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  • Does anyone choose Debian?

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  • We have all the servers at work using Debian. It's rock solid. I use Tumbleweed on home PC and CachyOS on laptop as I do some gaming and having fresh packages might help this. Both works for me.

  • Steam Machine release closing in with an appearance on the Vulkan conformant product list [AMD Custom CPU 1772]

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  • With current HW prices it's going to be a lot...

  • I will be going on a school trip to Munich, Germany soon, anything I should know?

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  • I would add: Don't do phone calls with loudspeaker on

  • What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?

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  • For me it's either almost all of them or pretty much none, depending on point of view.

    I consider myself being quite a gamer, maybe a little old school one, but gamer nonetheless. I grew up with DOS classics like Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Civilization, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Quest for Glory, Heroes of Might & Magic, Ishar, Betrayal at Krondor, TES: Arena, etc. Supply was very limited so I played those plenty times. I did read game magazines at that time, drooling over pictures of games I could never get, kept informed about new releases... And I do keep quite specific taste and quirks to this day.

    I do like RPG, even though they are very time consuming and there's not that much free time. I keep hoarding them and telling myself I'll play them later. Same goes for my other preferred genre: turn based strategies. I like me some slow paced turn based combat and exploration, but man, that time investment is brutal. My third preferred genre is FPS, either this new/old "boomer shooter" phenomenon or some good story driven game (like e.g. Half Life). Last, but not least, is something I'd call "casual games" which might include everything from Slay the Spire, Inscryption to Golf with your friends or Megabonk. Those are games I like and play (or just dream about playing) and the rest is... just what you ask.

    • FIFA and other sports? I don't like it. I might get why there are people playing it, but buying actual rooster each year for full price? No way.
    • Souls like? Not for me. I want to relax, not feel like I have to work hard non-stop to not die. There's enough of that in real life. I still get why some people might like the challenge, but not me.
    • RTS? I know it's pretty much dead genre, but I never liked it. I don't have that fast reflexes and fast tactical decision making, so I prefer TBS where I can plan my actions in peace. Enough stress IRL, no need to add it in game...
    • Competitive online games? Same as above. Too fast, too stressful, to gain what?
    • Plenty of others, don't want to put wall of text.

    I do understand people are different and have different taste and that's alright. This is just my personal take. That's why I said it's either all or none. If I'd be strict and focus just on my personal prefs, most games would fall into "why do people play them?" But when I look from the broader side, people play games they like, so its alright.

    But man... there's one exception, that's despicable no matter the point of view. Grinding&gambling addict games -those should be banned worldwide for humanity's sake.

  • If you had end all be all say, what limits (if any) would you put on speech (public or private).

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  • Telling their mom, obviously.

  • Jucika looks for a job

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  • Unexpected czech at last image, nice.

  • Dozens of empty Waymos invade neighborhood in Atlanta leaving neighbors baffled

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  • Because now they have actual "proof" in hands.

  • Recable.EU : sustainable USB cables, repairable, fair & handmade in Germany

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  • Charger is made in China, though. Still decent price and good form factor.

  • Women writing men

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  • We need to focus on important things! Is that penis perfectly sized in a human or a wolf form?

  • A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

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  • Pay for it? Are you implying they did something wrong? Oh, come on! We should beg them not to leave... Maybe if we pay them for their inconvenience...

    /s obviously

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    Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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  • Because Lemmy itself is developed by the same folks who run .ml instance. Luckily there is piefed and mbin, which are compatible.

  • What album cover goes the hardest?

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  • Yeah, Cannibal Corpse came to my mind too. It was Butchered at birth, to be precise.

  • How well can Electric vehicles(EVs) handle the heat — and the cold? AAA put them to the test

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  • Instructions unclear. Burning fossils should cause global warming, not global spikes on both ends.

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  • Can someone explain the hexbear community?

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  • What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?

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  • I'd add Back to the Future, it's pretty consistent IMO.

  • Nintendo sued by players who say they should get any tariff refunds received by the US government

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  • The Art of the Deal

  • Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?

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  • I'd say the other option is being patient gamer. I only buy at discounts year(s) after release. It's a win win in my book:

    • it's way cheaper
    • no beta testing, games are patched by the time
    • the moment of purchase I might have a PC that is powerful enough for older game
    • if the game had denuvo, it would probably be gone at the time due to its licensing costs

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th

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  • You're right. It's not point and click adventure. The controls resembles it though, you point and click and Andreas goes there. That's where similarities end.

    Also you have a point the pacing is really slow. The game I played before Sentiment was Amid Evil, which is old school fast paced boomer shooter, so the switch was pretty brutal. But in the end it felt somehow "relaxing"? So much shit happens so fast IRL so I found myself coming to the game to actually enjoy the slow progression. But I can see how people might dislike it. I like reading books and I read slow so I'm used to slow progression.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th

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  • I finished Pentiment yesterday. It's fantastic. I was fighting with clunky controls a bit at the start, but I'm really glad I did not give up.

    RPG elements (i.e. character progression) are very basic, gameplay-wise it's like crossbreed between point and click adventure and walking (& talking) simulator. No action whatsoever, just walking and talking. And still it's a great game. How? It's all about the story, characters and your interactions with them. All writing is great, as we can expect from Obsidian. The entire game I wanted to progress further and further just to see what happens next, how people react to what you do, how tables turn and the game did not disappoint in this regard. Also art style, sound effects (like writing sounds when dialogs roll) and fragments of music helps it a lot to get that "medieval" atmosphere.

    I won't spoil the story in case there are still people who haven't played it yet, I'll just tell the game has three acts, where first one is the most non-linear and open and each subsequent one is more narrow and linear as the story continues. And while it might look like it's limiting, it fits the storytelling well, so no problem with me. There are quite a few story twists during the game so I honestly enjoyed it a lot and I didn't know how it would wrap up to the very end.

    The game gets 5/5 from me and I can highly recommend it to everyone seeking calm gameplay focused on story and characters. It is similar to games like Disco Elysium in this regard, although the gameplay is still very different. It's also one of those games you want to start over right away to see how different choices you make alters the story and the ending, which doesn't happen very often (at least not to me). Thumbs up!

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