The main problem with Minetest for me, sadly, was incompatibility of the APIs and the general disarray of the modding scene. Most mods seem to be made for Minetest’s APIs, but games like Voxelibre use new ones and if I remember right their response to being incompatible with 99% of mods because of that was “it’s not our fault they’re all using outdated stuff” despite the fact that Minetest is simply being maintained and not updated, so they aren’t going to change their APIs.

The concept of simply copying minecraft is problematic on its own, too. Voxelibre is almost as illegal as a pirated version of Minecraft, it’s just not popular enough to get put in a court for it. It simply copies way too much, and that’s the same for all of the minecraft clones on the platform. So much development time across multiple projects is being put into just ripping off Minecraft to the point of being legally so, and at that point why not just pirate Minecraft? It’s compatible with all the mods from my childhood and wouldn’t be connected to a server that could be struck down at any time for hosting MC ripoffs.

So then I thought Minetest and a bunch of mods for it would be a better option, but I just can’t figure out a modlist that can compete with one from MC Java. They’re all so incoherent and don’t work together well. There’s a gun mod on one that, while it might’ve been okay for Minecraft, on an entirely new fully open-source platform it’s underwhelming. Whacking with the gun to shoot while something like MrCrayFish’s gun mod existed for MC just made me sigh.

I’ve decided I want to develop mods for Luanti and explore how the engine works to get a good handle on voxel game programming, and maybe fork the engine for my own game someday, because I admire how incredibly performant it is, but I’m not gonna play it much until I’ve learned add what I want and not just play around with other people’s stuff anymore.

Microsoft for the past 17 years: We have a monopoly, so we can just copy people and become more popular than them. Aaaany day now. Anyway day now. Any day nowwwwww…

As an American who can’t bear to play most online games because they might go down or disallow Linux users, please please please please check. EU laws are our only hope of having usable fucking technology.

The thought of being able to mod and host my own GTA 5 online server when it goes down, without some weird custom server mod that also uses Windows-exclusive anti-cheat on most servers, sounds like a damn dream. I miss that game… but fuck Windows, nothing is worth installing Windows. I just realized I’ve been ranting about the lack of Linux compatibility of GTA 5 Online in reply to someone’s comment about how this petition has gone on for a while. I swear I wasn’t hijacking your comment, I just have strong feelings about Linux gaming and got carried away.

I’m actually from the future, I was talking about Atari, the interkiric rockware organization based in Florida, Canada

While Napster did get decked hard a long while ago, it’s still a well known cultural icon, so some company was inevitably going to buy the rights to its branding/trademarks after it ate dirt to attract attention to whatever product they decide to slap it on.

The same thing kinda happened to Atari. That company got burned to a crisp by Nintendo and Sega after the 2600, but some nobodies bought it and things keep having the Atari logo even today because it was a well known brand. It sucked ass and failed… but we remember it.

Doesn’t sonic 4 suck 10 tons of bloated baked ass

And yet, they still think they’re too good to put track pads on it.

I don’t think these companies are aware that what made the deck popular was it knew what it was and that it had a lot to prove, and so it featured a very focused design that differentiated it from PCs as a worthwhile form factor, but also provided methods for adding compatibility to just about any game, and thus allowed it to compensate for being in a form factor that is just sometimes inherently inconvenient for PC gaming. It wasn’t just a gaming pc with an Xbox controller taped to it, which this is.

Mods are tricky. The short answer is yes, absolutely*

The long answer is that youll have to read up on how compatibility layers like Wine work before being able to do everything you can do with windows on a Linux OS modding-wise. Long story short you just kinda stick them in the same instance, and it will all work pretty much perfectly. It’s more work though. Also in my experience MO2 crashes if run outside of Gaming Mode on my deck.

Nexus mods is, however, making a mod manager that supports Linux right out of the box, so we may not even have to worry about that anymore soon. I think it supports stardew valley already, next is cyberpunk 2077, and Bethesda rpgs are on the list to be added too.

In my experience, I’ve installed wabbajack mod lists for skyrim and fallout 4 and new vegas if I remember right, and they all work great. The instructions might seem a little janky, but they work. I’ve also made my own lists and followed manual modpack guides like Below Zero for fallout 4 Frost and it turned out great.

I think the top picture is a banana with brown spots on it. And the bottom picture has the most obscene lighting I’ve ever seen.

“He’s just a little cranky, poor thing”

Oh, I must have misinterpreted you. That’s about what I do.

I would recommend doing more research before buying, but I’m a kinda a cheap bitch

When I’m browsing, it’s my first stop. I want to see the minimum specs to estimate how well it’ll run, how the devs market their game at a glance, year of release, rating, etc. Then if it looks interesting it’s time for external reviews.

Not only that, but they made the platform ever so slightly less open when they bought a bunch of games just so that they could remove them from other stores. They garner hatred because they don’t try to gain a competitive edge by being good or unique in some way, they’re just making gamers who aren’t willing to download their launcher suffer.

They’re not stupid, they’re manipulative. In my experience, that’s always the case in situations like these.

We got lucky in 2017, I suspect it’ll be a good long while before the switch 2 gets hacked, specifically in an accessible way.

A hacked switch (or even switch 2 really, looking at the specs) is really just a shitty steam deck that can run Nintendo games natively.

I wouldn’t recommend forking over 500 bucks for something you may be able to jailbreak one day, when 400 can get you more out of the box.

It’s good to know I’m not the only one who thinks this way. That marble analogy is on point. The US is built on mutually beneficial structures. When one cabal of structures starts targeting others, the functionality of the whole country flounders and rebellion is legitimized.

But they can make up excuses for their arsenal for whenever they want to ban a site they don’t like from common eyes.

“It was banned because it was pornography”

“It was banned because it was displaying pirated content”

“It was banned because it harmed the public good”

They want control over what the common people can see, hear, say, and think.