Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mohandevir

Personally, I'm getting seriously tempted by DEATH STRANDING on Steam as it's 60% off and seems to work well with Steam Play Proton nowadays and it seems it hasn't seen a higher discount yet.

I bought it, couple of minutes ago, before reading this article... :grin:

The Walking Simulator. I bought this on the PS4 back when Sony didn't release PC games. 😜

Every time I think of it, I think of the conversation in Clerks II about Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars...

I heard Death Stranding called a walking simulator so many times, it actually put me off buying/playing it. Then I saw Corben streaming it, and realised that the whole thing was just a joke. Bought it and sank some hours in. Great game.

Ha, it's a sort of joke. I mean you have to balance out your steps and such as you're walking or you fall over... Not sure how it works on the PC, but that's how it was on the PS4.

Well, yeah, sure the act of walking/balancing is an early gameplay mechanic. But "walking simulator" as a game genre means something entirely different. Indeed, it's usually used as an insult for a game with no engaging mechanics at all, no danger (no health bars, no death), little to no interaction... all you do is walk around. That couldn't really be any further from Death Stranding, where death is remarkably easy, the walking mechanic, strapping luggage to different parts of your body, crafting, RPG elements, open world exploration, vehicles... and later in the game, guns/grenades and full on fire-fights.

But I thought it was literally a walking sim genre game and was put off buying it!!

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mohandevir

Personally, I'm getting seriously tempted by DEATH STRANDING on Steam as it's 60% off and seems to work well with Steam Play Proton nowadays and it seems it hasn't seen a higher discount yet.

I bought it, couple of minutes ago, before reading this article... :grin:

The Walking Simulator. I bought this on the PS4 back when Sony didn't release PC games. 😜

Every time I think of it, I think of the conversation in Clerks II about Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars...

I heard Death Stranding called a walking simulator so many times, it actually put me off buying/playing it. Then I saw Corben streaming it, and realised that the whole thing was just a joke. Bought it and sank some hours in. Great game.

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Quoting: scainePulseaudio 15 is now weirdly "meh", now that the world has re-focused on Pipewire instead. I suppose Pipewire still leverages PA under the hood though?

Pulse has been feature complete and stable for most users for a couple of years now. It makes zero sense to write all new audio core and introduce a bunch of new bugs just because a small group of loud mouths can't stand the PulseAudio dev. For 99% of Linux users PipeWire will show zero improvements over or Pulse.

Spoken like someone who hasn't used bluetooth headsets, had to use a PC with multiple inputs and outputs (PA still doesn't have a way to choose a default), or had to constantly restart PA because of crackling in VR.

PA is a bit of a car crash. It was a useful step up from Alsa for multiple-stream support... for about a year, then ALSA got that baked in, but most distros had committed to PA by then. I can't think of a single upgrade to PA that's made using it any more pleasant. It's stale, and I'm extremely glad Pipewire is shaking things up again.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Julius@Liam is there a reason the GoG links are all pointing to some ad-tracking redirect?

This was answered before. GOG changed their affiliate program, this is who they use now.

Well it gets fully blocked by uBlock Origin, which certainly is a bit annoying.

So I don't think those affiliate links are going to work for most people.

They're pi-holed too, but it's easy to whitelist them, and you probably should since all of GOGs affiliates will use them, not just GOL. As for uBlock, just turn it off for gamingonlinux.com, since there are no ads on this site anyway. Or indeed any tracking cookies (other than GOG's affiliate links, the cookies required to log you in, and one to remember if you allow YouTube to load a thumbnail).

This entire site is like how a lesson on how to respect your visitors.

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I never played any GK games, so that won't bother me. Loved Broken Sword series though and I've mentioned Full Throttle, of course.

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Looks quite similar to the awesome Full Throttle - I played through its remaster a year or so back. I'll definitely take a look at this.

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Quoting: scaineI have no idea what you're talking about here. Nvidia blocked something... how? Or is this tired old "Mir" argument, in which I'm sick of hearing it, since, after all, competing standards literally defines what Linux is.

No idea how you block open source alternatives though. Is this about that Microsoft-funded company that brought lawsuits to big Linux houses with bogus patents? I forget their name.

Yeah, sorry. No idea what this is about.

Seems that you never read the story of Nouveau driver in all this years, don't you? If you know of an alternative, let us know, as in the current scenario many Nvidia users won't be able to use wayland unless they upgrade their hardware.

Lets stop playing dumb. Nvidia pushed for EGLStream against GBM for many years. They only changed their mind after completely failing to make it work. Simple as that.

I genuinely wasn't playing dumb - I hadn't a single clue to what you were referring (which is why I guessed three different scenarios). But sure, you meant the fact that Nvidia refused to implement a technology that Wayland relied on. That's... I mean, sure, that's really annoying. But maybe there's some responsibility on Wayland for relying on technology that wasn't present in all drivers? Actually, thinking back, wasn't the unrealistic position of Wayland, 8 years ago, the very reason that Canonical created Mir? One of the biggest reasons anyway, I think.

Let's just be happy that Nvidia have finally come around to supporting this requirement in their proprietary driver. More than ever, this whole story shows why open source drivers are so important. And tbh, I didn't really understand that until I went AMD a couple of years ago.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: BielFPsAnd I would like to welcome the Nvidia users friends to the wayland side of the force :smile:

I hope now the Linux Mint devs can stop pretending that Wayland is not a thing.

You say that like everyone else has adopted it, and it's the new standard...? As far as I know Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSuse do now default to Wayland, but it's not like it's used everywhere by any stretch. I'm on Pop 21.04 and there's no Wayland here. And don't KDE still have a few kinks to work out with Wayland?

It feels like the technology that's permanently "just around the corner". I just wish it had some kind of selling point - something that made me want to try it, other than vague "better architecture" back-end stuff that I'm meant to care about, but don't, on my single-user system. Instead, there's a list of quirks relating to screen sharing, keyboard overlays, proprietary apps and Nvidia or KDE incompatibilities.

It does feel like there's some momentum at long last though.

Kinda difficult to implement new defaults when the industry jerk makes lobby for their own problematic solution and blocks the development of any open source alternative.

I have no idea what you're talking about here. Nvidia blocked something... how? Or is this tired old "Mir" argument, in which I'm sick of hearing it, since, after all, competing standards literally defines what Linux is.

No idea how you block open source alternatives though. Is this about that Microsoft-funded company that brought lawsuits to big Linux houses with bogus patents? I forget their name.

Yeah, sorry. No idea what this is about.

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Quoting: BielFPsAnd I would like to welcome the Nvidia users friends to the wayland side of the force :smile:

I hope now the Linux Mint devs can stop pretending that Wayland is not a thing.

You say that like everyone else has adopted it, and it's the new standard...? As far as I know Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSuse do now default to Wayland, but it's not like it's used everywhere by any stretch. I'm on Pop 21.04 and there's no Wayland here. And don't KDE still have a few kinks to work out with Wayland?

It feels like the technology that's permanently "just around the corner". I just wish it had some kind of selling point - something that made me want to try it, other than vague "better architecture" back-end stuff that I'm meant to care about, but don't, on my single-user system. Instead, there's a list of quirks relating to screen sharing, keyboard overlays, proprietary apps and Nvidia or KDE incompatibilities.

It does feel like there's some momentum at long last though.

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Quoting: DoctorJunglistI'm hoping Mass Effect: Legendary Edition goes on sale soon.

I have about just enough money in my Steam wallet to buy it, provided the discount it receives is no smaller than the previous one (so 34% off would suffice).

They dropped Denuvo from this title a month or so ago, so I'd happily pick it up too. Also got my eye on that star wars game where you play a ginger dude. Probably the closest to a "scottish" jedi I'm gonna get! :grin:

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