Started playing the first Watch Dogs for the first time in six years after learning about the wide variety of mods. As a Linux gamer I of course had to do a bit of tinkering. Ubisoft Connect would only make a black screen and take me to the login screen. I read that had something to do with Wayland and Proton not handling Electron apps really well. After switching to Wayland I could finally use Ubisoft Connect and download the game.

Performance-wise the game does well. After setting geometry and LoD levels to High instead of Ultra, the frame rate stays above 60 FPS. This may be mainly due to me using Linux and the game’s optimization as hardware is well above the recommendations.

Modding is currently annoyingly janky, as I had to create an XML file for each zipped mod for Disrupt Manager. Still I couldn’t get that working, as I got a weird error message. Interesting to know if that tool works all well on Windows. I resorted to installing The Worse Mod with Living City, so the game’s graphics get overhauled and more randomness and chaos is added to the game world. The graphics get more closer to the infamous E3 2012 demo, but as a downside the depth of field effect is closer to the player, as if Aiden Pearce were near-sighted.

The same thing happened when Microsoft’s Bing AI launched.

When Clickhole was under The Onion, they had a parody of InfoWars named PatriotHole. This is like a circle closing. Definitely the funniest news I read today, there’s some justice in today’s world!

Hopefully many other news outlets around the world follow suit. I once emailed Yle, Finland’s state media outlet about how staying on Twitter doesn’t work and why Mastodon (and the Fediverse in general) would be the better option. Later they shut some of their Twitter accounts down… and continuing on other platforms such as TikTok.

Saa täällä kysyä suomeksikin!

Käytän myös Firefoxia enkä ole tuohon ongelmaan törmännyt, kerrassaan kummallista. Ehkä kannattaa varuilta kysyä asiasta myös GitHubissa tai yhteisössä !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml.

My view on “Youthanasia” is mixed. It’s evident how Dave Mustaine wanted to chase the top of the charts and how many metal bands had a hard time staying relevant in the 90s. With 1992’s “Countdown to Extinction” Dave already attempted to streamline Megadeth’s sound in a similar manner to what Metallica did with their “Black Album” and it yielded success, so “Youthanasia” was the next logical step forward. The album succeeds in that streamlining, but it happens with costs one can expect.

The overall mix is softer and more polished but it feels duller, especially compared to 1990’s “Rust in Peace”. Many songs have their tempo approximately at 120 BPM as the producer Max Norman wanted so, and their structure is conventional verse-chorus-type of thing. The strength of early Megadeth was in quirky song structures: technical guitar riffs, fast tempos and abrupt changes mixed in, and Mustaine snarled on top of it. “Youthanasia” has all that replaced with catchier songs and Mustaine attempting to sing melodically (“A Tout le Monde” as a good example). Yes, I get that Megadeth wanted to expand their sound and do something different, but is that evolution or many steps back? One’s mileage may vary.

Yes, it’s preferable.

This is a big topic after all so there is no way one can just “move on”.

It totes doesn’t sound there’s any agenda hidden…

Consumers know that it’s still AI under the thin hood, Microsoft should do more of its own thing instead of copying Apple – like they did with the late Windows Phone.

Muun muassa tämän takia fediversumia tarvitaan.

This video is just inches away from reality like good satire always. Elon Musk in general praises Trump for nearly everything so of course he would praise that ad, even if it were that vile.

Don’t they remember what is said in the Ten Commandments? “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me."

Of course if they are the megachurch type of Christians, their only real god is money.

Tämä järjen jättiläinen varmasti keksii teknisesti toimivan ratkaisun, jolla sekä syödään että säästetään kakkua samanaikaisesti. “Jos on tietoo, ja on taitoo, ja on rohkeutta, ja sitä ei muilla tunnu olevan sitä näkemystä, niin sitten on vähän niin kuin velvollisuus lähtee, se tulee niin kuin välttämättömäksi.”

Jay’s January 6th interrogation

Pelkäsin että eduskunnassa oltaisiin pää perseessä mutta onneksi esitys tyrmättiin valiokunnassa.

For that audience they don’t need to be funny, they have to be racist.

Piti tarkistaa, se on “rock the microphone”.

Even a potato can run Linux so regardless of a distro it should be all fine.