I’m not really sure how to put it into words. I think the words I’m looking for are a dependence vs. an addiction.
Dependence is like withdrawals and stuff from the chemical, while addiction is his brain is hooked on the effect that comes from taking it
My thought was Kratom. My dad takes it to help his depression, lately though I think it’s turned into an addiction. I think it’s more of a personal addiction though. Like getting addicted to the effect of pills rather than the pill itself
With the game’s narrative on being a meta commentary on the creative process given physical form sometimes, the idea of trading places feels highly appropriate. I love all the little layers this game has going on with its narrative. It feels like you can dissect at many different levels
I had noticed that too with the lines. There’s so many little tiny details in the game. It really feels like they paid attention to every corner of the game.
What matters is you’re enjoying yourself. But yeah, remedy always knocks it out of the ball park, especially in story. They’re one of my favorite studios for that alone
That’s how I first played it. It… wasn’t a great experience. It’s tolerable if you adjust the graphics right but it wasn’t pretty and it still got pretty choppy in Cauldron Lake specifically
It’s one of my favorites of all time. I just wish it was on Steam for easier access
There’s a deer that pops out and scares you a little in the second one. It’s not too big of a jumpscare. But I made my friend play it and the deer scared the shit out of him
Ah. Damn. That sucks. The lack of video options are one of the few things I never liked about console gaming
It really is. I’ve got a whole stack of screenshots from past playthroughs. It’s somewhere around 1000 lol.
Could the motion sickness maybe be Frame Gen or DLSS/FSR? I had a friend who couldn’t use those because they made him severely motion sick during movement
I’m playing with enhanced graphics on. But besides that it still looks great imo on original graphics. The only glaring issue I have with them is some Geometry has this glaring “Jaggies” thing going on with the texture. You see it a bit on forge a bit think. Or Halo 2’s doors in the Arbiter
As an adult, I’m thankful to have a group of 5 that I can usually count on to be there right now. I know there will probably be a day where I won’t have that, so it makes me treasure having them more right now
Ooh. You bringing up your Fedora issues reminded me of when I dual booted Ubuntu Unity and Windows for a while on my laptop. I had the exact same issue on there
The screenshots for Halo always have a unique quality to them, especially Reach and 3. At this point I need to challenge myself to make a Halo screenshot that doesn’t feel Halo-y lmao
The grind is definitely noticeable looking back. Is this the only one with a lot of grinding?
Claptrap alone makes it for me lol. Jack though i want to try playing as
I have a hypothesis that it was some niche hardware compatibility issue, because streaming was that machines bare minimum. It had a 32 bit dual core CPU, an iGPU, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 500 GB HDD. All this was in the year 2020 and this PC was made in 2008, so suffice to say it wasn’t winning any awards.
Like i said though, this is a hypothesis, so it’s entirely possible it was just Ubuntu deciding it wanted to freak out on me.
How are the games? My friend was telling me he was willing to lend me his Virtual Game Card to try it out when i talked about emulating the original or playing the 3DS version. it was making me consider tracking down my switch
I’ve hopped around. The 3 main ones I’ve touched though are:
All of which are the Stable Versions. I believe Bazzite and CachyOS are both Rolling Releases which would explain the issues. I don’t think Ubuntu is as far as i know which makes it’s storage issue especially interesting.
I also have an issue with Debian on my media server where despite telling it everywhere possible not to go to sleep, it decides it wants to go to sleep anyways. But i don’t really consider that under these same issues because that’s a media server and i expect it to be a little more “Tinkery” than my Main use PCs.
Is Kratom an opioid? I’ve never had any plans to even consider it, but I had no idea it was one. Those issues you described though make a lot of sense on how he got hooked. He’s never had good self control and it’s easily available where I am