You can find good deals on drives on ShuckStop and Server Part Deals. I usually aim to pay around $10-USD/TB.

Nice, that game is pretty fun. I’ll have to revisit it, been a while since I’ve played and last I remember the dev was pretty active updating it.

Finally got around to trying Dwarf Fortress and I am in love lol. I’m really impressed with the UI changes the dev was able to pull off for the Steam release, I play perfectly comfortably using a custom config with my Steam controller.

For a while I was using the latest Lutris-GE-Proton, then when they discontinued that branch I started using Wine-GE.

Yeah I’ve heard that some people can run into issues like that with Lutris. I’ve used it for a few years without issue. I’m glad Bottles is working for you.

Thanks for the tip on the depots page! I’ll probably be using that a lot now.

As others have suggested Lutris, Heroic, or Bottles can make the process easier. I use Lutris personally.

I’ll walk you through exactly how I install a pirated game using Lutris since you mentioned you’re new to Linux and using WINE/Proton.

• Download and extract your desired game.
• Create a new folder wherever you store your games. This folder will be the WINE prefix for the game you are installing, so I usually name it the name of the game (don’t use spaces in the name of the folder, for some reason, even if you wrap the path in quotes, Lutris gets unhappy, use Game-Name instead of Game Name). You should always install games in their own independent prefix.
• Click the plus (+) icon in the top left of Lutris, then click on Add locally installed game.
• Fill out the name field, and select Wine in the Runner dropdown.
• Switch to the runners tab and select the version of WINE you would like to use in the Wine version dropdown.
• Switch to the Game options tab and click Browse next to the Wine prefix field. Navigate to the folder you created earlier. Click Save in the top right of the window.
• Navigate to the game in your library and click play, this will create the WINE prefix. Once the error message saying something about a missing executable comes up, just dismiss it.
• Copy the game to /path/to/prefix/drive_c/
• Right click the game in your library and click configure. Switch to the Game options tab and click Browse next to the Executable field. Navigate to and select the game installer. Click Save in the top right of the Window.
• Launch the game from your Lutris library and proceed with the installer as you normally would.
• With the game installed right click the game in your library, and click configure again. Switch to Game options and click on Browse near the Executable field again. Navigate to the installed directory and select the exe that launches the game. Click save in the top right of the window.

And we’re finally done lol. Now when you launch the game it should open up like normal. Once you get the hang of the flow it just takes a couple minutes.

I’ve heard some people mention they have had issues with Fitgirl installers, I’ve never had any problems personally so I guess it’s luck of the draw on games. I’ve also never had any issues with the GOG installer, Razor1911’s, or clean Steam files cracked with Mr. Goldberg etc. If you have issues with one source, but the game is verified to work on ProtonDB or something, it’s best to just try another source.

Some games may require you to install one or more additional dependencies, dotnet is one you will probably need to install frequently. Here’s some info on that.

If you run into any issues let me know and I’d be glad to help if I can.

Sorry I’m just seeing this. It was truly amazing and beautiful. We got to meet so many friendly people, eat things we had never tried before, and got to really relax. The locals were so accomodating. At the airport now ready to fly home in a few hours, it’s bitter-sweet, I’m sad to leave but everything comes to an end and I miss my dog!

Good so far. My wife and are currently in Miami waiting for our connecting flight to Jamaica. We have been looking forward to this for months. Getting everything ready was stressful but we are very excited. This will be my first time leaving the US.

There are a few things that have stood out to me so far.

Some smaller things:

• Food doesn’t rot.
• There are no feasts, which were a good oppurtunity to improve relation with a lord/lady.
• There are less options when camping.

Some bigger things (to me anyway):

• The courtship system was significantly reduced, basically just a few speech checks where you know the exact % chance of failure/sucsess, then purchase them from their highest ranking clan member.
• The npc compainions don’t feel as unique as in Warband, and I find myself almost always skipping through their dialogue. Maybe this is just my run but I have only had one instance of a companion taking issue with my actions.
• You can’t really start as a nobody anymore. In Warband you could serve as a soldier in someone else’s army and work your way up the ladder, it made for a harder path to becoming a vassal and an interesting early game. In Bannerlord you can start as someone who didn’t have noble parents, I did, but this part of the game just felt less fleshed out.

I haven’t quite started my own kingdom yet, I want to spend some more time as a vassal. But I have heard that kingdom managment and diplomacy feel unfinished to many. I guess I’ll have to see this for myself.

I’ve been playing Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord. About 35ish hours into this save and so far I enjoy the game a lot. It does some things better than Mount and Blade: Warband but unfortunately some aspects of the game are less developed than in it’s predecessor. Overall I think unmodded Bannerlord is better than unmodded Warband but Warband has an absolutely massive catalog of incredible mods. Maybe Bannerlord will get there one day.

Hope you find someone. I played it with my wife, and didn’t expect too much, but it was actually one of the better games I’ve played. Truly fantastic level and puzzle design.

Nice post. The ps3 is great fun if you like to tinker with this sort of thing, are on a budget, or even if you just want to relive some old games that never got ported to future gens.

I picked an original phat model for $20 a few years ago. It came with a 60 gb hdd which I replaced with a 320gb hdd I had laying around that would otherwise just collect dust due to it’s miniscule size. The console made a ton of noise and would get really hot, the thermal compound was completely siezed due to it’s age and heavy work load, so I replaced it with some fresh mx4 and gave the console a good cleaning. I installed Rebug and set the minimum fan speed to 60%, it’s still loud but it doesn’t get hot anymore. Once that was all done I loaded up a 2tb external drive with my favorite games from that generation.

To be honest, I had a lot of fun jailbreaking and tinkering with it, but I can count on one hand how many times I’ve gamed on it since. I should probably give it to someone who will get more use out of it lol.

Sounds better than my current setup. I have Swiss on a SD card plugged in with a memory card adapter, my roms on a micro SD card in the serial port using an SD2SP2. To boot into Swiss I have to use an Action Replay disc. It works but it’s a pain.

Been playing Foxhole with a buddy of mine. The game is pretty cool. An mmo with a persistent war that lasts until one side takes the entire map, which is pretty large. All the guns, ammo, vehicles, respawns, etc. are player made and need to be transported to fronts. It’s a lot to take in but it’s engaging even while you’re learning.

Spelunky 2 - $20. One of my all time favorites here. Over 200 hours in, don’t regret any of them. I could easily double my playtime without seeing everything.

Dark Souls 1 - $30(?). Back in my teen years on the 360 I bought Dark Souls without knowing anything about it. I played through it with a buddy, passing the controller on death, and we had a blast. That first run transcends money for me, I would pay anything to keep that memory. Recently that same buddy and I replayed the game together and are now reworking our way through the series.

Racingmaybe - $3. This game is amazing. It’s a turn based drag racing game with an upgrade system. This is the best driving game I have ever played, far and away. It’s a hobby project by a solo developer. At it’s $3 price point this game is well worth the money. Seriously, if you’re reading this, buy it. Or drop your Steam name and I will gift it to you.

Mount & Blade: Warband - $20. This game is really starting to show its age but I still love it. Endless mod potential gives it tons of replayability.

I could go on forever but these ones came to mind first.

I watched the whole video trying to keep an open mind, but what they showed off just looks so generic. Quick time events, very basic looking fps mechanics, flight looks like War Thunder arcade battles. At least the gfx and animations looked pretty cool, although imo this is the least important factor of a good video game. Will probably be a skip for me, if it ever releases that is.

Cool track, thanks for sharing.

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Smells like lobbyists in here.

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I pronounce it “say-tuh”