Legen of Keepers for free is really nice - I did have it on my wishlist! Might need to install Heroic to get cloud saves on GoG

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: PikoloThe patent office can't find prior art for those? How? They're all issued since 2019! The only one that even seems novel is AUTOMATED PLAYER CONTROL TAKEOVER IN A VIDEO GAME, and I'd assume someone more familiar with MMORPGs can find an example. ROUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITHIN A GAME APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT is bonkers - we've had animated navigation lines for decades!

USPTO no longer looks for prior art since at least a decade back, the new regime is that they only do very basic checks and then any violations such as prior art is up for a court to decide in a future lawsuit.

That actually explains a lot. Though its very dumb

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The patent office can't find prior art for those? How? They're all issued since 2019! The only one that even seems novel is AUTOMATED PLAYER CONTROL TAKEOVER IN A VIDEO GAME, and I'd assume someone more familiar with MMORPGs can find an example. ROUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITHIN A GAME APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT is bonkers - we've had animated navigation lines for decades!

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Quoting: PhiladelphusIntelligence agencies the world over must be salivating at the prospect of being able to make their own poorly-balanced games to tease out more classified handbooks on military hardware. 🤣

(That's not a dig at War Thunder, which on re-reading I see it could come off as; I haven't played it and have no opinions on its balancing.)

WarThunder forums have seen at least 3 cases of classified military data [External Link] released as justifications for rebalancing particular vehicles. So you're not that far off the mark

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Quoting: DMGHow can I install specific driver version? I somehow see only version 535.113.01
 
user@pop-os:~$ sudo apt search "NVIDIA driver metapackage"
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
mir-graphics-drivers-nvidia/jammy 2.7.0-0ubuntu3 amd64
  Display server for Ubuntu - Nvidia driver metapackage

nvidia-driver-390/jammy-security,jammy-updates 390.157-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 amd64
  NVIDIA driver metapackage

nvidia-driver-470/jammy 470.199.02-1pop0~1695931040~22.04~4c2d0ee amd64
  NVIDIA driver metapackage

nvidia-driver-535/jammy,now 535.113.01-1pop0~1695753528~22.04~0561f9e amd64 [installed]
  NVIDIA driver metapackage

user@pop-os:~$ 

It's not in the Ubuntu repo yet - production Nvidia drivers do break stuff, so on Ubuntu they go through phased rollouts. Additionally, for new major versions a new package will be created, and it hasn't been yet https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&keywords=nvidia-driver&searchon=names [External Link] It will be in Ubuntu in 3-5 days if it's not breaking anything for beta testers.

The nvidia drivers beta-testing repo got a build 4 hours ago https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link]

I strongly discourage updating Nvidia drivers outside of your distribution's preferred channel. It's not easy to fix your mistakes if you're doing this for the first time.

Edit: 535.129.03 is now in the Ubuntu Jammy repository - I think PopOS is built on Ubuntu LTS and Jammy is the current LTS. 545 is not in yet

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That's exciting!

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Looks like I might try Wayland again:
Added support for PRIME render offload to Vulkan Wayland WSI.

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The giveaway doesn't load in Firefox. Does load in Chrome.

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Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: PikoloLegend of Grimrock was realtime, and that's my favourite from the genre

I played Legend of Grimrock (the first one), and I found out that managing a party of four in real-time isn't exactly a pleasant experience, especially since you also have to manage the characters' hunger. Can't remember if there was equipment durability on top of that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was. I didn't enjoy it at all, and quit after completing the first floor of the game.

However, I've had more fun playing Vaporum and its prequel [External Link], which are both single-character dungeon crawlers.

For party-based ones, I've kinda enjoyed some of Experience Inc's JRPG-like dungeon crawlers. So far, I only tried three of their titles in the genre, Saviors of Sapphire Wings / Stranger of Sword City Revisited [External Link] and Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi [External Link]. On Switch, though. Dunno how the PC versions compare.

I played Legend of Grimrock 1 and 2 and Operencia: The Stolen Sun in coop mode - one person playing the keyboard moving, the second person playing the mouse to do the attacking/switch activation. Happy to see this genre comming back

Legend of Grimrock did not feature equipment degradation - you did have to pull ranged weapon ammo out of the corpses of dead enemies though. I was paranoid about hunger at the beginning too, but all it did was place a limit on how long you could linger to re-try puzzles. In LoG II there were a few areas with re-spawning edible wolves that made food a non-issue

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Quoting: williamjcmLooks interesting indeed. And I'm glad they went with turn-based combat. Grid-based dungeon crawlers that are party-based play better when turn-based.

Legend of Grimrock was realtime, and that's my favourite from the genre - we'll see what exactly they mean by turn time.

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