MonkeMischief
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- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 1 day ago:
I got one I’m betting we won’t find on here yet…
Alone in the Dark 5, an incredibly ambitious game that fell short, but had some great ideas.
One of which was how that incredible soundtrack by Oliver Deriviere drove this particular playable sequence, 59th Street .
The whole soundtrack done in conjunction with “The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices” is absolutely stunning for an action-horror title.
It was the best part of the game and an incredible example of meshing soundtrack with cinematic gameplay.
. . . actually? All the stuff he does is freaking awesome, so see/listen to his other titles like:
- Remember Me (Awesomely underrated!)
- Obscure
Other lesser known ones off the top of my head:
- There Came an Echo (by Big Giant Circles. So good they used the theme in Stranger Things Season…2?)
- Anything by Supergiant lol.
- Oni (bungie / rockstar)
I’ll probably add to this if I think of any more. :)
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
Those are all really interesting factors to consider and I appreciate the response!
I’ll come clean, when I wrote it, I was just making a funny, like… A “decaying vacuum” would suck less over time. . .than a black hole. Lol XD
To your point though, less likelihood of finding other life is such a wildcard, for sure. (Less likelihood of meeting cool benevolent spacefarers…but also less likely to be spotted by something like Mass Effect’s Reapers, or accidentally bring home Xenomorphs or extragalactic pathogens lol)
And…not being able to ever see the beginning of everything…my curious mind says that’d be such a bummer but also…oddly beautiful? I’ll have to ponder that…
- Comment on well? 2 weeks ago:
Well, that might suck slightly less in the long run?
- Comment on I LIKE CORN! 3 weeks ago:
“Hwat in cornnashun!?”
- Comment on Our dancers have infinite curves 3 weeks ago:
Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn’t put “engineer” on their resume. :(
(This is not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this “degree market value” idea.)
- Comment on Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its day 5 weeks ago:
Hehe me sitting here with my 9800 GTX++ wondering what the heck to do with it. 😂
Kinda wanted to make a retro gaming machine but, sheesh I bet it’s such a power hog these days!
- Comment on Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn 5 weeks ago:
Stability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.”
I wish they had kept with that into later versions.
Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D
- Comment on The Elder God 1 month ago:
“Everybody’s going to the party, have a real good time… … Dancin’ in the desert, blowin’ up the sun-shine…”
–System of a Down, “B.Y.O.B”
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 1 month ago:
This made me laugh way more than it should have rofl
- Comment on Radio transmissions 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, the dolphins decided to sneak out the back.
… At least they thanked us for the fish.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 month ago:
This sounds like a way to die in one of the Space Quest games lol.
- Comment on they come 2 months ago:
It’s more kinda pitiful. They’re just really bumbling and clumsy so you’ll occasionally just hear a little thunk against a window like a lightly thrown acorn or something hahaha.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
I kinda feel like we’re 75% of the way there already, and we gotta be hitting with everything we’ve got if we’re to stand a chance against it…
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
I don’t think they meant that. Probably more like
“Don’t upload all your precious data carelessly thinking it’s un-stealable just because of this one countermeasure.”
Which of course, really sucks for artists.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
I wonder, can I serve it ads and get paid?
…and it’s just bouncing around and around and around in circles before its handler figures out what’s up…
Heehee I like where your head’s at!
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
I feel like the down-vote squad misunderstood you here.
I think I agree: If people made software they actually wanted , for human people , and less for the incentive of “easiest way to automate generation of dollarinos.” I think we’d see a lot less sophistication and effort being put into such stupid things.
These things are made by the greedy, or by employees of the greedy.
Ever since the Internet put on a suit and tie and everything became abou real-life money-sploitz, even malware is boring anymore.
New dangerous exploit? 99% chance it’s just another twist on a crypto-miner or ransomware.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 months ago:
Sure thing! So glad I could be helpful! :D
I don’t blame you. It’s the only thing I’m keeping a Win10 dual-boot for right now, and to their credit, it does work quite well in Windows. We’ve had a ton of fun with our set.
In the meantime, I’m keeping up with the project but not actively tinkering with it myself, because it’s exciting but also not quite there yet. It’s at least given me hope that it can be done though! I’m confident we’ll see significant gains sooner rather than later. Hats off to them. (Once my income stabilizes I’ll gotta pitch them some funds…)
Envision has made it VERY convenient to get set up, but the whole process still saps more time than “Fire it up and play.” So maybe play with it at some point, but either way definitely keep your ear to the ground. :)
I’m hoping in the future we’ll get to use it for things like Godot XR or Blender integration. :D
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 months ago:
Heya! Sorry for taking a minute to get back to you. :)
So, last time I tried, VR is a little bumpy right now. I have a Samsung Odyssey+ set that’s simply fantastic…if Microsoft weren’t deliberately turning it into a paperweight.
Wonderful strides are being made by the FOSS community however!
It’s bumpy because a lot of VR kits’ only hope right now is a project called “Monado”
(Right now it looks like your Reverb G2 is supported!)
I main OpenSUSE Tumbleweed these days, and I used this awesome bit of software called “Envision” that attempts to automate the “retrieve all the correct dependencies and build the thing” stuff.
For being so early, I was very impressed, especially since I’m no pro at compiling software and navigating Git branches and stuff. This is relatively turnkey. (In a tinkery Linux way, anyway lol)
lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/envision/
(The wiki here is pretty nice!)
I was able to get the headset to function this way, as in, fire up a game and see through it and look around, and you can enable hand tracking, which is really neat! But I struggled to actually select or interact with anything using it.
The real tough nut to crack is the controllers, but they have made some strides there too! There’s a branch that enables controller support, but it’s VERY janky right now, like, unusuable, but it’s cool that it’s going somewhere!
The other challenge is smoothness. Expect a little jitter here and there, it’s not so buttery smooth like it was running WMR because they did a LOT of fancy proprietary compensation and prediction code sorta stuff to make that experience work.
For Elite or DCS, since you’d just be using mouse and keyboard or a standard controller or something anyway, the headset part MIGHT be enough for you! I’d definitely encourage you to give it a shot and have a little patience with it to see if it can be acceptable for you where it’s at right now.
You can also get a lot of information and help in the “Linux VR Adventures” Discord. (Ugh, I know.) Link here if you’re interested. :)
Unless you’re savvy building a bunch of stuff yourself, I’d say check out Envision first, and use that to build Monado for your Reverb and see how that works out for you.
I hope this was helpful! :D
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 months ago:
Honestly I have a ridiculous pile o’ games like a lot of us do, and I’ve yet to find something (that’s not VR) that I cannot play .
For reference I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with a 30 series Nvidia card. Wayland, two monitors, main is 144hz ultrawide 3440 x 1440, another is 1080p 60hz.
First off there’s a few programs out there to get you “Glorious Eggroll” versions of Proton which add even more stuff Valve can’t distribute in their versions.
This beautiful software right here looks about right: davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/
Steam works fantastically. Heck, Proton works better than native Linux builds sometimes! Deck playability is an even bigger mark of quality.
Even EA’s silly launcher works. I got Titanfall 2 and that Sims 2 Ultimate they gave away ages ago working like butter.
I also love actually owning my games, so I use Heroic Launcher for GoG titles.
Oh! I even have CD games or old .EXEs windows would refuse to even install anymore! Don’t worry, Linux has got this. I use Bottles to have separate environments for those games to install to and run. Majority of the time it works great but this is where things can get iffy. But hey, Windows wouldn’t run them at all!
Wanna know what made me switch? Vermintide 2 kept giving me BSODs in Windows 10 with some super vague error code that made me think “Oh crap, please don’t tell me my GPU is dying.”
Nope! Linux ran it with zero probs once I fixed some small quirk to make their dumb little launcher work.
Cherry on top? All my RGB stuff works with Open RGB or my recently retired Corsair keyboard works with “CKB Next”.
The community has made incredible strides. My Win10 partition only exists because it has Windows Mixed Reality, which they’re abandoning. But not to fear, the Monado project is making HUGE improvements.
Give it a shot. I think you’ll be surprised. :)
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 2 months ago:
Well if we’re listing all that, you forgot Predator! :p
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
Peace is finally an option.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
I hope they checked his pockets before the MRI violently pulls a bunch of rings at dangerous velocities!
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 3 months ago:
How complex is making a roll-your-own NAS?
It really depends on what you want out of it. I personally installed ProxMox on an old gaming machine (DDR3 RAM old lol) and have an Open Media Vault virtual machine running on it with access to my ZFS mirrored pair of storage drives.
Enabling Samba support in Open Media Vault gives you a nice little NAS. I believe it’s okay to install bare metal if you really want to also.
It also has a nice Docker interface, so although I should probably not bundle services together so tightly, it runs things like Jellyfin for media, Paperless NGX for document storage, and NextCloud AIO for a convenient (if slightly resource-hungry) interface.
ProxMox lets me do fun things though, like back up the VMs, spin up virtual machines for PiHole ad blocking and Klipper for controlling my 3D printer.
My most important data gets synced to a subscription to a service called iDrive as my offsite. Pretty affordable for 5TB and my own encryption keys. :)
I want to stress that I’m not an IT professional or anything either. If you’re reasonably comfortable with Linux and understand some basic networking, I’d say at least getting Proxmox and/or Open Media Vault up and running so you can access it on your home network isn’t too hard.
Outside of that, and if you want HTTPS and stuff? There’s lots of guides but I would recommend using TailScale instead of opening any ports to the web.
Sorry if this post was meandering but hope it gave you a little bit to go on! :)
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 4 months ago:
More studies are required before we come to any certain conclusions. We require concrete evidence…and rebar evidence…maybe carbon fiber evidence…or…
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 months ago:
That was my thought…
“Somehow they got the Plex app installed…”
Jellyfin somehow works on freaking Roku, even, and WELL. Just give the URL to connect to, they pick a profile, and boom, “Netflix who?”.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 4 months ago:
Not gonna lie before I read your handle I thought these were all named after ways of passively-aggressively clearing your throat. 😂
- Comment on What host names do you use? 4 months ago:
“error: hostname must not be left blank.” lol
- Comment on What host names do you use? 4 months ago:
I just read this as:
you’re sat in front of a CEO the fun stops.
Agreed. Lol
- Comment on What host names do you use? 4 months ago:
“Have you been to the cloud
districtlately? Oh what am I saying, of course you haven’t!” - Comment on What host names do you use? 4 months ago:
Ha! Clever and humerus!