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  • gradual@lemmings.worldtopics@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    Yeah. If piracy wasn’t an option, I just wouldn’t play those games.

    So many games I have pirated that I have yet to play because there aren’t enough hours in the day and I don’t want to spend them all gaming.

    All the money you give these corporations will be used against you someday.









  • You can tell people whatever you want and they can criticize you accordingly.

    If you don’t disclose your affiliation with a company that you’re shilling, rational people will criticize you for being biased and self-serving.

    If you want to avoid this completely rational, acceptable, and expected criticism, then you should reveal any conflicts of interest before or during your promotion of the business.

    This shouldn’t need to be spelled out for you, but this generation has been conditioned to be proud of ignorance and defending abuse.





  • We’re getting up there.

    It honestly doesn’t take much more for the snowball effect to take hold.

    Could be interesting to see how proprietary platforms respond to increased adoption. Maybe they’ll start removing their ads and surveillance, or even giving their operating systems away altogether (minus the source code, of course.)





  • It’s in a great state if you look back and play old games.

    I recommend getting comfortable with emulators. Using them isn’t immediately straightforward, but with a bit of experience they become easier.

    Some games I’d recommend just off the top of my head are:

    Star Wars Jedi Power Battles

    Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga

    Resident Evil 5 & 6

    Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 (1 goes up to 2 players, 2 goes up to 4)

    A Way Out

    Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (short, but fun)

    Legend of Mana is absolutely spectacular and any gaming duo would be delighted to play it.

    Dynasty Warriors is good for some mindless fun, but don’t be fooled by how many games they have; they’re all pretty much the same thing.

    I think Super Mario Wonder is actually 2-player, but I haven’t tried it yet. I plan too, though.

    Super Mario Bros U goes up to 4 players and you can play with the Cemu, the Wii U emulator.

    Cuphead

    You’re right that couch co-op games are mostly on consoles. Thankfully we can play console games on PC for free.


  • gradual@lemmings.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlFedora Atomic is the bomb
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    1 month ago

    I dunno, usually shilling something as hard as possible just means you’re a fanboy, it doesn’t mean it’s as good as you say it is.

    I’ll wait and see until most people willingly make the choice to immutable distros before believing it’s “10/10 the future of linux” or whatever.

    Personally, I get annoyed even on regular distros when there’s a file that I can’t easily edit. I don’t really see any of the benefit of immutable distros other than giving the fedora crowd (who loves shilling their OS) a stiffy.

    I’m more interested in fixing real issues like having to prepend prime-run to every game I want to use my dedicated GPU or why my IP can leak while connected to a VPN using my system’s network configuration.

    Heck, I’d be interested in seeing a fix for LUKS when entering the wrong password once requires restarting because something failed to mount or whatever.

    You know, practical problems.