At least the bit the mama saw was

While I too like the analogy, and agree that Windows is becoming increasingly money grabby, I feel the need to be fair: as an OS it has supported native ISO mounting since Win7, just right click an ISO file and choose "Mount"...

Agreed. I have a deck and I'm now definitely gonna switch my main pc from Win10 to Linux. Steam deck desktop mode helped show me I could be comfortable using it, and the deck in general showed the gaming support is there nowadays.

I now see no reason to not put Linux on my desktop. Just deciding on which distros to check out. Probably mint. Maybe garuda...

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME

FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

My guess is a typo, possibly supposed to be 11 or 12? Is 1998 too early for TF2 design to be occurring?

Team Fortress 2 was announced in 1998

According to Wikipedia. So that looks plausible.

The post however talks about gathering feedback from players of TFC, which didn't come out until 99. Maybe Robin meant the original mod, which he also worked on, or maybe he just misremembered at what point TFC came out or when they actually explored the death stuff that resulted in the freezecam.

Highly likely Hitman World of Assassination (the whole new trilogy starting with the 2016 game) will scratch the itch for you, but yeah I appreciate the weird shambles of trying to buy that in its various forms; actually the current state is the simplest: one price for the whole thing.

I guess you may want to wait for it to be on sale though, but I definitely rate it, it's got many hours out of me.

Steam deck verified too, if that's of interest.

God I used to fucking love these "face bombs".

Thanks for reminding me about them!

::: spoiler Guess Going Under? :::

That said, when doing so use stickers that can be removed easily.

Nothing worse than paper price stickers that rip apart or leave a sticky residue.

Bonus if they're on a card box like pre-GameCube Nintendo, or 90s big box computer games, where they actually damage the underlying game box >.<

::: spoiler Guess Any Paradox Grand Strategy, but probably CK or EU? :::

::: spoiler My "guess" Starcraft! <3

Spawn more Overlords! :::

Nailed it!

I need to kill Chaos

::: spoiler Answer Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin :::

Big sword, spiky hair.

Oh yes! now I have to go replay some...

::: spoiler My guess Jazz Jackrabbit! back when Epic were "Epic Megagames"

I love JJ2 so much, what a great soundtrack in particular. :::

::: spoiler Guess Brutal Legend?!

Also shout out to the excellent Tenacious D song Roadie, by way of association with Jack Black. :::

Bingo ;)

Lol! this made me chuckle. Definitely makes sense.

::: spoiler Also Audioshield, various other VR activities I guess :::

An absolute classic of the C64 for me. That version really does shine, though the Master System also looks great!

I feel the Amiga (can you tell we were a Commodore family?) looks put to shame by the Mega Drive a little, for the 16bit ones, but it's interesting to hear your thoughts on it being more like a reimagining.

Thanks so much for doing these write ups, they're really fascinating and in depth.

Yeah HR had unavoidable combat bosses in its original release. The Director's Cut modded them all to allow for dealing with them by alternative means, such as hacking, robot/turret control and such. But because they weren't originally designed that way it's not the most organic, and you can't pure stealth bypass them like the original Deus Ex.

They've played us for fools!

Thanks for the tips.

I'm a dev by day, and no stranger to bash/zsh and powershell. That said I don't want to constantly be tinkering in the terminal just to use my OS.

Cheers for the pointer to Nobara, I'll look into that as an option too!

I have a separate 4 joycon charging dock.

Since they already mentioned WSL, you can also describe distrobox like WSL for Linux.

but yeah, agree this would be the simplest.

Wow, that definitely fits, but not what I was going for. I'm thinking much more recent.

Great answer though.

I don't know tons of the detail but I understand the principle. The immutable part of the system is really just an applied oci container image for any ublue based distro.

Certain mount points are writable and persisted (e.g. /home), but otherwise you can just reimage the entire system with any compatible (ublue based) image. Then each image is built by layering changes using ostree. So that's how you get the different distros.

Silverblue is ublue with gnome, kinoite is ublue with KDE, Bazzite layers steam, proprietary Nvidia drivers and other stuff mainly gaming related, etc.

System updates (which tend to be regular) are just applying an updated image, so actually updating is effectively the same as rebasing.

You can also yourself add ostree layers on top of the base image, and if you rebase to a different one your layers get reapplied on top.

There is definitely this for activities, so I'd be surprised if there isn't for virtual desktops given how much more popular/supported they are

This reminds me of my practice French oral exam at school, so not a typo but still:

As part of the conversation my teacher asked what sort of things I liked to read, and I decided to talk about a then popular technology magazine called T3.

"T trois" sounds rather like "Tais toi" (shut up), and she was a bit taken aback!

Thankfully though we learned not to use that in the real exam.

definitely true of Keep Talking

Yeah spoilers work on the web for me, but not on Jerboa

::: spoiler Guess Definitely Civ.

but also applicable to Total War, or "just 5 more minutes" in any Paradox Grand Strategy. :::

Play the demo if you can. I think most people who have will give the consensus the story is good.

I've played tens of hours of 15 several times to try to like it, and I still find it so hard to care.

I understood more of what was going on and cared more about Clive and his situation after the first 15 mins of 16, and then the rest of the demo just made more intrigued.

6 words :P but

::: spoiler I wonder... Final Fantasy VII comes to mind as Sephiroth goes to see Jenova in Nibelheim. :::

Ah yeah, there's a demo but I also don't know what's in it these days.

As for free levels, they cycle the free level monthly as per the current roadmap. I assume the demo lets you access the free level.

Looks like Bangkok is free until August 16th.

It was fundamentally broken in 64-bit Windows for a long time due to a practically unfindable bug, so they just removed it once that was a mainstream option (Vista onwards).

I think it's been fixed or recreated now though?

Full Tilt! was first published in 1995, comfortably before the inclusion of the Space Cadet table in Windows, which iirc was either '98 or Plus! for '95. I'm confident it wasn't in any of the vanilla releases of Win 95.

::: spoiler My guess but which Dynasty Warriors game?

(for me, always 5) :::

Just played the demo of FF16 and yep, I'm sold. Can't wait for next week now!

Excited to get to BG3 at some point too. I love the bioware games and people speak very highly of Larian.

::: spoiler Hmmm I mean obvs MGS, but I'm most inclined to say Sons of Liberty, where I think they're first mentioned? Interesting that others have replied Snake Eater or 4

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::: spoiler Oooooh Big rigs? :::