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ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT U.S. DOLLARS for a MID-RANGE (debatable) Mini PC, also known as the STEAM Machine. Gaming is dead.
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
Also doesn't come with a controller unless you pay $100 more and only 512GB of storage!
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didntask
1 month ago
"Playing online should be a basic human right" so true also i hate that the 360 started achievements, they ruined video games by turning them into checklists.
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
Also forgot to mention how wonderful Halo's OST really is. I would love to play Halo 3: ODST someday just for the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWh9l8RSkPk
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imperialxtal
1 month ago
When the Xbox One was in development it was announced that it would have always-online DRM. Even though they ended up reversing this I decided to never buy one of their consoles again.
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RIP Arch, I'm on Devuan now. Just have to configure I3 but I'm messing with XFCE once again. It's alright.
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I'm debating if I should risk it and repaste my PS3 Slim's CPU and GPU. Seems like a good preventative maintenance considering this console is more than a decade old (The fat models are going to be 20 years old this year) but Sony's hardware is a nightmare with all the different screws you have to keep track of.
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Don't use arch btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoxR7fGl4CI just another meme I fell for again
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
Using pacman -Qm to check my foreign packages. None of them appear to be the ones that were compromised followed by this script from catchy OS thread: bash <(curl -s https://cscs.pastes.sh/raw/aurvulntest20260611.sh) it appears none of my packages are compromised (at least that's what I hope).
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-compromised-almost-2000-packages-affected-20260611/31040 and https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/chaotic-aur-packages-requests-recompilation-reports/26/1238?u=sunda-spirit for more info
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
Also reports on: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
I am safu. Everything is fire. There's a better overview and update here: https://thecybersecguru.com/news/atomic-arch-aur-supply-chain-attack-ebpf-rootkit/ But suffice to say, I probably won't be updating for the time being. I got a Devuan iso so now I have to mentally debate myself if I should make the switch back to Debian based distros (For my X230T specifically, I run Mint on my desktop).
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didntask
1 month ago
im safe πͺ we cant let windows users know that this happened, we'll never hear the end of it
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foxtrotalpha
1 month ago
I've been tempted to try something besides mint for a long time but I just cant justify that
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
Mint is fine. Just werks for the most part. But on my laptop, I stride towards minimalist i3wm setups. I like having the ability to switch workspaces with bindings and use less than 4GB of ram on the daily.
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As if my Vinyl and Vidya list weren't bad enough, I had compiled a list of random misc CDs and DVDs computer software unrelated to gaming. Posting them to my Techblog page right now.
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imperialxtal
1 month ago
Modern gaming is mostly dead. Take the retropill. Last Switch game I bought was WiZmans World, port of a 2010 DS JRPG. Emulation is free and easy.
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
Always had, but I like making myself feel pain every once in a while and checking in on the state of gaming. It's like watching a train wreck.
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
I've been playing King's Fields on PS1 and it's fantastic. I'm going to talk about it in my dailyblog today.
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
My Summer of No Games Post/E3 Posts are traditional for this time of year. I enjoy blogging about it despite my anger with the industry as a whole.
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imperialxtal
1 month ago
Oh yeah I still "follow" things, kind of. Every Thursday I check GameFAQs, the eShop, and VNDB. Usually I end up wishlisting whatever just came out on Arcade Archives kek.
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
I think it helps to keep myself informed with the current industry in the moment I'd ever run into another gamer in the wild. The last time I had a conversation with another gamer IRL was with the Gamestop employee years ago. My cousin doesn't count because we both think the same and we're both jaded.
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imperialxtal
1 month ago
King's Field is cool dude. I've played both "part ones" -- the Japanese one and the American which as you said is actually #2. Tough bastards, never finished them, good luck!!
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
With these two new PS3 games, I've updated my vidya list. Wasn't expecting to expand it anytime soon.
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imperialxtal
1 month ago
I've had good luck buying cartridge-based retro vidya at GameStop. The disc stuff (PS2, 360, whatever) is always in ass shape and overpriced.
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wizardperspective
1 month ago
I did not see any cartridge stuff other than some DS games. My area is barren so it's not surprising.
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Ports > Remakes
Agree. I give the 3DS remakes a pass just for that, even if they did change a few things.