My brother talked me into getting it this past weekend (being only like $8 helped), but I haven't played it yet. I'm looking forward to trying it out, though.

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Nice! I'll have to see about updating soon. I guess it's been about ten years now, since I switched from Linux Mint Debian Edition in 2015 if I remember correctly. :smile:

What's your favourite new feature in Debian 13?

Not having to worry about Y2K38, I guess…? :grin: I dunno, I read the release notes and nothing particularly stood out as important to me personally. RISC-V support is neat, I suppose. Could be interesting to see where that goes.

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Oh, it's by the Rain On Your Parade developers? Will definitely have to check this one out further.

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Yeah, there's a difference between something being made exclusive to a single platform artificially as a tactic to pressure consumers into buying that platform, and something being exclusive to a platform because…that platform is the only one that can do it. It's like a flautist complaining that a Beethoven piano sonata is "exclusive" to the piano…well, yeah, you can't play ten different notes at a time on a flute*.

*As far as I know. No hate for flautists, it was simply an example that came to mind. :smile:

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OK, that's kind of interesting. This is the kind of thing that would've had me enthralled for hours as a kid. :grin:

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Can't wait to see a multiplayer speedrun of this at Games Done Quick. :grin:

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For anyone confused why Epic Games Store is noted it's because you can install it using Proton inside of Steam.

Hey, I heard you like game launchers, so now you can launch your game launcher from inside your other game launcher…

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How many times are we expecting to die in the process of setting up a farm?

As many as it takes! :grin:

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It's all hand-crafted spelling errors and terrible grammar here.

🤣 Can relate!

This reminds me that, come July 12, it'll have been eleven years since I built my first desktop and put Linux on it. :smile: Most of those original parts are still going strong! (So far only one RAM module [out of four] and the PSU have failed.)

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A bit late now, but I tried the demo for Gecko Gods. It reminded me of a Legend of Zelda game where you're a gecko. You can climb on any surface (which does cause some confusion with the movement controls on occasion), can dash at pots to break them and recover glowing runes*, can swim but not dive, and go about solving puzzles in the environment (often, at least in the demo, to lower some water level to access a new area). After completing three main puzzles on the starting island I got a boat, which I presume lets you visit the other islands visible around (though the demo ends just as you head out onto the ocean).

Overall it was a pretty chill experience. There were a few robotic enemies, but they were pretty easy to dodge or defeat (just dash at them a few times). There are different insect types around the world which you can eat (and get a message about "new insect discovered"), and some friendly crows you can talk to. Otherwise it's mostly just enjoying crawling around every which way over pretty much any surface you can see and exploring the gorgeously stylized world.

*I had over 1300 by the time I finished exploring the starting island in the demo, but couldn't find any obvious use for them; maybe the don't do anything in the demo, or on that island.

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