Endymion_Mallorn

The only response I’ve seen so far from F-Droid is that they’ve put up a banner to Keep Android Open. Has there been any kind of plan for next steps?

Wow, thank you, I’ve installed this.

But SteamOS is Arch? So why not suggest CachyOS, which is in a similar space?

Oh, right. I never see the login screen, so I keep forgetting it.

Basically yes, as far as I know. But some software only works with one or the other (WayDroid only works with Wayland, Cinnamon DE and Hypnotix use X) due to available features.

I don’t believe it’s just unhealthy for “some people”. I think it’s unhealthy for everyone, and for our society as a whole. Simulating romantic relationships with fictional characters is a bad idea, because it dulls our sense of the real thing, and removes the need to intact with real people. It removes the ability to fail. A video game can’t be true enough to life that one mistake can ruin a relationship, because even if that’s the case, the player can reload his save. It becomes too comfortable and too safe.

As far as dumbing things down… is Civilization (as a series, let’s not split every hair here) dumbed-down? How about Doom? Beyond All Reason? Factorio and Mindustry?

I’m not saying that games shouldn’t make us feel. I don’t even hate the idea of a romantic story involving characters who are not the PCs (or linear “romances” like Final Fantasy 8). I’m talking about the “Romance Options” that became prevalent in games because of Mass Effect. The player’s avatar should not be involved in player-driven romantic relationships.

Love in the Ultima IV sense? sure. Love in the Mass Effect/Dragon Age sense? No.

If all they want a computer for is Steam, they’re going to get a better experience on Wayland. Cinnamon is built on X.

Short version of the difference, as I’ve been given the knowledge:

X11/X Windowing System is an older system, and still basically works on the CRT paradigm with HBLANK and VBLANK being sacrosanct and real-time. It’s doing transforms from digital to analog and back to digital in today’s world.

Wayland is built for more modern setups, where unoptimized code and excessive memory capacity are the norm, so it renders the whole frame to the GPU at a time and pushes it out, so there’s no concept of scanlines. It’s all just pixels.

A lot of the pressure is due to people transitioning to Mint from Win10 without understanding that they’re moving to an XWS system rather than Wayland. If you want Wayland, go with Arch/Cachy. If you want stability, stick with Mint and X11.

That’s what they’re aiming for, obviously.

Was about to say this. Hank absolutely did the right thing by exposing the scam.

Or, and maybe I’m the weird one here, we shouldn’t include romance in games. We absolutely shouldn’t have the players’ avatars involved in those romances. Games are escapist fantasy, and I don’t believe it’s helpful to allow anyone to experience romantic things in an escapist context - that should be constrained to the real world.

Then again, I think the only game I’ve played with a narrative that I really appreciate anymore is Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. So maybe I’m just old and jaded.

if I’d known that Revolt was using LLM code, I would never have tried to re-engage with the community there.

I don’t agree, but then again I also don’t want to play 3D games, mostly.

For a brief halcyon moment in gaming, all of two generations, we got away from the blasted Atari joystick. We had D-pads on the NES, the TG16, and SMS, and on the SNES & Genesis. We were free of the curse of “arcade controls” at home. And then Nintendo and Sony screwed up and went back to it. What a shame.

Yep. Tomb Raider and Resident Evil are the only 3D games I like.

Honestly, it’s almost a drop-in replacement as far as UX is concerned. The challenge is the lack of existing communities, which could be overcome if a whole community joined.

Well, I hope that Revolt/Stoat picks up most people.

Have we considered that if we go back in time, only give things to peasants and common people? It’s best if we never try to act top-down. Give the normal folks the means to revolt first.

I was never expecting an SC2 after Brood War, honestly. I was hoping that if Ghost succeeded, either they’d expand their 40K ripoff into other genres and let the WHFB knockoff fizzle out, or they would see that people did want games other than RTS games that are obviously GW properties with the serial numbers filed off, and maybe look back at old games like Blackthorne or The Lost Vikings. Maybe they could even have created a Rock N’ Roll Racing 2.

Instead, we got a “not-WHFB” game in the EverQuest mold and more click-wait-click games with cow levels.