Astaroth @ Astaroth @lemm.ee

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no one needs to play any game

it's just a matter of how willing someone is to compromise on their principles for entertainment

I love fish.

Sometimes I wonder why people think using the terminal is so hard, then every once in a while when I'm not on my home PC and have to use Bash I get reminded of why

 

I've been meaning to try zsh since it can supposedly do everything fish can while still being posix compliant, but I've never felt the need to not be using fish so I just never got around to it

NEXON...

Well just look at the youtube sub on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1792um0/let_that_sink_in_before_you_defend_a_billion/

99% of comments are youtube apologists

 

Hopefully most of those are bot comments & the mods are probably youtube employees

I was thinking ME trilogy as well, but while ME1 is a great game it doesn't really hold up in terms of graphics today. ME2 and ME3 still look fine though.

I don't like any DEs, tbh both KDE Plasma and Cinnamon felt worse than Win7 DE. And I'll never ever even try Gnome

But I absolutely love WMs, I use i3wm

I used to use Firefox before Chrome, and it was working great. Then at some point Firefox just started sucking and so I ended up switching to Chrome.

Around the same time I stopped using hotmail in favor of gmail as well

 

Now, probably almost 20 years later I'm back at Firefox

I haven't escaped gmail yet though

I think it's probably also because people leave lemmy.world and lemmy.ml

I haven't had any timeouts but I've noticed that some images don't load, so e.g. on some of the meme posts I have no idea what they're talking about

Yeah. I switched from world to lemm.ee because world just seems to be too willing to use censorship.

From what I can tell lemm.ee is one of the instances that does the least de-federating and censorship so that's why I switched to there, but I've seen talks about it becoming an invite only instance in the future so if someone is not sure then imo you should join now.

I wasn’t saying it can be done, thing is the time and effort to make it work is way too much…

If you think it's too much time and effort for you, that's fair enough.

I obviously don't think it is or I wouldn't do it. Also something to note is it gets easier and faster with time as you have more things already installed and thus more games run out of the box, as well as just having the experience and know-how of what to do.

 

and the end result tends to be poor.

I'm not having poor end results compared to when I were using Windows, so that's just a you thing.

Only real notable fault for linux gaming is online multiplayer games with anti-cheat, and luckily for me I don't play those anyway.

 

Well one thing that hasn't been working that comes to mind is Frosty Tool Suite, a mod manager for Frostbite engine games, so I was unable to replay Dragon Age Inquisition with new mods on Linux.

That however isn't a game itself but a 3rd party mod manager, and technically I could get it too work by either using a NTFS formatted hard drive or some other tricks, but it seemed too much of a pain to deal with so I've left that on the back-burner.

assuming that you're running WINE through the terminal you'll see if there's any error and usually it's pretty simple to find what you need to make the game run (if it doesn't already)

 

for starters get all the gst/gstreamer packages including the plugin ones (libav, good/bad/ugly, etc.) and make sure to have both 64 and 32bit versions.

get wine-mono (or directly install .net runtimes in your wineprefix, easily done with winetricks) and wine-gecko.

 

after that you basically just get whatever .dll or vcrun stuff as needed (following error messages), most easily done through winetricks

 

I will admit though, while using Linux Mint (instead of Arch Linux which I use on my home PC) at a relative's house I had some trouble at first because a) apt package manager sucks, b) the names of the packages were different, and c) wine-mono and wine-gecko packages didn't exist so I had to follow these instructions https://wiki.winehq.org/Mono & https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko

 

also just like how protondb is a really good resource to look up how well games will run on steam proton and tips on how to run them, there's https://appdb.winehq.org/

just mount the .iso (if there is one) and run the installer (e.g. setup.exe) with WINE

Neovim

Neat, we need more games like AW and Wargroove

Never used or heard of it before but apparently zoxide is only for cd command, do you happen to know if there's some fuzzy match for in general?

At the moment what I do is history foo | grep -i "bar"

yeah Fish tab completion works, but one thing I've noticed though is that tab completion for wrong case only works if there's no option with the correct case

e.g. if I have Downloads and Downloads2 then d with tab completion will become Downloads, but if I have Downloads and downloads2 it will tab complete to downloads2 and D will complete to Downloads

 

I've been meaning to look through the Fish documentation to see if I can change that and fuzzy search for history but never got around to it

Advance Wars By Web

Advance Wars is an old turn based strategy game, for the GBA (Game Boy Advance), and AWBW is a fan site to play AW online.

I've gotten pretty into it ever since Advance Wars Reboot was announced, and being able to play it in the web browser means I frequently find time to play...

 

Ironically I don't play the actual AW Remake because in classic nintendo style the multiplayer is extremely lacking, only being able to play with players added to friends list, not being able to upload/download maps except to friends, and extremely limited map sizes for online maps

The vast majority of people are neither lawyers nor judges.

I think the people the laws apply to should be able to make sense of those laws or the laws are no good.

Have you seen the video? The shooter getting "pranked" had both hands occupied carrying a paper bag and was being followed and harassed for over 10 seconds while repeatedly telling the prankster to stop.

It does seem like an overreaction to shoot immediately instead of trying to threaten first but I'm not sure.

I would've fully sided with the shooter if they're weren't in a mall with other people around and probably security right around the corner, because then he would've been much more at risk if he doesn't shoot and the prankster tries to rob him or w/e.