Quoting: InhaleOblivionAnyone of us who has used Linux for years prior to the advances of gaming understands why those of us who are lifelong gamers have two PC builds.

I can see why you would want to do that, especially if you want to play certain multiplayer games.

But no. I'm on Linux since 1995 or so, and deleted my DOS/Windows3.11-partition in 1996 when DOOM came out on Linux. So I've been a Linux-user AND a gamer years "prior to the advances of gaming".

And yes, if a game doesn't run on Linux, one way or another, native or with wine or with emulators, I'm not interested. I won't run (native) Windows ever again.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Porting always increases code quality.

But in the end, if you're not developing all platforms together, in the same codebase, with continuous testing, you'll end up with diverging code and a mess that is difficult to fix.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I'm currently playing https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/all-the-mods-gravitas [External Link] but yeah. Usually I don't play modpacks for old versions (this runs on 1.18.2), but I made this an exception.

But vanilla? Well, for me right now there's not enough https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create [External Link] in it...
(If you don't know what that is, well, watch the intro there. Yes, that's all done in-game).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

So they've been sued and convicted for privacy-violations, and they decided to add another one?

Hint: If your behaviour is violating the privacy of kids, the solution is not to ask for a birthdate (which, by the way, already violates the privacy of kids) to only violate the privacy of adults.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Probably too late to convince anyone to a Tesla, as people are now looking for alternatives, where the company boss hasn't gone over to the Dark Side #DarthMusk

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Nice. There was https://vennt.twodaemon.co.uk/ [External Link] before, which could do that (and obviously display it as diagrams too), but that appears offline.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Linas

Quoting: LinuxerUmm what is a .pak file? I see that for a download at itch. Do i just run that? :huh:

It's a data file for the Quake engine, sort of like a plugin. You'd have to copy that into your existing Quake installation.

Either copy it into your id1-dir, then quake will be block-quake until you remove it, or copy and rename pak2.pak into a subdirectory of your quake-dir, as "blocks/pak0.pak" and then run "darkplaces -game blocks" (or whatever engine you use).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Hm, well. Trouble is, it usually hasn't either anything to do with real locks (See here for a nice introduction http://locksport.com/index.php/discover-lockpicking/l-i-guide/ [External Link]) or even worse, it has -- in medieval fantasy settings. Where locks don't have tumblers, and thus any fiddling with a tension wrench is utterly useless (you only need one tool, a skeleton key/lockpick).

As an example: https://www.historicallocks.com/en/site/h/articles/the-history-of-padlocks/swedish-middle-ages-1050-1520/ [External Link] (This is, by the way, the definitive site for historical locks).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI am stuck between "Wow!" and "Why?!".

I can explain. Nothing is ever complete until it can run DOOM.

Like Minecraft: https://twitter.com/gegy1000/status/1469714451716882434 [External Link]
(the real thing, this is because of a log4j exploit)

Or a voting machine:
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/14/hackers-can-easily-break-into-voting-machines-used-across-the-u-s-play-doom-nirvana/ [External Link]
(Jup, exploit. Don't ever use voting machines without paper trails)

There's of course a reddit for it https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/ [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Hardware updates? I wish. A better GPU of course, but the bitcoin bros drove the costs of them too high.

View this comment - View article - View full comments