There ought to more indie outlets like itch.io, preferably non-American, and maybe if GOG had a similar site for just free or low cost indie games, that’d help bring upcoming indie artists in the door which eventually could make trustworthy titles worthy of their more premium store. Shame they have such odd vetting process, yet they don’t have a problem with over low quality stuff like the Postal series^[1].

On the other hand, Valve wishing to seek an alternative to Microsoft’s poor decision^[1] making has been a great boon to the Linux community. Valve was also there at the start of Vulkan^[2]. But is “funny” that Gabe Newell started off as a Microsoft employee, in fact the one that led the team that ported Doom to Windows with Doom95 and in turn also helped launch Windows (95) as the gaming OS for decades to come.

As much as I distrust and hate corporations, Valve isn’t in it for the shareholders, you can’t buy Valve stocks and that means they at least have a bit more soul than a lot of other corporations - even though they are profit seeking.

What I don’t like about them is how they sell you a service, not an actual game. You technically buy a lifelong lease on each game, never ownership. Your shit can be gone in minutes with nothing to prove for it, except for bank statements saying Valve took your money.

Which is why I’ll always buy on GOG^[3] if possible. DRM free and European.

Yeah, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland use “bil”, but e.g. Germany and Finland went with “auto”. I like etymology stuff like that, like how the name Johannes became Hans in German and John in English.

Is that Big Bertha?

Sorry, you’re right, I didn’t read the info box correctly.

You’re right, same goes for anime as they mention in the article. I’m thinking one leads to the other, people might pick up the manga to catch up on the anime or maybe a manga reader will watch the anime version of their show.
And they target a starving audience if you ask me.

You need Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection on Steam for the game assets in order to play OpenRA.
It’s on sale currently. Hindsight is 20/20, but wish I had picked it up for €2 around new years… Also, the appimage needs to be run as sudo, otherwise it crashes with a seg fault.

The weebs are winning because Hollywood is bankrupt for ideas. Heck, not just Hollywood, the west in general.

It’s for the same reason a lot of horror movies and tv series take place before the invention of the cellphone.

fan speed hysteresis

As a noob on these things, I had to rummage around to find those settings, and yes, they do indeed exist.

 
I greatly appreciate your comment, made me aware of what I could improve. I wouldn’t even have noticed those settings if I hadn’t looked up hysteresis, it’s not a word I think I’ve ever come across before heh.

G’MIC-qt isn’t the best morphing tool, but the one I figured out how to use

I wasn’t even aware it came from latin, but that makes perfect sense. But it’s weird how it was considered bad up until this late in history, but it wasn’t until 1938 that someone patented the smudge-free ballpoint pen. I imagine that smudging with your left hand as you wrote must’ve been very irritating and wasteful for hundreds of years, and thus it became a sadistic ritual to “right wrongs”.
Here in Denmark we called that type of schooling “sorte skole” (black school, an expression from the mid 1500s, where schools were run by religious institutions, so perhaps it’s a reference to their clothing?), and it didn’t matter if you understood the subject or not, you just had to memorize it and do things correctly, even writing with ones right hand.

I’m on linux, switched last year. But thanks for the recommendation!

I have 2 fans on my GPU, and I can control the curve through CoolerControl on Linux. I’ve also looked at LACT which has GPU fan control, though a bit simpler. I kept the services separated, so I could test each without them interfering with each other, but I have to say, when I woke up today, that’s what I thought was the problem, but no, after some testing I can see that it’s just that my fans, perhaps due to firmware, just doesn’t spin up unless it’s above 45%.

I looked around to see if others were having issues, and this github issue says that Nvidia API caps it at 30%. Maybe it’s capped at 45% for me on linux for some reason? I’m not too fussed about it, I’ve just made a curve that kicks in around the time I need it to.

EDIT: I did see the fans try and kick in around 40%, that’s why there are those spikes on the histogram on the left, that’s me slowly increasing from 40% to 41%, to 42% etc. Was only stable at 45%.

True. But I also tested when my GPU fans would turn on and it seems like the cut-off point was 45%, below that and they’d just stop completely. And normal idle temperature is around 40°C, and with the curve on the left it makes sense that even a 5°C increase would rev the fans up from 0% to 45% making it sound like a jet fighter about to take off.

Based on the sounds from my computer, that’s exactly the same curve the fans on my GPU and CPU uses, except for the X axis being temperature starting from 0°C going to 100°C and Y axis being fan power in percentage.

My grandmother told me stories about how she’d get whipped with a stick on the top of her hand if she tried using her left. Coercion never went away: conversion camps, behavioural therapy etc.

It’s referencing a coping mechanism when you lose in team-based multiplayer games to blame other team-mates instead of looking inward and accepting you might be the problem.
“GG” is short for good game, it’s basically the polite online equivalent to a handshake after a sports match, or any competition really.
“No heals” is the blaming of ones team for not helping out, in this case healing which is often done by a designated healer class which a player can pick in the game. Purpose of this class is replenishing health points to other fellow team members, something which is needed to give the team a better chance of winning as the opposing team is trying to kill you.
So logically, if the healing is either bad or lacking, one could surmise that “no heals” is a valid criticism, but “it takes two to tango” as the saying goes, and if you run away from the healer, out of their range or too far into enemy territory that the healer can’t help you without dying themself, then the problem isn’t the healer - it’s you.

First the US helps destroy it, and now they want to repair it?

“The US would say, ‘Well, now Russia will be dependable because trustworthy Americans are in the middle of it’,’” said a former senior US official, who was aware of some of the dealmaking efforts.

I wish there were sources for such “said a former senior US official” statements.

I don’t know if the whole game is worth playing but the intro alone was pretty groundbreaking for its time. Or well, one can just watch on youtube I suppose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoOViakt3I
Absolutely blew me away back when it came out.