IMO the only way game prices will get lower is if people just stop buying them at the higher prices. If the price of a game goes from $60 to $100 and people complain but still buy the game, then the next one’s going to be $100 too (or more.)

There’s also QuickEmu which is really handy for spinning up a pre-built VM to just fart around with.

It works on Wayland for me!

I do! KDE widgets always seem to end up bugging out for me but Conky is always nice and chill.

The laptop is a little faster, and this way I can still play games on the Steam Deck while the installer runs on that lol

Honestly, IMO Britain needs to just let go of this ‘special relationship’ nonsense with the US that we seem to think we have. It only applies when the US wants us to join in one of their wars, or hassle Europe about something which we can’t even do properly anymore since we left the EU. Otherwise the US really doesn’t give two shits about what we’re doing.

We’re a European country, not an American state. We should act as such and move closer to being part of Europe, instead of trying to suck up to an isolationist powder-keg on the other side of the world. (Which I’m assuming will be the case once the MAGAs are in charge.)

Yeah the Euro thing is a bit of a Catch-22 I think - if a Labour government agrees to adopt the Euro, the Tories and the press will absolutely tear them to pieces, and we’ll probably end up with a Tory government again, bleating on about how they “Saved our pound” or whatever.

I think you could make the argument that Britain rejoining makes the EU look good - if the UK leaves and does better, it might give other countries the idea that they’ll be better off leaving too. But if the UK changes its mind and comes back after not even 10 years of being out, it might send the message to others that you’re better off staying the course.

Especially if we’re willing to come back for a worse deal than we had before we left, which I’d assume would be the case. We pissed away an amazing position within the EU, I’d be very surprised if they were willing to let us just plop back into our old role.

Yeah same here, I just install on my laptop using Lutris and then copy the installed folder over to the Steam Deck and add the main .exe as a non-Steam game. (And turn wifi off just to be safe.) Always worked fine for me so far.

Yeah I grabbed that too! Also Mad Max for like $3

Oh yeah that’s a good call! Rory is in it too IIRC.

Not downvoting, but I do quite like that Floorp is just a bit weird. It makes it more fun to use lol.

Also: Christopher Eccleston (9) and Jodie Whitaker (13) in Antigone.

I find AI is useful for doing piddly crap like writing cover letters and boiler-plate emails, the kind of stuff that requires zero brain-power but takes up time in your day. I see it as like having a secretary that’s not quite competent enough to trust with anything important lol. It can be disastrous or handy, depending on how it’s deployed.

Men wearing wigs.

For whatever reason, we’ve decided as a society that women wearing wigs/weaves/extensions to make themselves feel attractive and nice is perfectly normal, but if a man does it it’s laughable and pathetic. I say, wigs for anyone who wants them!

Also before the accusations start, I’m not a bald dude lol.

I think also some people who feel like they can’t be as openly homophobic as they used to be in the 80s/90s/2000s have just transferred their bigotry onto trans people instead because they think they can get away with it.

Yeah I think once games reach a certain level of hype there’s almost no way to release them without getting a big backlash. People (IE gamers) tend to build these things up way too much in their minds and go in with really unrealistic expectations.

I think it wasn’t a bad game, it just wasn’t a great Mass Effect game. If it had released as it’s own stand-alone thing and had been marketed a bit less grandly I think it would have been a lot better received.

Civ VII is $160 CAD for the full version though. 😬

I agree. Bush Jr. was the one who broke the window, Trump is just the inevitable crackhead who climbed in and started living on the couch.