I've been playing the heck out of the network test and I'm loving it so far! This is probably the most I've been into a kart racer since... ever.

As for the other stuff... well, I've come to terms with online only and Denuvo - all they really get out of me these days are a mildly irritated grumble. No, my real gripe with the game is actually its ridiculous £65 price tag. Am I loving the network test? Yeah! But £65 loving it? No. Sega are being even greedier than usual with that utterly ridiculous price tag and, as much as it pains me, I'm going to have to wait this one out until the price goes down to something more reasonable.

Well... I guess there's SuperTuxKart's release candidate to tide me over until Crossworlds is affordable.

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And I'm sure it'd be even more responsive if they updated the client to be 64-bit!

Also, I pronounce it GIF. With a "guh". Not "Jif". Do I look like Shadow the Hedgehog to you?

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I started with Mint and actually ran it on my laptop for a while, but I switched to Fedora because I wanted KDE, Wayland and newer packages. I still recommend Mint Cinnamon to beginners though - when you're getting started, what you want is stable packages and a familiar interface.

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I've actually been using Godot a lot recently. I don't like GDScript because it's whitespace-sensitive, but I have found an extension that allows me to write stuff in Rust which I'm more familiar with.

I don't see the need for a fancy JetBrains IDE for my use case though. Kate does everything I need for writing Rust.

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I'll take part in their hardware survey if I get prompted for it. I'm already choosing to give full telemetry data to KDE.

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Is that Sonic Colors Ultimate or something else? I'm curious :)

Mostly just messing around with Sonic ideas in the engine itself. I've been trying to come up with ideas for a Sonic RPG.
It also gives me an excuse to learn the engine itself.

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Not surprised, really. They've been pushing this one back for a while now.

As a big Sonic fan I'll probably skip this since I'm not into mobile games and apparently from those who've been able to play the beta it's extremely grindy. I'm getting my Sonic fix from Godot of all things now.

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I guess I'll update then. Fedora 41 will probably still be supported for a while but I'd like to get the new stuff.

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I found out about the existence of SDL3 recently, but since it isn't in any repositories to my knowledge I instead decided to try learning SDL2 instead. Didn't get super far because trying to get Cargo to notice the assets folder was an exercise in frustration and basically required learning another whole library, but hey.

My language of choice is Rust and I was able to get a crate for SDL3 it at least. That does require sourcing the SDL3 C libraries from elsewhere though and I wasn't in the mood to compile it. If SDL3 gets added to Fedora's and Arch's repos then I'll absolutely look into it, even if it means having to write makefiles and subjecting myself to C++

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Hooray for consolidation.

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