BallisticNG and BeamNG are completely unrelated.

The former is an EXTREMELY faithful re-creationg of WipEout physics (both ps1 and ps3/4 era games, depending on mode), but with support for mods and community-made tracks.

https://youtu.be/fx7ruNdS100

If you haven’t played WipEout, the controls involve four axes of analogue input. Pitch, craft tilt, as well as left and right air-brakes. The fastest way around a track requires extreme precision and a bit of luck.

In addition, weaponry is allowed and you must manage your energy (which is both your health and boost-fuel).

It’s AG racers I keep coming back to, myself. (BallisticNG)

I enjoy trackmania a ton, but everytime I play I get such a dirty feeling after about a week.

Ubisoft really ruined it with TM20. I miss the sound and aesthetic of Turbo, that’s where it peaked for me (though I’ll admit some of the tracks produced by the community in TM20 are art).

ZoneMinder?

Or adding microtransactions to a single player game.

Or considering any franchise with an entry that has lost money dead and gone, as if it didn’t still sell millions. Like, just budget the next one to fit the demand?

Or their total allergy to doing anything actually new. They keep shedding IPs yet only ever back existing franchises.

Or spending almost as much on marketing as development, as if you can just force people to be interested in a sequel for a game they didn’t play or a genre they don’t enjoy.

I don’t know how Squenix games can be so full of developer passion with execs this braindead.

And what the fuck does 3D Investment mean their publishing is a loss? NO SHIT. THAT’S HOW YOU FIND THE NEW FRANCHISES.

VCs, as shitty as they are, at least get that backing 30 small projects makes sense because that improves your chances of being on board with the one that blows up big enough to pay for the rest.

3D Investment blames this on the underperformance of Square Enix’s console and mobile game sectors

No.

as well as exceptionally large write-downs related to cancelled games.

Yes.

Interestingly, they also consider the company’s arcade and publishing sectors to be “non-synergistic” businesses that are ultimately pulling down the company’s value with lackluster performance.

Fuck no.

Squenix’s problem is that they keep going too big. They are trying to be a Sony or Nintendo, when they’re really more of a Devolver. They have franchises with big fanbases, but they’re trying to force their games to become COD levels of HUGE by just increasing the budget. And when the return doesn’t keep up with investment, they keep missing the point.

It happened with Tomb Raider. It happened with Deus Ex. And it’s happening with Final Fantasy. The games do have passionate fans, but they simply aren’t for everyone. And that’s not a bad thing.

What Squenix refuses to accept, is that they’ve hit a growth ceiling they can’t break through by spending more. But instead of growing wider by diversifying with new IPs or more titles at more reasonable budgets, they keep trying to focus on their latest big thing and grow it taller and heavier than it can support.

There is also an actual Jellyfin Rewind though you do need to have been using the playback reporting plugin.

This years isn’t done yet.

Yes.

Actually.

I use Bottles for windows games that I don’t have on steam or GOG.

In that case, something is invalidating the login. Are you sure that it is happening due to leaving your LAN, and not just coinciding with that?

Does restarting the laptop log you out, or temporarily disconnecting from the internet? Could you test by switching to a wifi hotspot on your phone, and switching back, for example?

The client stores your session token in the OS credentials manager (kwallet for linux kde, for example) and the issue can lie there, as well.

That’s definitely not how it should work. Leaving your LAN should not invalidate a session.

Is this in your browser, or are you talking about the desktop client?

Flathub and the AUR are by far the most comprehensive, and flatpaks works on a lot of distros. So I checked those.

They’ve also been getting their kinks worked out over the last few years and work much better than they used to.

That review you found is two years old and was for version 1.1. Current version is 1.4. Try it out today, if it’s been fixed leave another review letting people know. It seems to work just fine for me, but I haven’t used it before.

Material Maker is on Flathub, the AUR, and on Snapcraft (not up to date, but you shouldn’t use snap anyway).

No need for a manual install.

You’ll find a lot of software is available via package managers. Linux people don’t like installing anything without it being managed by a package manager so the installation and subsequent updates are automatic and occur alongside system updates. So when people find software they like, they’ll go out of their way to package and distribute it for others as well

Yes. But you didn’t.

Knowing what something does is important.

If you install a piece of software expecting it to do something it actually doesn’t, that can leave a security gap.

I wasn’t just correcting you. I was making sure you knew that if you install a “firewall” it won’t do the thing you’re looking for.

As for an actual answer, most distros will already ask you to confirm if you try to run a random appimage you downloaded.

But you shouldn’t need to do that in the first place. On linux, there’s not really any need to go running random programs downloaded using your web browser, since you can just download software from trusted reposotories that aren’t going to host malware to begin with.

Unlike on windows… You don’t need to risk it in the first place.

First, they came for our GPUs

And I’m telling you a firewall won’t do that.

It won’t have anything to say at all about something you download and run.

It’s a completely different security feature. It handles potentially malicious network activity. Not software on your computer.

It’s not federated tho?

What do they mean when they call it that?

oh with the firewall saving me from myself I meant if I download something thinking it’s safe but isn’t

A firewall would not save you from that.

A firewall stops random incoming connections. But if you download and run something bad, that’d be an outgoing connection, since the malicious program is then already on your system.

Almost everything you do on desktop linux is already “outside the core os”.

This is mostly relevant for server software configuration, where you should run services with as few system privileges as possible. Preferably you isolate them entirely with a separate user with access to only the bare minimum it needs.

This way, if a service is compromised, it can’t be used to access the core system, because it never had such access in the first place. Only what it needed to do its own thing.

By default, nothing you run (web browser, steam, spotify, whatever) should be “running as admin”.

The only time you’ll do that on desktop linux, is when doing stuff that requires it. Such as installing a new app, or updating the system. Stuff that modifies the core os and hence needs access.

Basically, unless you needed to enter you password to run something, then it’s already “outside” the core os.

Why tf would I want capcut?

AFAIK, yes, plus one more.

It can use FEX to run x86 binaries, or use ARM binaries directly in steam for games that have them (games that support apple silicon macs, for example) and it can sideload apks meant for android, if the apk is actually standalone, and doesn’t have system dependencies that only exist on meta devices.

The game Valve used to demo the standalone capability, was Hades. The x86 version running on a virtual display, after just installing it via steam.