“Sinisistar 2”. Cue the terrified expression and sudden teleport to elsewhere.

La-Mulana, Star Sector, Tower of the Sorcerer, Lemmings, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Reality Break, IJI.

I am definitely not a standard gamer. Spent $600 on a copy of the Merc Stealth keyboard, called the Ergo Sentry Plus.

If you are willing to risk uncertainty, a modded 4090 might be better than a 5090 if you need VRAM. I think the Nvidia firmware signature was leaked for the 4090, so modders have been able to add twice the memory to individual cards and have it still work. 48 gigs apiece.

VRAM for VRAM, probably cheaper than a 5090 - if only because a 4090 is less powerful in all other respects.

Anyhow, if you decide to get more RAM, better do it soonish if you are American. Between the Canadian tariffs and the emergency oil stockpile running dry around half a year, prices are set to climb further. This whole situation sucks.

Hopefully, I will someday be able to donate my library to a…library. While most of my catalog probably won’t interest people, there is still a small chance of passing down my culture to future generations.

If we ever develop a tool to speak with animals, it would be sponsored by capitalists for the sake of market growth.

If I were GOG or Gabe, I would snap those folks up and ask them to make something awesome.

As a fan of AI, I want disclosure. Just as tech vegans get to avoid AI, I too would be able to actively seek out games that are doing neat things with it. Disclosure is good for everyone.

In ZorinOS, you use the properties tab to set whether something is an executable. ZorinOS tries to be a midway point between Linux and Windows, so a fair chunk of things can be done without relying on the terminal. The issue with AppImages comes from previously working as intended, then silently failing.

In any case, Linux needs more time in the oven before it is suitable for the everyday person. It simply lacks the reliability and intuitiveness that is needed for someone used to Windows. Hopefully, SteamOS is what brings Linux to where it needs to be.

I tried Mint three or four years ago, and had issues with getting my games to work. As for the AppImages, the issue was that I would double-click on them, and nothing would happen. No error message, just nothing. To say the least, that doesn’t lend itself to troubleshooting.

As a gamer and in most things, I want AI. It is the results that matter to me, not the method. Be it sewn by hand or the loom, the final product has to be good enough to justify my time and money.

The problems come from who and why, which boils down to the feckless elite wanting to exploit and boss around people. As we have seen countless times in the past, corporations never needed AI to be cruel to people.

I give up. This year ain’t Linux for me. There are too many problems, such as AppImages not consistently launching and not telling me why. I decided to RUFUS up a Windows 11, and will be using ShutUp10 to fix up privacy concerns.

It sucks, but the frustrations with ZorinOS piled up. Hopefully Linux will be good enough for a power-casual in three or four years, but for now, it isn’t fitting what I want nor need.

When installing Snap apps, how the heck do I find the working directory? I got DevilutionX installed, but can’t figure out where my .mpq files are supposed to go.

This has been my biggest pain point in this latest attempt to escape Microsoft’s grasp. The GUI just doesn’t tell me where things end up, and search with Dolphin hasn’t helped. 🫤

I keep waiting for a final version of the game before getting into it. At this rate, I will be a skeleton and No Man’s Sky will still be getting new stuff.

I MIGHT buy a new $30 game if there is no DRM. A DRM’ed game, at $12? No way.

Fixing my PC’s rebooting issue, for one. It diagnosed the error logs that I gave it, and suggested to use my motherboard’s Load-Line Calibration feature to prevent the shutdowns. Before, I could get over a dozen reboots in a day.

For me, not having sudden reboots gives me a great deal of mental peace.

MSI is on my shit list for the next build, then. I want full control over my machine, including the games I play. I do not want to waste time grinding for stuff, when I can be enjoying narratives instead. Plus, who knows what kind of crappy things that governments or corporations would get up to?

While I do plan on someday using AI to recreate games, I would still want the original games for it to reference. I am thinking of having stuff like ‘Stars!’ rebuilt from Windows 3.1 coding into GodotScript or C#. Once that is done, extensions can be considered, such as referring to ad copy for the never released Stars! Supernova.

Plus, some people just want to be purebred retros. While I personally don’t get it, there is no reason why retro players shouldn’t get to play the original versions.

The stability issue is why I am waiting for SteamOS Desktop. I don’t want to distro hop, I just want to install a single OS and never have to worry about it for the rest of my machine’s life.

Hopefully, someone does a comparison of SteamOS Desktop vs CachyOS, when the time comes. The latter is what I am considering if SteamOS Desktop isn’t quite flexible enough or has a gotcha of some kind.

I think there is a very practical reason to attribute AI contributions: AI models are improving in ability. Being able to know when and what contributed the code, would allow people to more easily deploy newer AI to examine the work of previous AI, to improve or replace it. Plus, some AI will likely be specialized in specific domains, so you wouldn’t want different agents from stepping on each other’s toes. Something oriented around GUI design, probably shouldn’t be handling graphics optimizations.

This removal of authorship will just make things more difficult in the long run.