Use Wine 9 or a fork of Wine 9, and install to the C: drive. Works every time.

Whatever soothes your conscience.

And in protest, you’ve let the other guy win. Now you have your very own Stasi in the streets and your tax dollars are being spent on bombing schools and celebratory UFC fights. You… sure showed them, haven’t you.

In general, you don’t need to install or update DirectX since it’s implemented outside Wine through dxvk or vkd3d. For other components (e.g. .NET or Visual C++), you should use Winetricks to automate the process:

List available components:

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/game/prefix winetricks dlls list

To install a component (e.g. Visual C++ 2015):

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/game/prefix winetricks vcrun2015

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This is my method for GOG and other offline installers.

To run the installer, I use GE-Proton9-27. Something happened with Wine 10 and some installers completely freeze after a few seconds. Wine 9 still works well enough.

Create a directory for the game’s prefix:

mkdir -p /path/to/game/prefix

Then run the installer with Proton (assuming you’ve installed GE-Proton into Steam’s compatibilitytools.d directory):

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/game/prefix ~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton9-27/files/bin/wine /path/to/setup.exe

Then install the games to the C: drive.

I like having my games installed outside the prefix (e.g. another directory mounted as the G: drive, or an absolute path in Z:), but for some reason, lettered drives other than C: are mounted as some kind of union filesystem where changes are only written into memory. If you want to have a game outside the prefix, you’ll still have to install it to C: and move the directory afterwards.

You’ll then have to set up a launcher to manage and launch the actual game. I recommend Faugus Launcher, but Heroic and Lutris are also options. The two most important fields to set are the prefix and the executable path. In Faugus and Lutris, you can set those paths when you add the game. Heroic creates a separate prefix by default, but you can set the prefix math manually in some sub-menu.

You can select the latest Proton (or GE-Proton) to run the games, downgrading to Wine 9 was only necessary for the installer.

Even if we ignore the manufacturing and material costs, changing over the entire production infrastructure (from injection molding to electronics and final assembly) is insanely expensive and would effectively shut down production until all of the verification runs are done. This way they can continue production for the unaffected regions.

I’m not covering for Nintendo (they can burn in a fire for all I care), but I have worked in an electronics factory and knew some of the process engineers: any kind of change is a massive pain in the ass downstream.

> Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road

What the fuck was John Greenday smoking when he wrote this? Who sticks forks into roads?

skipped every cutscene by day 2

You got filtered. Get past the prologue and chapter 1 and the story gets significantly better, to the extent that the narrative and gameplay frameworks allow, and often exceeds the likes of Dark Souls in both story and lore.

Masquerade Of The Guilty is fucking cinema and I will fight anyone who disagrees.

I’d rather be caught watching Fortnite porn than playing Fortnite.

There’s no winning strategy to reveal the price. Announce a low price early and release a much more expensive product, they get flayed alive. Announce a high price, public interest falls off a cliff. Keeping potential customers guessing at least keeps the Gabecube in the news cycle.

PLEASE CRANK THE SILLY THING AROUND should not be as hilarious as it is

First, read the actual ToS. That will spell it out.

Second, even if they kick you off the platform, what’s the loss? Git doesn’t depend on a single server by design. If you have to switch to a different provider, all you have to do is set up an empty repository on the new platform, change the local repository’s remote, and push. If the goal is to learn how to use git, then managing the remotes should be a part of it.

If all you need is a git server, then Codeberg is as good as Github. Better if you consider uptime and reliability.

still sorta developing what would become their open world formula

The formula was already fully developed when AC2 was released in 2009. You didn’t have to literally climb radio towers, but WD2 was still the same map marker collect-a-thon with a slightly different, slightly gay coat of paint.

I have horrible news.

Ring works perfectly on Linux. Apparently this game is an absolute wanker on Windows. Here it just glugs along gluggingly.

The wisdom of (violent toilet plunger noises)

I liked Watch Dogs 1 mainly because I didn’t consume any pre-release media about it. Whatever downgrade there may have been, I was unaffected. The game and its story are about as Ubisoft as they come (and I don’t mean that in a particularly positive way), but it was great for fucking around.

I also liked Cyberpunk 2077’s launch version, but at the same time, I think the people who are trying to memory hole the objectively dogshit launch state of both 2077 and The Witcher 3 are perpetuating the problem.

Skirt and programming socks. The skirt provides optimal airflow and the socks can be adjusted using a PID algorithm to achieve the desired thermal equilibrium.

Clanker equivalent of telling an angry spouse to stop overreacting.