I've zero affiliation with them, but found the experience in creators.tf servers to be really enjoyable, and to be the closest to the "old casual" mode (There is a server time limit for each map, for example), they are Community server so there won't be bots and/or chat abuse.

There's also Happy Trigger Gamers which is mostly Uk focused I believe and the activity on the server fluctuates a lot, but I had really nice games in their servers.

To this day, TF2 is my all time favourite game :)

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Quoting: elmapul8GB of ram... (the same as an ps4)
vulkan support
cheap as hell..

i know its video capabilities should be fair inferior to PS4, but still this is geting impressive and turning into nice gaming machine

If only you could hook an evga into the Raspberry...maybe later iteration gets thunderbolt? One can only wish.

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Quoting: gustavoyaraujoDota 2 is one of the best games avaliable on steam, it's sad a lot of people don't like to due to difficult learning curve and all the community haters.

I think it's the amount of hate that goes into the community, to the point that it's not really worth it to play without four other people you know, and even then frictions is created amongst each other; I stopped playing cause I was solo-queueing and every match was a lottery (and lack of role queue, I always ended up being support, so never learnt to be a carry and never improved, etc...) and to be fair I could not keep up with all the meta and the recent changes, for casual sure, but even there sometimes people are toxic, so I just un-installed and be happy in tf2.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: minkiuHATS.

... for the cards!
And for the mouse cursor!
And for buttons!
And for...

... the player!

Did anybody already do physical hats from games? :D

I bet they will do the little assistant/creature, they could straight import all the flying couriers from dota...

:)

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Quoteand they do have some ideas about what they wish to sell for the game but it won't be cards. So we're likely looking at some sort of cosmetic items.

HATS.

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Quoting: tgurrMeanwhile every game I try running with the "Steam Linux Runtime" fails with

`g_io_module_load': /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiognutls.so: undefined symbol: g_io_module_load
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiognutls.so
bwrap: execvp readlink: No such file or directory
bwrap: execvp readlink: No such file or directory
pressure-vessel-wrap: None of the supported CPU architectures are common to the host system and the container (tried: x86_64-linux-gnu, i386-linux-gnu)

while they run fine without the container solution.

It's funny how containers are said to be the cure to everything by adding yet another layer of complexity.

Out of curiosity what linux are you running?

Could it be you are using musl instead of glibc?

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This news makes me wonder if Rockstar has already shared RDR2 with Valve/Steam, and they are prepping it to be a day one Steam Play Platinum release, that would be amazing.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: TermyLets hope they roll it out for Linux, too and not leave us out like with streaming ^^

Considering it uses streaming, that might be a downside for GNU/Linux users then. I don't know - I don't use streaming via Steam at all, and so no idea what kind of shape it's in.

Given the Steam client upgrades lately and how they're trying to polish up GPU acceleration, it would be quite amazing to see this feature unavailable for Linux.

Plus I am able to share my Steam (stream) to my Android box on my TV, so I don't see why this would not work.

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I've been playing Dota on and of for the past months, and I enjoyed the role queue addition , although I would love to see some adjustments to it.

I like playing most roles (except safe lane hard carry, I am not a good hard carry), so I tick Mid, Offlane, Support and Hard support.

It would be cool if it took in account previous matches for those of us who don't mind flexing, I don't think anyone enjoy 3+ matches in the same role unless of course they only queue on that, I feel sorry for the "Safe Lane" only queue times haha, and rest assured of that if you have "Hard Support" or "Support" ticked, thats what you are gonna play.

I guess the only real solution is to only queue for the one you want, but I like being randomly assigned a role.

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Quoting: NanobangI gave up futzing with all this a long time ago, shortly after Primus came along. I set my (I-will-never-buy-another) Optimus laptop to "Nvidia" and keep it plugged in. The downside is that sounds and feels like an idling Harrier Jump Jet. The upside is that it will probably die sooner, and the sooner it dies, the sooner I can look into non-Optimus options. :D

I am on the same boat, although (at least in Fedora with RPMFusion drivers) you can disable the GPU at boot time on grub, that way if I know I'm not going to game, I just use the Intel/Noveau.

It would be really cool if when updating nvidia drivers a new grub entry was created with nvidia disabled, I saw an open ticket (don't remember in which project) that was exactly this... but didn't get much traction.

That said I tried doing something myself, bit cant really seem to get the grubby docs.

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