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didn’t realise people were calling the next witcher game woke because of this, but it’s 2025 and there’s no bar too low.

detractors probably never realised you could play parts of TW3 as Ciri because of skill issue

fair enough, it’s still in stark contrast to all of eternal’s exposition, which was pretty hard to watch (the Colosseum scenes especially).

That’s not to say the story isn’t good or interesting,

2016 had the perfect balance between story and gameplay to me, in that the player character expressed flagrant disregard for any narrative elements. This was doom 1 af.

Just keep moving and turn the bad guys into chunks. Need nothing more.

I fucking hated the loop in eternal. I get that the developers wanted you to play in a specific way, they partially achieved this through arbitrary mechanics like ammo scarcity. I can appreciate that it’s a good game, but I didn’t get on with it.

The art style went full Hollywood horror, and the exposition was kinda dialed up to eleven by contrast to its direct predecessor. Very much disliked that you couldn’t crouch (definitely more of a me issue, though I think sliding is a missed opportunity in Eternal’s movement repertoire).

2016’s PvP was imperfect but still fun and much appreciated. Snapmap was super underrated and has many sick community made levels.

The later games are a phenomenal technical showcase; the absolute posterchild for the Vulkan gfx API, but it’s not very ‘doom’ in spirit to me any more

well, at least they provided some rationale for switching browsers. still, it’s good thing we have bazzite.

yeah at this point it’s just skill issue

I feel that, I just wanted to set your expectations. I prefer and will continue to use CalyxOS but I have no expectation that they will deliver the same level of protections/mitigations at the OS side as Graphene given their project scope is different.

CalyxOS aims for a private, yet simple (attainable) Android experience, and I align more closely with their ideology on having a FOSS replacement for Google Play Services in MicroG.

I suppose one thing you could levarage is work profiles on Calyx to “jail” apps you do not trust, though I’m not sure that meaningfully builds upon Android 15s own application sandboxing.

Perhaps as a long term goal you could look into making a custom fork of CalyxOS for your device and incorporating parts of Graphene’s hardening but this will be a lot of work.

As a calyxOS user, if your key concerns are security and device hardening, I’d recommend you just make a seedvault backup and switch to graphene.

The two projects have somewhat different scopes and I don’t think you’ll achieve the same degree of sw security on calyx.

I’m aligned on this. Server side ought to be the way.

Also fuck cheaters.

Yeah like, as a keen advocate for Linux desktop use, this is a wildly dishonest take / headline to run with.

Yup. It’s a cat and mouse game until server side can become enconomial enough to broadly deploy (computational & network constraints).

I mean it’s kind if good that both WU on Windows and LVFS/fwupd on Linux seamlessly deliver and install SBIOS updates.

Chances are it was worth installing, if a little inconvenient at the time.

reminds me to keep an eye on raspberry pi

For perf deficits in rtrt with heavier effects (reflections, GI, AO), you may find some luck in leveraging AMDVLK instead of RADV. I don’t doubt the latter will catch up in good time.

Distros building from source for their own repos may also be exempt then?

tech can be tasty too :)

I have a similar memory of when I was young, overhearing my older brother and my uncle talking about chips. I thought they were talking about oven chips (fries elsewhere in the world). They were talking about the semiconductor industry. All I could think about was yummy yummy carbs.

On an unrelated nore, I now work in the semiconductor industry.

in the UK we call them microcrisps

Thank you for the heads up my g. This is basically pvp payday 2 (pre-planning shit) and I’m here for it. Gonna buy this for the group.

e: this game has so much charm. I’ve bought 25 copies for myself, friends and colleagues. Thanks again for the tip.

To be fair, you can at least turn this off in most (if not all) of the impacted games.

Most disrespectful gfx gen launch I’ve seen in a good while