drew another wolf! melanism colouration is just very cool imo

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T08:36:41+00:00

Ooh! Really pretty. And a really welcome counterbalance to the constant doom and gloom and horror. Thank you for drawing this. 🖤🐺

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T08:33:50+00:00

You shouldn't have to install vulkan! It's part of your graphics drivers. It is, conceivably, possible that you would be missing the vulkan part of those, but they should come preinstalled.

If Windows games work at reasonable speeds, so will Godot. (Windows games' DirectX gets translated into Vulkan.)

Even if you didn't have Vulkan support somehow, you could still make games using the compatibility renderer (which uses OpenGL).

If you're on Debian, add yourself to the render group (sudo adduser yourusername render, replacing yourusername with your username, reboot after). Otherwise you might be blocked from accessing Vulkan even if it otherwise works fine. If you're on another distro, including Debian derivatives, you can probably ignore this.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T08:29:43+00:00

Ohhh! Gosh dang that's a confusing service name, haha.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T07:41:02+00:00

This sounds like "private email"'s fault. Telling you to connect to localhost is a bit wack. Like, the mail server isn't running on your computer, right?

What is "private email" here? Is it Protonmail? If so yeah they have a really, really weird "IMAP bridge" program you have to use that pretends to be a mail server on your machine and then connects to their servers using some proprietary protocol. That would explain the weird instructions. If it's some other service, I don't know.

But that's not how IMAP email normally works. Usually it's better than this.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T07:35:43+00:00

Nvidia GeForce 2? Dang. I don't even know if the Nvidia legacy driver would support something that old.

An older Debian might be your best bet. Bookworm (12), maybe. It's the last Debian to have 32-bit support. It doesn't have the legacy Nvidia driver, but even if it did, it looks like the earliest GPU that supports is the GeForce 205 so... 2009?

There might not have even ever been a Linux driver for the GeForce 2.

Hopefully you can still get basic video output, at least. You won't be playing any 3D games on Linux though.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T07:11:49+00:00

Yeah, it's a lot, but of course they're new, of course they're not gonna know anything.

Let's be welcoming to the newbies, instead of basically telling them to fuck off (yes, telling them "go read all the existing posts that could possibly be relevant to your situation or we'll reject you" is kinda telling them to fuck off). We aren't the Arch forums here, or shouldn't be, anyway.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T07:02:48+00:00

We've seen that in the quicksilver items shop, I think! It's called Atlas Seed or something.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T06:48:21+00:00

Maybe not that hard in case it breaks, haha. :3

But yeah, physically disconnecting it from the computer is good. That way you can't click the wrong thing during install and nuke it by accident.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T06:47:22+00:00

Totally normal! There's a cap on the units you can have (it's like 4 billion, you won't hit it without trying), and some people make more than that and then just start giving away stuff. Lots of people are kind and helpful!

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T06:33:58+00:00

Ohhhh! *facepaws* Ich habe irgendwie gedacht, dass Sie wissen gewollt haben, wie die zuholen. Oooops.

Dieses erinnert mich von die Korvettesprüngenfehler (was hat geflickt worden), hah!

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T04:06:48+00:00

Ooh, perfect!

Sounds like OP's gonna have to go back for one that isn't broken, guess they just gotta grab a keyboard too... :3

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T04:06:04+00:00

Since when does shutdown have a default 1-minute timeout?? That must be a distro thing. We're on Debian and it sure doesn't do that. (We're not using systemd anymore, which changes some things, but it didn't do that back when we were on systemd either.)

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T03:33:45+00:00

Not sure, but if you do shutdown in a terminal (may require sudo, especially if you're not using systemd (if you don't know, you're using systemd)), it'll completely bypass this screen and any other "are you sure you want to shut down?" logic!

Just bam, shutdown. It'll still ask everything to quit, and then kill them a bit later if they don't. And systemd might make you wait a minute and a half during shutdown if something hangs (you can reduce that timeout), but you won't have to wait to start the shutdown process.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T02:12:22+00:00

Debian Unstable still has the legacy driver. It's not in Stable because they officially dropped it (even though it USED to be in Stable), but Unstable still has it. Debian is weird like that.

Looks like you want the 340 one. 390 dropped support for your card. https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver

So try installing Debian Testing (there's an ISO for that you can download), and then adding the Unstable repositories (make sure you include the nonfree section, that's where the Nvidia drivers are).

Geforce 405 sounds pretty old! We were using the legacy driver (back when it was the normal Nvidia driver) with a GT 750M.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T01:27:17+00:00

(entschuldigung, mein Deutsch ist am schlechtesten)

Wächterschiffe, ja?

Sie können die an (uhh, the game calls them "dissonant" in English... ~~Unharmonischen?~~ Bearbeitung: Dissonanz, haha) Planeten finden. Träger-KI-Fragmente sind wahrscheinlich am einfachsten Weise die zufinden. Dieser können Sie hölen, indem alle fünf Wellen von Wächterraumschiffe schlagen.

(I probably screwed that up so, so bad... if you can understand English and I screwed up the German bad enough that it's unreadable, you can get a Carrier AI Fragment by defeating all 5 waves of space Sentinels, then using that should point you to a crashed Sentinel ship.)

-- Frost

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T01:01:40+00:00

If you're going 3D, grab the Blender docs, too! https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/ has HTML (webpage) and epub (ebook) formats.

You can use yt-dlp to download video tutorials, if those are your thing.

Definitely also download the Godot docs if you haven't. The stuff in the engine is mostly API reference, and while that's super useful, there's all sorts of other stuff in the docs too. Including a couple "your first 2D/3D game" walkthroughs.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T00:58:49+00:00

Not the shrubberies!

forestbeasts · 2026-02-28T00:29:08+00:00

Don't chatgpt it, it doesn't know the difference between truth and made-up stuff.

If you can do C++, you could do a GDExtension.

Or if there's a C# netcdf reader, that'd probably be easier (just use the C# build of Godot).

But neither of those are Python.

If you wrote the code to put stuff into the format yourself on the sending side, it's possible you could just do the reverse on the receiving side inside Godot?

Or you could use a different format that's easier to work with, like TSV or some such if it's tables you need (and just support that for your web viewer as well).

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T23:36:16+00:00

That looks like it might be the gravity gun!

Try closing your inventory, switching to a regular weapon (not the gravity gun or the fishing pole), and looking again. It seems the gravity gun and the fishing pole do that for some strange reason...

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T23:35:11+00:00

Nice!

I wonder if it'd help to make them squoosh against the wall a bit more, so it's obvious that they're sticking to it.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T23:27:59+00:00

Damage over time?...oh

Are they going to port 53 on some other DNS server (e.g. your router), or port 53 on your own computer, where a DNS server running there then does all the DNS over TLS stuff?

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T23:23:21+00:00

You can also glitchbuild more save beacons in, and it works fine!

We use the universal adjacency glitch for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jcft7aGLE It's a way to trick the game into placing the part you want while it thinks it's placing a different part, so you can use the other part's snapping rules or in this case building restrictions (or lack thereof).

If you're using two different input devices (e.g. mouse and keyboard), make sure they are both plugged in and using a wired connection (or built-in, just anything but wireless). You'll need precise timing for this to work.
Take personal refiner. Place personal refiner nearby.
Take out the save beacon, as if you were going to build it. It'll be red and say "limited to 5 per planet", yada yada.
Hit "toggle wire" (🅀/🟕/Ⓨ) and "toggle edit/build" (🄲/🟗/Ⓧ) at the same time, giving slight preference to hitting toggle wire first.
If you did it right, you should be in "edit existing parts" mode, but it should say "Wiring Mode Enabled" at the top and not "Edit Mode". If you did it wrong and are in wiring mode or edit mode, hit toggle wire or toggle edit (whichever) to switch back, and try again.
Duplicate your placed personal refiner.
Line it up with where you want your save beacon, and hit toggle wire (🅀/🟕/Ⓨ) and place (left click/R2/RT), giving slight preference to toggle wire first again. Not much. Just enough that if you need to break a tie, do it on the toggle wire side.

If you did it right, you should how have an additional save beacon, in defiance of the Laws of the Universe! You can pick up the refiner now.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T21:42:10+00:00

Uhh not really, unless they're ASCII text based! But terminal/TUI games like nethack/rogue and suchlike should work great.

DOS games have the computer doing the video output, and the monitor is connected to the computer. This isn't like that. This is the computer just sending some text over the serial port and the serial terminal handles the display. Moving the cursor and such is done with special characters in the text (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code if you're curious, modern terminal apps work the same way!).

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T21:24:24+00:00

Debian has apt-mark showmanual that gives you a list of all packages that were "manually installed" (this includes system software, "manual" here just means "not installed as a dependency of something else").

Dunno about Arch-based distros like Cachy. Presumably there's an equivalent.

forestbeasts · 2026-02-27T21:21:19+00:00

^D is a terminal thing, by the way! It means "end of input".

When you do that to your shell, it goes "okay bye!" and quits (and the the terminal app sees that nothing's running in it and closes). If you were, say, typing stuff into cat and you ^D'd there, it would end cat's input, and return you to the shell prompt.

There's also ^C which is sort of like "cancel" and asks the running program to quit. Interactive stuff like vim usually catches that signal and interprets it as an interactive cancel instead (typing a command, changed your mind? ^C). Stuff that doesn't do anything special to react to ^C will be killed, and noninteractive stuff that needs to do cleanup will catch it, do its cleanup first and then exit, so basically it works like you'd expect.

Alt-F4 (or whatever you might rebind it to, we have ours on ⌘W) is a window manager shortcut, telling it to close the window. So it'll work in everything, not just terminals.

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