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The KINGDOM HEARTS games are finally coming to Steam in June in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Now do GOG!

Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is no DRM on GOG. You can just download the offline installer, then install it even without an internet connection. It will never ask you to go online because it doesn't need to check anything.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Jesus, that sounds like hell.

Vin Diesel’s New ‘Riddick’ Movie Moving Forward for Fall Shoot in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm just hoping for a new Riddick game. Escape from Butcher Bay was amazing.

Unity appoints former EA and Zynga executive as its new CEO in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah just gotta finish my current game and I'm switching to Godot ASAP.

A snapshot of heaven in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Buy a cheap ice cream maker and make your own with lactose-free dairy! It's surprisingly easy.

Can i talk with a person who passed away ? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

If I tell you I'm your god and you should give me all your money or you won't go to heaven, you will rightly call me a liar, even though you can't really prove that I'm not.

You won't say "oh I guess there's no way to prove he's not god, so I'd better give him my money".

In science, the default stance on something existing is that it doesn't, unless there's solid proof, or at least a compelling scientific theory suggesting that it does.

Can i talk with a person who passed away ? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Which did you use to prove there is? What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Is there a specific religious term for the belief "God exists and he is evil"? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

He's only not evil because he can't understand his actions.

A god would have to be dumb for this logic to apply.

Steam is a ticking time bomb in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Steam is a ticking time bomb but mostly for the reason that you don't own the games you purchase there and you can't back them up (mostly) so when Steam decides to ban your account or just closes down, you lose all of your games forever.

More people should push for DRM-free games with offline installers, like GOG and Itch offer.

What does 'eat the rich' mean to you? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's why we need a remodel of the economy to go along with it. The only way to stop the creation of more "rich" is to get rid of capitalism altogether.

Treedome 0.4.5 is out: Encrypted, Local First, Note Taking App in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

How does this compare to Joplin?

Is there, or will there be a self-hostable server to sync notes between devices?

And does it support Markdown?

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I need help getting Rat Attack (PC, 1999) to work (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some time ago I bought a physical copy of Rat Attack for PC, because I had fond memories of playing it on a Playstation Demo Disk.

Unfortunately, while the game itself technically works, after I get past the first "chapter" ("House"), I get a message saying "You need to download the next part of this game to continue. Visit the Freeloader web site? Press OK or Cancel to exit the game".

Pressing OK does nothing, while Cancel does indeed exit the game. Looking at the game files it seems that all of the files are there (I can see the files for the other levels and they seem to have the same size as the one that loads correctly).

Freeloader no longer seems to exist and even searching sites like myabandonware turns up empty for this game. Am I screwed and this game is lost media now, or is there anything I can do to get it to run past the first couple of levels?

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How to backup Lutris before Steam Deck RMA? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello!

I have to RMA my Steam Deck (one of thumbsticks grinds against the plastic case) and I'm trying to backup my non-Steam games (and their Lutris configs).

Apparently Discovery uses flatpak, so Lutris config files aren't where the internet says they are (~/.config/lutris/games/, ~/.config/lutris/system.yml, ~/.local/share/lutris/pga.db).

Could anyone please tell me where I can find these on the Steam Deck and what else I might be missing? I've already backed up ~/Games but I'd rather not have to re-add the games manually :(

Bonus question is if anyone has any tips for painless Steam Deck backup/restore :)

EDIT:

After a long search, I was able to find it. If anyone else is wondering, the Flatpak/Steam Deck Lutris config files are located in ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/config/lutris.

For some reason, Lutris-installed native Linux games also treat ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/ as their home folder (e.g. Stardew Valley stores its saves in ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/.config/StardewValley instead of ~/.config/StardewValley).

If anyone can say why this happens, that would be very appreciated!