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Richard Stallman has resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT
17 September 2019 at 9:17 am UTC Likes: 22

For those rushing to RMS' defense. This is just one thing in a long list of things. For all the good he has done, it's really not the person that you should want as the face of free software.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-4 has been released into the wild
16 September 2019 at 9:06 am UTC

The thing with the character not being able to look around. To fix it, sometimes you have to alt-tab to another window and then click back into the game window. A bit of a hassle, but not too bad.

The handy NVIDIA Optimus GPU switcher just added support for more Linux desktops
11 September 2019 at 5:19 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Sil_el_motuh. i feel a bit dumb. for what is this.. nvidia on demand.. my gpu is barely getting hot when i am not playing any games, so for what do i need this piece of software?

For laptops who have both a low power Intel GPU and a high power Nvidia GPU. The tool lets you switch between the two on the fly. Or also (I assume) to launch certain programs using the NV, while your desktop carries on with the Intel.

If you can't login to World of Warcraft or WoW Classic on Linux, here's a quick fix for now
9 September 2019 at 12:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

It may be necessary to add net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl=80 (or 128) to /etc/sysctl.conf to make sure the setting persists after reboot.

EDIT: Or echo 128 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl

Heck, I don't know... somebody help. :)

Looks like Beyond a Steel Sky, the sequel to the classic Beneath a Steel Sky is coming to Linux
9 September 2019 at 11:46 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: EikeShould I (liking point and click adventures in general) play "Beneath a Steel Sky"?

Well, it's free. :) I hated the voice acting, but the game is great. The first time I played was the Amiga version which had no voice acting. Then later tried it voiced and just noped out of there fast.

If you can't login to World of Warcraft or WoW Classic on Linux, here's a quick fix for now
9 September 2019 at 11:29 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: GuestIt's about bloody time they officially supported us, unless their hands are tied?

I'm going to take a wild guess here. Being owned by a publicly traded company, "Linux" is still a dirty word that will make their stock prices go down. Every time they say the word, they have to counteract it by saying stock value increasing buzz-phrases like "blockchain" or "VR" or "AI" or "Stadia".

I mean for real, it matters less how much product they will be selling or how many paying customers they have than what will affect their stock prices.

A little look over ProtonDB reports for Steam Play in August 2019
4 September 2019 at 6:57 am UTC

I'm assuming Warframe's Gold is because you need to use

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%

to make sure the sound works well. Other than that it runs really well and looks great. It's a fantastic game to try out, since it's free-to-play, and generally not disgusting with monetisation.

Some more thoughts on Ion Fury, the FPS from Voidpoint and 3D Realms
23 August 2019 at 5:41 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: GuestSeriously, how dumb do you think we are to fall for this?

Quite a bit.

Some more thoughts on Ion Fury, the FPS from Voidpoint and 3D Realms
23 August 2019 at 5:17 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: LonsforThey targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

This is the most braindead thing I have read all week, thank you for the laugh.

But anyway, "gamers" is just people who play games. You're not some special anything. Games make you feel empowered and every game revolves around you, which is probably why you think real life works like this. It does not.

Nobody's calling gamers sexist, racist, etc. People call racists racist. They call sexists sexist. That's it.

And this is important: NOBODY IS TRYING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR VIDEO GAMES*

*except Donald Trump and friends, but that's another discussion.

Some more thoughts on Ion Fury, the FPS from Voidpoint and 3D Realms
23 August 2019 at 3:17 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: GuestThe "ogay" word and "fagbag" is anti trans? is your head alright?

That was not the transphobic stuff, it was things like implying that trans people are insane.