For graphics an RX 7900 XTX, and for CPU a Ryzen 9 7900X.

I used to agree with this statement, but I’m no longer that sure.

I built a new PC a week ago, installed windows first then Linux. The idea was that I needed Windows for gaming.

Thought I’d try proton + Steam, regardless, just to see how it stacks up.

No performance difference. HDR works through gamescope. The window manager of the DE isn’t insane and I can alt tab around my OS without problem.

Pretty good stuff. Still have windows for work and Valorant, but otherwise I play all my games on Linux these days. The only part that’s lacking, in my opinion, is hot plugging controllers. Annoying that that doesn’t work.

Are you using proton experimental?

But Hunt Showdown exists

I agree that Pitchford is a dick, but I sincerely disagree about the art style comments: I don’t think it’s morally correct to “copyright” (or, reworded: claim exclusivity of) art styles, especially in this context.

I think the two works are completely independent, and Gearbox being inspired by the short film is completely appropriate.

Anything else would be no different (in my opinion) than cases like Roger Dean (the cover artist for Yes’ early albums) suing James Cameron for the floating islands in Avatar.

It’s not stealing to be inspired by someone else.

DHCP as in it’s an ethernet connection to a residential router that provides the device with connectivity details.

Normally this isn’t considered as secure as a bad actor can cut the power or connecting cables (e.g. If you’re using dsl) to kick your system offline.

And, yeah, my old security system absolutely had an old 2G/EDGE modem to connect and send basic signals (as a fallback, in case of the above power cutting scenario). Was great.

It’s bizarre.

In my last apartment, I literally had to fight to get a DHCP/ethernet + EDGE (yes, really) connection installed.

They kept asking me why I want two 😅

Yeah, I recently bought the GL-MT6000 and it’s been great.

Those responses on Twitter are surprisingly wholesome. Sucks that there was a leak, but I doubt it’ll affect the launch much.

Really hoping this’ll be a great game; fingers crossed.

If you don’t want to pre-order, don’t. But don’t just assume that the cancelation of a playtest means the game is broken.

Announcing they’ve gone gold, two months prior to launch, is surely to assuage doubts that the game is being rushed or incomplete.

It’s the correct move, and shows that they believe in their product. Hopefully it isn’t a deception.

Genuinely hope this one turns out great, as I loved the first game.

That’s not what “going gold” means.

It means that they’ve completed development and are prepping their final release CDs/builds.

Functionally, it means development has stopped because the dev team has deemed it complete enough for physical release builds.

As a player who’s played 4U, GU, World, and Rise; I’m kind of okay with that loss. The hunting side of things was always very weak and unintuitive (to me).

I think putting more emphasis on interactions with the world kind of help justify the existence of the open world - but more emphasis on finding and tracking monsters just seems like a step in a direction the teams - historically - haven’t been the best at.

This is just my opinion, though - shame to see a part you liked about the games being reduced.

Turkish middle school, high school, and university exams are very serious.

Basically everyone takes the same set of long exams (with a few additions you can add to your standard exam sets, for specialized schools) and when the results come out, you are compared to all other students in the nation.

Like, think global leaderboards.

The best universities will outright reject you if your ranking isn’t high enough.

It’s very intense and cut-throat; so much so that - when I was a young’un growing up in Turkey - I just opted to try my hand at the SATs instead. Ended up going to school abroad.

The SATs were so easy, compared to the exam prep we did in our Turkish classes, it almost felt like a joke. Though, college tuition costs definitely made sure I wasn’t the one with the last laugh.

Its latest commit is from 4 days ago, so it looks like work is still ongoing.

It’s odd, but not unheard of for open source applications to have large windows between releases. They just might not have a reason to bump major versions, at the moment.

If you want the commits since 2022, you can always install a dev build from github.

Mine is in 6 days, oh boy.

Well, that just looks incredible. 2025 can’t come soon enough.

As a Turk, let me just add:

It’s very well known that the AA is basically just Tayyip’s propoganda machine. It’s a very hard bias towards whatever he’s looking to say, at that point in time, not necessarily right or left wing.

Other than the slightly similar camera angle - and emphasis on slight: those games have very different styles of camera - those are completely distinct games.

I get the idea that you’re not a fan of those titles for their design choices which led to mainstream success, but holy crap give them an iota of credit.

That was Sony’s site. Super shitty what they did there.

But on the Steam Store page it was always “a PS account is required”.

I’m totally with you on that latter point - Sony needs to do something about that.