Hell March! The Red Alert 2 version is the best one to me, maybe because it was the first I heard or because it just feels punchier.

I can’t pick just one, honestly. Aside from the Tetris theme and World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros., I consider these to be not only catchy but also iconic:

• Guile theme for SSF2
• Rip & Tear from DOOM (2016). A modern day classic, imo
• Brinstar from the original Metroid
• Hail to the king, baby

Okay, what’s the biggest and most active gamer community on Matrix?

As far as I know, https://friendlylinuxplayers.org/ . I’m sure it’s not as active as whatever Discord communities you’re in but it’s fairly active and actually friendly.

I use mkinitcpio. You mean regenerating the initramfs? If so, yeah I’ve done that a few times without much success. I suppose reinstalling the bootloader could be an option but I’ve tried using a live ISO from another distro (Ubuntu) and the problem still manifested itself. But it is something to keep in mind, so thanks.

Anyway, so far it seems to be a faulty PCIe slot, so I changed the GPU to another slot and things seem to be working fine. But I’ll wait until tomorrow to do a final edit to my post.

PieFed isn’t letting me edit the OP due to an unexpected error. The errors keep piling up, haha! [EDIT: It’s fixed now!]

Just wanted to thank all of you wonderful people for all the help you’ve given me. I love each and everyone of you (even the ones who skimmed through my post :p). A user on the other thread I created in the Arch Linux community suggested I add the nomedeset parameter, with which I managed to boot into the system. I updated it and installed linux-lts along with linux-lts-headers. Adjusted /boot/loader/entries/arch_linux.conf to switch to the lts kernel by default and rebooted the PC. Unfortunately, didn’t work but I got logs! Here’s the relevant part, I think:

mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu: [powerplay] Failed message: 0xe, input parameter: 0x0, error code: 0xffffffff  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu: [powerplay] Failed message: 0x4, input parameter: 0x2000000, error code: 0xffffffff  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: [drm:resource_construct [amdgpu]] *ERROR* DC: unexpected audio fuse!  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: [drm] Display Core v3.2.316 initialized on DCE 12.0  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* No EDID read.  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* No EDID read.  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* No EDID read.  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* No EDID read.  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: [drm] Timeout wait for RLC serdes 0,0  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: [drm] kiq ring mec 2 pipe 1 q 0  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: [drm:amdgpu_ring_test_helper [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring kiq_0.2.1.0 test failed (-110)  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: [drm:amdgpu_gfx_enable_kcq [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ enable failed  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: [drm:amdgpu_device_init.cold [amdgpu]] *ERROR* hw_init of IP block <gfx_v9_0> failed -110  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu_device_ip_init failed  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: Fatal error during GPU init  
mai 03 11:04:23 arch kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu: finishing device.  

I did a search and it seems like it’s the GPU’s fault due to the ring errors. I think. I remembered I have an old nvidia GPU laying around so I’m going to try to reseat the current GPU and, if that doesn’t work, try the old one. Not sure if I have to uninstall the amd drivers or if it’s ok to have both the amd and nvidia drivers installed. If that doesn’t work, I’m going to go through all the other suggestions y’all gave me to try and pinpoint the problem.

Again, thank you so much!

Will do it tomorrow, thanks!

I tried adding the kernel parameter mentioned in that thread but it didn’t work. But thank you anyway!

Regarding your edit: no, I haven’t tried that, but I will keep those suggestions in mind, thanks!

Yeah, it might be the dreaded hardware problem, then.

No, I had to use the latest one. Nope, tried the Ubuntu live ISO but it also didn’t work.

First of all, thank you for doing these, more original content is always welcome and appreciated! I really like your writing style and that the subjects you cover are just things you find interesting, whether they’re related or not. Like you said, it’s more of a old gaming blog style, which is cool.

I also played the shit out of Abuse back in the day but never finished it, so thanks for the excuse to give it another go. Although I did find the 15 fps limit added to the charm of the game, so to speak. But I’ll try this new version.

Not that I know of. I haven’t gone through every Fediverse project but you can check them out here, here, and here.

Such a great game, and such a shame we’ll probably never get to play the conclusion to its story.

The Armored Core trailers are probably my favourites:

• Armored Core 4 (with a bonus For Answer intro)
• Armored Core V
• Armored Core VI

The thing that stands out the most is the sense of how enormous and powerful these mechs are.

No phone apps that I know of for Koha. I think it works fine on any mobile browser, though. If you know HTML, CSS, or even JavaScript you can do a ton of cool stuff on your library’s catalogue. As for FOLIO, no idea, but I don’t think any exist.

There is VideLibri but it doesn’t add any functionality you don’t already have when accessing the online catalogue of any library on your browser, so I don’t think it’s worth it. Something like the Web Opac App, which let’s you browse a ton of libraries’ catalogues in one app would be a more interesting solution. Unfortunately, it’s stopped being maintained a while ago and went closed-source, from what I can gather.

Hi! In the library I work, we use Koha, which is probably the most well-known open-source library management system. This comes with the advantage of having a big community and having a lot of answers to questions you’ll probably have, albeit the documentation is kind of all over the place. Just a heads-up, though: it only runs on Linux so, whoever is going to do the implementation must familiarize themselves with it if they haven’t done so already. It’s not a flawless system by any means but as far as open-source goes, it’s the best and most mature.

There are a few demo servers you can try on their website: https://koha-community.org/demo/

The other open-source library management system I know of is FOLIO (their repo) but I haven’t tried it or read much about it. I only know it’s way younger than Koha (created 10 years ago, I think) and that EBSCO is one of its vendors. It may use newer technology but I honestly don’t know. You can also try a demo server if you go to their wiki.

Hope it helped. If you have any questions, let me know :).

Yeah, definitely. I’ve still managed to finish it some 20 times but going in blind the first time really contributed to me loving it so much.

I’d also argue you shouldn’t look too much into the sequel. Not because of any “thing” in particular but because it’s more fun to immerse yourself in the game and slowly begin to unveil all the major themes of its story.

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Jade Empire
• Observation

EDIT: Jade Empire doesn’t really fit, so I’ll go with Observation instead. I’ll still argue you’re better off not knowing anything about KOTOR aside from being an RPG in the Star Wars universe.

Definition: “Love” is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.
Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and strangely enough, not many meatbags would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose… against statistically long odds.

From your friendly robot, HK-47.

If you want to play against each other, there’s always fighting games, if you’re into that. I’d recommend Guilty Gear Strive, Street Fighter 6, and Tekken 8, which are the most popular fighting games right now. There’s also Mortal Kombat 1 but I haven’t played it, so I can’t comment on it.