Varyag

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Assetto Corsa Evo devs quietly changed Steam description, paving the way for Early Access price hike in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 days ago

I don't like that, but I'm still refraining from buying the game altogether because of it's ridiculous always-online requirement. The predecessor wasn't like that, and there's no reason for the singleplayer segments of a racing simulator who enjoyed extreme longevity through modding, to be stuck on remote servers that can and WILL be shut down at some point in the future.

"Dauntless is shutting down on May 29, 2025. Dauntless will receive no additional content or updates. The game will no longer be available to play on May 29, 2025." in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Surprised it took this long to happen. The game was already a shambling corpse after it got sold to a crypto company.

What is your favorite retro racing game? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

Gran Tourismo 2 and 4, Ridge Racer Type 4, Burnout 3 Takedown and NFSU2/MW. I like a lot of racing games but these are my favorite retro ones.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater teases new announcement with countdown in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 weeks ago

It's THPS 3+4 Remaster. They finallt got to make that.

Microsoft CEO [Satya Nadella] Stresses That Gaming Is Critical To The Company in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

It's thr reason a SIGNIFICANT portion of users still put up with their bullshit OS on their machines. Doesn't mean they aren't shitting the bed with said OS or their gaming divisions.

EndeavourOS: Our new ISO release is here, meet Mercury in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Splendid! I have a laptop running Arch, and while I did set that one up manually, it was a lot of work. Next time, when I do it on my gaming PC, I'm definitely using Endeavour

Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

I honestly loved it almost instantly, especially with the aspect that each settlement is a short time investment of a gaming session with semi randomized goals and build orders to get to those. While there are still overarching goals for the game as a whole.

Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It looks real good, but I'm still playing Aginst thr Storm, and will probably give Farthest Frontier a try before goong into this one. Still, it's on my list!

What do you regard as retro? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Yes that's what I said. PS3 era games and at this point, early PS4 start yo qualify for me. Although still actively developed games aren't "fully" retro, clearly. I'm still on the fence about calling Bloodbkrne retro, for instance.

What do you regard as retro? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Around 2 generations of consoles ago, or around 10 years, whatever comes "first".

Game suggestions for daily bus/train rides? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Pokemon or other turn based games that were originally designed for portables usually work great for a commute! Also monster hunter, I played a lot of that on the subway back in the day on my 3DS. Thr PSP games might be easy to emulate.

Horizon Forbidden West is region-locked on PC 10 months after release for some reason, subjecting millions to Sony’s shenanigans in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[–] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

The exact same bullshit they pulled on Helldivers 2 and all their other recent PC games, for that matter, even the single player ones needing PSN logins and region locks. Don't buy their stuff.

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Bell - Tidecaller (2017) (www.youtube.com)
 

I do not understand how this is not more known, this epic doom metal album is incredibly kickass.

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Absolute noob needs advice (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

So, since very recently Nintendo decided to be a fuck and kill all emulator projects for the Switch, I finally decided to grab them and learn how to use them. I'm very much not new to emulation in general and where to find games, so I'm mostly good with that. Only thing is that I couldn't get the new Zelda game to run without stutters, but I guess that's the shaders compiling in real time. Unicorn Overlord plays absolutely flawlessly.

Anyway, I would like to go after more games, but all of the different file formats confuse me. Specifically, the NSZ format. None of my emulators are able of loading that, my other games are in NSP format and load just fine.

Okay, also. I own a 2019 model Switch Lite and would like to know how would I go about unlocking it. I guess I would need to install a modchip on it?

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Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28037255

Hey hey people. Relatively new Arch user here, but not new to Linux in general. I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma on this HP laptop from 2013, and I've been enjoying it a lot after spending a long time on Mint/Cinnamon.

But, I've noted that KDE is a bit slow on this machine, and is probably a bit too much. Earlier today, I decided to try out something lighter, and installed LXQt on it as a second DE. The experience was okay, with much improved responsiveness, a nice customizable retro look, and overall simpleness that still did the job mostly. But I also ran into a few issues that probably had to do with having two different DEs on the same machine and user. One thing in particular ended up annoying me so much I went back to KDE: The Discover app would just refuse to play nice with setting a dark theme on the rest of the environment, even when I tried setting it up with qt6ct.

So now I'm considering going to XFCE instead, as I probably should have done from the beginning. I just wish it had Wayland support already (I know it's being worked on). Do you have any suggestions or tips for me in regards to this? I'm sure a lot of people will recommend their favorite tiling WM which I'm not sure I want to get into.

Also, other than that, upon returning to KDE, I found that my Discover would crash when trying to update Flatpaks (the only thing I install through it) and started thinking this experiment somehow broke it.... but it's Flatpak itself that seems to have an issue today. Might have to do with the latest curl update? Dunno if I should make a separate thread for that. https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-discover-broken-with-latest-curl-update/21475

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Arch user trying out lightweight desktop environments (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

Hey hey people. Relatively new Arch user here, but not new to Linux in general. I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma on this HP laptop from 2013, and I've been enjoying it a lot after spending a long time on Mint/Cinnamon.

But, I've noted that KDE is a bit slow on this machine, and is probably a bit too much. Earlier today, I decided to try out something lighter, and installed LXQt on it as a second DE. The experience was okay, with much improved responsiveness, a nice customizable retro look, and overall simpleness that still did the job mostly. But I also ran into a few issues that probably had to do with having two different DEs on the same machine and user. One thing in particular ended up annoying me so much I went back to KDE: The Discover app would just refuse to play nice with setting a dark theme on the rest of the environment, even when I tried setting it up with qt6ct.

So now I'm considering going to XFCE instead, as I probably should have done from the beginning. I just wish it had Wayland support already (I know it's being worked on). Do you have any suggestions or tips for me in regards to this? I'm sure a lot of people will recommend their favorite tiling WM which I'm not sure I want to get into.

Also, other than that, upon returning to KDE, I found that my Discover would crash when trying to update Flatpaks (the only thing I install through it) and started thinking this experiment somehow broke it.... but it's Flatpak itself that seems to have an issue today. Might have to do with the latest curl update? Dunno if I should make a separate thread for that. https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-discover-broken-with-latest-curl-update/21475

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