The classic Lucas Arts adventures. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Grim Fandango.

I’ve been gaming since C64 days. We had the problem of too many games already back then. Hundreds of pirated games on disks and most of them weren’t even good.

The other day I felt the urge to play a new game from the “dead” point & click adventure genre. Filtered my Steam games and even found a relatively recent one with full Steam Deck support that was given away for free.

And I think I can do that with basically any genre.

Great indy titles get released all the time. Emulation gives me the ability to play almost everything from the entire history of gaming. Or just play one of my favourites. I just have to reach out and play. 2023 was an amazing year for gaming. 2025 wasn’t bad either.

Sure, bad games get made as well. But when I feel down I can just stop playing those and play Diarrhea 4 instead.

Picked up The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav. So far it seems to be a nice little German point & click adventures.

Not exactly a manual but I got stuck in Day of the Tentacle. Finally I caved and ordered the official hint book. Back then that meant sending them a letter. No idea how payment worked. My parents probably helped me with that.

It took an eternity to arrive. A few weeks at least. In the meantime I tried to progress the game. The day before the book arrived I managed to do it (use physics book with horse). And once I was past that I managed to beat the rest of the game.

But it wasn’t in vain. The book contained the story of the game written like an essay by Bernard (basically the game’s main character). It was pretty funny. So I didn’t regret ordering it.

I wish that was it, but what are those unnamed 64 bit Linuxes supposed to be?

And those channels have been talking about Linux for months. Why now such a sharp increase?

Looks sus. Probably a fluke.

Seriously, have you tried it on Linux? Nowadays older hardware seems to be better supported on Linux than on newer Windows versions.

Yeah, but at the same time they stopped making new games except for one. Thousand people (yes, many of them probably wouldn’t have been game devs) could have made at least ten new games. It probably wouldn’t have been bad for their engine either to have multiple internal teams trying to make multiple kinds of games.

Who could have foreseen that putting all your eggs into one basket was risky? Not this Epic leadership.

No reason why it shouldn’t work. I do stuff like this all the time.

Ah, didn’t notice that. I’m not super familiar with Bazzite but it essentially has two versions of the operating system. Updates are written to wherever you currently are not. That way if something broke with the system you could go back to the working version.

No idea how you can find out which the “current” version is supposed to be. Probably still the first one in the list. Either way it shouldn’t matter so much because an update and a reboot should put you into the right one.

That’s not an error. That’s the boot menu. You probably hit a button while it was starting. It allows you to enter different boot options or when you have multiple operating systems installed you can choose which one to start.

Just select the first entry and hit enter.

Technically DLSS 5 only modified lighting. The light emitted by your monitor.

Such a brave thing to say!

Ist alles nur ein Vorwand, um den Dönerpreis noch mehr steigen zu lassen.

Oh, so you missed the time when Epic gave GTA V away for free? Bummer.

Though with all the launcher-hassle I actually prefer the pirated version.

Still waiting for Microsoft Flightsimulator 2020 to fall to a price that’s worth it for the amount of time I would be playing with it.

And I’m still salty for the time they accidentally discounted it by 85 % and removed it from my shopping cart just as I was about to pay.

The little engine that could.

I recently got the Batlexp G350 and I’m satisfied. I’m running ArkOS and the only problem I have is that the battery indicator always shows 100 %. That seems to be a known hardware issue and I would just have to reset the battery, which I just have been too lazy to do.

Oh my, haven’t played Fallout Shelter in ages. I think I played until I hit the “pay or take ages” stage. I guess they removed that by now?