Limo.

https://github.com/limo-app/limo

Its linux native, available as a flatpak.

Vortex is a shitshow, the NexusMods people have no idea how to write anything for linux.

I was able to use Limo to fully do a FONV, Viva New Vegas setup, uh, 2 years ago now.

As well as mod Cyberpunk 77 with it.

You have to actually RTFM though, but its a versatile and very useful tool once you figure it out.

I’m sorry, but I’ve never heard anyone say Godot is fairly unkind to older hardware before.

Sure, yeah, if somebody is futzing around in 3D, in the Forward+ renderer, and has no idea what they are doing, yeah.

But… broadly?

How… old of hardware are you talking about?

Like, 15+ years old?

Also, SDL isn’t … a game engine.

Its… a rendering/input/output layer/library.

Sure, if you want to write your own game engine, you could use SDL… but… that’s a bit much to ask of a novice indie dev, who wants to complete a 3D game that’s maybe roughly as or more graphically advanced than say, Fallout New Vegas, in under what, 3, 4, 5 years?

As far as I can tell (I am use Bazzite), the main problem with Bazaar was basically that it was kind of undercooked, had some bugs, both surface level and under the hood, when they first pushed it as the bundled app store for Bazzite.

But its been some months now, and they seem to have been ironed out?

I guess possibly a ‘downside’ could be that it only handles flatpaks, as opposed to also allowing other kinds of direct package installs, but the whole idea of Bazzite is ‘no touchy core os, use flatpak’.

Or, ok, Bazaar is either GNOME only, or GNOME first, whereas Flathub pretty well supports KDE and GNOME, so, if you prefer KDE, I can see the reasoning there for preferring Flathub.

Steam Deck runs everything up to a PS3 and Xbox 360, and the Switch.

Almost everything a generation prior to ran runs with 0 problems, PS3/360/Switch can be hit or miss somewhat, depending on the game.

A Steam Deck will also run MGS5 and Titanfall 2.

Its entirely possible to make new games that look that good and will run on comparable hardware, just gotta, you know, have an optimized engine, render pipeline, game.

Hell you can get a solid, never dips below 45 FPS on CyberPunk 77 with a Deck, with med/high settings, then sync the VRR to a 45/90 split.

Highly religious people are ordained by God, donchaknow?

They can do no wrong, because its not wrong if it’s furthering God’s plan.

A sane world would see psychology broadly recognize this as a persistent delusion and classify them as some kind of insane, grandiose, religiously-informed malignant narcissism.

No, we are not.

We can go back to the basics, focus on not graphical realism, and/or, invent new rendering paradigms that lead to new art styles, and compute with less overhead, have modest system requirements.

It isn’t impossible.

Look at MGS5, Titanfall 2.

Shit looks pretty good, its a decade old, from before all this modern graphical absurdity.

There has literally never been a better time to become an indie dev, make a small team.

No publisher, no marketing.

Just don’t overpromise, and don’t take people’s money untill you actually have a minimum viable product.

Godot is completely open source, and completely free, and quite capable as an engine.

No one is coming to save us, but ourselves, if we choose to.

Having a stable set of individuals with a deep understanding of ‘how things work’ is so totally anathema to the modern paradigm of ‘every coder is is a contractor, basically’.

Everybody wants to do software development, but doesn’t want to foster software developers.

So, they try and build machine god to replace us, and as most of us predicted… didn’t work out so well, but goddamnit, they’ll burn a trillion dollars before they let their ego take a hit.

… oh well, I guess.

I mean, on the one hand, its SQLite.

On the other hand…

… arguably the entire point of a database language is to efficiently handle complex workloads.

And then when you remember that… this was a project, in development, that cost time, money, energy, made RAM prices go up by maybe ¢22 per GB all on its own…

This is an insane negative return on investment.

Like imagine if you paid the same amount of money to … people, a contracted firm, and they handed you this.

You’d potentially be firing them or suing them for breach of contract, blacklisting them as far and wide as you could.

I mean, the entirety of DLSS, and Realtime Raytracing, has been an ongoing insult to the more technical aspects of game engine design snd optimization.

Now everyone else can experience the level of disgust that people who’ve been figuring out all kinds of tricks and hacks that become either a ‘secret sauce’ or an industry standard rendering method, that those people have been experiencing since Nvidia started this whole mess.

Howabout we just figure out a more effective and also faster way to do AA, eh?

You know, not go down the TAA branch of the tech tree, that lead us to where we are now?

Oh or hey, howabout this:

Actually improve NPC AI in video games, decision making / behavior models, maybe a little submodule on a GPU that’s optimized to run some kind of standardized genetic learning algo data format, or maybe figure out a way to do Goal Oriented Action Planning in the shader buffer, somehow, you know the kind of AI that’s so awesome in FEAR?

In fairness to LLMs, (which I run locally) I’ve been able to use them for like, bits of code that are roughly 200 lines or less.

Or like, feed it a code base and say hey, make sure all the comments are formatted the same way.

But uh, for… trying to engineer an entire system?

Nope nope nope, they get very confused, very fast, as overall conplexity increases.

Wow.

2000x worse, huh?

I mean… I’m impressed that it runs, passes unti tests, and ‘works’, but is also that much worse.

That’s a kind of achievement.

Not a useful kind, but… impressively bad.

I’m going to go with ‘Aha! I did an intentional misdirect!’

… yep. Mhm.

(cough)

derp

Maybe don’t make a habit out of this, Mr T-Rex.

Oh hey, no prob!

Yeah, the… fragmented-by-design nature of lemmy can be a bit confusing… I don’t even know how many different mobile client apps there are at this point, and many instances have differing layouts for the web browser version.

How callous of you!

As far as I know that’s correct, nobody knows who Bansky actually is.

… Is what I was going to say.

What astoundingly serendipitous timing.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/

TL:DR

First posted on the 13th, picked up by other media roughly 6 hours ago, Reuters released a special investigative report, and they believe Bansky is:

Yep, yep yep yep, fully agree and am also a fan of the concept behind Kinstugi.

Though I think that kintsugi more specifically refers to … well, a literal artform/method of repair of things like glasses, cups, vases, etc…

Yeah, the general idea of … just repairing things that break, instead of replacing them wholly… making do with what you have and what you know…

We all need to shift toward that.

Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair.

We are living in a cyberpunk dystopia and if we ever want it to inch toward a solarpunk alternative, we will need to do with what exists, produce less literal mountains and islands of garbage.

… Beyond that, you could say that a kind of custom repair like this is literally building character.

Hah!

I had not thought of that, but that is another ‘solution’ to the ‘problem’.

Potentially just placid water could work as well.

… Didn’t even occur to me, not a ‘foot guy’, but uh, yeah, you’re not wrong.

Roughly that pose, camera a bit to the left of where it is here.

You’ll be able to see everything mentioned, I guess excepting literally the butthole, but, you’ll be able to see a good deal of butt cheeks.

You could also reorient this same rough pose but her left knee, right foot and left hand are on the ground, right hand is on a table or chair or something, and the camera/pov is perhaps a bit unrealistically into the ground, or, as if she’s on a see-through surface.

Basically, being climbed over.

EDIT

And here’s the source/credit:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/290763719692532504/