atmur

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[–] atmur@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Chemical Brothers' lyrics:

We have no reason to live

We have no reason at all

We have no reason to live

When will they kill us all?

Chemical Brothers' music:

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Oh hell yeah I've played almost all of both series.

Flatout 1 is alright, hasn't aged especially well. Suffers from being completely overshadowed by its sequel in every way.

Flatout 2/Ultimate Carnage is still my favorite Bugbear game, with Wreckfest being a close but firm second.

Flatout 3 is.

Flatout 4 is honestly not terrible, but still feels like a cheap imitation of the first 2 games.

Burnout 1 also suffers from sequel shadow.

Burnout 2 is a great arcade racer that no one talks about because...

Burnout 3 is quite possibly the best arcade racer ever made. Absolute masterpiece.

Burnout Revenge is somehow just as good. Whether I prefer this or 3 depends entirely on how much I enjoy traffic checking on that day. I posted Junkie XL - Today to the music community a few days ago because I was playing Revenge recently, what a soundtrack.

Still haven't played Dominator, should probably get around to that.

Burnout Paradise is also excellent in its own right, but I think going open world took away some of the charm that the previous games had. Tracks were so well designed in 3 and Revenge. Still love Paradise too, but 3 and Revenge are just absurdly good.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fuck yeah. After Test Drive Solar Crown turned out to be live service garbage, I've been waiting for another racing game to look forward to. Hopefully the career mode has a bit more depth than Wreckfest 1.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I can't imagine a future of non-electric cars (assuming cars remain the dominate form of transportation in the US because we suck). They're so much better than ICE cars and it's not even close.

I've owned a Spark EV and a Bolt EV, basically the cheapest EVs you can get, and they're two of the best cars I've ever driven. Driving a family member's brand new ICE Kia felt like going back 50 years. It's so slow, it makes so much noise, it feels like a boat, ugh.

If I had twice the budget for a car, I'd get an Ioniq 5 or 6. If I had quadruple the budget, I'd get a Lucid. If I had half the budget, I'm going back to the ~~street legal go-kart~~ Spark EV. I just can't even consider ICE cars as options anymore after getting used to an EV.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 200 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The frozen chipotle employee watching me walk behind the counter and make myself a burrito 180 times before time resumes

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Linux User Space is excellent. I also listen to Linux Unplugged, 2.5 Admins (not strictly Linux), and The Linux Experiment's patreon podcast.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is just blank writable discs, movies and TV shows on bluray will continue to be produced... for now.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I live in hell (i.e., Arizona), can confirm.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 101 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

As someone who was home-schooled, I absolutely agree with Cosmonaut Star. I dodged the alt-right insanity of modern homeschooling, but I got the "okay sit here and do learning unsupervised for a while" treatment after I turned 11 or 12. Prior to then I feel like my parents did an okay job at making sure I was keeping up with normal kids and taking me to social gatherings and stuff, but that just gradually slipped away the older I got. I feel like I'm still unpacking mental baggage from basically not having a life in my teens.

Thank fuck I got into self-hosting, networking, and Linux/BSD stuff in general as a hobby otherwise I would have zero marketable skills for a job.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to give ogre a hug

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I'll watch no anime for months, then I'll find a show I really like and watch 6 episodes a day. Dungeon Meshi was that show recently.

 
 

I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by atmur@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

I’m curious what people here listen to, and I’m also looking for new ones to check out. I’m personally a big fan of Linux Unplugged, MBMBaM, Lateral, and Twenty Thousand Hertz!

I also cannot get Lemmy’s search to work, so apologies if this was already a recent topic.

EDIT: I have so many new podcasts to listen to now.

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I’m glad to see this community picking up, the old sub is probably the community I’ll miss the most from Reddit.

How about a discussion topic? Native Linux games!

Gaming on Linux has absolutely never been better. I’ve been using Linux for 6+ years now, and I’ve been daily driving it since Proton first launched. I don’t even check ProtonDB anymore, I just buy games and they work. It’s amazing. However, it feels like native games almost always have an extra step, forcing Proton.

A lot of people predicted this when Proton launched, but the moment it got really bad for me is when I switched to Wayland. Native games that used to work under X11 suddenly stopped working never to be fixed, but the Windows version with Proton continued to work just fine.

I skimmed through the native Linux games in my library to get examples. In all of these cases, forcing Proton fixed the problem. The only two games with functional Linux ports that came to mind are Stardew Valley and Zachtronics Solitaire Collection.

  • CrossCode – Controller didn't work.
  • N++ – Crashes on startup.
  • NeoDash – Controller didn't work.
  • Bioshock Infinite – Awful performance, possibly still broken because of 2k launcher thing?
  • Hexologic – Game breaking level bug in Linux port.
  • DiRT Rally – Awful performance.
  • Drawer – Crashes on startup.
  • Super Meat Boy – Last level runs too fast and the game breaks.
  • I also remember having trouble with DiRT 4 and one of the Tomb Raider games, but I can’t remember what was happening.

It’s gotten to the point where if I experience a single issue with a native game, I just immediately force Proton instead of wasting time troubleshooting, and that strategy hasn’t failed me yet.


So, here are some discussion questions. You don’t have to answer all (or any) of these if you have a more interesting thought to add!

  1. What do you think of the state of native Linux games? Has your experience been different from mine?

  2. More and more developers are choosing to officially support Proton rather than maintain a native Linux version. This is resulting in a better experience in the short-term, but will that have consequences in the long run?

  3. In the above cases, the community seems more accepting of indie developers going this route due to their more limited resources. Do you agree with that, or do you treat these cases the same as larger studios doing the same?

  4. Do you think this will change in the future? Linux market share is slowly but surely ticking up. Do you think there’s a threshold where studios start putting effort into native ports again, or will Proton be the way forward indefinitely?

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