Malgas

In my experience running the Windows version of the mod manager in the same prefix as the game also works.

I’ve been on NixOS for a little over a year, and have been absolutely delighted at how well gaming works now. I initially thought I would dual boot until Windows 10 EoL, but have had no reason to use Windows in that time and a couple months ago I converted my storage disk from ntfs to ext4.

Steam is nearly seamless; there have been one or two titles where I’ve had to switch the Proton version to experimental or GE, but nothing more than that. Heroic and Lutris have been similarly easy for non-Steam games. There has been nothing that I have tried to play that hasn’t worked, but I don’t play multiplayer games so YMMV there.

That said, this is not my first rodeo with Linux. I used it extensively in the late '00s and early '10s, which probably helped to sand some of the rough edges off of my recent experience. Though back then wine was not really suitable for gaming. I also have an AMD GPU, which I understand has an easier setup process than Nvidia. (I literally haven’t had to think about graphics drivers at all.)

Can’t understand why […] System Shock sort of got ditched for other companies to remaster.

IIRC Ken Levine wanted to make another System Shock game but Irrational couldn’t get the rights.

There’s a “cute AF” joke in here somewhere, but I can’t quite put it together.

See also: a streaming service’s “recommended for you” section that is indistinguishable from “watch it again”.

“A man, no plan, a canal …”

Ponnama!

Not sure what the last one was, but the last couple PC games I bought physical copies of could be installed from the disc, but also had Steam keys in the box and then didn’t require the disc to play.

It took me a minute, but I think these are all Crafts from Mage: The Ascension:

• Muslims: Ahl-i-Batin
• Feminists: Sisters of Hippolyta
• Deus vult: Knights Templar
• Goths: Hollow Ones
• Voodoo: Batáa
• Alchemists: Children of Knowledge
• Confucians: Wu Lung
• Polynesians: Kopa Lori
• Rich Africans: ?

Coca-Cola switched from fresh to spent coca leaves in 1903, so the '50s are about a half century too late for cocaine in sodas.

We should get a stew going in his honor.

In the future Star Trek wants us to imagine a black female officer is completely unremarkable.

Interestingly, in the unaired TOS pilot Pike did in fact remark on a female officer (albeit Una rather than Uhura), saying he “can’t get used to having a woman on the bridge”.

Of course, being unaired, the episode’s canonicity was pretty questionable. Until SNW used the exact clip of him saying that as archive footage.

(n.b. None of this is intended to negate the point you’re making. It’s just a strange little thing that could have been brushed aside as an artifact of the show not quite having figured out what it was yet, had not modern Trek gone and affirmed it.)

It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.

So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.

According to Google translate, 新鲜超大充气 is “fresh extra large inflatable”. So, uh, I have no idea.

Upper Galicia.

Interpreter: Wait, x is 5?

This code: Always has been.

Even the most secure vaults are rated by how long it takes a locksmith to open them.

We, the gamers, the geeks, the golems

What does ‘golem’ mean in this context?

So is that a transcription error on my part, or is the original image nonsense?

The image is pretty blurry, but I’m seeing:

窗户己限位请勿高空抛物

Which Google translate renders as “The windows are limited. Please do not throw objects at high altitudes.” Which still seems kind of mangled, but at least resembles something potentially reasonable.

Maybe someone who actually speaks the language will show up to help us out.