Magusbear

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[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Awesome man! I hope I can get my wife to play it with me. But yea, it's exactly how console games from these times were. No complaining from me though. Do you also still remember looking at the end game cinematic from BG:DA2 and having your imagination run wild as to what that cliffhanger ending might mean and being hype for whatever that ending might entail?

Lol, that brings back memories. That face is burned into my memory. It was always so hype to go back to him and looking for new armour and weapons. I still think those games were way better than they get credit for.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lol, for a second there I was extremely confused and wondering what the hell you were talking about..and then I remembered they made a third one...or rather I mean, what? A third game? I wish!

I always played the dwarf in the first game but I also played the necromancer in the second game. Well, I also remember cheating myself Drizzt Do'urden for the second game and playing him...but usually the Necromancer haha.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That depends on your desktop manager. I am using GNOME and I'm using its custom shortcut feature as well. If you're also using GNOME you can just go into Settings -> Keyboard -> View and Customise Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts to add keyboard shortcuts. I added Shift+Win+S to take screenshots with Flameshot for example. But you can add pretty much anything there.

File sharing from Linux to Windows is extremely easy. Samba (Linux implementation of smb) is very easy to implement. From what I remember you just have to install samba and then add new network shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf.

In terms of disk space you'll have to put some thought into if you really want to dual boot. If disk space is sparse it's going to be tough. EndeavourOS is pretty lightweight but if you want to daily drive it it's still going to take up a considerable amount of space. The biggest problem with one disk drive is usually creating partitions. With Windows already installed your UEFI partition is likely too small to contain both Win and Linux boot data. And when you install Linux as a new partition on your existing drive you will simultaneously hamper your ability to change the existing partition sizes. I would advise to get a new (even if small) SSD for Linux to get around any partition related problems.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I know right? But nowadays people have washing machines, some even got dish washers, they're able to visit a foreign country every year and suddenly our lives are not too bad. I mean they could be better, but you don't want to be the type who complains about everything, do you? Nah, some people have it way worse than you, you've seen it on the internet and in documentations on the TV. You're one of the privileged, from a privileged country, you're not allowed to complain. We Europeans even have "free" healthcare and "unlimited" sick leave! Better keep quiet, else the rich will leave the country and we lose everything!

I'm so tired of this fucking shit.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Does anyone else have have fond memories of Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance (1-2) ? I wasn't aware that the PC games existed back then but I adored the PS2 hack and slash games and I'll always remember the Elfsong Tavern from BG:DA1 very fondly.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago

I've never had the feeling that it was particularly bad. In your case it seems to be that the game Night Run was removed from the Steam Store, which is why it's excluded from the search. Which isn't great when the store page still exists...

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Checks out. The hardware requirements aren't that much different from Elden Ring and that game runs pretty good on the Steam Deck as well

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I made the switch recently as well. I was really unsure of how the whole thing would turn out with me having used Windows for the last 20 years +, but man, it was way easier than I thought.

I went with EndeavourOS on my desktop and Pop!OS on my laptop (for easy igpu/dedicated gpu switching) and I haven't missed Windows since. What's the most difficult is learning the new keyboard shortcuts, but even those you could rebind in Linux. Because you can customize the OS to however YOU work best, instead of having to conform to whatever the OS thinks is best for you.

And man, package managers, am I right? How cool are they...I tried to use chocolatey and winget on Win11 but they never felt quite right, but pacman and yay? Absolutely glorious. I love typing yay into the terminal every couple of days and watching it go, keeping my system up to date.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

That's the actual problem I think. Imo it's fine for them to try to flirt with you, but almost all the non flirt options in those situations are kind of mean. There are also some options were I'm just not sure if I am being nice or starting down the relationship path.

Is this hug going to comfort them or is it already sexual? I don't know. Which is all the more hard for me because I'm playing a kind old dwarfen paladin who just wants everyone to get along and be happy.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Definitely Heroic Launcher. It will do everything you want for your gog, epic and amazon games. Cloud saves are still an experimental feature (afaik) though. Oh, and updating isn't automatic. You'll have to update by going into desktop mode, starting heroic launcher and update your game from there.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Agreed. I don't like the eye either, makes it look too edgy for my tastes. Other than that it's pretty neat.

[–] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Obviously won't happen, but it would be fun to have WoW's game time imported into Steam and watch everybody's game time go through the roof.

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