Magiilaro

I can absolutely understand it, not everyone has the time to invest hours into learning attack patterns or parry rhythms.

It is very normal that people only have a few hours a month for gaming, a hour here a hour there, with maybe days in-between.

Blizzard tried this with the Dark Pathways Bundle for Diablo 4 before, 30$ to change the colors of the Town portals. Was not very successful!

Well… Yes, Steam has a (very stupid in my eyes) policy of “if the developer puts up an update, then everyone must update” but that is not (fully) invalidating my point.

The content of the update and the time of release of the update is still outside of Steams responsibility. If the developer decides to push an update that uses some crazy stuff that works fine in Windows but would need some obscure codepath that are not available in Wine/Proton and by that rendering a game with a “Great on Deck” rating to “unplayable” then there is nothing Steam can do about it. Or if the developer patches in some DRM that will not run on Linux. Well, yes they could put up some lines in the terms of contracts for the developers to disallow this kind of changes but i am sure this would not end well at all.

Another thing, that most likely could even less be regulated, would be if the developer pushes an update that changes the UI to something that looks great on a huge screen but is unreadable on the SteamDeck.

Yes, all this would be way less an issue if Steam would make updates optional or would allow (an easy way) to choose the version. So i am totally on your side with that point.

Modern games are ever changing, the Verified Status is only valid for the version of the game that was tested. Valve has no influence over the patches and changes to the game.

Zola really is great, I have started to work with it and it is so much easier to grasp and to get results with. Thanks a lot for pointing me to Zola!

We have OpenMW, that is remake enough for me.

I will look into that too, thank you for the suggestion

A new homepage for the business of my wife.

I plan to use Hugo for it, I just wish the documentation would be better.

For the homepage I need a few additional “non-blog” pages and from the documentation I am not sure how to do that the best way.

But to be honest, I have not really looked deeper into that, so it is very possible that I just missed something.

I only bind applications to ports on the Internet facing network interfaces that need to be reachable from outside, and have all other ports closed because nothing is listening on them. A firewall in this case would bring me no further protection from external threats, because all those ports have to be open in the firewall too.

But Linux comes with a firewall build in, so I use it even if it is not strictly needed with my strict port management regime for my services. And a firewall has the added benefit to limit outgoing network traffic to only allowed ports/applications.

As much as I would be happy for Ubisoft to have a success, they really need one, I just don’t trust unverifiable number. I always want to know metrics and data.

Ubisoft can tell us everything. And what does 2 million players really mean? How many of them refunded the game in the 2h at Steam for example? How many are players who, for an hour or two, looked into the game as part of their Ubisoft gamepass equivalent? 2 million players can mean all kind of things. It doesn’t say much really about the success.

Solar System objects for my local network and names of extra solar objects for my offside servers. With all the moons and named trans neptunian objects in the solar system I so far had no issues finding a hostname candidate.

I never said that everyone should drop the game and stop to like it. What I said was my opinion about the game, and opinions are personal. I am very sorry that my opinion is not to your liking, but I am still free to have it and to tell others about it.

I can understand that you want to defend the game that you like so much, I did the same thing month ago for Starfield (a game that for me is great and that I love to play, people and what they like are different and confusing 🤣) until I came to the conclusion that there are better things to fight for then some dumb online discussions about a game.

I am happy that you (and 95% on Steam) like the game and have fun with it, unfortunately it is incompatible with me.

No, I am not a perfect creature that is always good, I am human after all, but it is a huge difference between making errors or overreacting on stress situations and a egomaniac and narcissistic sociopath at the level of Johnny Silverhand. Oh, and he is a damn mind raping parasite, holding the player character hostage, but I am sure having that in your head gives depths to the character too.

You will unravel more of Johnny’s history which explains to some extent why he is such a douchebag. You know like in real life, even the biggest douchebags have something good in them and life has turned them into one.

Yeah, I had my fair share of douchebag interactions in real life, none of them were positive in any way, and I don’t want to play a douchebag (thats why I stopped playing Witcher 3) nor want I help a douchebag. And for sure I have no intention of giving a douchebag some redemption arc. Nobody has to be a douchebag, it is always a choice someone willingly makes and sorry but I have the scars on my body and soul to show that nothing in them can ever by good, if they had good in them they would not be douchebags.

Oh, at the end of the DLC? No, sorry but I will not buy a DLC for a game that I don’t even want to play the base version from.

Yeah maybe he will be a great mind parasite at the end, I don’t know because I have no reason to dig through hours of shit to find a tiny golden Johnny core. That is not what I see as fun .

Cyberpunk is a fun game, but for me it is very shallow and I don’t like Johnny Silverhand, every second where he is on screen is pure annoyance. And yes, I know that he is supposed to be like that, but for me it just killed the fun.

I finished maybe 25% and then just stopped playing.

I use a PS5 controller for some time and it works perfectly great with every function available out of the box due to the official, Sony engineered, controller module in the stock Linux kernel.

It can be used wired, which I do most of the time, or via Bluetooth.

Mmhh, yeah true. Not much into Xbox so it was kind of a wild guess, thanks for correcting and context. Much appreciated 👍

That is technically speaking not in a row, because there is some amount of gameplay between the screens, but yeah I see what you mean and yes sometimes the ratio of gameplay time to loading screen numbers is really a bit high 😔