I would love to see a Palworld update that changes the balls to cubes. Same animations and effects, same textures, just stretched over a cube.

Does it come with a 5 sided cookie with a hole in the middle?

There’s definitely something special about that era of games. The community would really shine and make creative stuff with relatively limited tech.

https://youtube.com/@excavation_goldsrc

This is the mod that’s blown me away the most. They somehow made the limitations of the Goldsource engine look stylish, all the while having some incredible animations and model design. Unfortunately development is temporarily paused but hopefully they pick it up again soon.

Whats funny is that most 20 year old multiplayer games today (at least on PC) are still perfectly playable because the server tech was given to the community, at launch. Battlefield 2 hasn’t been available for purchase anywhere officially in well over a decade, there’s still a dedicated, albiet small community.

I understand that with large, persistent worlds, it’s hard to release that server tech, but at least some form of it should be published. Ie, a smaller variant that maybe just lets a couple people join up as a co-op party, rather than dozens of people running around a large map at random, like in The Crew.

Ive seen some genuinely impressive GoldSource mods pop up in recent years.

Is it possible to learn this power?

That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Don’t forget that they’re buddy buddy with amazon, and have even included amazon sourced ads within the OS at one point.

I would hazard a guess that this was brough up in reference to a meme on this board showing a close up of someone snorting a line of white powder. I can completely understand why that might not be considered suitable for all places and audiences.

The Other Guys. At first glance, it’s a buddy cop comedy that harkens back to Lethal Weapon, but with humor typical to ~2010. But, the more you watch it, the more Zucker brothers esque, 1980s surrealist comedy influences you notice. One of the most subtly weird and funny movies to me, I’ve probably seen it, no lie, 10 or 15 times.

The PS3 fat could only read PS2 disks because it had stripped down PS2 hardware included. It was effectively a PS2/3 combined. This was part of what drove the cost up, so they gutted that hardware from the slim.

PS4s can’t read PS3 disks because the PS3 used a bespoke PowerPC based chipset that was a colossal pain in the ass to develop for. So for the PS4 to have backwards compatibility, they would have had to either A, include PS3 hardware in the PS4 (expensive) or B, create an efficient software translation layer/built in emulator (see “pain in the ass”).

From what I have heard, they smartened up with the PS5. It’s basically just a faster PS4. At it’s core, it’s based on very similar hardware, so it’s easy to make PS4 games run without issue, but the boost in performance allows games designed specifically to take advantage of it.

No. I daily a Galaxy S23. I really like it except for all of Samsungs preinstalled apps that can’t be deleted.

A couple months back, I bought a refurbished OnePlus 6T (2018) to mess around with Linux and de-Googled Android, and guess what, my phone which is 5 years newer feels virtually no different. It does have a better camera, granted, but personally that doesn’t effect me as I do any serious photography with a proper camera anyway (also, I have to acknowledge that the 6T is slower as it’s not really a flagship phone like the S23, but the 6T feels comparable quality and performance wise to some mid range 2024 phones I’ve used).

Bottom line, unless we see more Apple M-style chipsets in phones, imo, we’re at a plateau. You could get a $200 5 year old phone and be fine.

Rookie. Sneeze into the back of your knee, then we can talk

I’m biased towards AMD in general, I just find them to be a slightly better value, but Intel CPUs are great too, and I don’t think they have any noticable issus on Linux.

As for other hardware, it depends. Just make sure to do a bit of research and compare multiple options, especially for something like the storage, motherboard, RAM, or power supply. It’s usually pretty easy to sus out which brands are trying to catch your eye with low prices and tons of RGB, and which brands are offering a great product (I will suggest Seasonic for a power supply. They aren’t the cheapest but the build quality is excellent).

Oh 100% agreed. I think it was the Song of Susanahh especially that I thought could have been cut down by about 50%.

And yeah, it would definitely be nice for him to see his work faithfully adapted. I do selfishly hope he takes a backseat creatively though. He’s a phenomenal writer but a terrible filmmaker (imo).

Good point, I shouldn’t have used the world ‘literally.’ I was just trying to make the point that there are plenty of creative ways where tremendous amounts of money could end up back in someones pocket when by all means it should have gone elsewhere.

And yes, your example is perfectly believable and I wouldn’t at all be shocked if that kind of thing happened frequently.

Yeah that was a fever dream. On the bright side, Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) is apparently the one in charge of a series coming in the next few years. So that should be pretty solid. Fingers crossed lol

I think you may be out of luck with a built in achievement tracker unfortunately, although I personally haven’t looked into it. I’ve never been a big achievement hunter, but I’m sure there are external Linux compatible tools for tracking such things.

As for recommendations, you’re going to see a million names thrown around. As a broad suggestion, I might start with something based on Debian (tried and true, tons of resources, huge community). Maybe Pop! Or Mint. There are purpose built gaming distros with more tools and optimizations out of the box, however these are often small projects with shorter histories so I’m hesitant to recommend them.

As for desktop environment, it depends on what you want. KDE is my go to. By default it handles very similarly to Windows, but it’s incredibly customizable so you can really set it up however you want. KDE also has basic HDR support, which can’t really be found elsewhere. Gnome is a little more MacOS like, but it’s really its own beast. Gnome is great if you leave it default but I think it sort of falls apart when you try to customize it.

Also, if you do decide to go with Linux, I emplore you to look at getting an AMD graphics card. Their drivers are built into the Linux kernel so they require little to no setup, and usually perform better than NVidia. NVidia cards often have niche, hard to solve issues (speaking from experience. I spent a few years with a GTX1080 and often had the strangest bugs that I just couldn’t solve. Switched to an RX7600XT and everything just works). As a bonus, AMD is also usually cheaper than NVidia.

Fyi an alternative to Playnite with a similar goal is Lutris. You can even integrate several platforms like Steam and GOG to download games directly through the Lutris interface.

On top of that, it’s super easy to install games via exe’s, custom install scripts, add existing install folders, etc. The UI is a little bit spartan compared to Playnite, but it’s very powerful.

I say this because, among other things, a huge benefit of Linux is that it’s great for older hardware. From the sounds of it, you aren’t looking for the latest and greatest in terms of build specs, so Linux may be right up your alley (also no built in spyware, ads, forced online connections, and resource hogging processes that can’t be disabled).

Them reciting their mantra when they start shooting, or the shrieking they do when they throw the plates, just makes my skin crawl lol. I hope they omit those if they do an on screen adaptation.