional and fixed quickly, while this is going to be more permanent and cause many more visible problems.

Gamescope is one of the main genuine advantages linux has over windows for people who play video games, especially old ones. And the ability to record on linux is essential, so if OBS goes that's really bad.

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Just a heads up to everyone here, there is apparently a cutscene in Chapter 3 that is broken unless you use GE-Proton to play this game. The rest of the game will work fine except for this, so it'll catch you by surprise.

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Wait, Tunnet wasn't considered playable? I remember playing the proton version of that game just fine a while back because the native linux port was giving me control issues.

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The fact that they're open about the fact that this might need some future improvements gives me great confidence in the future of this application because it means the person working on it is open to making it even better. Frankly, I think that a feature like this should be easily accessible on any distro, hell, it should be a built in feature of Windows as well. Heck knows that developers aren't giving us as many split screen games these days.

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There are too many banger games coming out for me to put up with Denuvo DRM. Even if I REALLY want a game, like in the case of say, Hi Fi Rush, I will skip over it if it uses Denuvo.

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If it has trackpads and grip triggers this will pretty much be the only real "competition" to steam deck in my eyes because PC gaming on a controller is unusable without those IMO. Not sure why it's not industry standard yet to have them. One trackpad is mandatory for comfortable mouse usage, a second is nice for a macro menu via radial/touch menus in Steam Input.

Manjaro is an... "interesting" choice, but hey, I can just replace it with something else like CachyOS Handheld Edition, Bazzite, or Nobara Handheld Edition.

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$2 really is a steal for black mesa, when people ask me which version of HL1 they should play, this or the original, I say "both".

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@eggrole

I DO want a competitive market, this is why I use itch.io, gamejolt, and GOG as well as steam. I want that competition to succeed, not Epic, with the rare exception of Epic clapping Apple's ass in court which I am 100% in approval of in a very "Enemy of my enemy" fashion.

But those other places have things that actually benefit me as an end user, instead of holding games at gunpoint and going "Use our badly made store with no linux support outside of a 3rd party launcher like Heroic or you don't get to play this" while itch and gamejolt host fangames, experimental projects, and mods, and GOG has DRM free games to entice me. Epic just has a whiny CEO pretending (outside of the victory against apple, that was pretty cool of them) to be hero of the industry and Fortnite which I'm too old to be the target audience of.

But speaking of demographics, You know what I am the target audience of? Unreal Tournament. And they did not treat the franchise their engine's namesake comes from with any level of dignity since UT4 got cancelled and they delisted the entire franchise, so there's that chip on my shoulder about Epic too.

Contrary to what Tim Sweeney has directly said, Consumers decide the store wars, not publishers.

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