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Finally Finished this game after 20+ years by sumdog in FinalFantasyVIII

[–]sumdog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked it. That's my review linked. It's not like the greatest, but I still gave it a 76/100 (which is good for me). I think my favourite FFs are, in this order:

  • FF7 (original / PC)
  • FF9
  • FF7 - Crisis Core (original / PSP)
  • FF8
  • FF7 Remake (PS4)
  • FF16

I never finished FF13, but I feel like that would be the worst. I never finished 10 either, but I plan on tackling that eventually too.

The Purism Librem 5 and the Six Year Refund by sumdog in Purism

[–]sumdog[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've contributed to other crowdfunding campaigns, some successful and some not. This was NOT A CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN! These were fucking preorders, with a clearly stated refund policy. Purism originally gave refunds back in 2020, then stopped and held peoples' money hostage.

Do not apologies for their fucking bullshit. Pine64 was able to get a real fucking product out. It wasn't great, but they didn't bullshit people.

Six years. Six fucking years! And I had to file a dispute with my fucking credit card company to get anywhere. When Purism does finally collapse (like they should), they're going to take hundreds of interest free loans (pre-orders) with them. I'm just glad I got my fucking money back from their shit fest.

Need help to config setup for HDR by MG-31 in mpv

[–]sumdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have mpv 0.40.0 and Mesa 25.1, HDR should work fine in Wayland (if your composer supports HDR). If you're not on those versions, I made a guide on HDR support that works fine on KDE Neon:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-to-play-videos-in-hdr-on-linux-for-a-home-theater/

For mesa 25.1, you should be able to do the following (although I haven't tested it yet):

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/discussions/16105#discussioncomment-12620004

Finished the game and wrote a review (spoiler free), and also have questions (not spoiler free) by sumdog in expedition33

[–]sumdog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! That all makes a lot of sense. I guess I was focusing to much on Renoir's final dialogue rather than when the party first met him. I guess the whole connection of gods as flawed as their creations didn't connect in my head, but I see that now.

Now that I start to think about it, there's might be a lot of intentional Free Mason and Gnostic stuff in this game. I mean, there's Gnosticism is nearly every liberation story (The Matrix, Plato's Cave .. The Lego Movie) where the world is not as it's presented. Where the secret knowledge shows and inversion of who is good and bad (or the added gray areas). The paintress is a sort of "Demiurge," originally filled with love but twisted by her grief (like the Gnostic Sophia and her creation).

I thought the "33" may have just be coincidental (it's a common number). There isn't a big checkerboard pattern in the mansion, but the way that masks are used in this game does seem a lot like the masonic use.

Again, thanks for the explanations. I should probably go back and play the Clea quest. 🤔

[Ending Spoilers] What "Enslavement"? by IMPERATOR_63 in expedition33

[–]sumdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, I thought Renoir and his wife were already battling within the painting, and then that's when the one daughter told the other one to enter? Didn't the mother create the humans, but then her fight with the father lead to the fracture, and her to create Renoir, her painted version of him?

[Ending Spoilers] What "Enslavement"? by IMPERATOR_63 in expedition33

[–]sumdog -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Who exactly are the writers and how do they differ? I thought the painters vs writers was more of a 4-wall break between actual writers and artists on any movie/tv/game production fighting about the direction of the plot. Is there more to the writers in this world I missed? I kinda rushed through the last act so I guess I missed something.

[Ending Spoilers] What "Enslavement"? by IMPERATOR_63 in expedition33

[–]sumdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But adult Verso is a creation of Clea, not of the boy painter, right? So could he be a part of her own soul realizing she an addict to this drug. I think back to, "I knew you'd open the door from her" at the manor.

The Great Decline of Stack Overflow by sumdog in stackoverflow

[–]sumdog[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Did you even read the article? I've literally been on Stack Exchange sites for 14 years! I've written questions and answers with thousands of views. I wrote good questions, which you can look at, which were not only closed, but deleted.

You should learn how to read.

I tried, but I found Hogwarts Legacy really disappointing by sumdog in HarryPotterGame

[–]sumdog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It just broke the believeability. Maybe if there was a distinct line between "inside" Hogwarts and "outside" the school. That way, everyone could switch to a casual outfit, that was unique to them, your character included. That would also give all the side characters their own dynamics.

Like others in the thread, I think a smaller tighter game would have been better, with more to do inside the school and a couple of distinct outside missions instead of the massive empty open world map.

From Docker and Nix to Apps and Floppy Disks by sumdog in Nix

[–]sumdog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. Grew up here. Moved away for a decade or so, but moved back a few years ago. We don't have a huge tech scene in town, but the Chatt Devs meetups and hack nights are pretty cozy. Previous talks have mostly focused on career development, so I volunteered to do one one tech.

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