I would generally disagree. It happens, but it’s still pretty uncommon. Kernel level anti-cheat doesn’t stop cheating, but it is invasive and a massive privacy/security risk. Maybe particular titles have higher rates of cheating, like cod or battlefield, which I don’t play, but I’ve yet to run into any obvious cheating in Deadlock, SF6 or Guilty Gear Strive. I put a couple hundred hours into dota 2 without meeting a single obvious cheater. Team Fortress 2 had a botting problem for a long time that was pretty much resolved without the introduction of kernel level anti-cheat.

For Doom 3, it does work with the original engine but I do recommend playing using the dhewm3 source port. It supports linux natively and has high resolution and framerate support.

If she absolutely needs desktop microsoft office, you can always consider trying winapps. It runs a full windows VM but makes the applications show up on the linux desktop like they were native applications. https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

I don’t think that’s necessarily an issue, it’s powerful enough to play AAA titles. The price is the biggest issue at the moment, and it’s not really valve’s fault that pc parts are skyrocketing in price.

It’s a console-like form factor, and is pretty powerful. Most people I know, especially the ones interested in the steam machine, are intimidated by / don’t feel they have the time and knowledge needed to build a PC yourself. I see this less as a device intended for PC users/power users, and more targeted towards people leaving console ecosystems. It seems like a really good device for that, too.

Labels exist to help you express your identity, not to define who you are. You have plenty of time to experiment, try out new labels and see if you think they fit. And if they don’t seem to fit, that’s okay too.

Been using Nvidia on Linux for a long time and it mostly works just fine. On occasion a game doesn’t work right, in which case I wait a while on that particular game until it does work.

Given it’s not including competitive multiplayer, I’d be surprised if they included anti-cheat in this release.

Whatever seems fun. If you’re not trying to do high difficulty raids/dungeons, and are just playing on a normal difficulty most people are pretty patient and supportive in my experience. Each role has it’s own responsibilities, DPS is the most straightforward to people new to MMO’s imo.

If you’re buying a game off an online storefront, there will always be some level of tracking. That in mind, what you probably want is something like GOG or Itch.io where you just download and play the games. You don’t need any launchers, you just download the installer for whichever game you bought and that’s yours, no DRM. I think the only way you’ll truly be able to have absolutely zero tracking, you’d have to be buying only games on console, bought in person with cash, with the console exclusively offline. In this case, if you’re on anything past the PS3 generation, you’ll be greeted with a lot of games that will not function without downloading an update. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for something like Steam to track some data though. I’ve got no issue with it tracking how long I’ve played a game, or tracking what kinds of games I buy.

There’s a lot of accessibility options including the ability to change the speed the entire game runs at outside of the player character.

I have a feeling this isn’t going to work out the way Microsoft thinks it’s going to work out.

I see people making these kinds of arguments, claiming that they only eat ethically sourced meat, eggs, etc. That they eat “fresh local wildlife”, and that somehow that makes it better. I don’t see a lot of merit behind that though, even if it did lead to less animals losing their lives, somehow I highly doubt these people live on just local wildlife and produce. They legitimately never take a trip to a restaurant? Never buy food from a grocery store? I’ve heard this from the mouths of people that regularly eat McDonald’s. As far as I can tell, it’s a way for them to feel good about their food choices, and not much else.

If their actual concern is the amount of lives lost to agriculture, why aren’t they making arguments in favor of better agriculture practices that are less harmful to wildlife, like reducing use of pesticides? Are they under the impression that we can feed our entire population on exclusively meat from wild animals?

Essentially - people who claim overpopulation is killing the planet, therefore we need to remove the undesirables to fix it. I wouldn’t argue it’s the most common position.

I just… Don’t care. I bought horizon zero dawn, thought it wasn’t good, and never even finished it. I haven’t bothered with any of their other single player pc releases. There’s so many good games already out on PC.

Yes, I that’s because it’s a horror game

Look into the concept of a gift economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

Communities would have social norms revolving around the exchange of goods without expectation of sone kind of payment. You do what you can to provide for your community, and in turn your community provides to you as well.

Eating vegan doesn’t make you a good person. Shit’s complex and there truly is no ethical consumption under capitalism. But - being leftist and not being vegan is suspending those leftist values selectively towards animals. I think that we ought to care about stopping the subjugation and abuse of both humans and other species. There’s no such thing as a zero-harm life, but making conscious choices to reduce the harm we cause isn’t something born out of a simple worldview.

A couple months back I picked up a copy of Resident Evil 2 for the N64 at a retro shop nearby. Honestly a great way to play the game. I don’t really buy modern releases physically these days though since I play on PC.