You can just kill everyone in stealth sections so far, and there was no eavesdropping in the missions I’ve done. There are some escort missions, but they give you time and tools to try killing all of the attackers before they even approach

I’ve bought and installed Assassins Creed Rogue and have almost 20 hours in it now. It’s basically Black Flag without the Caribbean theme

Guacomelee should get more love, it’s a really stylish game and there is even coop if you want to play together with someone.

It can do “not giving money to Microsoft” at least, so just for that I’m curious

Like gamepass, but tooth

Only the Chinese emulation handhelds have such form factors now, too bad there are no games made specifically for such devices, so you just have old games and phone games

There was also a Babylon 5 mod for Free Space 2

Jak and Daxter are better played via OpenGoal - a modern open source engine implementation that runs natively on Steam Deck and includes fixes, graphics improvements, proper widescreen, etc.

How is it clearly better? It’s a broken incompatible mess that’s being pushed on everyone that offers more headaches than benefits

Check this for example https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

No, I think if something can be done to allow more people to enjoy the game, then it should not be considered a bad thing to do it. You can not make it accessible to everyone in the world, but if there are time and resources to add accessibility, it should not be neglected.

And I don’t agree with the use of artistic intent as an excuse to not include specific accessibility options: take closed captions for example, they are made to allow deaf and hard of hearing people enjoy the content even when they can’t hear the sound. A lot of media is built on sound being a cornerstone of the experience, and people who will use closed captions will have no notion of it, but does it mean that they should be excluded completely?

Just because people who use the accessibility options will not experience everything in a way the author intended does not mean they should not be experience it at all, and in this day no one really complains about game including captions or colourblind options, but anything that might affect difficulty is, for some reason, out of the question and is only subject to the artist’s vision of it.

Easy mode is not fake accessibility. Celeste has the correct idea in allowing players adjust the difficulty for accessibility purposes. Not everyone has the same reaction speed, same cognitive abilities, same eyesight. There are people who can only use one hand and that automatically makes reacting to attacks many times harder, should they be excluded from being able to enjoy the game because they are not physically capable enough for the boss fights? And boss fights are probably 5% of the game anyway!

I wish I lived somewhere with awesome vegan options like this…

AI at least has its uses and can do something (not always well, but it can be helpful 1/10 times). Blockchain mania was insane though.

It was like “Why don’t we incorporate a retina scanner into our TV remote”

Mint is better IMHO, it’s based on Ubuntu which is in turn based on Debian, but includes quality of life improvements and newer packages. Debian is nice for servers, but I would get something that is stable but still has faster updates for my desktop

I remember seeing a version of snake that runs on a car dashboard as an easter egg (like, literal dashboard, tiny screen where the gas milage is shown)

Any good litrpg recs? I’ve only read solo leveling and it was good

Started playing with deciv-redux mid and it’s a nice change of pace from vanilla, brutally hard though. Instead of money you manage water and it’s very limited, so you have to ration it hard, and it makes upkeep cost really important when constructing any new building or unit

Really cute, has some rough edges and the performance on deck isn’t stellar (30-40fps in the main menu), but it’s a great looking project. Hopefully it will get updated to be even better

So are you basically making a more modern flash game? I think all flash graphics were vector and that gave them a really cool look

What would be better for desktop use? It’s simple, with wizards and help for setting up almost everything, has support for all the ubuntu stuff like ppas and deb packages so if there is a linux package for some software you are usually covered, and it also doesn’t restrict you from doing whatever you want, so you can change it to your liking (and at least there is a stable base that you start changes from)