Just yesterday, when I told the great wizard Lorroakan

Plenty of jokes remaining in Act 3. Like Expedition 60.

I’ve got [email protected] and live my life in bed. As I don’t have to adhere to society’s timetables I sleep when I am sleepy and wake up when I’m done. I sleep 10-11 hours most days.

Once I had a really bad night where I basically didn’t sleep. The night after that I got 14 hours of sleep. I think that’s the longest I ever slept in my life.

I wish I was more in line with my family. It’s especially hard with aligning lunch and dinner. So in a way I actually am still tied to society’s timetable.

wine-ge-8.26 is quite old now. Get the latest one, 10.something, and see if it solves your issues. Can’t remember how you update Wine/Proton in Lutris. Protonup-QT is a great helper to get newer Wine versions for everything.

It’s been a while since I have been messing around with Lutris. But the general way of installing WoW or any other thing is basically the same in Lutris, Heroic, Bottles, Steam or Wine without any helper. Though I would advice against using Steam because it creates a new prefix for every new exe you throw at it, unless you tell it otherwise.

1. You download the Battle.net installer from Blizzard.
2. (In most cases) create a new game/bottle/prefix (the prefix is like a fake-Windows drive)
3. Run the installer.
4. If everything went well, run Battle.net and let it install WoW.

Common problems (don’t remember if they apply to Battle.net) are that you need to install the Visual C++ Runtime (vcredist), .Net Runtime and some fonts. You can do that with Winetricks or downloading the respective installers from Microsoft. You usually don’t have to install all fonts, that’d take a long time. Arial or maybe Helvetica are usually enough.

Play The Cat Lady to combine them both! And it’s even discounted at the moment.

I finally got the idea to install BG3 again and finish my Wyll origin run. Only to discover the game crashing every time I load the save.

Started a Gale origin to see if the whole game was bugged. Got halfway through act 1 until I found a way to fix my Wyll save. So I’m back there and accidentally started one of the quests I hate the most.

I remember getting lost in one of the missions, literally muttering “Where am I?” in English even though I’m German and opening the map to a page that said “Where am I?” written by Garrett.

Can’t get more immersive than that!

I guess there’s The Dark Mod to scratch that itch. It’s a completely community made stealth game using the Doom 3 engine. It pretty much feels the same as the first two Thief games.

You probably got them from NOLF revival.

Kind of depends on the mood and food. But usually red.

We call it parsing. You might have heard everything but your brain wasn’t done with parsing.

In 20 years every game will have been remastered by Nightdive.

Edit: Including the current Nightdive remasters.

Yeah, but to be fair, it still looks and works like it did 20 years ago. A mobile stylesheet would be nice. And I bet the good folks at Protondb would be up to linking to corresponding WineHQ pages if asked nicely and vice versa.

At the moment it isn’t even that. It’s more the concept of an inventory of the landscape of a plan.

The streams are not the problem. Sometimes with content that was especially hard to find I’d grab the URL to the stream and download it via curl.

The problem is getting there. You have to navigate through treacherous sites with dubious “Stream now” buttons that bring even the best ad blockers to their limits. With myriad “sorry your stream is in another castle” and CAPTCHAS so complicated they could summon Cthulhu.

I think op doesn’t want to navigate that shit with a remote keyboard and mouse and would rather have a nice interface that hides all that shit.

There used to be plugins for that. Don’t know if they still exist. But they broke at least once every other year with a short period of uncertainty until a replacement was found.

Sometimes you’d need a companion app to solve CAPTCHAs. And when you just about settled in comfortably everything broke again.

They should happen in that order, and ideally copyright would only be awarded to individuals (or perhaps specifically named lists of individuals, with some reasonable cap), not corporations.

That’s actually the law in Germany. Here it’s not called copyright but originator’s right. The big caveat being that things you create while under contract are licensed to companies. But the originator’s rights can not be transferred or erased.

Of course international contracts severely muddy the waters here.

Not video, but many Asterix comics get released in Latin and regional dialects.

Also, I liked how in Enemy Mine they both learn each others language instead of the Alien just learning English.

I use dropbear in initramfs on my Debian server. Works great.

At home I have a cheap networked KVM because I also sometimes have hardware problems preventing a boot. Works really well. Cost 100 € and uses open source software. It’s called GL.iNet KVM.

Quick, someone patent it all!