I liked it back in the day, but I don’t mess with that stuff no more. That’s how you get another GlaDOS.

Why do you prefer them to flatpaks? Genuinely curious. I’ve only used appimages once or twice.

Yeah we should just choose a winner and go with their system.

This should be easy!

Too bad it will be difficult for us to see all their fancy cheap RAM through all the yummy Venezuelan oil covering this place! It’s totally worth my eyes and skin stinging a little bit all the time. Oh and my lungs of course.

~sad /s~

That kind of suggestive language gives me a large hadron.

It amuses me to play Roblox with my son when he’s on a tablet or console and I’m using the Sober app to run the Android client on my Linux desktop that was built to be a windows gaming PC several years ago when he was a little baby.

He has an old PC that he doesn’t use much, but he’s got a much fancier one on the way.

I’d say it’s even more unique than a valuable competitive mistake/opportunity.

Valve has the chance to grow the brand and make a bunch of money and all the other standard goals for a company, sure. But they also have the opportunity to benefit the world in subtle but significant ways while getting richer.

A normal megacorp might not give a shit about that last part. But a company that is majority owned by one individual who is already a billionaire that looks like santa claus and presumably cares about his legacy and maybe even other people… it might just be possible!

I appreciate the opinion!

I pretty much know that stuff, and it’s probably another small reason I haven’t played it yet. But also knowing that, I wouldn’t expect the turn based CRPG feel or anything like.

Well and also, BG1 EE and BG2 EE work great for me in Linux (I think they have native versions so no surprise) so I can get a shot of the real shit whenever I want, lol.

Having a couch PC with its own monitor(s) able to swing in and out of the way without taking over the TV is a game changer. I can play BG while hanging out with my family and pause it at any time.

Ooh, I think it’s time for me to finally buy this game, hopefully in a way that signals my support for this action.

It blows my mind that I haven’t played BG3, btw. The original saga of 1 + 2 + expansions is S-tier nostalgia deep in my heart right along with the other big PC and console RPGs of the 90s. i’ve just been in one of those phases of life where I am focused on other things and not playing many games at all unless my family gets me to jump into something light and co-op.

And when I say focused, on a scale from 1 to 10 I’m talking ADHD hyperfocus.

Absolutely, and the scary part to me is how that projection includes LGBT folks also being child predators all the damn time.

It’s like they are a bunch of bisexual pedophiles who are repressed and angry, and they get jealous when they see other people giving in to the same desires. Or, as we see all the time, they assume somebody “giving in” to their homosexuality or gender dysphoria is also “giving in” to their pedophilia.