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LiS2 is definitely their worst game yet. It was just plain not as interesting as the rest, and it’s the only LiS where your main character isn’t the one with the powers. Plus horrible things keep happening to them, so it’s just depressing.

On the other hand, I really loved True Colors. I thought it was really damn nice, but unfortunately you can tell something went wrong, because it was painfully short. The entire game happens in a single tiny location, leaving you wishing for more, and it never arrived.

Ultimately I’m more excited about Lost Records these days. Still hope Double Exposure ends up being good, but LiS as a series lost its soul over time

Generally speaking, if something’s been published as .deb exclusively, someone’s already repackaged it in AUR too, so I personally never worry about it. Same story with Nix, which has an even larger repository of things in unstable

1. Pretty much any reasonably maintained editor has these features. Even without doing any programming VSCode is a good place to start, otherwise, a lot of desktop environments have their own editors, such as KDE’s Kate.
2. You can use a vm, but I believe you can also just run iTunes through Wine. I haven’t done so personally, so mileage may vary.
3. I do all of my gaming on linux, with the exceptions of games with an invasive anticheat. Have yet to find something that just plain does not work. Otherwise, performance is on par, or ironically, better in rare cases. Your first stop here should be Protondb and AWACY. With newest stable Proton, or Proton-GE, you will rarely have issues.
4. Expect support for these
5. mpv by itself does the job
6. No comment here, i use cli.
7. No comment again, I use cli. KDE has a batch renamer in the frameworks bundle
8. Your usual shortcuts work as expected, although keep in mind that some are modified for terminal emulators, for example Shift+Ctrl+C instead of Ctrl+C. Otherwise, your desktop environment, or keybind manager of choice will let you change just about anything.
9. Segmentation is mostly an illusion here. There are several major choices: Debian, Arch, Fedora, Nix, Gentoo, and SUSE. Everything else is a derivative of these. Some offer minor changes, some offer more considerable ones. Generally, the differences between Linux distributions is just the package manager. Find what works for you, and look from there.

I suggest you try Endeavour. It’s a good all-rounder, and if you don’t like manual installation of Arch, it takes the effort out of that. Otherwise, it’s essentially the same. Simple, and just works. The wiki is your friend

That is absolutely massive. Props to them for continuing to invest into the tools they use

I can’t name you a single Ubisoft game that i’ve had any interest in buying, in the last decade

I tend to agree here. Their PS2 games were genuinely incredible. The PS3 ones are culturally iconic, but a lot of them are just… a cinema camera on wheels

Pokemon Prism is just about the best Pokemon experience I’ve had in the last decade

My favorite kind of update. So many excellent little improvements

You really posted that, thinking it’s some kind of a “gotcha”, but it only makes you sound like an entitled chode

Same issue here. I really like their maps in general, but my local area in OSM is about a decade out of date

This statement is so stupid, that i’m actually impressed it was written down to begin with

Small scale isn’t a bad thing. If anything, all I really want are well-crafted, appropriately priced, self-contained experiences. I just want it to be a good game, and that’s all it needs to be.

inZOI on the other hand i’m not really interested at all in. The character creation stuff looked cool, but the rest of what was shown looks really jank

FTB have heard countless complaints about it, and it’s evident they have not intention to reverse this decision. They did fix their own launcher, when older contracts finally expired, but it ultimately didn’t change much

For now you can either use paru-git, or the already updated yay/yay-bin packages. Please just don’t symlink the libraries together

I still have yet to understand what is new in Splatoon 3. I play 2 casually, just for a few pvp matches every so often, and it’s good as is

You can, but it has to be Prism 6.3 or older, as FTB support was removed beyond that

Upgrading as soon as BORE patches come out of testing

I have a RaspberryPi with a Plex container sitting upstairs. Works like a charm

In 99% of the situations, i couldn’t care less what the metacritic score is. Reviewers can be paid, publications can be biased and/or tired, and in general, a lot of the scores don’t actually represent how real players feel.

This is especially obvious, when reviewing longer games, or specifically MMOs. You cannot rank that after playing for 10 hours.

My first stop for reviews is always my friends. Based on their general recommendations, i frequently find incredibly fun games, that are otherwise unimpressive at first glance

That is really bad news. Annapurna has been one of the publishers that’s consistently got excellent unique games under its brand