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Happy New Year!

Finally - What are your gaming resolutions for 2025?

Mine's simple, just play more games!

I also want to clear out some of my backlog. I'm starting with trying to finish at least 5 games.

Merry Christmas!!

They only gaming thing I got was the new Indiana Jones game. I'll play it once I finish The Last of Us II.

I hope you have a wonderful vacation time!

Thanks, you too!

So it sounds like you're going to have a lot of fun!    What's in the agenda and what are you starting with 1st?

First on the list is to install Fedora and then give it a proper test drive to see if I like it. If I do, I'll dive in fully and start using that machine to code a little bit. If I don't, then might try another Ubuntu distro for it. I've read that Ubuntu is actually the distro that is used by the Android Open Source Project so might even just use that.

After Christmas I'll be updating some of my laptops and might install Elementary OS on one of them or if I really like Fedora, install that on it as well.

I'm also thinking of trying an Arch distro but not sure yet. I think I'll keep it simple for now.

I was hoping to turn one of these old machines as a file server but Christmas has my wallet tapped at the moment. Will be buying some hard drives later and then installing a Linux server or TrueNAS. I picked up a COMPTIA Networking book for cheap and plan on teaching myself some of that as well. I was I had a whole month off, lol. 

Tomorrow is my last work day of the year. I'll have two weeks off and will be using this time to try out Fedora Workstation and probably one other distro. I have two old Dell XPS machines that can not be upgraded to Windows 11.

I'm going to see if I like them as well as try to do some very basic development. I've been wanting to teach myself to code again and I think this will be a good time and I hear good things about Linux being developer friendly.

I'm also going to bust out my Raspberry Pi that my wife got for me a few years ago and tinker with it.

 

What happened to first-party and console exclusive games?

They don't make enough money anymore.

EDIT: To elaborate more, it's basically what I said in my original reply. Games are so expensive to make these days that locking them down to a single console is actually a money losing proposition.

Just look at all of the publishers/developers who have gone back to Steam despite the fact that Epic provides a better cut of the money. You have to reach as many customers as possible to make your money back and net a profit.

The only 1st party that actually bet on the right horse was Nintendo. They stopped chasing the fidelity train. Sony and Microsoft are stuck with having to produce even more powerful hardware to entice customers to keep coming back. Gamers want the "best" graphics so that's who they have to cater to. And when you're chasing graphics, your budget skyrockets.

Has anyone else watched this yet? I have to say, this is the best TV series based on a comic book since Daredevil Season 1. It's soooo good. I'm not a colin Farell fan but he's nailing it.

I'm selfishly hoping that Matt Reeve's The Batman becomes canon in James Gunn's DCU.

Ohhhh, I see what you mean now. The Zelda one seems cool.

I'm looking into something like this case:  https://amzn.to/4gztaB

Doesn't look like your link works, so can't see which one you chose.

I honestly haven't seen a case that holds a high amount of carts. The one I have holds 8 total.

This one looks like it can hold 20 carts. It's only $17 before tax.

https://a.co/d/2DisDBL

Watched them both and it's a good show already right off the bat. The cast is great so far. I like the theme they got going with old TV show tropes.

What did everyone think of

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Wolverine's mask?

I thought it was just okay but people seem to be split. They either hated it or they loved it.

@BLUEVOODU Haven't jumped on the Fedora train yet. I did not pick up a 7600. I'm now contemplating if I should hold out for the new GPUs that are supposed to be coming out later this year/early next year.

I'm still undecided on which flavor of Fedora I'm going to install. A part of me is interested in the Atomic versions, so I'm thinking Fedora Silverblue. I just upgraded my wife's PC so I have an old Intel machine now that I might just use for testing each distro out.

I'll look into Rocky Linux. Seems promising. I might just have Rocky on one PC and then Fedora on another.

I'm pretty excited about it. I think I'm going to purchase a Radeon RX 7600 for this rig so that I have all AMD hardware for Linux.

There are a couple I want to try... but time has been soaked up by work and life... life stages are interesting for sure.  However, I also want to dive into Kali and some of its uses for testing.  I've wanted to do this over the last 5 years, but work and studying has taken most of time there.  I'm just going to pull the trigger at some point.   Of course, I'm looking at a potential masters next year... tldr, just trying to prep for the next 15-25 years.

Wow, good luck on getting your masters. That sounds awesome!

I'm so happy this is real now. I like the way they setup the DS screens across a 16:9 monitor. That was one of the things that kept me from emulating these on PC. I've never really played any of these since they became expensive in the second hand market.

I'm hoping Symphony of the Night is next.

Thread resurrection time!

I've been using Zorin 16 for the past couple of years now. It's been a pleasurable experience and have not felt any need to jump back to a Windows machine for daily general use.

However, I'm planning on jumping over to Fedora. I don't need to be bleeding edge but I do occasionally update hardware whenever there is a good sale so I would like to have a distro that eventually gets support for it within a few months and not years. There's also some gaming software that I would like to use (eg. MangoHUD) that doesn't seem to play well with Ubuntu based distros.

@BLUEVOODU Are you still using Fedora at all? Any tips or things to think about before I make the plunge?

Wow... this was one of the better movies I've seen in a long time! @CreepinDeth

Awesome!!

What was your favorite part?

Mine was...

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Definitely Gambit. I loved that they didn't make it a serious character and played with the accent. It was also awesome to see Gambit in action. I wish X-Men was already in the MCU.

Did you see the video I posted?  Everyone went crazy on the doomsday announcement!

I did and just posted my reaction. 

I ended up going to the first showing on Sunday (10:30AM.) Not many people in there and it was a 3D showing as well which I didn't realize at first. I highly recommend that time frame if you can.

Although I'm excited for this movie, I'm still not sure what to make of this move. I want to be excited but it all depends on how they utilize him. I've been waiting for a proper Victor Von Doom for a long time now. It seems like I might have to wait a little more still.

Will watch it and see how this turns out. I'm hoping the FF4 movie explains it more.

Just came back from watching this movie and it is top 5 movie for me instantly. Even though they crammed a lot of stuff in this movie, none of it felt rushed. It was so much fun and I can't wait for it to come out on Blu-ray because I need to own it.

Looking forward to Avengers: Doomsday now. 

Happy Birthday!!

Finished Fallout. It was a solid show, so I'm glad there will be a season 2. I definitely recommend it even if you don't like the games.

Started on the final season of Cobra Kai only  to learn that this is only the first 3rd of the final season. How do you split up a season into 3 parts? Not a fan of that.

Finally watched this.

The singing planet section was okay. It didn't get to the point of annoyance for me. Seems they knew when to stop it. I feel like this movie was aimed for general audiences and that's why this was in it. My other theory is that because of Kamala, they tried to squeeze in an homage to Bollywood.

Overall, it's a movie with a few good moments but held back by a bad script. There are three main characters here and it definitely needed a longer runtime because of that. As others have mentioned, feels a bit rushed. The movie didn't get to breathe.

I give it a 6/10. Not horrible and I'd rather watch this than Thor: The Dark World but could've been better if it was treated with more respect.

In regards to the end credits scene:

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Looks like Monica ended up in the Fox version of X-Men (ew, poor Monica). I got a feeling this scene and Deadpool 3 will tie in together somehow. I think we'll see Hugh Jackman one more time as Wolverine besides D3.

I've only watched the first video and my reply is only about that one. It's not a bad video. Some good points but I would argue some of his reasoning is a bit subjective. I personally don't think it's the worse gen. I highly prefer it to the 360/PS3 days due to the fact that we don't have consoles with exotic CPUs.

But I think he might not be fully seeing why gaming is the way it is today, even though he kind of touches on it. The reason is capitalism. A lot of game companies have investors. They're not really independent like they used to be. Making games is not just hard, but incredibly expensive these days. If a game fails to make their sales projections, then you see layoffs and project cancellations.

This is why you see a bunch of Fortnite/CoD/R6/Overwatch clones coming out. Actually, it's not just capitalism, it's also gamers who created this themselves. Gamers these days want instant gratification. They want games that are constantly updated with more content.

See, developers/publishers are not just competing for money, they are competing for gamer's time/attention as well. These battle royale/multiplayer games are constantly at the top of the most time played on PC and console. If gamers are only playing one game, then other games are going to fail and that starts a domino effect. And if they're also putting money into these by purchasing battle packs (or whatever you call them) then other games are going to have a tough time competing. Gamers only have so much money to put into their hobby.

It's a tough industry. Many are losing their jobs because of failed sales projections, so you see remake after remake coming out because those will usually bring in a little more money than a brand new IP.

I would argue the consoles themselves aren't the issue. I'm glad the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S exist because they are not held back by crappy Jaguar CPUs like the PS4/XBone. It's just that we are now in an era where the industry has trapped itself into having to produce ridiculous profits to survive.

Everything that I want is still way too much. Lots of games big games these days are staying around $30 even after a few years.

I'll be sticking to my monthly Humble Bundle subscription. Steam sales just don't hit like they used to.

Finished both the original X-Men: The Animated Series and X-Men '97.

X-Men '97 is an absolute must watch if you enjoy Marvel in general. It's probably the best thing to come out of their studios in a long time.

Went back and rewatched Season 1 of the '90's X-Men animated series in preparation for X-Men '97 (which is fantastic, btw.)

I also went back and rewatched Season 1 of Daredevil. Still holds up. I'm now onto Season 2 of both shows.

Happy Birthday!!

I started this game a while back but stopped. Meant to go back to it. It's from the same people who worked on The Walking Dead Season 1 from Telltale. I definitely liked what I did play. I had about 4 hours into it I think?

@CreepinDeth

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yeah... I'm not sure.  I personally chalked it up to his psychopathic nature... and seeing something to "use."  IE seeing her as an object.  I'm not sure he really took to her... but it's more of a control to keep her close because he sees her potential.

Yeah, I can see that. Makes sense.

I did not watch Daredevil either.  I See it on Disney+ ... but haven't cracked it yet.  A couple of those other side series were Meh and we turned them off.

I definitely recommend it. The best of the Netflix shows by far and now that it's officially canon I'm going to rewatch it again.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. That first fight scene gave me nostalgia from the first season of Daredevil.

The only thing I'm kind of still wondering about though is

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Why does Kingpin care so much about Maya? Seems like he just instantly took to her but why? Maybe I missed something in Hawkeye.

I think it could've used one more epic fight scene somewhere in the middle of the season but still a solid show.