What are your options?

Cemu or original hardware? I love playing the original on the Wii U but it’s cool upscaling to 1440p

Picked up Paper Mario TTYD on Switch to see what all the hype is about, and yeah honestly all the OG fans were right about it. It’s the best one I’ve played in the series by a longshot.

Without context, I would assume Sticker Star and Color Splash released before TTYD - as if they were still figuring out where to go with the series, and would eventually evolve into something better as technology advanced. Then TTYD comes along, and not only has more mechanical depth, but also so much more life and creativity in it.

I like the idea of rolling release in theory, but stability is extremely important to me because I use Linux as my daily driver.

EndeavourOS and Manjaro aren’t really going to do much to address your desire to use terminal more than Mint IMO, either; most mainstream distros like that emphasize usability first and foremost.

If you’re looking to really get under the hood, go with Arch ans follow a guide so you don’t bork anything too badly. Arch uses a different package manager than Mint/Ubuntu, so some of the commands might look different if you’re not following Arch-specific guides, but terminal is terminal is terminal in many cases. You can run Steam on Arch, and building the core functionality on your own will get you acquainted with terminal.

Although I’ve used everything from Arch to Zorin, and eventually you will have to use terminal for something. Just depends on what your longterm goals are, what usability you will need to rely on quickly, and how you think you’ll get to those goals most efficiently.

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Sounds like you should just use Mint, especially if you tried and like it. It’s customizable, GUI friendly, it’s based on Ubuntu so most guides for either will work, and you can download Steam to it and play native games (or Windows games through Proton).

I don’t know what you’re looking for, that Mint doesn’t provide. You can download different DEs or window managers, you can write your own bash scripts, and the core functionality for regular use is already there.

The issue is voters talk about how regular people are doing, while politicians talk about “the economy” which is rich people and business…

This, 100%.

Ask some person on the street how their stock portfolio is looking, and they’ll probably be like “The F are you talking about???”

Ask the same person about the cost of groceries, and they’ll have a rant locked and loaded about why a 12 pack of soda costs $10 now.

When people respond to these surveys, they are taking their experiences with them, and most of us are seeing expensive gas, expensive groceries, expensive housing, and jobs that don’t pay enough to live. People couldn’t afford to live on $8 an hour a decade ago, and now everything costs more.

This has downstream effects in that it makes it harder to switch jobs because you cant wait two weeks for your new job to kick in - much less afford to take off work to go to an interview. You can’t move to a city with more opportunities because cities are more expensive and you can’t even afford to save up enough to make the move because you’re paycheck to paycheck. Jobs paying “market rate” for wages which is dragged down because the system keeps people desperate enough to work for cheap.

These are people who have had to live with the boot of the economy on their necks for a long time. And while politicians can talk about all the great jobs out there and how amazing the economy is, for real people that boot is just stepping down harder. It’s no wonder they blame leadership when this is their experience with this economy.

Genre mismatch might be a factor? Don’t Starve is not an action-roguelite like Binding of Isaac; it’s a survival-crafting game. They are aiming to be vastly different experiences.

I’ve had Kenshi on my wishlist for a long time, and I haven’t pulled the trigger. What’s your favorite part about it? Most of what I know is that it’s punishing and has deep roleplaying opportunities, but I don’t know a lot of the specifics.

Most of the story criticism I’ve heard fall into a handful of categories:

• Overall plot seeming convoluted and hard to follow (which is understandable when you throw both time travel and parallel universes into the same story)

• Whitewashed portrayal of racism used for story aesthetics

• Ending feeling confusing and/or unsatisfying

• Certain story moments feeling out of place and/or undermining things that other story moments set up

I haven’t seen much in the way of players expecting/predicting plot twists.

The amount of time to build something like this seems like it would offset the amount of effort it would take just to write good character dialogue. AI tools are basically word calculators, which means you have to provide data for the LLM, which means time to produce this data, time to build guardrails, etc. Even in this implementation, they say they had to build guardrails so that they don’t say anything “harmful.”

There are also a number of lawsuits going on that will set a precedent for how training data can be utilized in commercial products. While I expect them to take the side of large corporations with vast resources at the expense of ethics, there’s the possibility that they will do the right thing. This will affect how AI tools wil be used in such contexts.

Trust him, he’s an expert on not paying bills.

But deliberately misunderstanding the term antisemitism is also quite frustrating.

Given how the term is broadly understood in modern usage, I wouldn’t say the players are misunderstanding it; I think it’s more a question of misidentifying where the pushback is actually coming from.

And I am sympathetic, given all the reasons both modern and historical that might make it easy to infer antisemitism. But starting there shuts out any possibility for nuance or discussion or learning.

What frustrates me is how hard it is to get people out of that mindset - of taking things other people are communicating and adding one’s own assumptions on where they’re coming from. You have to be able to recognize how your behavior is limiting your ability to empathize and grow, and that kind of change can be so challenging.

It feels like an uphill battle, but positive change doesn’t happen overnight.

I’m no linguist, but aren’t Palestinian people also under the umbrella of Semites? Like, by definition?

“Self-described free speech advocate censors dissenting views”

Maybe we’ll finally get a playable version of Kingdom Hearts

A good start to fixing the poverty is if companies making obscene amounts of money from their labor start fairly paying people in these areas.

Here’s the source for anybody curious:

https://youtu.be/FwHMDjc7qJ8?si=UdaMXa7uJTqgZniu

Def worth a watch. Tony’s chocolate looks like a good alternative.

Their next game, Chicory, is currently in my backlog and should probably get kicked up to the top.

Wandersong is $7 USD right now and it’s a real gem if you like more casual games. It’s a 2D adventure game where you interact with the world by singing. It’s cozy and heartwarming, and I’d recommend it to anybody who might be into that kind of experience.

Also Prey is the opposite of heartwarming but it’s one of my all time favorite games (easily top 5) and it’s somehow $3 right now.

Same goes for the whole Dishonored series.