The eye opening moment is when one of these threads touches on a subject you know a lot about and the top upvoted comment is spouting complete bullshit. See it once and you start to doubt the credibility of every other highly upvoted comment that looks legit but could be just as wrong, you simply don’t know enough to immediately disprove it.

Extremely rare SFW Oglaf!

Refresh rate is king. I would much rather use a 1080p 120+Hz monitor over 4k 60Hz. 1440p 144Hz is the sweet spot though, big visual improvement over 1080p without the need to bankrupt yourself on a GPU powerful enough to drive a 4k 120Hz display or relying on upscaling making everything a blurry mess.

Yeah, I was very dissapointed by that as well. As far as I’m aware, the only time it matters is when

Big shame that’s all that remains of this system.

Yeah, stuffing more worms into your brain being purely a beneficial mechanic with no drawbacks is a very weird choice. This whole system was honestly better in early access than it ended up being, having the tadpoles be just a dialogue option with a very easy check but consequences the more you used them. The ring that Omeluum gives you was even supposed to help, only to get changes into a boring Charm resistance ring on release.

This looks much better than the last trailer, I appreciate how so many of the animations are clearly inspired by the janky but charming original ones. My biggest complaint from the Teaser was the overly talkative player character. Don’t turn the Nameless Hero into your bog standard “must comment on literally everything that happens” character so many modern games have.

I’ll reserve my final judgment until 2nd of August and the THQ Nordic Showcase but the playable teaser they released doesn’t leave me optimistic either.

The remake is still happening as it’s developed by Alkimia Interactive and published by THQ Nordic, Pyranha Bytes had nothing to do with it.

Modding is one of those few gaming things that still remains a massive pain on Linux compared to doing it on Windows, if they actually commit to supporting Linux and making sure it works on Wine/Proton games as well this would be massive! I’ve been modding my games manually ever since switching but having a mod manager is just so so so much nicer.

While it’s not a gameplay mod, LORKHAN will freshen up your Skyrim experience all the same. It’s a complete soundtrack replacement mod created by the legendary young scrolls himself. It’s a stark departure from the original Skyrim’s soundtrack while still fitting in perfectly with the game.

Thank you for all your work keeping this instance running, I’m glad to have been a part of it for 7 months now (time really flies, huh)!

Guy is mad that Larian decided to add the pre-order items (literally some cosmetic items that reference their previous game, soundtrack, some art and DnD style character sheets for the Origins) as an optional bundle for people to buy if they missed out and want them. But “day 1 DLC bad” so it doesn’t matter how inoffensive this thing is, hate must flow, game shit, 0/10.

They announced the release date in their previous development diary, assuming no unexpected delays it’s planed to come out in 2025. Follow Rebelzize, the project lead, on whatever socials you use if you want more frequent updates. He sometimes streams his work on the project on Twitch as well!

Worth mentioning, the Skywind team is active on the Fediverse! They have a Lemmy community (!skywind@lemmy.world) and a Mastodon account.

I’m very happy to see them re-implement the attribute system with classes and birthsigns while combining it with the Skyrim’s perk customization. Taking the best parts of both games! It’s also amazing to see the classic lockpicking minigame from Oblivion re-implemented! I always liked that system much more than the spin-the-circle one Bethesda has been using in every game since Skyrim.

You’re welcome! But yeah, this just further proves my point.

Arch is hard not just because of the installation, it’s because of everything after. There are so many small things you expect your OS to have set up automatically that you might not even know exist that Arch expects you to do by hand. Arch doesn’t enable TRIM on your SSDs by default, it has no firewall. It doesn’t install microcode, leaving you open to many security exploits. It NEVER cleans old downloaded packages from it’s cache, something you will only find out about after you start looking for where 300GB of your disk space went to. It requires specific arcane syntax commands to install and update packages. You seriously expect someone coming over from Windows and MacOS to do those things or even know they need to do them? I haven’t used Ubuntu in a long time and wouldn’t use it now but it’s still an easy recommendation just because I know it has the least abrasions for a new user to encounter. After they learn how Linux works and feel comfortable, they themselves can branch out and try other distros.

Oh, Nidus! I loved the heck out of this frame when he released, his stacking mechanic was completely novel and the levels of damage he could dish out were very impressive. Sadly, he hasn’t kept up with the rapidly escalating pace of gameplay and enemy levels and it’s been a while since I last used my infested friend.

The key problems with Nidus is his absolute lack of any defensive strip as well as slow power growth. With the introduction of Helminth he did get a way to combat at least one of those issues, but his kit is so synergistic that it sucks to have to give up one of his abilities just to make him playable at high enough levels. I really wish he had some way to deal with highly armored enemies build into his kit. As for his stacks, they wouldn’t be nearly as unbearable if not for the spaghetti code restrictions of only being able to gain stacks one at a time. What I mean is, even if you hit a giant ball of enemies with Virulence that had 10 maggots in it, instantly giving you enough mutation to get to 100 stacks, you still have to wait for the counter to sloooooooowly count up. It’s not just visual either, that counter’s number directly correlates to the power of your abilities. I don’t know how hard it would be to make it update instantly, but it would be a gigantic QoL to Nidus that would make his gameplay far less clunky. He’s a really fun and well designed frame, I wish he got those small touch ups that would enable him to really flourish once more.

Looks good but I personally would switch the CPU to a Ryzen 5 7600x and go for an RX6800xt or RX7800xt instead. Unless the games you play are heavy on the CPU usage you are likely to get way more mileage from a better GPU than the 3D cache and 2 extra cores. You can always buy whatever the latest 3D AM5 chip will be in the future when you feel the need to upgrade, or a used 7800x3D for a much lower price.

Yup