If you need an office suite, you can use LibreOffice/OnlyOffice as a full MS Office replacement. OnlyOffice is basically identical to MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and LibreOffice replaces the rest. With MS fonts installed, you should have no trouble writing a .wordx document in Times New Roman.

If you’re a gamer, I recommend Pop!_OS. Everything works out of the box, plus extra compatibility for Nvidia cards. It took me a second to get used to the UI, but now I can’t go back.

The evidence is so blatant, in fact, that listening to him talk about his record feels more like listening to a 4 year old talk about how they didn’t take a cookie from the cookie jar while covered in crumbs and chocolate.

Return of the Obra Dinn. The 2nd game from the maker of Papers, Please. You’re trying to solve the murders or disappearances of 60 people on a ship, using a watch that can view their moment of death. Insanely unique game, and it’s hard to replicate that feeling of all the pieces of the puzzle falling into place that this game fosters.

Not scifi or fantasy, but have you heard of Pentiment? It’s by Josh Sawyer, lead designer of New Vegas. You’re an artist in 1518 Bavaria completing your masterpiece at a monastery, when someone gets killed and you must collect evidence. There’s much more to it than that, of which I can’t speak without giving anything away. However, I can tell you that the game has no combat, it’s just exploration and dialogue. The whole game looks like an illuminated manuscript, and you walk around engaging in some of the most captivating conversations ever to be in a video game. The character creation is extremely unique; in the beginning, you pick where you spent your year abroad, what you do in your free time, what you got your Master’s degree in, and what your favorite subject was at university. All of these determine your attitude on and knowledge of pretty much every subject in the game. It has one of the most unique speech check systems in any RPG, with entire conversations counting toward convincing someone, showing you what you said right and wrong at the very end. Masterpiece.

It’d be more news-worthy if Bethesda released a game that DIDN’T start crashing more the longer you played. I remember dealing with this in Fallout 3. Here we are, 15 years later…

Man, I just reinstalled this suite :/

THPS1 and THPS3 are untouchable masterpieces. The Tony Hawk license never faltered when they were in charge.

Small misconception, PvZ was created by PopCap. WildTangent was just a service on which to play games. I remember so fondly using my limited free tokens to play Polar Bowling; it really was just the best.

Don’t know if you’re aware, but FATE is available on Steam. Relive those memories, boss.

Neversoft, Rareware, Sega, Activision, EA, and Bethesda created a lot of great memories from my childhood. Neversoft is defunct, Sega still makes some decent stuff but nowhere near what they did in the 90s, EA is EA, and the rest are now owned by Microsoft… so…

You’re absolutely right. However, it was not my intention to imply that Greg actually knew about the alleged fraud. Rather, I meant that because it seems Greg got fucked by Jirard in the money department, he would be more likely to suspect it was happening to others. Because of that, I wondered if it played a part in his decision making. The detail about the Open Hand photos adds more of a conspiratorial twist to this message than I meant. I was surprised that Open Hand was old enough to be around the same time as Greg, and only included that to point out this fact. Upon rereading it, I do realize that my comment takes a very matter-of-fact tone, and I appreciate your measured response counteracting that. I agree that it’s totally pointless to speculate without an official testimony and with an obvious answer already present, and will try to refrain from doing so in the future.

I remember when Greg had Jirard take all the old videos with him in it down. At the time, I believed he was kinda being a dick. Now I’m starting to believe (especially because we can see him in photos at the Open Hand golf tournament) he had an inkling of a suspicion that shady stuff was going on, and wanted to distance himself. I don’t think Greg has anything to do with what Jirard is being accused of, but I remember him having issues with how little he was compensated for the videos he was in, and it seems likely that he would have noticed some odd money-handling behaviors from his friend and decided it would be best to get the fuck outta Dodge.

EDIT: This comment did not present itself as I intended. Please read ThunderingJerboa’s response to this, as well as mine.

Reports say they’re working toward a Footlose-inspired technocracy.

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It seems everyone wants a ceasefire except representatives of the US. Are they just waiting for them to “get it out of their systems?”

“Goddammit, there goes my power converter fund. And all Luke wanted was to go to Tosche Station this year.”

Check out OnlyOffice. It’s a fork of LibreOffice that’s almost an exact clone of MS Office. It’s a fantastic program that should be familiar to anyone coming from Windows.

Since you’re just using a VM, you should try out some other distros and then pick one to install on your machine. Linux Mint is great for new users just switching from Windows. I personally find the KDE Plasma DE to be the best replacement for the Windows 10 GUI, so I’d recommend you check out Kubuntu or KDE Neon.

I’ve been using Pop!_OS recently, and it’s amazing. Everything works out of the box with no need to tweak anything, and I love the workflow features like autotiling and the launcher. The Pop! Shop is also something I’m appreciating more. It’s an excellent place for new users to look for software, and the flatpak support really makes it perfect for me. I’ve been using flatpaks instead of official repositories as much as I can recently, and it’s been a long time since anything I have installed has caused me issues.

Is it that surprising? I feel like nobody else was doing well made, high-profile city management games around that time. SimCity 2013’s failure left a time-tested genre without any real big name contenders. Unless they really didn’t try, it was a success waiting to happen.