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EamonnMR

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the EV games combine asteroids style flight with choose your own adventure text walls. I recommend Nova. You’ll need to run it in WINE.

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What’s crazy to me is that Linux was out way in front of this. Put me in front of windows back in the aughts and say ‘go install a program’ and you had to google it, hope you clicked the right download link, install it, hope you didn’t get a virus. Ubuntu you just opened up synaptic and bam, there was a wealth of programs you could just install with a single click. It was mind-blowing, and way easier than what everyone else offered.

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In Excession it felt more like

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The Culture is a race of intelligent starships that keeps humans as pets.

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It’s not specific to Godot 4, but I found this couple of videos really useful for understanding how to build interpolated multiplayer in Godot:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w2p0ugw3afs (and the one after on extrapolation.)

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N64 runs ok on pi? Since when? Which PI?

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I lost all respect for his technical taste when he confessed that his daily driver is FreeDOS. I know linux folks skew at least a little contrarian but at that point I don’t think we’re speaking the same language of computing and there’s not much I can learn from ya. Not super surprised to hear he went way overboard contrarian in other ways I guess.

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I guess what I’m trying to say is that his contrarian personal views and his contrarian technical views are both expressions of some underlying contrarian-ness. Not that we shouldn’t be asking if he’s a decent person, just that I’m not super surprised to find out he’s gone mask off weirdo.

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I agree strongly with your gut reaction. I personally use it as the archive of record whenever I digitize some media that would otherwise be lost. I use it when trying to establish how something looked in the past. I don’t need IA to go out and pick losing fights with publishers at the expense of the excellent services they already provide.

It should be noted that if you want digital book loans Libby is fine.

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Are we not even going to talk about how many of their sites/wikis are filled with fake/misinformation and go to great lengths to document completely non-existent things in a way that isn’t always obvious to outsiders?

I don’t know how specific that is to Fandom but I am aware of at least one Fandom Wiki for an obscure old console game that’s like 50% inexplicable unmarked fanfiction.

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