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Cake day: October 12th, 2022

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  • I am really enjoying it so far. I’m almost finished with the second map.

    So many people seem to hate it for reasons I don’t quite understand. I also really liked Outer Worlds, though.

    I’m enjoying the story, the characters, the inventory system - everything everyone else seems to hate. I really don’t understand why other people say the world feels dead. I guess I enjoy not having to run around to find NPCs who are always on the move? (Looking at you, Skyrim.)

    Sure, most weapons in the game are exactly the same. But that makes the “unique” ones so much more interesting. I like that I can upgrade those unique weapons, so that they always stay useful. No more quest rewards that are already underleveled when I receive them! (Looking at you, Skyrim.)

    I saw someone in this thread say they missed the “stolen item” mechanic. I’ll tell you what I don’t miss: becoming a wanted man because I took some food off a table in a common area or accidentally clicked and took one of the thousands of items lying around that are lootable.

    I’m enjoying the Balder’s Gate 3 camping system, but I’m glad you don’t need to “spend” food for every night in camp.

    My only “problem” is that it feels a little unoptimized. I get low frame rates sometimes that don’t go away even at the lowest settings, especially inside cities. But, it’s relatively minor. I can (and do) live with it.

    It feels like a full game with no glitches on release, which is nice.

    Although, if your glass textures all look frosted and weird, then turn “global Illumination” up to at least medium.










  • if you’re worried about security that much, I’d go with fedora. Or maybe go with a distro based on Ubuntu without the snaps, like Linux Mint? I’m far from an expert, but the main thing the enthusiasts around here complain about with Ubuntu is the use of snaps. I think they’re less secure?

    Linux Mint IS the current top distro on distrowatch. It uses “cinnamon” instead of Gnome. Cinnamon is forked from an older version of Gnome from before gnome started looking all weird and touchscreen-y.

    I haven’t used cinnamon, so I can’t say anything about it really.

    But, ultimately, if you’re worried about cyber attacks and malware then ANY distro of Linux is very safe. Hackers mostly target Windows. The people who use Linux are harder to dupe! Also, because of the fragmented nature of Linux (all the different distros), it is much harder to design malware that works on all of them.