pathief

@pathief@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely an underrated game!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to get good recommendations you’re going to need to provide additional information. How many people are playing? How complex can a game be? What games have you tried and loved? Is there a favorite mechanism? What is the game duration you’re going for? 10 min? 30? 3 hours?

  Generic recommendations based on my library:

  • Just One - Favorite party game

  • Brass Birmingham - My favorite; Beware it’s quite complex and lasts around 3 hours

  • Blood Rage - Cool dude’s on a map game with very nice minis

  • Turing Machine - Good puzzle game

  • Slay The Spire - If you love slay the spire, you’ll love cooperative slay the spire as well

  • Menara - Favorite dexterity game

  boardgamegeek.com is the imdb of boardgames, check it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately this is one of the cases where you’re going to have to do some research.

  Check ProtonDB to see how a game plays on Linux. I’m assuming the flight simulator would be problematic.

  Usually the periferal drivers are built into the Linux kernel. Your keyboard and mice will just work, gamepads as well. Niche stuff like wheels and flight controllers will likely not work out of the box and you’ll have to find a community based software to support it. Sucks.

  If I were you I’d boot a virtual machine or a live USB drive and try it out. If you’re not comfortable with the amount of compatibility just don’t install it. Nothing lost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have the exact hardware supported by the SteamOS then you’ll be fine. However, I don’t even know of they support nvidia video cards yet, I believe most of their stack is optimized for AMD cards.

  In that sense, installing a more generalist linux distribution will net you a better driver compatibility.

  Linux gaming is at a fantastic state right now, you install steam and games work. 20 years ago I would have never believed it to be possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying from a USB or virtual machine is just a good idea in general. Use Ventoy to put several distros into a single USB stick and try them out. Try your hardware, check which UI you like the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are tech savvy enough to install Windows, you can easily install Linux as well. If you install any of the big distros you will have a good time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux supporting kernel level anti-cheats is an amazing feature, in my honest opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not going to happen in this iteration of SteamOS. It remains mostly a gaming “only” distribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Football Manager 25 delayed til March 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very disappointing. They delayed the game for a few weeks and then for 5 months. How did anyone think the November date could be achieved?

  Guess I’ll look for a community updated database for this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if I only have time to play a game a month, I’m not gonna play a 6/10 game. I’m not saying to blindly trust metacritic but when you seldom play games you need to filter them aggressively somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here they are discounted a lot, very often in the 40 euro range (new)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But 5 bucks discount is nothing, you can get so much better in other venues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Portugal we have a couple of these stores but I really don’t understand how they stay alive. I went there once with a sealed 60 euro, recent, game for a console I didn’t down. They offered me 15 euros and were selling used copies for 55 euros. Why on earth would I buy or sell for those prices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t own steam games tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes Bloodborne⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this with non-minified JavaScript all the time. Bloody amateurs /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main problem is the amount of REALLY bad games. It’s very hard to find decent games, most of them are intentionally unplayable garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I fear becoming that guy, can you call me out if I do? Cheers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard for me to believe that hunter / food seeker isn’t the oldest profession… But it’s definitely up there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed hacknet, is this similar? :O

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So you're saying if I put shoes on my dog...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You misunderstood the sign. You just can’t smoke the dog. The dog can do whatever the hell it wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finish him. 🪓⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it have to be a new discovery to qualify as “science”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a very neat idea, to be honest. I hadn’t thought of that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately this doesn’t work in Portugal. Most sales people don’t have any sort of training in the products they sell and they are heavily pressured into selling services rather than products. Your budget is 200 euros? They’re going to try to suggest you a 100 euros product and then try to get you to buy extended warranty and/or insurance.

  Source: I did sales to pay for my college

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing, I’ll definitely start asking there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The mechanical keyboard topic was just an example. Because I’m kinda into mechanical keyboards, I can instantly spot the obviously bad recommendations. If the topic was something like microphones or washing machines, I’d be toast.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how you read my comment and concluded that I approve racism or homofobia. It’s these kind of comments that push people away.

  Vegan and non vegans are are at the opposite extremes. One only eats meat, the other never eats meat. You can’t insult people into your way. No one wants to have a conversation with you when you just randomly accuse them of homofobia. In your future attempt try going easier and with baby steps. People are more likely to stop eating meat if they take it one step at a time. This ridiculous expectation that someone must change their lifestyle over night or they’re racists… This isn’t the way, statistically speaking. But alas, this is a pointless discussion because you already know and just to fight with a stranger. Have a nice day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not how you get people to join your ideas, this is how you push them away further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be the nice and fair thing to do… However people are often happy with just a pat in the back so that’s what they get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked on one of the largest Portuguese tech companies, it was kinda dependent on the business area. In the telcos department I barely had to do any overtime. My colleagues in the banking department, however, wouldn’t ever see the light of day. They arrived before sunrise and left long after sunfall. Projects were submitted at a loss to in the hope of netting future projects. Developers were supposed to work overtime to compensate this… If you refused to work overtime your carreer would have and at that company.