I don’t mind exploration. The problem was there wasn’t a clear “where you should go next to progress the main story” in Hollow Knight, so I instead spent a bunch of time wandering aimlessly, hit a brick wall of progress, and got frustrated.

I liked Ori because it gave you guidance for a general “area” you can go to progress the main story, but still gives you the ability to explore with side quests when you want to get off track a bit. I completed 80% of the collectables in Will of the Wisps and explored nearly the entire map.

Thank God I’m not the only one. I was like “The hell am I doing? I feel like I’m just grinding to grind”. Nothing felt interesting about the story and navigating the map felt like a chore of backtracking/figuring out where the hell I should go next. The gameplay was fine otherwise, but I just expected more from a game that supposedly “Redefined Metroidvania games”.

I feel like it would have been improved with a quest and quest marker system. Some people enjoy exploring every nook and cranny, but I ain’t got time for that shit.

I played a few hours of the original Hollow Knight, trying to get into it. I just…couldn’t.

I played the shit out of both of the Ori games, though. God DAMN those games are beautiful.

Luckily there is no way to install it either.

I mean you get unlock Linux terminal and application access on Chromebooks. I have installed GIMP and Krita on Chromebooks for students that were in art classes.

Does it kind of suck? Yeah.

Banning groups like that only amplifies their “persecuted” persona. It’s best to spend on education and destroying their credibility, which is how we dealt with fucking idiots before we got complacent.

It’s Copilot all the way down.

Renaming it to CoPilot Browser in 3…2…

I started to get really nervous reading the beginning of the headline, expecting some litigation thing. Glad I was wrong and it’s just a wonderful update blog.

I’d argue it’s closer to Russia invading Cuba, but valid.

On the one hand, Maduro’s leadership is illegitimate and horrible.

That said, the US isn’t invading because they want to bring peace and democracy to them. It’s because they want to get oil production for private businesses back into the country and because they didn’t “fall in line”.

Fucking US Imperialism revival going on…

Neon is great, but don’t use it for mission critical stuff. I’ve had updates brick my system before because it’s bleeding edge for KDE.

Mint is my go-to for when I want something to get work done and don’t want to fuck with it. Biggest gripe is the networking menu in Cinnamon kind of sucks for VLANs and it’s still on X11 until they finish making Wayland stable.

Which is ironic because AI unpredictably makes errors.

I’m in agreement. I find whitespace tabulation stupid. I just don’t understand why people would want a thing they can’t see to be the part that delineates your code.

TIL you can add IMAP and POP3 to Gmail to import your email.

Why would anyone with another email service WANT that? Do you like giving Google even more data than they already have on you?

Well the Steam Frame is mostly going to be a streaming headset from a gaming PC with the possibility of running things local, so you’re going to need a gaming PC to run things like HL: Alyx.

Uh…what was that about a snuggle session? LOL.

Also, people kick out others for being on Quest? Why not just launch VR Chat via SteamLink to your Quest? You can launch all SteamVR games via SteamLink to the Quest headset. I have a Quest 2 and use it for pretty much only streaming from my PC over WiFi from my Linux PC.

Are the games launching via xwayland when they’re not working? Are they displaying normally on your desktop monitor, but just not streaming correctly?

North Korea has lost nearly all of its expertise in manufacturing, development, etc.

NK was a powerhouse around 50-60 years ago, but significantly stupid decision making has led to them falling behind South Korea.

Sanctions are a good chunk of their problems, but NK has a lot of failed leadership and is an example of a failed communist nation just as much as the United States is an example of a failed/failing Democratic Republic.

Also, “emigration rates” is a bullshit metric. You CAN’T leave NK without special permission from the government. That’s like arguing a prison is doing great because none of the inmates are leaving.