That comment seemed squarely about the legacy of a system designed to benefit white men, which it was.

They just made bribes legal and made the president above the law.

In the US at least, this is false.

That doesn’t make exercise worthless for weight loss.

Sure, but trying to lose weight without exercise is still hard mode. I’ve done it with and without the exercise part.

If you’re going to get that pedantic about it though, you may as well say weight is lost in the bathroom.

Calories are burned through exercise though. Come on. You know how they’re connected.

Worth a shot. I’m on Proton Experimental. But the other major differences between our systems are OS and GPU. I’m on Kubuntu 24.04 and an RX 6800 XT with mesa drivers.

Ah, sorry, you didn’t specify. I did just test it out on my machine, and main menu and fatal blows were basically just locked at 30. If that’s not what you’re seeing, I guess I’d try verifying game files next.

I believe those cut-scenes are locked to a lower frame rate for performance and storage space reasons, on consoles especially. In other words, I don’t believe it’s a problem with your system, and it’s likely working as intended.

If you put your money in index funds, you can expect it to beat inflation by about 7-8% on average, especially over the course of a decades-long working career. It’s usually not worth it to ever look at the non-adjusted projected value.

I still haven’t figured out why people like them except to annoy everyone around them by playing the audio through their phone speakers.

Man, that was it; or at least, it doesn’t complain about IPX not being installed anymore. I didn’t know you could just make up a name for any library not listed and it would still know to override it. Thanks! I’ll run a LAN test between my desktop and Steam Deck, and if it’s all working, I’ll document it on PC Gaming Wiki and update this thread.

This is exactly what I thought was happening, and theoretically, it’s exactly what I recreated in Heroic, give or take the frame rate limit. However, while things like the controller remapping config files are clearly working, the IPX networking fix is not. For one, things like wsock32, verbatim anyway, aren’t present in the list of library overrides at all, and that list of libraries I put in the original post, that appear in the Lutris install, don’t appear in the Lutris script. I looked for some extra scripts in the github directories to see if there were other instructions that were being run outside of this script (that’s what you told me to look for, right?), but the only thing I found in there seemed to be a copy of part of this same Lutris script.

Thanks. For some reason it occurred to me to hit up the Heroic Discord but not the Lutris one.

I feel like if he were a user, he’d have been caught by now, and losing a brother (iirc) to addiction is a solid enough reason to expect sobriety of him.

Everything I’ve heard about Trump is that he’s straight edged. No drugs or alcohol.

Cable companies still did the same practice too though, and even the ones that weren’t cable providers still negotiated with the providers that if you got channel A in this tier of service, you must also get channel B, and then Disney brings in a certain amount of money per channel in a given bundle every month. No matter how you slice it, even with the problems above, what we’ve got now is better.

It just makes economic sense.

The data suggests a sharp shift in consumer behavior — far from the cable era, when viewers largely stuck with a single provider, as well as the early days of the so-called streaming wars, when people kept adding services without culling or jumping around.

Yeah, turns out when the monopolies are eliminated, people get more competition and a better deal on the consumer end. It’s why I’ll never understand people who say streaming services became as bad as cable.

One option for slowing the churn, executives think, is to bring back some element of the cable bundle by selling streaming services together. Executives believe consumers would be less inclined to cancel a package that offered services from multiple companies.

No, I’m less likely to cancel a service that’s worth what you charge for it. Be happy you got one month out of me, and if you want more, offer me more value. Putting serialized shows out week by week doesn’t do it for me either, because I’m just going to wait until the season is done to start watching it anyway.

Price sensitivity is also a factor. Americans with a streaming subscription are spending an average of $61 a month for four services, an increase from $48 a year ago, according to a new study by Deloitte. The increase was due to higher prices, not additional services. Nearly half the people surveyed said they would cancel their favorite streaming service if monthly prices went up another $5, the study said.

Mystery solved.

At least it’ll take tons of cars off the road for those common use cases.