Classic Linux form to not show screenshots of a video game on the homepage (for Neverball).

I just booted up Satisfactory for the first time since it originally came out in EA and I’m excited to dive right in all over again. There have been so many QoL improvements since I left.

I’m usually on roughly a 5-6 year cycle. I typically aim for one or two notches below the best available and that tends to get me about 3 years on high-ultra, and another 3 on medium-high.

The Last Caretaker is an early access game where you pilot a boat that is often caught is rough storms. Worth checking out.

Reaching 1000 hours in Elite:Dangerous. There’s something special about being able to hop in your ship, pick a system anywhere in the Milky Way and be able to go there, given enough time. I’ve barely left the starting area in all this time and only going halfway across for the first time later this year with a few friends.

It’s a wildly big game and I’ll probably never run out of things to do.

Thankfully I didn’t need to read it because the headline was something I knew when the program was initially announced.

“Go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done, Tim.”

Oddly, I had a similar experience with the game. It just sort of ended up in the collection of “backed up” games in my library. Can’t remember who recommended it. Maybe it’s cursed? If it is a cursed game, they at least made it fun. It’s a pretty fast-paced shooter with lots of unique enemies and pretty backdrops.

Edit: I misread this and thought you were talking about the original series that ended around 2012. I looked at the new one and it looks like it lost a lot of what made the original good. I recommend checking out the older ones.

If you have access, the VR experience for it is something else

It’s not exact, but there’s a spiritual successor to SR2049 called Distance that’s fantastic.

I ended up making the choice to just avoid the games that don’t work under Linux. They seem to all be almost exclusively AAA twitch shooters that require far too much from me as a player anyway.

The only way I can vote on the topic is with my wallet.

You weren’t kidding. Way too much to paste here directly: https://pastebin.com/CJ7i629w

If there’s another command I can run to provide more info, let me know, but what I have here was the full output of what I entered. Would that be vkinfo as opposed to vulkaninfo or were you just expecting more output from my command?

I’ve tried just doing Beam on a grid map and it’s still the same. I’ve been playing Elite over the course of weeks with a friend and it hasn’t improved.

I still have my carefully assembled mod pack from back in the day hanging out. I wonder if we’ll see a new wave of mods come from this.

Gather ‘round the 27” gaming monitor for the big game this weekend at my place!

Okay sure

They’re not lining up to take it though. It’s all they’re given. When HDMI was new, most people skipped component cables entirely and went straight from 480i analog to 720p digital overnight and the only way to do that at the time was HDMI. Years and years later, we still only have HDMI and DP as the two standards and they’re not putting the alternative on TVs.

The consumer does have the responsibility to make the choice, but only when those choices are actually presented to them. If there were DP TVs as available options, I’d agree with your point, but I’m not about to ask my friends to boycott HDMI TVs anytime soon because I know all it will do is inconvenience them and it won’t make a lick of difference in the market.

That’s great for you, but try to convince one other person who’s not already in your headspace they should not buy any more TVs. That’s almost an impossible ask. Like telling someone not to get an Android or iPhone because of the data collection. Geeks like us can put up with these inconveniences but we’re a very small minority.

People are still going to get the product unless there’s a truly viable alternative available. Until we see a new standard whose goal is to specifically target replacing HDMI in this context, there’s not really any way to suggest people “vote with their wallet” on something as common as HDMI.

I can’t think of a single “feature” that Windows 11 brings that couldn’t easily be backported. I remember when 10 was new, there were actually major changes to the way certain things worked for the better and those were at least there to balance out any negatives.

With 11, all they did was add a fresh can of paint and bombard a series of garbage AI updates. AI features literally written by AI. I don’t know anyone who has a mentioned a single nice-to-have that wasn’t already in 10.

You’re reminding me I need to rewatch Hellraiser. Such a great movie.