The Kingdom of Loathing

I can’t believe that game is still around lol. It was probably 2009 or so when I logged in last. I had ascended 3 times and figured I had pretty much seen all there is to see. So cool to see they are still around and doing well. I guess I’m going to have to playthrough it at least one more time :)

Fahrenheit/ Indigo Prophecy, an early David Cage/ Quantic Dream game from the same people who made Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human

I haven’t played it in forever so I’m not sure how well it holds up (if at all) and I also have a love/hate relationship with it.

It has one of the single worst/ cheap levels of any game I have ever played*, and in the very last level the story really shits the bed. On the other hand it was doing things at the time that I still haven’t seen in other games. (I haven’t gotten around to playing his other games so he might be doing similar things in them). In terms of attempting to evolve the way stories are told in games it was truly groundbreaking and unique for its time.

I still have fond memories of playing it despite it’s flaws. I’d say it’s worth playing for anyone interested in a older game that does some really interesting things from a story telling perspective and/or people who are fans of the later games and are curious to see where it started. As long as you can make it through the QTE level with your sanity intact and are prepared for the story to get stupid right at the end- it’s worth a playthrough imo

*Even though I hate the level, the concept behind it is actually pretty cool. A malevolent force tries to kill the player character by throwing his apartment at him. The problem is it’s a 4 1/2 minute QTE sequence that requires precise timing and you can’t mess up even one time or you have to start the entire thing over from the beginning. You also have plenty of time to wonder why the force never varies it’s strategy of throwing one object at a time. Good idea, terrible execution.

Well it does seem to be a somewhat confusing subject, so forgive me for getting it wrong. I must have misunderstood or misremembered the information I read when setting up the VM 10 months ago. As I said, I have very little experience with them and was honestly just asking if it’s not almost as good. I wasn’t trying to ‘make it out’ to be ‘not janky’.

According to Wiki, KVM " is a … virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor."

I wasn’t aware that there was a distinction between a Hypervisor and a ‘Type-1’ Hypervisor, but now I know so thank you for clearing that up for me.

Without GPU pass through you aren’t going to get nearly the graphics performance for something like gaming.

According to this wiki, it seems like GPU passthrough is possible with KVM if your system supports IOMMU, mine does. But it looks like you also need a separate GPU to do that, so that answers my question about is it nearly as good as dual booting.

Every game I have attempted to run has just worked and they seem to run just as good as they did in Windows, so I guess I’m lucky I don’t need to really worry about dual booting or VM’s. I was just kind of wondering if it would work if I did need it, since that seemed like it would be a lot simpler than booting into a different operating system.

What’s wrong with a VM? I set up a Win10 instance in VMM right after I switched to Linux full time 10 months ago, but I had to use it exactly once to configure the RGB on my keyboard, and haven’t had a reason to boot it up since.

From what I understood, it runs on ‘Bare Metal’ which means that it theoretically should preform just as well as if you booted into it, with the only overhead being the *nix which is minimal.

I’m not saying it’s better, I’m honestly asking because I have very little experience with it.

I used to dual boot back in the day, but that was when I was still on HDDs and the long ass boot times meant I usually just stayed in Windows if I was planning on gaming that day.

IBM 386DX with a ‘turbo’ button.

I used Apple II’s in school and older “IBM” PC’s but my family never got one. I had to buy one myself once I moved out.

I remember learning to write BASIC and Logo programs in grade school. I even went to ‘computer camp’ during summer school, but that was more ‘play Oregon Trail/ Carmen San Diego and print out basic ass ascii art’ than learning.

Weirdly, after 6th grade the whole ‘computer literacy’ thing at our school quietly disappeared. In 8th grade I learned to type, on an actual typewriter. Maybe they thought the whole ‘computer’ thing was a fad, or they could have just been cheapskates. Idk.