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I think you might be overthinking my solution. I go to the vortex and then go straight left, right, up or down some distance and then drag the train tracks straight back home. If I need to expand I just go the end of the track and continue going in that direction. And for use if I’m for example in the top right quadrant I know I just have to drag my factory tracks down or left and I’m guaranteed to hit my main tracks and from there I know it goes straight into the vortex.

Oh, I don’t think it works for that. I also don’t drag tracks home. I have main lines in each direction that go straight home so I just connect my nearest main line

I did notice that but I never used it to find home. There’s a hotkey to go straight to home, I think it’s “h” by default.

Steering wheel support on Linux in general isn’t great but out of all the manufacturers Logitech wheels (at least to my knowledge) tend to get the most support and as I understand is at least usable out of the box. If you for whatever reason can’t install new-lg4ff (for example you have secure boot enabled in which case going through the process of registering the module is well beyond the capabilities of the average user) the logitech steering wheel should still work for most games but a Thrustmaster wheel would be completely unusable without the necessary module.

I don’t know if anything has changed over the last year but my personal experience with Thrustmaster is that it does not work out of the box. Maybe the T150 fares better but my T300RS needed a third party kernel module and some extra configuring in Oversteer. Had to ditch Bazzite to even get it working because the immutable nature of Bazzite made it impossible to add the module.

If I had to recommend a steering wheel for Linux I’d recommend Logitech because they tend to have the most support.

No. The message was that to solve racism you need to crack open some skulls. Racists will stop being racist when you show the some brains.

I think how New Vegas does it is way better than how Morrowind does it. Morrowind is simply so loosely scripted that the games doesn’t really care if you break it. If you look at Morrowind speedruns there are actually no story beats that you need to hit to finish the game, you can just brute force yourself to the end. But you do have to know how to brute force it because it’s not intended to be finished this way.

In New Vegas Yes Man is a deliberate design decision to let you kill whomever you want and still have the option to finish the story as it’s told. You can do your first playthrough like a maniacal murdering machine, kill everyone in your sights and still finish the game in the intended way. It makes sense from a narrative perspective, it makes sense in a gameplay way (because technically you can kill Yes Man, another one just replaces the one you killed) and it gives you excellent control over the story. You don’t have to go through all the factions to deal with them one way or another, you can just say you don’t care and go straight to the final battle. I think it’s a brilliant solution to quite a few problems that most games outright ignore.

Fuck. I originally had 19th century and thought “that’s like 1800 something but the game should be taking place somewhere in 1900s so it must be wrong” and then replaced it with 20th century. Turns out that’s not entirely true either because Arthurs story takes place in 1899.

OP has valid feelings and I doubt anyone is dismissing their feelings. What most people here are dismissing is the conclusion OP came to about their feelings, which is:

I’d rather die trying to hunt for food and learning how to survive in the woods

If the people here were a genie and granted OP their wish and sent them back into the late 20th century, they’d be dead in a week. They have very much romanticized themselves a setting that is a fairy tale and they now want that fairy tale. But the reality is that the 20th century, especially the kind Arthur Morgan lives in the game, is far from a fairy tale. I’m not OP but if I had to choose between living in the 20th century America or live in the right here and now, I’d choose here and now every single time. I’ve camped out in the woods, I’ve grown my own food, I’ve foraged for food. I’ve rolled around in mud and washed myself in a river. I wouldn’t want to do those things (and a 100 other things I’ve never even done) for the rest of my life. I’d rather have the comfort of my home and spend the weekends doing those things when I feel like it.

OP has valid feelings but it doesn’t mean they should reject the modern world. If they want to do that they can start doing that gradually. Learning how to cook meals from whatever they have in their cupboard. Learn how to camp in camping spots. Learn how to tend a garden. Learn how to forage. Learn a 100 other things and when you know how to be self-sufficient and you still feel like the urban space is pushing you down, sell your shit and buy a home in the middle of nowhere and live off the land or whatever. Just learn to be self-sufficient before you reject modernness, because the lives we live don’t really require us to survive on our skills. I imagine most people don’t even know how to cook a delicious meal because it’s far more convenient to have it brought to your doorstep. And cooking is the most basic skill you should know.

I guess technically no exploration isn’t exactly true. There is some exploration in the sense that you have an insanely huge map with different shape resources and scroll around the map until you find the shape resource you want to use. But it’s not the kind of exploration where you have to clear the fog of war to see what’s out there. And you do use trains to move resources around because some of those distances can get pretty big.

I’m sorry but being “a comrade” is not an excuse to be weird and annoying so I reject your dismissal of my wall of text. I’m already doubting your reading comprehension, don’t prove it further by not addressing the very simple questions I’m asking.

As for the rest of your comment, if you read what I’ve written you’d know I’ve already addressed half of what you’ve written and I’m aware and don’t disagree with the other half that you’ve written. Maybe you think it makes you seem smart but to me it just reeks of not listening to anything the other person says.

I 100% recommend Shapez 2. I bought it during early access but even then it felt complete enough that I got my fill of it. Imagine my surprise right now when I discover it had a 1.0 launch. It’s an exceptional factory game because it strips the genre down into the most fundamental aspects of factory building and then implements those key aspects with perfection. It’s the purest form of factory builders. No exploration, no collecting resources to build bigger factories, no time limits, no combat, very little space restrictions (99% of the time your own builds are what get in the way). You just build factories that build shapes and then you build ways to get those shapes into the vortex and that’s the entire game. Conceptually simple, elegantly designed, very customizable and can easily get very complex.

But we haven’t even started yet. Why aren’t you expanding your maximalist position to oppose capitalism? After all you’re the one who said you’re obligated to draw attention to all social injustice and corruption every time. Is capitalism not unjust? Is it not corrupt? You’d think someone who is so absolute in their ethics, to the point of accusing their otherwise allies of being an accomplice or complicit for not being 100% in opposition to the injustice, they’d have no problem taking a similar stand against capitalism. Surely someone like that, who believes they’re obligated to draw attention to the injustice every single time, would let their coworkers know with every single paycheck that some of their wage is being stolen. So why did you ignore my comment the first time around?

My guess is that you understand how weird it would be if you constantly told your coworkers they’re getting ripped off by the system. Not just weird, but I’m pretty sure your coworkers would find it pretty annoying even if they agreed on principle. But for whatever reason you think such behavior is not only acceptable online but anyone not doing that is essentially the enemy. Somehow that’s not weird? That’s not annoying everyone else? I personally don’t think so. Just like it would be weird and annoying IRL it’s weird and annoying online. And for clarification, calling Denuvo bad isn’t weird, constantly going around and calling it bad is weird. There’s a time and a place for that discussion but that time and place isn’t under every thread of a game that has Denuvo.

And before you duck again from this conversation I’ll remind you that you’re the on who started this. I preemptively said I don’t care about your defense of this little circejerk you’re doing and you still felt you’re important enough to let me know how I’m an accomplice to a supposed corporate theft. So for your own sake don’t be a bitch and stand your ground. Otherwise whatever credibility you have left goes straight out the window because you’re all bark and no bite. Come on, explain why you’d take such an absolutist stand against Denuvo but not do the same thing when it comes to opposing capitalism. Why aren’t you constantly annoying your coworkers about how their wage is being stolen?

Piefed.social has 29 comments under this thread, 21 of those comments are about Denuvo with over half of them being a variation of the “Denuvo bad”. I get it, I don’t like Denuvo either, but do we really need a “This game has Denuvo so I’m not going to buy it” comment whenever a game with Denuvo is in the news. At this point it’s become another circlejerk. I thought we’re here because we love gaming but it feels like some people are just looking for an excuse to complain.

I can already see this not being well received (considering how popular hating on Denuvo is) so I’m going to save everyone some trouble. I don’t care about your need to defend your circlejerk in front of me. I know where I stand on Denuvo and to me that topic is a dead horse, I’m not going to beat it so I’m not going to respond. I might respond if the comment is about how it impacts the community here, but my stance on that is very simple. We’re intelligent people here, we know how to check whether a game has Denuvo or not, lettings others to the game has Denuvo is not some PSA and calling people the problem for buying a game with Denuvo hurts the community more than it helps.

The pinnacle of steampunk power sources, the nuclear reactor.

Do you know what would’ve kept Trump away? Absolute low-hanging fruits like fixing the healthcare system and affordability. Democrats could’ve taken a “what’s a social democracy” checklist, put half of them as their campaign promises and had a landslide victory. The democrats didn’t need to put Trump in prison to prevent him, all they needed to do was give the people what they need and they couldn’t even do that because it would hurt their corporate overlords.

I used to be critical of sitouts but over time I’ve grown more sympathetic towards them. Imagine voting out Trump with the expectation that Trump is going to come swinging next election and democrats will prepare to make sure fascism doesn’t get a foothold in America. And then for the next 4 years you see nothing being done to prevent fascism and what worse, you see democrats capitulate to fascists and normalize fascism by moving to the right themselves. I too would get jaded about voting when there’s no “I don’t want fascists” option. What failed America weren’t the sitouts. It’s the decades of political apathy letting corporations take over politics, which has led to republicans going full fascist and democrats turning into controlled opposition.

Blaming the sitouts isn’t going to solve anything because what are they supposed to do? Voting for democrats isn’t going to get rid of the fascists, it’s only going to delay until the democrats themselves turn openly fascist. Obviously they shouldn’t vote for the republican party because that’s a lost cause. Voting current third party candidates is kinda pointless because of how the political system works. So what’s the solution you expect from the sitouts? I’dsay sitouts have nothing to do until there’s a schism in the democratic party and the progressives split from the establishment democrats. Then sitouts should vote for the progressives and I imagine the vast majority of them will because then they’ll actually have someone willing to represent them.