I'm hoping this would make Pop_OS! a better recommendation as a Ubuntu based distro for gaming. I think we're already covered when it comes to the other big guys (Fedora has loads, Arch has some too but probably not the best idea to tell people to start with Arch) so it's only Ubuntu left. And I have tried Pop_OS! in the past, and I'm sorry, even their tweaks couldn't salvage the (in my very personal opinionated opinion and nothing else) trainwreck that is GNOME.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Pickettf3nceThe "Gulikit KK3 MAX [External Link]" is a great alternative for those of us in the US or UK.

L3, L4, R3, R4 detachable rear paddles, toggle-able hair triggers, analog triggers, hall-effect joysticks, 8 (or 4) way d-pad, programmable macros, 3 vibration intensities, USB-C rechargeable, addressable RGB, integrated gyroscope, extra buttons to swap between Nintendo and Traditional button layouts. Support for Switch, SteamOS, Android, iOS, MacOS, and windows.

It's a night and day difference between this and an Xbox Series controller.

Do their paddles actually fully work on Linux and Steam Deck without needing an external app like 8bitdo?

Perhaps not ideal, but I went around this issue by using the 8Bitdo android app to configure the controls, which allows you to do everything the Windows program does, if I'm not mistaken. I'd definitely not give up my 8bitdo controller for something as minuscule and easily solvable as this.

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Just updated to 6.1 on Fedora, so slick and pleasant to use as always. Even though I don't use Nvidia, the new additions other than that are welcome. My favourite right now is shake the cursor to make it bigger when you can't find it :D.

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Totally procedurally generated missions and story

This is the only part that bothers me. I prefer hand-crafted levels and missions.

If this wasn't yet another damned roguelike I'd be way more excited for it.

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You had me at Immersive Sim. Wishlisted.

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Quoting: _MarsThe Helldivers boycott sure was effective.
I have friends that still can't buy the game due to the regional limitations. But everyone gave themselves a pat on the back after a single tweet and forgot about that immediately.

But hey, it's not like that was the main argument everyone was making, right? :whistle:

It was the fleshlight they'd throw out after use, "think about the kids" energy.

Personally, I'm glad the games are "unavailable" for my region, not only would I not need to link my PSN account, I'll get to have the game for free! Service Issue and all that.

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Kickstarter backing always sounded like one of those first-world people things, a concept a couple steps away from something like donating to twitch streamers; a total waste of money.

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So it CAN be done... go ahead and do this for the other games, EA.

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I guess it makes sense for Valve to officially put it out there, have it on record. But from experience, Valve is very lenient on this kind of stuff. I don't do it myself, but my friends share and exchange their steam accounts all the time between themselves, never a warning or a ban or anything like that as far as I know.

Of course, the question of ownership is still a big issue, one where my personal solution if it ever came to (cue the Microsoft acquiring Valve rumour) is to simply participate in questionable software actions to keep my Steam-downloaded games usable. It's what makes me sleep at night, knowing I can still have at it if the Steam store evaporates the next day (tears of multi billion corporation fans and irrelevant regional laws go here)

I've seen the criticism about GoG before, but I never got it. They're selling you the game, and once you download it, it's yours, truly. I don't care what their licensing agreement says, if one doesn't like their service or launcher, they can just acquire the game through alternative sources after making the transaction on their website, and there'd be 0 difference in product quality, since at the end of the day, the games have no DRM. If we want to be unnecessarily specific and explicit: yes, digital is never going to be as good as physical, but with GoG I think we're almost there, it depends on how much you really care about EULAs and whatever other crap designed specifically to fuck you over and protect their bottom line.

Call me old school, but my relationship between myself and game retailers/storefronts will forever be this: a single transactional contract, they get my money, and I get the game. If I get blasted by some stupid enshittification bullshit down the line locking me out of a game I bought, or artificially making the experience worse, too bad for them, I'll sail the damn seas.

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Fixed the 8BitDo Wireless 2.4G controller showing up as two controllers on Linux.

This is huuuuuge. Finally, I thought I'd have to live with double inputs all the time.

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