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I liked it, pretty cool for a first mission. Sad to say I also got the foyer lights bug, but I figure it's something which should be solvable even if it requires a different light implementation. Can't think of many other things to say except that (and I get it's needed for gameplay) Sally must really be bored if she insists on checking an empty (as far as she knows) dining room on a regular basis. Maybe give her a chair in the kitchen or something just to break up the actions she takes.

Got around to playing this mission. I enjoyed it for the most part, although I did have to deal with some pretty terrible frame rate issues as already mentioned before. I was a fool for trying the expert difficulty with all 16 cheese locations - should have left that for a replay and tried something easier, so that's on me. I did enjoy the dynamic hostility system and appreciated how it was clear when it started and ended. But yeah, those frame rate issues were very annoying. Still liked the exploration though, just wish I chose an easier skill level first.

Maybe. I'd think to think it's more that Wayland has matured to the point where enough of the essentials work, that the larger desktop environments like KDE and GNOME can now simplify matters and streamline their work on supporting just one session type. There's still plenty of things that need improvement (remembering window positions without workarounds being an obvious example) but it seems like the idea is that if people are only using Wayland from now on, improvements should come around much, much faster compared to when it was optional and people weren't using it because X11 was more mature. KDE's announcement certainly motivated me to move to it for example. Interesting. The Sneaky Upgrade was basically all I needed with the installer defaults. But anything that improves Linux supports is always welcome, since I've only tested it a bit so far to make sure it works.

It took absolutely ages of puttering around until I was comfortable but I think I can finally say I've moved to Linux for good. My current distro is Kubuntu 25.10. I was using 24.04 but when I heard KDE was going to be moving to Wayland exclusively I figured I should experiment with a newer version of KDE and get used to how Wayland works as well as its quirks, which I've mostly got a handle on now. It really does help that I only play singleplayer games these days which Proton handles really well. I use https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher so I can run anything including GOG games without needing Steam along with my own game launching scripts, because that's how I roll. And of course native TDM works great. EDIT: For what it's worth the old Thief games (via GOG installers) along with their respective fix patches work really well without any issue.

I'm getting older and more conscious of this fact. Stupid muscles. Oh and my experimentations into Linux for a primary OS have been rather productive. Oh and somehow I've been so absent from TDM that I literally didn't notice the return of certain members... which is good! (that they returned, not that I've been neglecting my TDM).

Yeah dhewm3 is probably the definitive way to play Doom 3 on modern systems these days I think. The high frame rate build is still under development (https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3/pull/585) but even with occasional glitches it is so much nicer on a high refresh rate monitor than being stuck at 60 Hz. Also I never played the BFG edition so I'm not in a position to compare audio, but the switch to OpenAL in dhewm3 did at least improve the audio from the original game which had an issue in occasionally skipping playing a sound sample in certain situations (e.g. firing the machine/chain gun).

Oh man I've just started continuing this mission after a leave of absence. I got distracted by shiny AAA titles for some reason and have now gone back to classic TDM, something I was intended to do anyway. Unfortunately this distractionary phase seems to have lasted for... a while, since the last played date for the mission was apparently February 2023. It also appears I'm out of date as there are a ton of new missions I've been ignoring. It's almost embarrassing, but now I'm ready for it and I'm reminded just how epic in scale this mission actually is.

True, I have nothing but respect for Ross for at least giving it a go. I remember seeing in one of his videos how he said he didn't really want to necessarily spearhead this project, but he had to at least try something because he was getting more and more frustrated about seeing games die with no legal recourse for those who purchased them. His motivation was that no-one else was pursuing anything similar so he wanted to try himself and chose a particular window of opportunity (discontinuation of The Crew) as being the time to do it. He's also stated how even if the whole thing ends up going nowhere, he's at least satisfied he gave it his best go. Ross said he'd be more bothered if he didn't try something, basically. Even if the law doesn't change, this whole process might help provide some clarity in terms of what rights people have (or don't have).

Nah it's OK, I'm not that sensitive. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see if much happens. I assume with the extra votes it'll probably hit the threshold for the number of real legitimate votes required to progress, but I have concerns it'll not be treated by lawmakers as a serious topic due to the focus being on gaming, despite it actually being more about consumer rights.

I post for the first time since January with a detailed response about an important(ish) topic and I get a laugh reaction. In all seriousness though, if one doesn't like DRM they have to be careful posting nowadays since a lot of people have a lot of time invested in games and platforms with DRM of various sorts, and any issues you raise with the game/platform these people will take as personal attacks against themselves, even though it was never intended. Not so bad here, but reddit and Steam forums? Good God. Bruh we both live in Australia, it's not that bad here with regards to the authorities most of the time. I mean it does depend where you live (I'm in SA) but comparing our cops to those in the US is like using a cheat code.

I don't know if I'd call it a necessity given places like GOG exist. I might tolerate some DRM so long as it's crackable or there's a plan in place to remove it at some point. I read somewhere that Denuvo has moved to a subscription model which has motivated publishers to remove it after a while once its value has diminished beyond a certain amount. I think this is the reason why games sometimes release an update that removes Denuvo after a while - most of the bulk purchases would have been made by that point so there's no value in continuing payments for it. Unfortunately it's taken a lifetime for me to accept that I have very little influence in most matters and ultimately the only decisions I can make are those for myself. If I wish to boycott a company or product or anyone that is doing something I disagree with, that is a personal decision and I cannot expect others to do the same. Even if it means your hobby or interest ends up going to shit because of the indifference of others, it sucks but all you can either do is navigate the shit or do something else. We must follow our own value systems, even when there's an incredible amount of money invested in an industry that is continually pressuring us to not do so (you MUST play this game, you MUST buy this console, you're missing out! FOMO, etc).

If you downloaded the mission via the in-game downloader recently, you probably acquired the version that was updated to work for the 2.13 beta. It's one of the few missions for which the update is known to break in 2.12. As per all the discussion above, look at @stgatilov's post for the previous version known to work with 2.12.

Quick question - I notice the majority of missions seem to have updates now. I'm assuming this is to support 2.13 in some way, but will updating the missions cause them to have issues and become incompatible whilst still running 2.12?