Years ago I finally nuked my Windows dual boot after one of their updates broke it. I still remember my laptop booting into Windows and being so confused. Haven’t missed it once.

IMO the Windows Store is why valve has invested heavily into gaming on Linux. Windows Store could easily become a huge Steam Store competitor if Microsoft were an effective company. So Valve wants to enable devices that don’t run Windows. Numerous other benefits for something like the Steam Deck as well, but I’d bet we see another Steam Machine someday - probably after they convince more companies to support Linux

Probably gonna have a season pass and battle royale mode

The skin is for mercenary - definitely my favorite character to play as! Excited to have some new stuff to unlock too. The artifacts seem pretty fun

At this point I just stopped buying chips. Feels like such a waste to fill the bag less than half way…

Bought halo MCC for my brother, very excited to coop those campaigns. Very sad no split screen

If there’s any retro games you like, consider emulating!

Also, just wanted to say that I enjoy docking my deck to the TV and playing with a controller. Been playing Ark Survival Evolved with my brother all week

Brother and I are playing Ark Survival Evolved this week. Wanna actually beat the island finally

Seems like a bit of a power dynamic problem… one could argue Job consented to all his bad treatment by trusting in the lord. Abraham was gonna kill his son. But I’d wager if I asked them, as a stranger, there’s no way any of them would consent. It’s the threat of etarnal fire that inspires such devotion and sacrifice. Bit of an unhealthy relationship if you ask me… my Christian parents are happy to ruin their lives for a better afterlife - including eroding their relationships with their kids. Bit sad. If I did believe in a god, I wouldn’t believe that he sent us here to make us suffer and make sacrifices.

But you are correct, the gospel I was looking at didn’t mention Mary giving consent. Just one of the problems of having 4 conflicting accounts…

My toothpaste is getting low, I think I’ll try busts next!

Dog, she was impregnated by the holy ghost without consent. I don’t believe that actually happened, but that’s what the bible says…

Try a used laptop. Cheap, power efficient, built in UPS, small. Can be quite powerful and some are even upgradable

I’ve always thought I was mildly allergic to some brands of toothpaste, wonder if this was related.

My symptoms were sores in the corners of my mouth/gums - took a couple weeks before they’d show up and the only way to get them to go away was heavy rinsing with water after brushing (which is not recommended because of fluoride mineralization)

Switched to Tom’s toothpaste (with fluoride) a few years ago and have had 0 issues since

Yeah, there’s something called Emudeck, it makes setup super easy. Even comes with tools to add emulated games into your steam library to launch like a regular game.

There is this one funky caveat - the PlayStation and Switch games I emulate didn’t run very well, after some research I found out that lowering the CPU cores helps a ton. And it did, they run great for me now. To do that I had to install a Deck extension called Powertools - super easy to do because Emudeck came with a user interface to install plugins, Powertools included. Anyway, with Powertools you turn off this thing called SMT and then can lower the CPU cores. Some people think it’s actually a bug in emulation or Steam Deck drivers because using less cores shouldn’t have a big impact on performance so it may not be necessary in the future.

Tons of video examples on YouTube make the install and setup super easy. Highly reccomend setting emulation up, I’ve been playing through games I never finished as a kid and it’s been great. The convenience makes it awesome

We’re competative I suppose. Grew up playing and nothing ever replaced it. There’s probably other arcade games we’d enjoy but the closest we’ve come was the Tetris Effect - but we haven’t picked that up again for a while. Tricky is one of those games that has a huge skill difference between being good and actually practicing. It’s fun, a bit janky - maybe it’s just what we know. My brother has a couple high scores on my steam deck and writing this has inspired me to go spend some time trying to beat them lol

Still play SSX Tricky with my family via an emulator

Did you try changing the version of proton you run the game with? Also, other games are working fine?

I’ve also enjoyed CalyxOS on my pixel

Thanks for the help! Smoothed things out a bit, but Call of the Dead is still unplayable. But it’s definitely because of the wild FPS swings I get on the map. Seems like it’s related to where I’m looking. From spawn, looking towards where jug is, my FPS drops to 20 or lower sometimes. Doesn’t affect walking speed, or anything really when using a controller. But mouse and keyboard are borked.

Maybe someday the performance of that map will be fixed. I tried a few proton versions without any improvements. For now, I’ll just use a controller. A bit annoying that the PC version has no aim assist for controller…

Basically seeing the same issue as this thread

I’m leaveling up all my familys’ favorite ssx tricky characters cause otherwise we all play as Moby when I visit (the only character I play as normally). Mac, Kaori, JP. Probably won’t be unlocking uber-boards on all of them, but we’ll see