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"why are younger gamers disinterested in following premium console game releases like I was at their age" can be partly answered by the fact that if you were a PS2 owner in the 2000s you had 3-6 of the best games ever made come out annually, and since 2020 the PS5 has 3-4 big sequels and little else

Possibly, I think Nintendo have said something like that about F-Zero. Maybe they think it would be too expensive to make, but Xbox 360 graphics would be fine.

The mechanic of the game pausing for a moment to show you how badly you destroyed the other car(s) is unmatched.

Edge scores

Someone once showed me this big ol' spreadsheet that goes up to a few months ago. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

When I said I worked in the hospital (in a back office job, not seeing much) my driving instructor explained in graphic detail how he smashed his leg up in a motorbike accident.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

From the 1997 Formula 1 Yearbook page on Stewart Grand Prix: "Not very convincing Naturally the project had been meticulously put together. Jackie Stewart was personally launching his own team, which made it seem like a very serious project. It was certainly enough to convince Ford to jettison the Sauber team, with which the American company had collaborated since 1995. The 1997 results sheet is hardly positive. Out of 34 starts, the team only saw its cars cross the finis line on siz occasions. A broken engine was the cause of 10 retirements, the Ford V10 proving unfortunately as unreliable as it was low powered. No doubt Jackie Stewart's admirers had expected too much from this first season. These things take time and it will only be in 1998, when the lessons of this first season ahve been learned, that we will be able to judge the team. Whatever happens, next year cannot be worse than 1997 for the Scottish team."

Maybe it's the benefit of hindsight, but the 1997 F1 Yearbook was much less impressed by Stewart's debut season than @bbv10s.bsky.social were a couple of years ago.

Very jealous. I had to make do with the fact that the signal was still good enough outside if I wanted an extended session.

Age verification?

My first experience of online gaming was playing Mario Kart DS in McDonald's because we didn't have Wi-Fi at home.

I'm not sure I share the doomerism ablut this. I've not verified with Discord since the UK act back in July and personally I've not noticed much difference. Granted my experience may be uncommon, but saying this will destroy peoples' ability to make connections feels hyperbolic.

TFW it's 1982 and you gotta find the Dragonballs

How did we possibly manage five years ago? Or forty years ago? BETTER is how!

Between this and the (still, even after it was changed) horrendous AI announcements on the trains, ScotRail really aren't learning the lesson that this isn't a good look.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

I loved Mirror's Edge and it's aged like fine wine. A true big budget one-off.

The story was criticised at the time and fair enough, it wasn't great, but there's a line where "people didn't notice, or didn't care" about the city's slide into shiny authoritarianism that resonates much more now.

You’re banning kids from the internet but beaming psychosis-creating, suicide-coaching, wrong-60%-of-the-time autocomplete robots that cause cognitive atrophy directly at them

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Pop_OS kept popping up (ha!) when I looked for recommendations, especially for gaming. I'd mostly used Ubuntu in the past so I fancied trying something different with Fedora/KDE this time.

Ah interesting. I'll confess I didn't look into it much (I don't use Affinity very often and it's the now-old Affinity 2 I know) and I maybe should've taken that part out as I did read that it's changed.

TLDR: Try Linux if you're alarmed about the direction Windows is taking. It will be a learning experience, you might rely on some critical piece of software that just won't work (though dual booting is an option), but for most day-to-day tasks it works. And it won't try to install Copilot.

Weird issues: my Logitech wireless receiver keeps disconnecting unless it's plugged into USB 3. I have no idea why. And my printer doesn't work, which is doubly weird because it worked fine on Linux before (it's old) and works on Windows and even MacOS with no issues. And audio is still flaky.

In terms of general computing, the biggest obstacle I've found is the Affinity suite, which is Windows and Mac only and I can't get working with Wine (though the new Canva suite is meant to be better). GIMP is still a nightmare to use.

Simracing is more of an issue. There are drivers for my wheel (Logitech G29) and a third party app called Overdrive for configuration, but force feedback was just too flaky to use competitively. I can't speak to flight sims or any other niche, but proprietary hardware may be an issue.

You know this already but Steam Proton is shockingly good. Anti-cheat still breaks things (including iRacing, the game I play most) but in terms of basic day-to-day compatibility, Linux gaming feels like a solved problem provided developers don't actively block it, which is extraordinary.

If you want to install proprietary software, including the nVidia drivers, you need to enable the proprietary repository. It's one of those things that a completely new Linux user might trip over, but I remember the bad old days when even installing Steam could be a nightmare and it's now easy.

So I've been playing with Linux (specifically Fedora with KDE) for about 6 weeks now and it's been... fine. But with a few issues. I have used Linux in the past but the fact that I can easily customise KDE to behave similarly to how I like Windows is very welcome after being burned by GNOME.

If the rooms don't have jaguar print bedding I'll be very disappointed.

Absolutely nuts that anyone could look at this and be like, yeah that's a series we should essentially let lie dead/dormant/fallow for 20 years and counting

Front page of the Glasgow Herald: "Billionaires bankroll Sarwar (Scottish Labour leader) to beat SNP"

Labour are the party of working people, remember...