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Yeah. Sounds like there's either some lacking context about drama or him somehow being confused that there hasn't been any drama (why?).

Maybe not what you and me wanted, but certainly the majority of humans on this planet. And what am I supposed to do aside from the things I've already been doing? I'm already poor, so my emissions are a fraction of that of the average person, and I vote for green candidates & parties, who have no to barely any chance to achieve anything.

We were on our way to 3 degrees Celsius globally BEFORE all this already, which would be already devastating, so how the hell is the world now supposed to not just do better than that, but also compensate for all of the US emissions on top of that?

No one wants to do anything, at least not enough, not what would be needed - because that would ultimately affect everyone.

Oh please. Their climate policies alone will fuck over the entire globe. I don't give a fuck anymore because this species is clearly fucking lost.

Terranigma. Still my favorite RPG to this day and one of my favorite games to this day, but it's hard to gush about this game without any spoilers and its written in a way that requires a bit of attention from the player. You do need to either have an EU / PAL SNES or emulate it though, because it never released in the Americas due to publisher drama.

Secret of Mana is great too, or if you already played that, Seiken Densetsu 3, which is the sequel title that never got released in the West, but got fan translated roms out there. Seiken Densetsu 2 being SoM, and the original Seiken Densetsu 1 was released as Final Fantasy Adventures and sort of a side story to the Final Fantasy franchise, which got dropped and became its own franchise with the second game. SD3 (or "Secret of Mana 2") is a significant step up to the first game in many aspects and even has multiple characters & branching endings based on your character selections.

On the PC definitely the Command & Conquer's Tiberian series, starting with the first game and a GDI campaign run, followed by a NOD campaign run. It got those cheesy but amazingly entertaining little clips between the missions that actually get you immersed into the story and it has a killer soundtrack too. It's one of the many great franchises ruined by EA, but I heard the remastered version is actually decent (I still won't buy because I still boycott them). The already suggested Red Alert is a spin-off series with some references to the Tiberian series, so I would not start with that one until you played the Tiberian one.

The far right alliance is already struggling, and they haven't even made it into office yet. lol

I always wonder how some big ass studio announcing a title that uses (high quality) 2D or 2.5D graphics would go. Like, pump it full of many hours of great gameplay and gut and / or heart wrenching story, with lovely & beautiful art, in 2025+. No online account requirements, no Denuvo, no micro or macro transactions, just a solid buy to play title that's a blast to get immersed in. The problem is that suits would not dare to even try this, just like they don't dare to try anything else that's not your standard formula customer milking. And that's how you get the 20iest iteration of generic graphic bliss with hundreds or even thousands of bucks to spend on macro transactions and other pain the ass bullshit. Innovation for the big companies is dead, which is why I focus so much on Indie studios and smaller developers now. At least there's still some honest passion behind those games.

Maybe try the AMD proprietary drivers

Not gonna happen, especially not for one title.

You probably want to get the new installer working. Try installing Edge WebView via Protontricks before running the installer.

Protontricks is for Proton games. And without installing the game / launcher I would not have a prefix to install this to anyway?

My guess is that the older version of the game is using a really old version of direct X or OpenGL that your drivers aren't handling well. The newer version, being updated for Windows 10/11, should work just fine by contrast.

I think you're confused. The game does not differentiate between the two launchers. It's the same game regardless of which launcher you choose. Launchers are merely for downloading & updating games. I don't know whether it uses DirectX or OpenGL but I know it uses Unreal Engine 2.5.

What distro do you use? What Desktop environment? X11 or Wayland? What's your GPU? Which drivers do you use for it?

Bazzite, KDE, Wayland, 6650 XT, Kernel version 6.11.

I could see it useful if you need the LLM to explain something maybe? If you're reading something in a language not native to your own, or just something that's using quite complex language & writing, then it may be useful to just have a paragraph or sentence explained to you. Or maybe the book references something you're not familiar with and can get a quick explanation by the LLM.

I'm all in on shitting on that loser but the whole concept of Reddit is to outsource the bulk of moderation to the users. Same goes for Lemmy & variants btw, with all the problems it comes with.

God forbid there's a left leaning instance that isn't a Tankie infested cesspool.

I said that I tried to run it through Wine-GE, which requires something like Lutris. But what difference would it make anyway? It still installs through Wine. Also, the previous commenter did not talk about Lutris, but was referencing the two installers. Which, as I already said, there's only two - the old and the new one, which I both referenced accordingly.

So I did my due diligence in providing information, then get called out for not providing information about the things that I already did provide. That's just bitching for the sake of it at this point and completely unhelpful. If you need more information then tell me what type of info you need, instead of listing something that I clearly already mentioned.

And multiple cases of sabotage, assassinations & attempted assassinations on NATO soil, along with all the disinformation campaigns. Russia is making a fool out of the West, which cannot find a proper response to this form of hybrid warfare. Everyone's too scared of their nukes, allowing Russia to move all the red lines further and further. They should turn the whole Baltic Sea into a NATO lake and blockade the couple Russian ports.

I think we landed in a situation where some people don't understand the different between graphical style and graphical quality. You can have high quality graphics that are still very simplistic. The important part is that they serve their purpose for the title you're making. Obviously some games benefit from more realistic graphics, like TLoU Part 2 depicted in the thumbnail & briefly mentioned. The graphics help convey a lot of what the game tries to tell you. You can see the brutality of the world they are forced to live in through the realistic depiction of gore. But you can also see the raw emotion, the trauma on the character's faces, which tells you how the reality of this world truly looks like. But there's plenty of games with VERY simplistic graphic styles that are still high quality. CrossCode was one of the surprise hits for me a couple years ago and became one of my favorite RPGs, probably only topped by the old SNES title Terranigma. They both have simple yet beautiful graphics that serve them just as well as the realistic graphics of TLoU. Especially the suits / publishers will make this mistake since they are very detached from the actual gaming community and just look at numbers instead, getting trapped in various fallacies and then wonder why things don't go as well as they calculated.

It's not that I don't like realistic graphics. But I'm not gonna pay 100 bucks per game + micro transactions and / or live service shenanigans to get it. Nowadays it's not even that hard to have good looking games, thanks to all the work that went into modern engines. Obviously cutting edge graphics still need talented artists who create all the textures and high poly models but at some point the graphical fidelity gained becomes minuscule, compared to the effort put into it (and the performance it eats, since this bleeds into the absurd GPU topic too).

There's also plenty of creative stylization options that can be explored that aren't your typical WoW cartoon look that everyone goes for nowadays. Hell, I still love pixel art games too and they're often considered to be on the bottom end of the graphical quality (which I'd heavily disagree with, but that's also another topic).

What gamers want are good games that don't feel like they get constantly milked or prioritize graphics over gameplay or story.

Epic being garbage isn't an edgy thought. But nice try at trolling.

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There are only two launchers to choose from, so I'm not sure how much more specific you want me to be? lol

And I obviously installed them through Lutris & WINE in their standard folders. Not sure how else I'm supposed to do it.

When you're trying to help, try to actually know something about the topic so you aren't just giving empty advice.

You'd have to pay me to use Epic.