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Most things work great out of the box these days. If you do your gaming through Steam already then it’s the easiest it could be. Otherwise you can download some other platform like Lutris to manage your compatibility for you

There are definite exceptions though. There’s this great website ProtonDB that tells you how compatible games are if you want to look before you leap.

Kernel-level anticheat can make some games unplayable on Linux. Basically, it’s intended to detect cheaters, but it gives false positives on Linux. On the flip side, the software is super invasive, like once you’re aware of how it works it will make you wonder why anybody would allow that shit on their computer. Probably because they don’t know any better, but still. This is more of a problem with high budget PvP games like Call of Duty, so depending on your taste you may never encounter it

Hardware for the most part seems to just work through plug and play. However, if your stuff is highly customizable through software - like Razer Synapse/Chroma/whatever they call it these days - you may not have access to all the features.

Most Linux installers give you the option to just try out the OS in a non-permanent environment. So you could find a distro that appeals to you and then give it a test run without comitting to a full installation. It’d be a good way to see if there’s any hardware or compatibility issues.

If you have an Intel/Nvidia rig and are thinking about gaming, I recommend pop_os! I’ve been using it for a few years now and I have no complaints.

Only on the fediverse can I expect to see someone explain how to manage their kitchen with a computer analogy and not the other way around

It’s good advice though, I have no notes

Unfortunately, it looks like drawing a big rectangle is the only method to calculate area that’s baked into Godot. You could get the Area2D’s CollisionShape2D children, and then for each child you can child.shape.get_rect().get_area()

Now, if you’re getting each shape anyway, and you know what kind of shape it is, you can use the appropriate formula to calculate area. For instance, if it’s a CircleShape2D, you can check the radius and get something like var area = shape.radius * shape.radius * PI

For a polygon it becomes more complicated. You can get the points of the polygon and then use Geometry2D.triangulate_polygon() to get an array of triangles inside that polygon. You can then calculate the area of each triangle and sum them to get your total area. There’s no built-in way to do this, so it’s left as an exercise for you.

The question I have to ask: from a design standpoint, is the exact size of each country truly important to the game? For the sake of argument, Canada is a really quite large country, but it’s sparsely populated. A lot of the land is frankly not very habitable. If I was going to abstract a surrender-factor, I’d think about “population” filling a role that you’re thinking of for “area.” If that were the case, you could just attach a property to each country manually. Maybe a little more work upfront depending on how many countries or regions you’re including, but it’s definitely cognitively simpler.

It’s a common turn of phrase that people use when explaining something to someone who seems unclear on a subject.

I hope this clears things up.

The market is saturated with crap that doesn’t sell under its own merits. In theory a review signals that not only did that product sell, but somebody actually cared enough to leave a review.

An online market is especially tricky for consumers because you can’t really look at the product to judge it for yourself. You have to make do with a product description, specifications, or photos. All of which might be incomplete, poorly translated, or photoshopped / AI-generated.

So reviews tell you what other people thought. It’s their first line of marketing after SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Of course, unethical companies are out there using paid and fake reviews, so it’s not like a savvy shopper can even use the reviews to judge quality.

Anyway, as someone else said, don’t engage with these emails. You’ll just end up with more emails if you do.

Who am I to go against the will of the council?

HtWFaIP - How to Win Friends and Influence People

I’ve been beating myself up for feeling lousy lately and this was the first thing in my feed

I needed that today, thanks for making this a more positive place

My interpretation is that people hate AI, but an individual’s rage against the machine isn’t enough to hurt it. Something I agree with.

Then it goes on to say that AI is just here to help, which I think is supposed to evoke sympathy for something that was unfairly demonized. Something I don’t agree with.

If you try to distill it further, I read this as dissatisfaction against AI is futile and unjustified. It reads as though AI was a benevolent force designed to help people, which unfortunately just isn’t true

I got back together with an old tabletop group recently.

Five or six years ago we wrapped up the campaign we were running to take a little break. Scheduling became tricky, a couple of people were expecting their first child and some others were starting new jobs. Without a common meeting, the group just kind of faded out.

Anyway, a couple months back I bump into one of the players and we start talking. Shortly after that, he starts up a new group chat trying to get the band back together.

My mental health has been an absolute shitshow the last several years, so I really agonized over whether I wanted to try to get back together or embrace the solitude that I desperately crave for my free time. Well, I went against my initial judgment and it’s been awesome playing with likeminded people again.

A couple of friends still can’t really make it, the schedule is too difficult with young kids. But we brought in a couple new players too and the funny thing is that even with new people it still feels like old times.

I used to think the Chads I work with made more work for me. Now I realise the Chads already figured out that the job is bogus and you get paid the same either way

Management is always running a skeleton crew. If everyone gave 110% then that would become the new target. Worse, they’d make 120% the new target and lay someone else off

Giving a solid 60% is enough for my boss to think I’m doing a decent job while not screwing my coworkers. In a crisis, you can turn it up to 80% and suddenly you’re a rockstar

Everyone should be acting their wage. We need more Chads in the workforce to remind management what they should actually expect of their staff

Credit where it’s due, around the time Dying Light 1 came out, Roger Craig Smith was lending his voice to Chris Redfield, one of the more iconic zombie guys from Resident Evil.

My favorite Redfield moment was when, without a shred of irony, he talks smack about the villain acting like a comic book villain. Then in the same breath, he punches a six-ton boulder into submission.

Dying Light also really kinda shook up the zombie slaying dynamic with parkour. It seems like a fairly minor thing now, but that freedom of movement was a pretty big deal at the time, even if it was pretty janky.

Narratively, I agree that Crane isn’t a very strong character. He’s a dime-a-dozen government goon turned idealist. I don’t even remember how the story ends, or even most of the major beats except for a couple of major characters.

But at the time, to kick zombie butt while scooting around the rooftops and listening to Chris Redfield quip one-liners: those were special times even if it was a decade ago. They’re probably trying to recapture that magic, but I don’t know. It was lightning in a bottle and you can’t always get that back

If you’re clumsy, you might be described as all thumbs.

Unless you’re clumsy enough to get into a thumb-separating accident, then I guess you’re no thumbs

Satan’s not kidding around

Yeah, I’ve got the triforce. They said they broke the mould when they made me, but clearly that was a lie.

Without reading too much into it, as long as you’ve got three points you have a triangle so I’d guess it’s super common. But that ruins the mystery, so where’s the fun in that?

Mine are backwards, I think my freckles might be broken