DdCno1

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worth it for the story alone (both main games since the reboot). Such a wild collection of outrageous twists and turns, but with characters that you actually care about. They managed to write a main protagonist who - in between eviscerating Nazi mechas and blowing up secret bases while using improbable tech - is actually an emotionally vulnerable human being. This is such a stroke of genius that suddenly makes the entire scenario so much more believable and the story so much more impactful, because he and many of the other characters feel like real human beings, despite the almost exuberant embracing of clichés (only to then tear them up). It’s still campy as all hell, but it somehow works. I don’t think I’ve ever seen games juggle so many different balls without dropping any of them. Even if you don’t care about any of that, the shooting alone is second only to the recent DOOM reboots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no more restrictions on Nazi symbols in videogames, except that glorifying Nazism remains illegal regardless of the medium, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve won't sacrifice battery life to deliver a more powerful Steam Deck 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an even more comfortable way of playing in bed (requires a wall to your right or left). It’s borderline decadent: Use a wall-mounted arm for a monitor, combine it with a VESA tablet mount, insert either a tablet or a small portable display and then connect whatever you want to this display. You can quickly swing the thing to face you - and once you’re done for the evening, just push it flush against the wall.

  I’m primarily using this for reading ebooks on a tablet (using a Bluetooth mouse for scrolling) and watching the occasional episode of a TV show in bed, but it also works very well for gaming. I’ve used it with all sorts of other devices, including consoles, a small PC and the old hardware Steam streaming thingy. You can of course connect a Steam Deck to this screen as well, although keep in mind that most portable displays are 1080p and the Deck is optimized for 1280x800. Especially for longer play sessions, this is less straining due to the larger display and the lower weight of a controller vs. the Deck.

  If you don’t need the ability to mount a tablet, you can of course just attach a regular monitor to this thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Proton supports D3D12? There are all sorts of games using this API that run just fine on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they have improved the update system for this one. Install size is also much smaller.