Heavybell @ Heavybell @lemmy.world

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The only real difference is being fairly certain that anything you buy on GOG will be DRM-free, since that is their stated policy and they offer the standalone installers for download. Granted they also offer a launcher like Steam, and if you're only using that then you're no better off; if a game gets delisted and you don't have the installers archived you may be out of luck, depending on the details.

That said you are right, the problem is the laws and the publishers. But getting access to those offline installers certainly doesn't hurt, in the meantime.

This will almost certainly happen.

There's no way Unreal is completely free of inherent tech debt. But at the same time, there's no way it doesn't have way less baggage than the creation engine. Epic actually work on it, for a start.

Yeah, I would rather wait for the one active checkout rather than have to go through the rigmarole of scanning one item, putting it in the bag, waiting for it to register before doing the next. The employees get to scan multiple things at once and do things like "scanned item x6". Until self-checkout technology advances to the point I can do the same, it can fuck right off.

They should. They don't really have a good track record for quality, but the first step is trying.

So this is that mewing thing I've heard about, right?

I've had another try, this time I set chattr +C on the image directory just in case my using btrfs was causing issues.

I had a VM but somehow the virtual drive got corrupted? And it wouldn't let me install, update or uninstall VC++ runtime as a result. I'm gonna try again later, but it's a worrying start.

Life when a Vector is a cool crocodile wearing headphones.

I remember hearing on QI about a snake that eats a poisonous frog in order to become poisonous itself. Don't think it was Australian but who knows.

The point of use flags is to make it so if you don't want to print, every package that would otherwise pull in CUPS as a dependency can be compiled without it. Stuff like that.

Gentoo also has a good system for handling multiple concurrent installs of different versions of some packages, e.g python.

If there's software you want to install from source that uses automake it's pretty simple to build your own package for it.

Very much a system for doing things your way, and a good way to learn linux IMO. To that end, no there is no installer, but the process is not that complex. Boot a live USB, partition and format a drive, download and extract a base system, install a kernel (there is a fits-most-needs one available now), install a bootloader. Reboot into your new system and continue installing what you need from there.

Not for me, I fear. If I'm playing a turn based game I don't want there to be reflex challenges.

I remember reading an anecdote about a guy's kid relative, who would describe a game they want to play (not even make themselves), and before describing mechanics even they listed out all the hypothetical microtransactions.

If I get under 300ms ping it's a good day.

There's hope for me yet, then. Though I think FS have long since sailed from what I liked about Soulslikes into something else entirely.

Sekiro is not a soulslike, it's Ninja Gaiden. :P

No, you`re right.

This looks like a python programmer that is mad they have to write C# Java…

I definitely agree on the lack of local / direct connection options.

I don't think this is a graphics problem. I think people are just tired of silent protags. I mean, people were starting to make fun of it even when HL2 was new, enough so that the game actually draws attention to it in order to lampshade the issue somewhat.