The band I’ve seen live the most often.

From a packed bar that was standing room only, to tours with massive names (at the time) like Slayer and Lamb of God.

They always brought it in live performances.

And then if you had the luck to interact with them like people on the street, they were generally super chill, though Alexi did go off on Rupeé (spelling?) on my behalf.

Rupeé was drunk as hell, talking to fans, staggered into me. No harm, no foul, all good. Then Alexi starts chewing him out in a mix of English and Finnish until he realized I was chill about it all. That was a good night.

RIP Alexi.

Insert AlwaysHasBeen.jpg here.

I’ve got the hardware to use VR on my gaming rig.

But between the entry cost for the actual VR equipment, and the sheer lack of games that look interesting I don’t see the point in it.

Then again, the lack of games that look interesting isn’t just a VR problem - to me at least.

Repeating patterns of slight upgrades to visuals, mechanics I grew bored of a decade ago, etc.

I used to rip on Madden/FIFA/Sports games in general for that crap, but it seems to be the trend.

That being said, I’ve felt jaded about games since I was a teen, and that was a long time ago, but there was always something to keep my attention.

Don’t really have any other majornhobbies though, so I’m at a bit of an impasse on that subject. I do spend more time with my wife though, lol.

The elitism and people caring about sub-sub-sub-genres and debating what fits where is why I got out of the local metal scene.

I’ve grown to appreciate different genres, just exploring and finding crap I like, regardless of popularity or labels.

Musically speaking, I’m much happier with this practice than trying to fit in. But I’ve always been a loner even amongst other loners, lol.

The growth as developers from the first Witcher game to Witcher 3, and this kind of PR is why SOOO many people were disappointed with Cyberpunk 2077.

Old fans probably, to an extent, did grow with them to. It felt like a betrayal honestly.

I know a little linux, but obviously I’m still learning. I’ve picked up everything I know on my own, for the most part - internet guides from the linux community tend to be pretty solid, and I know enough to not totally FUBAR my system.

Is there a listing of standard linux directories and what they’re for? Lite /etc, things like that. Because I seem to find bits of different stuff in a variety of directories.

I’ve recently moved to linux on my gaming rig, which is my daily driver - that being said, it is mainly for gaming. Anything can surf the web or play videos and shit, for the most part.

I find in kinda funny, in the darkest way, that Israel has done so much damage to the publics’ perception of Jewish folks, at least based on news like this.

Also, that Israel seems to be taking plays out if Hitler’s book when it comes to damaging and othering their neighbors over petty shit.

Fascism cropping up in a conservative ethnostate? You don’t say. Insert shocked pikachu meme here.

Everquest, the original.

Two guilds come to mind.

I was younger, too young to work, so one summer break I joined up with a European guild to raid with. Lots of fun, learned a but about British (primarily) culture. Lots of fun, even when I joined another guild I raided with them from time to time.

The other was a family guild. It eventually fell apart as the adults got busier with their careers and kids and shit. But the inner circle, so to speak, were invited to a bulletin board and we all talked for years after that. Eventually lost contact with them as I grew up and got busy with life.

Lots of fond memories, and a couple not so fond (RNG hates me, in every way). But they were along when RNG screwed me time and again, and were always willing to try again. Lots of love for those folks.

I’m not a trekkie, but I enjoy it.

Then again the opening theme of TNG was my lullaby as a kid so I was exposed through my parents.

I run everything but work and a gaming rig on some flavor of Linux.

In the past, I ran all Linux except work, so even gaming.

I just missed the ease of use of third party tools, mostly for modding sjbgke player games.

Maybe vortex works and I just don’t understand his to use it on Linux, buy I’ve also run into third party tools for other games (again, single player - not trying to cheat necessarily, though some questionable QoL mods end up creeping in after a few play through) and I’m not sure how to get them to run.

I’ve always had trouble with wine, never set up lutris, but proton was a boon for gamers everywhere, Linux or otherwise.

Anyone have a primer for a power user (sysadmin type duties on my own server, have been using Kali as an educational tool since back track) that’s pegged at gamers making the switch to Linux? I’ve mostly just figured it out looking to random guides and stack overflow, lol.