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Man, I LOVED reading instruction booklets as a kid, whenever I wasn't allowed to game. I was obsessed with videogames back then.

One anecdote that comes to mind, is the german Instruction Booklet for Donkey Kong 64. Throughout the booklet, there were those little dialogues made by Cranky Kong (the old grumpy Kong), who would often insult the player, telling them games have gone "too easy" and that they're "too soft". But on one page that listed all levels of the game, Cranky was surprised - he appearently made a level himself called "colorful barrel fight" and couldn't find it listed on the page, however, if the player was looking enough, they might be able to find it ingame. Needless to say, my kid brain went wild, and I was always looking out for a secret door/wall or something in the game whenever I played. Had me searching for hours. Buuut I don't think anything like that secret level actually exists in DK64. Maybe it was a mistranslation, or maybe Cranky is just referring to the Barrel Minigame that can be accessed via DK's platform. By now, people have rummaged through the decompiled source code and speedran this game for decades while breaking it in every possible avenue via glitches. It would be next to impossible for an entire secret level not to be found.

I was excited for...

• the new gem system - there was this promise, that you don't have to roll fusings/chromatic/jeweller orbs anymore to make the sockets fit for your build on a certain item.
• the graphical update - game looks phenomenal, let's be honest here.
• Technical Upgrades on the engine - PoE1 has a shitton of technical debt and runs like ass. I was excited for them to be able to maybe start from scratch, or solve some longer lasting pains, that they never got around to with PoE2 (since the games ended up so different, that they drifted apart).
• More smooth gameplay - I enjoyed the look of some of the older demos. It really seemed like travel skills felt more fluid and combat overall had more flow to it.

But honestly, I'm not really the right person to judge PoE2, I played roughly 10 hours in 0.1, almost finished Act 1 but then Life got a bit in the way and my playthrough fizzled out. From what I remember, monsters were too strong and too fast, playing melee kinda sucked (as is tradition).

As a Linux noob I feel that lol... Currently on my Mint Laptop with an nvidia gpu (RTX 4060 Mobile version) and while most stuff worked out of the box, am running into several small annoyances:

• steam doesn't launch (steamwebhelper doesn't respond).
• Sleep mode just completely crashes the system once in a while.
• The GPU runs pretty warm, even if I don't use anything / have the laptop closed.
• Tried to tinker around with the 'nvidia-xconfig' CLI in order to use a custom fan curve and it created a config file which completely stopped my desktop environment from even launching at startup... Somehow managed to recover the system through terminal shenanigans

To anyone thinking about switching to linux, do yourself a favor and do it on AMD hardware.

Joa, muss echt zugeben, mit der Aktion hat HandOfBlood mich echt überrascht. Bondenständiges Gespräch von beiden Seiten aus, es ging um Themen und Inhalte und es wurde auch mal richtig in die Tiefe gegriffen. Vermeide normalerweise Politik-Talks wie die Pest, aber HoB hat recht. Eigentlich müssten wir uns alle mal mehr mit Politik auseinandersetzen und öfters mal wieder miteinander reden.

Herr Habeck kam mir in diesem Gespräch echt sympathisch rüber. Man muss nicht alle Ansichten von ihm oder der Partei teilen, aber ich finde er hat seine Denkweise gut dargestellt und mit Fachwissen erweitert. Respekt. Macht wahlkampftechnisch für mich viel mehr aus als ein Poster am Straßenrand in dem "Zuversicht" draufsteht.

How old is your brother?

I realistically only need to have mobile data, run Signal, Discord, possibly WhatsApp, and have a working browser... Hm. I hope that works.

Wanna know what's even more fucked up? Few years back, I had exactly this problem. Searched the internet for a solution. Guess what?

Enable Google Voice Assistant and say "Ok Google. Take a screenshot." Google magically has the rights to make a screenshot on the App that doesn't let you, the user, take the screenshot.

Next phone I get is gonna be something with a alternate OS, no Android or iOS.

Take your time with the combat tutorial - Understand the difference between a dodge roll, a sidestep, a parry and blocking.

Other than that, have fun!

It's an original character from @whoismonday on twitter ( https://x.com/whoismonday ) called "Mote". The meme template used to have a doge in it but somehow this version got more popular recently.

It's a complex issue and kind of depends on your games and your hardware and your software. In general, you can definitely count out major competitive multiplayer titles that rely on aggressive kernel-level anti-cheat software, since that is essentially spyware and it's incompatible with Linux. Furthermore, very new titles often pose problems, as the primary target audience is always Windows. Linux compatibility is seldom considered by big publishers, and as such the FOSS community has to pick up the slack. With the release of the Steam Deck, Valve released a custom version of Wine called Proton, which acts as a compatibility layer between Windows and Linux specifically for Steam Games, but even that kind of is hit and miss. There's a website called protondb that is trying to categorize game compatibility but even good rankings (gold / diamond) usually require some small amount of fiddling with settings.

Overall, if you want to have a single-click to launch games experience, you're sadly still bound to Windows most of the time. But if you have the patience to experiment and learn new things, there's way more tools and possibilities than ever before. Just be prepared to troubleshoot some things.

I've recently made the switch over to LinuxMint and I was shocked. Installing a popular Linux Distro is EASIER than installing Windows 10/11 at this point. Seriously. The Linux installer is super noob friendly, very quick and straight to the point, it doesn't need you to create an online account and you don't need be wary of accidentally giving any corporation the rights to steal your data.

And all the software I use (Steam, Discord, Spotify, Firefox, Thunderbird, ...) were all downloadable from the GUI Installer and worked right away OUT OF THE BOX. No fiddling in any Terminal was required.

Seriously, it's easier than installing Windows at this point.