To top up the happy tank, I love playing
- Katamari games
- OpenRA (Red Alert)
- Wrestling games (Smackdown on PS1/2)
- OpenRCT (Rollercoaster Tycoon)
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Mass Effect
- Frog Detective 1, 2, 3
- Game Dev Tycoon
To top up the happy tank, I love playing
I went and played Fallout 1 because I loved 3 so much… It took a few false starts (1 intelligence was a terrible call for a first playthrough lol, it ended bad)
Now I see it, 1 and 2 were so brilliant with the role playing and story that I can’t go back to 3! 😊 So many choices, strong characters, just brilliant.
Thank you for sharing this! I have enjoyed thumbkey for a long while, but it’s lovely being back on qwerty to try this out :) at minimum it means I have a keyboard to offer when other people use my phone! :)
Thank you for mentioning /e/os, this is the first I’ve heard of it and it looks like a nice open source os without making using it a chore! 😁
I might give it a go over the weekend once I’ve backed up everything. 😊
Lil Server Issue sadly is my name! Https being silly I should think 😁
I like making mini projects with Godot or Unity on the computer, or sometimes actually use my guitars or weird toy/synth instruments. 😁 Shout out to the Korg Monotron for getting me into all this!
Thank you friendly robot :) I couldn’t stop assuming PoE meant Pillars of Eternity! 😅
The emotes work on boost, but the ::: spoiler tag ::: didn’t!
Mind you, I added the tag to this comment and it didn’t display, so possibly a bug :)
I found it mildly funny reading this, I’ve not been using vanilla windows 10 for quite a while, but have resorted to sticking plasters to get the same effects as mint (start10, fences, and powertoys). It’s very true, out the box all that’s baked into mint, and with the privacy etc.
I heartily miss Mint/Xubuntu, but am cursed with my interests being in game development and audio. :) one of these years…
Interesting… My other half couldn’t sign in this morning, and has been playing in offline mode - this could be it :)
Thank you :) just added this to my robots.txt :)
Ahhh if there’s one guilty chuckle I miss from Reddit it is the captioning of Sesame Street into bertstrips! :) the creativity always got me :)
Gabe did it… For da rock
Thanks for sharing this! :)
I got a kick out of seeing helm on your list, as I was using the developer’s Unity engine integration for a game when I started coding :) Fantastic synth.
I could also recommend hydrogen as a drum machine - it plays nicely with lmms, which is cool! :) There’s also tuxguitar which I use as a guitar sketchpad when I just want to jot down a thing I’m playing, or learn a complicated song. :)
Oh wow, I’m glad it wasn’t just a fever dream! Nobody I know was witness to it, so my friends look at me blankly if the pear ever comes up! :) People speedrunning getting banned from the pit via lolwut was always funny. 😂
It truly was, just a bunch of people with a common interest being mostly pretty cool to each other… Damn that was a good forum. :) This is the nearest thing I’ve seen to the vibe of it, but still not with all the comedy and characters (yet!)
Okay, imagine I can see windows in all its inefficient, telemetry riddled candy crush glory… in a better of minutes I can start making music with my hardware, with absolutely no setup besides plugging in some cables and downloading my program.
I spent months trying to convince JACK that my PC had a line-out even with the help of some lovely people over at JACK and Ubuntu forums, the answer we all came to was to try using Windows 7, which grudgingly got on with it, no issue at all.
I really, really wanted to ditch Windows for good, and did so proudly for almost five years, I have no loyalty to companies because that’s daft. But part of maturing is knowing that someone tried a thing, it didn’t work for them, and what works for you may vary. My build on my computer has been rock solid for performances, live recording, making entire games… I can’t fault the damn thing try as I do!
I think it does the amazing work of the FOSS world a disservice to go after people exercising their choice to use whatever they want. It also makes these people feel unwelcome, and less likely to want to touch Linux with a ten-foot-pole.
I had various distros, and would to this day run LXLE proudly if I didn’t have a need to use the music software I do. I still rock FOSS projects as much as possible (an old Audacity build gets much of what I need to do with game audio done, I take great glee in never touching Adobe products).
That said, in my subjective use case, I can’t in any way say that the ethics of Linux made me make better music, but it did make me interested in technology, and that’s also good. Arguing with Ardour and Jack to get Audio out was tedious, and I lost months of productivity through trying to will things to work.
I hope that’s a constructive and helpful way to expand on this. :)
Oh my gosh, I’m getting flashbacks that bloody “wut” pear in The Pit! :) Me too, I miss that place being the biggest part of the internet to me, simpler and much more musical times! :)
The only way I could level up is to go back to university and get a PhD in music… I studied it for 6 years and am happy with the level of my musical process.
I would definitely argue that Linux has good music software… But better? By what metric? I love what I’m using, it doesn’t get in the way and lets me explore ideas at will, it performs perfectly, its very stable.
Now, for me, the perks to Linux are freedom and privacy. This is excellent, and in this specific use-case, I find this within what I’m using on Windows. Even during using Ubuntu Studio as my daily os, I had to keep a copy of XP available in case I wanted to use a particular bit of software, a plugin, or a technique.
I agree that the solution would be for software vendors to target Linux… But they don’t, and not having the choice to use these tools would mean an interior result. Linux can’t and shouldn’t be the answer to every issue, It only serves to mislead if it isn’t true.
Can’t you even skip one of those goals? What a great game 😁 It really does let you work it out, but not in an annoying puzzley way