Is Sonic 2 worth playing if I already have Sonic Mania?

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HITMAN 2. I'm at Santa Fortuna, mastery level 11. Will likely do one more run tonight aiming for silent assassin before moving onto Mumbai. Gonna find the hippo.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI've been thinking about playing Shadow Tactics game which has a Linux port, might be good.

It's a great game. Highly recommended. If you've any doubt, there's a free demo which is basically the tutorial mission IIRC.

Personally I've gotten back into The Witcher 3. I actually started playing it last April, but drifted away for some reason. I picked it up again on Switch recently, and am really enjoying it. Turned the difficulty all the way down so I can just enjoy the ambience and story. This port has save game sync capability to both the Steam and GoG clouds, but you need all the DLC. Faced with the choice of paying $14 for the DLC on GoG or buying the GotY edition on Steam for $24 I went with the latter, it fits my "workflow" (gameflow?) better. Witcher 3 on the couch via Steam Link until Mrs wants the lights turned up for her reading, then move to the bedroom and continue it on the Switch. Grand.

That said, I'm currently playing the quest where I'm looking for Dandelion, and I just did the interrogation with Whoreson Junior. Wow, there's some over the top gratuitous violence leading up to that, just in case we have any doubts about Whoreson Junior's character. Yuck. It reminded me a bit of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels, where the bad guys are often horribly sadistic. I get it, he's a baddie, I don't want all the details before bed time.

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Anyone played Sigma Theory? That's the only one that interests me this month. I might just pick it up in the Steam sale, it's just over half what I would have to pay for the bundle.

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I finally finished Divinity: Original Sin 2. Great game, but too long for me, it was a bit of a slog in the end. I might replay it with another character sometime, but not for a while yet. And the Nintendo Switch copy I ordered before Christmas still hasn't shown up! This week, surely - it's finally in Australia, no tracking info with the local postal service yet though.

I've also been playing Bioshock Remastered which was kindly gifted to me by fellow GoL user pskosinski. I think I'm about a third of the way in so far.

And one from the Itch Bundle. Astrologaster. It's basically a visual novel, but I'm really enjoying the olde English voice acting and singing.

I'm running the first two of these in Proton via Steam, and for the last I'm running the Itch client under Wine. All working fine, but Bioshock needs a launch option to disable esync in Proton.

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Quoting: pskosinskiAll I see is "Sorry, this user has set their profile to private.". Am I missing something?

Fixed now, and despite it appearing to be region-locked pskosinski was able to gift me the game. Cheers!

Happy to pay it forward if anyone else wants something from my list. :)

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Quoting: pskosinski

Quoting: toojaysI wouldn't say I need it, but if anyone has a surplus Bioshock key I'd be interested to trade (…)

How can I contact you? I can send you gift link for free, I got this bundle but I already have Bioshock. I have too many games to play anyway (or too little time), so I'm sending gift links of what I already have to friends.

If you click my userid you can then send me a private message on this site. Thanks.

P.S. Just in case it is region locked: I am in Australia.

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Quoting: ArehandoroAlso, there is the option to give the games away to those who might need them more than us :)

I wouldn't say I need it, but if anyone has a surplus Bioshock key I'd be interested to trade for one or more items on my list at https://barter.vg/u/52bc/t/

I chipped in AU$15 for the Itch bundle, but another AU$51 for this bundle is more than I'm willing to give right now.

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Quoting: ShabbyXAnd more recently, epoll. I don't know what their problem with fds are, but everything being an fd is the best thing to have happened to unix. Things that weren't an fd turned out to be the most problematic (pid, signals), and they are turning into fds in recent Linuxes too.

Maybe they can get windows-y programs to run faster with windows-y kernel features, but I certainly hope no one would use this feature outside wine.

There is no way to use fds for synchronization without a syscall. That's no good for performance-critical paths. Pthreads primitives like mutex, condition, semaphore are designed to avoid syscalls where possible. Ideally (e.g. uncontended mutex lock) they use only atomic operations, but they call futex when they need to block, or to wake other threads.

Being able to wait on multiple futexes at once seems generally useful to me.

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Quoting: CatKillerI've got Minecraft and the GOG version of Witcher 3 added to Steam, and you can pick the Proton version in the usual way if it's a Windows game that you've added. I've not tried the family mode with them yet, though, since my little one just knows which games he's allowed to play from my account and when.

FYI, family mode shows all non-steam games, which is fine. Yes, I guess all I need to do is figure out where Lutris put the Itch wineprefix, then add individual paths under there as non-Steam games and enable Proton for each one. So I'd just launch the Windows Itch when I want to install a game, then add it to Steam for day-to-day use. Sounds like a plan.

Thanks.

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