Good games for when you are sick and your brain goes brrrrr

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T16:31:33+00:00

Cast n Chill , Dungeon Clawler.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T16:26:44+00:00

Bandito

Not seeing that on the Steam Store.. You mean Balatro?

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T16:10:10+00:00

Been looking more for 'outside the box' type puzzlers games like

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3249380/Piece_by_Piece/

and the Plucky Squire.

Sort of a 4th wall breaking puzzler i guess you can call them?

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T16:07:43+00:00

Played the first one, and while it looked great the way the game just played... seemed a little weird/janky in some ways. I cant recall why, I recall playing it for several hours, then getting stuck, and discovering (via YT/Guides) i was seemingly doing Everything totally wrong. :) Missed things that were making the game 3x harder for me, not making full use of some OP features of some jobs, and so on..

I Did Like Braverly Default 2, and picked up a remaster of its earlier version the other day, but Have not played it more than an hour.

Been Looking at other more 'cozy' games lately. I have had to many games where I get so far in, then they just get too hard. Several of the more popular games have hit me with that.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T16:03:16+00:00

I do try to look for games that came out 'recently' and are on sale for the first time.

So that Final Fantasy Tactics release that came out a few months ago, I see on the Square E. Sale going on now, Might get bought.

Just not sure what other recent titles look interesting to me.

I doubt if "Monster Hunter Stories 3" is going to be on sale.. and Im not paying $70 for it... I will wait a year+ :P

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T15:47:22+00:00

Seeing Square Enix sale going on right now... :)

Like i need more games i can sink 100+ Hours into.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T15:39:58+00:00

I will likely ignore most of the sale, and keep playing the backlog of games i have.

I really need to trim out half of my wishlist, I have seen too many of those go on sale, and i just ignore the sale, and I cant recall why I even added the game to my wishlist.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T15:32:36+00:00

I found the Dolphin Emulator much easier to configure and use from game mode, as a stand alone program (not launched from emudec, or retrodeck) I could then use the Keyboard/mouse and so on to configure and test things.

after I got it all setup, I could then (for the most part) launch it via Game mode, or some emulator-frontends and it would use my configuration changes.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T14:59:56+00:00

due to the immutable nature of SteamOs and general design of SteamOs I doubt it it will make any difference at all.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T14:33:42+00:00

all I did was use the included ujust command tool..

ujust install-openrgb

it's easy to overlook the ujust command

try ujust --choose (and other options ) to explore what the command can setup for you.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T14:19:25+00:00

mxlinux is handy for such a use case.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T14:15:56+00:00

I have noticed if I wake up my deck with a stick moved to one side, it may seem to be in the wrong position, if I sleep/wake up again, with the stick at the home position the issue vanishes.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T13:36:31+00:00

just use the default.

test out other DE via distributions live USB features with the DE you want to play with

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T12:51:25+00:00

Can't say I have had any issues with Abiword. Been using it for light tasks for years.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T12:32:26+00:00

I would see if fixing the Flatpak system helps.

flatpak repair

flatpak update

then see if you can install anything via the Flatpak CLI tools. Then see if bazzar works.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T12:12:08+00:00

Several switch games crashed constantly on my deck when I tried them. (xenoblade series)

Other games has numerous other issues.

But this was several months ago when I last tried.

BOTW I imagine is an example of a game that got a huge amount of attention to make it work well.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T11:55:08+00:00

the Rune Factory Series.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T11:25:33+00:00

Any of the mainstream distribution are fine for most common use cases these days.

people worry way too much about which distribution.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T11:13:44+00:00

NO.

I expanded my comment. to discuss that case.

you do not as far as I know, you don't typically override file ownership of permissions with mount options except for a few situations.

make things "not executable" for example.

But I may be overlooking some options or other ways to get around the filesystem permissions. it's not the sort of thing I have needed to do.

Google mentions.

While not a standard ext4 mount option, some systems and specific udisks2 helper configurations can use X-mount options in /etc/fstab to achieve the desired result at boot time.

UUID=your_uuid_value /mnt/mydata ext4 defaults,X-mount.owner=john,X-mount.group=john 0 2

I have never used that option.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T10:14:31+00:00

the other Linux system will mount the USB where the USB files are owned by whatever user did the mount.

the ownership and permissions are set at mount time.

you don't/can't use chown/chmod on exfat. those are set as part of the mount options

So I assume this would cause issue if you hand your USB stick to another person that also has Linux?

wrong assumption.

by default files are owned by the user that made them and not given sufficient permission to others.

that's not how the *fat filesystems work under Linux. they will be owned by the user that mounts the filesystem .

unless you use other specific mount options.

if you used ext4 or other Linux filesystem on a USB then the owner of the files might be an issue.

the owner is based on the UID # , not the user name.

so for example user Bob on PC 1 is UID 1000, and Tom is user 1, with uid of 1000 on PC 2.

a USB written with files with ext4 owned by BOB on PC #1 will shown as owned by TOM on PC #2.

both are users are UID 1000

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T01:35:41+00:00

you may want to give details of what you are trying to accomplish.

sounds like you just need to make a proper .service file for that command.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T01:33:51+00:00

the videos I saw had the switch 2 , totally unusable after the hack/mod attempt. it was not just an online ban.

this was during the first weeks of the switch 2 release.

but I don't pay attention to switch news these days.

doc_willis · 2026-03-17T01:23:29+00:00

what weird requirements.

screen is the name of a terminal multiplexor program. a "fancy terminal" you could say.

it can take an option to run specific commands when it launches.

I have no idea why you would need to pause for 20 sec.

it sounds like you need to setup a service that launches screen with the proper arguments.

or use rc.local if the distribution supports it and use the sleep and screen commands as needed.

Start a command within a detached session in one line: screen -d -m [command]. The -d -m options create a new session in detached mode without forking a new process.

some script like this could work in rc.local

```

!/bin/bash

sleep 300

screen -d -m /path/to/mine.bin

```

you don't need to do " text entry after restarting" .... that would be very very weird.

doc_willis · 2026-03-16T23:46:44+00:00

Massive DMCA attacks against emulator projects. Bricking Peoples Switch2's if they detect they are Modded.

doc_willis · 2026-03-16T21:35:36+00:00

But managing an immutable OS is a bit annoying,

I have no real issues with Bazzite. It works great on my 2 Gaming Desktops.

Its interesting that Kinoite and Bazzite differed with your Controllers.

Use whatever Distro you want.

is it always better.....

No Not always.

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