Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: PyrateReally hope Mihoyo or whatever they're called now go the Stellar Blade route and make a traditional game for once.

I am afraid they won't. Let's face it, their shady designs are a lot more profitable than traditional games. There is a reason why 100% of the entire mobile market is based on shady designs.

That's why I brought up Stellar Blade. Anything is possible and I wouldn't discount them making a one off traditional paid game, like how ShiftUp did.

ShiftUp are actually even worse off than Mihoyo as in their gacha games are like simple mobile shit, while Genshin and ZZZ are pretty much AAA console games level at least. ZZZ with a radically different design would've been a damn fine $60 game.

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I played this last year using their launcher, so unless they changed anything since then, this should work a-okay under Linux. I remember it actually worked brilliantly and read that it worked day zero on Linux in the Beta tests.

Really hope Mihoyo or whatever they're called now go the Stellar Blade route and make a traditional game for once. Their teams talent and passion is immensely evident, but it's unfortunately shrouded in FOMO tactics and gambling schemes. Zenless Zone Zero is a love letter to western entertainment, japanese animation and storytelling in general, would kill for a non-FOMO version.

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Grabbed this off my wishlist as the update on Steam mentioned they'll be raising the price for their next update and that this is the best time to grab the game on sale before the price increase. Thanks for the coverage !

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I'm actually baffled, flabbergasted even that there isn't unanimous disapproval from what I checked online. What I saw wasn't enough. This will be the future of AAA games, if they weren't dead before, they're definitely dead now.

I'm not even close to the biggest AI hater by the way but this looks so bad it caught me completely off-guard.

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What's most impressive for me here is realizing the bazillion articles about the infinite amount of roguelikes that keep getting pumped out were all human-written 😁

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I tend to be purely pragmatic in open source software. I just take what works and is safe, no emotions, no politics.

The sentiment shared by the developer at the end of his response I find highly concerning and as such I think I'm going to uninstall Lutris. The concept of hiding stuff in what's supposedly an open and transparent environment is making me lose trust in the program.

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Harry: This doesn't change anything.

Spoiler, click me

couldn't immediately find a photo of the scene so a text reference will have to do.

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I don't like Fluxer. I checked the website and it just screams Discord 2.0 to me. Same font and look, and the monetisation was blasted up front which I very much did not appreciate. Apparently, they sold out their lifetime subscriptions already, I think it's in the hundreds of thousands in sales. That's a lot of bag, hopefully they don't walk back on their promise... It'd also be funny if those who paid lifetime to get their server hosted by Fluxer for them get hit with age verification again at some point because as Liam keeps saying, it's only a matter of time for these centralised services.

I've also read posts from technical people criticising the codebase with regards to self hosting. I'm not well versed in this topic so can't affirm the findings.

Point is, I think it's highly unwise to pick the projects that are trying their hardest to be 'literally discord', as one should learn and attempt to not make the same mistake again. With this in mind, my criteria for eligible projects is: open source, and zero money involved outside of donations, grass roots, strictly self hosted and decentralised.

Someone made a list of the difdiscord-selfhosted-alternatives:
https://github.com/Vigno04/discord-selfhosted-alternatives [External Link]
Out of those, I'm going Sharkord as I mentioned in my forum post last week.

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Nice try. But all this does is it just adds more time for things like Sharkord to mature up more in the meantime before the big migration. No turning back now.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.

Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.

So, first of all "user friendly" is a very vague term and I'm willing to agree that Fedora satisfies it. "as user friendly as Mint" is less vague, and I have never heard anyone claim Fedora satisfies that.

As to that second thing, no. I learned a thing or two about package management back in the 2000s. It was really annoying, as soon as they existed I moved to distros that did not make me do that. There is a finite amount of stuff I am capable of knowing a thing or two about, and a near infinite amount of stuff that would in some manner be useful to know, and I'm sorry but guts-details of operating systems is not in my top 1000. Computer people always think their particular area of knowledge is the one everyone really ought to know, but as far as I can tell there is no real basis for that believe

This turned argumentative real quick.

I didn't say Fedora is as user friendly as XYZ, I just that is, and in the midst of your confusion you seen to agree.

Secondly, your claim about wanting dsitros that "did not make you do [package management]" and that there's a finite amount of stuff you're capable of learning. I'm puzzled because A: what distros don't make you manage your packages? :D do you mean using GUI such as an app store ? Well Fedora KDE has the Discover store that let's you do that. And B: literally what else is there to know about a Linux system at all if not simple package management tips ? do you claim dnf install/update/remove is a difficult thing to understand and learn ? Genuinely, tell me one other thing that's more important for a new user to learn about Linux other than learning how to properly install apps and update their system.

Also, for the last unfounded assumption here: I'm not a computer people, I'm in med school.

No, the point is not that I should learn other things about my Linux distro rather than package management. The point is that I might want to learn about politics, or pickling vegetables. I use computers, I want them to be out of the way and let me use them to do things. Currently, Linux Mint is very good at this. You suggested that I instead use something else which would entail learning to do command line things, because "It's good practice long term."

Well, no, it isn't. It's time from my life that I won't get back, that I could simply not spend if I continue to use Mint, thus allowing me to instead spend time on things I find more interesting or compelling or important.

Please, point to me where I suggested that you should use or not use anything. The lack of reading comprehension here is astounding.

The real time of my life I won't be getting back is this back and forth, lmfao. Maybe make it clear next time that your idea of user-friendly Linux is strictly Mint and absolutely nothing else, so one won't have to waste their time and have no productive discourse.

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