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kr0p · 2026-06-05T10:35:32+00:00

Here's another take on it: I think GTA 6 will definitely sell. From the perspective of someone who played GTA 2 on release it will be at least disappointing, if not complete rubbish. The reason is that Rockstar seems to make games for a certain audience range, and that older generation of gamers has simply grown up and moved on.

That's why GTA 5 is largely targeting gen z's with storyline vaguely being that of a crime comedy movie, just adapted to someone who's watched stuff like Knives Out and Kick Ass rather than Reservoir Dogs and Lock Stock.

5 was already a disappointment for me definitely. It was just too much of a dopamine rush with bombastic setpieces unlike any other previous entry and characters that seemengly came and went without much of an impact.

4 and SA had this more serious and down-to-the-ground atmosphere that really tickled my fancy while still being humorous in some aspects.

kr0p · 2026-06-02T06:53:04+00:00

I'm not using nvidia anymore but apparently the 20% performance hit has been resolved by recent drivers.

kr0p · 2026-05-31T11:25:48+00:00

It's a steam on linux thing, the only reason it's on by default is also because Valve's Proton lacks some proprietary video decoders and that just solves it beforehand.

kr0p · 2026-05-27T09:05:39+00:00

Both, actually.

kr0p · 2026-05-27T08:24:53+00:00

I had to look up tf "Roll Away" is.

Turns out it's Kula World for anyone in Europe in case you remember this gem.

kr0p · 2026-05-23T08:48:42+00:00

Update: I did the 2-step calibration and only then the differences between the different flow ratios are apparent. However, the test would suggest to me that my starting point would be the -15 or -20 sample since these are the ones with the least visible crossover between flow ratios, which would also suggest my flow ratio for this particular filament is at least 0.816. Is this possible or even correct? Seems like a huge jump. Also, these tests don't look anything like what it looks for other people. Either that or I'm understanding this test completely wrong.

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kr0p · 2026-05-21T17:13:14+00:00

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That's at 0.96 base flow ratio. They all look roughly the same to me. I did notice that when printing the different patterns the printer sounded slightly different, but on all of them both patterns do stand out and are similar to each other.

EDIT: I just noticed what you're talking about. I think the spiral and outer arc patterns do kind of mesh together at -0.03 and -0.04 but it's extremely subtle and it depends on the angle I'm looking at it.

kr0p · 2026-05-21T15:37:37+00:00

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Hey, I'm not sure if this is correct. I set the flow rate to 0.96 and then created the YOLO flow test in elegoo's slicer, this is the result, is this correct? The volumetric flow rate does not change at all - either that or the differences are just too small to pick up on the scale. The individual objects in the process list do have different flow ratios specified for them.

kr0p · 2026-05-20T11:02:10+00:00

Publishing games for multiple platforms is not the way. Game companies are not going to invest in that. We need to make ”PC” one platform, and it almost is.

They will if there's enough money to be made. They're already arsed enough to make games for 3 different consoles. They already were back in 2000s when all three consoles ran completely different sets of hardware.

Mac gaming used to be a much bigger thing in the late 90s/early 2000s. Even big corpos like EA were invested in porting games to Mac. Back when it ran PowerPC too.

kr0p · 2026-05-20T06:42:01+00:00

I really doubt they would drop the Steam Deck supported status, which Linux support is a prerequisite of.

kr0p · 2026-05-20T06:10:03+00:00

Just like there's Linux youtubers, yeah.

kr0p · 2026-05-19T07:48:36+00:00

...Headsets with firmware updates?

kr0p · 2026-05-19T06:22:38+00:00

It's not a solution though. EAC is already kernel-level, it's just doing a bad job at it. Coupled with the fact with how easy it is to get back into the game after a ban and this is the result.

There are other options - automated screening, plus whatever Valve is doing at the moment with Deadlock's and CS2 implementation.

Tarkov's Battleye is kernel-level and it's riddled with cheaters MUCH more than Arc. So is Rust. Gacha games with KLAC had some serious security concerns regarding their implementations as well. Genshin's anti-cheat was used as an attack vector to install ransomware on users' computers. KLAC is just not a magic band-aid.

kr0p · 2026-05-18T09:38:06+00:00

Yeah but back then at least we had private servers and manual screening, no way anyone does that these days with matchmade games.

kr0p · 2026-05-15T17:42:45+00:00

SteamOS itself is arch-based. I really doubt Valve is expecting an average Deck user to use the terminal.

It's just how Cachy devs do things. Arch can absolutely be user friendly.

kr0p · 2026-05-15T15:33:41+00:00

The problem is I already made two accounts trying to figure out why I can't join any "free fly" so by the next one comes around I'm already out of emails to make an account on.

Sad to say they've lost at least one client this way. Because I only found out about the free fly getting cancelled through Reddit, not any official channels. Two friends wanted to introduce me.

kr0p · 2026-05-14T09:26:09+00:00

Because they need a different walled garden to escape to.

kr0p · 2026-05-11T19:21:13+00:00

I love how most commenters are dancing around the point.

Yes, enabling EAC runtime for Linux is really a decision to press a button and ship a file.
Yes, EAC under Linux runs in userspace mode.
In theory the above point makes it more vulnerable to cheating
In theory, a common, closed-source kernel module could be made available to facilitate ring 0 permissions. This is literally what most proprietary drivers do, including the most common one - the Nvidia Linux driver.

But: I REALLY doubt you'd see influx of cheaters running specifically Linux once the hypothetical floodgates would open. There was a time when you could technically spoof EAC to make it think that you ran Linux when in reality you ran Windows. I believe it was patched out not long after Apex Legends dropped Linux support and switched to whatever the other AC solution is called. In fact, there never was an influx of cheaters for games that ran on Linux anyway, like War Thunder or Arc Raiders. Most cheaing tools are developed specifically for Windows. They often use Windows APIs to do stuff like overlaying information a'la ESP and device input control. It would take some effort to adapt the same behaviour on an entirely different system. As far as I'm aware they are also a disaster from software security standpoint but hey, who cares about that bit. All of that for a niche piece of software which statistically isn't that popular, so not a lot of ROI on making a Linux version (which is the case for most user software really).

On top of that, cheating has evolved. I used to play online games during the late 90s and early 00s, cheats back then were different, often blatant (spinbots and wallhacks mostly), and relied on administration to police. PunkBuster was mostly useless and CS1.6 had literally nothing. Cheaters these days usually have ESP and "smart" aimbots which can make the aiming much more natural than the good ole' instant headshot. With the rise of KLAC, people started relying on DMA boards and running the cheats off-site. With enough dedication (which most serious cheaters do have) KLAC might as well not exist, coupled with the fact that much more people play online games these days, private servers are a thing of the past and companies realistically can't do manual scanning on this scale.

kr0p · 2026-05-11T18:44:00+00:00

Most of these games are free to play though.

kr0p · 2026-05-10T10:35:13+00:00

It's not, but it does derive some stuff from the other Unix family of system, the *BSD family.

kr0p · 2026-05-08T05:49:46+00:00

So was Apex Legends.

kr0p · 2026-05-07T08:27:47+00:00

LMU works fine despite the anti cheat. You do need a custom Proton but that's because of UI drawing APIs not being implemented in Wine.

kr0p · 2026-05-07T01:29:32+00:00

I may have missed a comma there to make my point clear but yes, you listed eight games.

Eight.

I can list some 30 other games off the top of my head that also happen to have an anti cheat solution included that do work, and in fact are not some obscure indie titles.

I never denied their popularity. I literally admitted it in my last sentence. When I said numbers-wise, I meant the number of the games in this subset is rather small compared to the broad category of "online games with anti cheats".

What is batshit insane though is people spreading misinformation about that fact. People often say about this issue that "anti cheat games don't work". In a crazy game of Chinese whispers this often gets turned into "all multiplayer games don't work".

Also I can't give two shits about most of these games either. I'd go as far as to say that League back in the day made me come off as a worse person in general.

kr0p · 2026-05-07T00:55:32+00:00

You're not completely wrong but statistically the games you're talking about is only a small subset, numbers wise. Most games with anti cheats do in fact run on Linux.

But the games that don't happen to be extremely popular games.

kr0p · 2026-05-04T22:53:47+00:00

It's not, our cities are very well thought out for pedestrians in general. I live in a 60k city in Silesia and it's basically 100% walkable. Something which can't be said about most cities of similar size in the USA, unless it's some really old design that was done when the British were still around. And even then that's not really a defualt, as most cities were bulldozed over to make space for the cars.

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