I also recently returned to Dirt 3 and was amazed at how good it still looks. It’s kind of crazy that Dirt 3 is less than 14 GiB, while Dirt 4 is 50 GiB, and Dirt Rally 2.0 is a whopping 100 GiB.

There’s one of Tux and Pingu.

It supports .NET Core since version 3.8.

You might be able to activate them if you get a key from somewhere (a boxed copy, key reseller, etc.).

It runs great but the EA app is a pain in the arse.

This takes me back to the Xbox 360 era.

I’m surprised Cyberpunk runs on the Steam Deck as well as it does. It truly is an incredible little machine.

I am continuously shocked that people play things like BG3 or Cyberpunk on their Steam Deck.

When one has no other choice, one plays one’s favourite game under any conditions. When I was little, I played Minecraft at 15 to 20 FPS and the lowest draw distance.

Recently when browsing through Steam, I stumbled on Whispers from the Star in which you help a LLM-driven character. It looks interesting and it has positive reviews on Steam but I haven’t played it yet myself.

It comes from the word metagame, i.e. the game beyond the game. I think it originally comes from game theory (the field of mathematics), later it began to be used in both game development and game playing (with slightly different meanings).

I’d be broader and talk about points of interest instead of dungeons, but yeah. This, the art design of the world, and the music. Those are the strongest points of Skyrim.

I was mostly only thinking about Skyrim’s world. Skyrim as a whole has many flaws.

For example, Fallout 3 doesn’t do a great job of this, as much of the world is baren with no story or gameplay. Half of the world feels like it could be cut out without much loss. The Yakuza games on the other hand, have smaller worlds but they feel massive and fun because there’s always something to do moments away.

On the other hand, the world of Fallout 4 feels very cramped; you can’t go 5 meters without encouraging something. Bethesda’s games are interesting in this aspect – the worlds of different games are built similarly, but they differ in some small parameters (as in the density of Fallout 4), so they’re ripe for comparison.

Personally, I feel there were two peaks in Bethesda’s worlds – Morrowind and Skyrim. Both for different reasons.

Try cleaning you cache as suggested in this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/3/4032473436326468727/

It should be located in ~/.local/share/Larian Studios/Baldur's Gate 3.

I have BG3 from GOG and got the Linux binaries from a friend.

I feel like this could be the root of the problem. The icons in the Windows version of the game might be in a different format, so the Linux binary is looking for files which do not exist. Something like that.

I’d suggest also installing the Teams app on your smartphone (if you have one) just in case something goes tits up. It’s (a little bit) less buggy than the web version.

There was an official Linux app but it was discontinued a while ago. There was also an unofficial flatpak which packaged the web version as a stand-alone app. I think it’s unmaintained now.

You used to be able to pay Microsoft ~20€ to enable developer mode, so you were able to sideload emulators and other homebrew apps to the Series S/X. I’m not if it’s still possible.

I’d do the same thing if the disc scratches. I’d download a cracked version from a weird Polish website.

I’m not getting 4 until it’s $60 or less - if then.

It has Denuvo; I wouldn’t get it if it was free.

Thanks for the reply! I was thinking more along the lines of “open hardware” — either a mouse manufactured by a larger company so that it can be easily repaired, with the manufacturer happy to sell you spare parts (something like Framework laptops), or a mouse designed by an internet enthusiast that you can assemble yourself from off-the-shelf components and 3D-printed parts.

I once saw a build-it-yourself kit for an ultra-light mouse somewhere. I naively assume that such a mouse would be easy to repair. Alas, that kit would cost me my kidney.

A somewhat on-topic question: Is there an easily fixable mouse that wouldn’t cost me a kidney?