My daughter watched the ‘live on Jools Holland’ version of this about 3000 times.

I think you’ll find nearly every significant FOSS project will have American contributors software in its development. Typically, anyone who can code and wants to contribute can do so.

What are you talking about being downvoted for that. Ubuntu is not well-liked and switching it out is a common suggestion.

Mint didn’t really see any sort of popularity until around 2010 as I remember.

I’m aware it’s initial release was earlier (surprised it was exist in 06!), but the reality of those times is that Ubuntu was still building itself up let alone Mint getting traction yet.

I didn’t know these two girls because they were a few years older, but I knew other kids who did know them. Wasn’t good.

We’d grab our bikes and ride across town. If they saw our bikes were gone they knew we’d be back later.

After the abduction and murder of two local girls, this wasn’t so accepted anymore. Kids were still out and about, but you’d get grilled about where you go, who you’re with, where are you coming home. You were supposed to be at someone’s house, mum would call and make sure that’s where you were. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bega_schoolgirl_murders

I don’t see any kids out around town anymore now though. Just the ones that walk from the bus stop to their house after school. That might just say more about todays youth culture though.

Ubuntu, Knoppix and MEPIS? I first used Ubuntu in 2006, but it was still very immature then. I didn’t really know much about any other Debian derivatives.

The other big one that was popular was Mandrake but that was rpm based, and a bit later PClinuxOS which was Mandrake based. I didn’t think Debian derivatives were much of a thing then aside from Ubuntu.

I love it. Even GEMS stuff people always complain about - Chakan has some of my favourite vgm ever.

To me, the SNES was terrible sounding. Awful muffled music, or some really good composition but then the SNES puts so much reverb on it that’s all you could hear. It’s not all bad, but mostly. Especially the Final Fantasy games sounded very nice.

Any project is beneficial if someone is passionate about doing it.

The “this person shouldn’t work on this project, they should work on something that benefits me” line is selfish as hell.

If the projects you see aren’t the projects you want, then DIY. But don’t tell people they wasted their time because you don’t want to use their software.

Looks like he’s in good spirits at least.

I genuinely liked Avalon teaming with Cutler back when they did that. I thought it would have been cool to see them rack up a string of wins over some enhancement talent after losing so much. Maybe show them being able to get on the same page and hold their own in a decent midcard challenge.

I just opened Bottles and clicked to run the executable. Not quite, I manually set the launch options to disable video and set 1024x768.

But aside from that, clicked run executable and I’m in and playing:

https://i.postimg.cc/jdByG0Jm/IMG-3852.jpg

EDIT: without disabling the videos, they play but you can’t skip them and then the game crashes afterwards. But from what I heard that also occurs on windows? It was a windows user saying it needs to launch with no video.

For posterity, the launch options for LEGO racers under wine: -novideo -horzres 1024 -vertres 768

Is that an actual quote from the show? My mum used to watch it, but I never did.

Are you implying that no younger bands are introspective, or share their thoughts in the world via their songs, because your favourite genre isn’t popular?

Seems like a very bad take.

Old games are significantly easier to run.

I look up old games I want to play and see just complaints about how hard it is to run it, links to defunct forums where someone has once posted a modded .exe to improve stability in post-NT systems, etc.

Often when I run those using wine the game just starts up.

I don’t care about faceball 2000 but I want to see Uncle Derek, so I will absolutely watch it

Jesus fucking christ.

A handful of DOS games:

Get Lost - a 3D maze game. Played the hell out of the shareware version but it was limited to 15 levels out of 100 or something like that. Haven’t been able to get it to work properly with dosbox.

God of Thunder - people are probably more likely to remember this one. A puzzle game with a Zelda-like viewpoint. Had that graphical feel you can only get from mid 90s DOS, kind of like jazz jackrabbit.

Powball - dos breakout clone with little enemies that fly about. Gotta collect the gems so you can buy your upgrades (lasers etc) between levels. Looked very nice too, that later 90s DOS artstyle, similar to Warheads.

Some Windows ones too:

Blast Doors - an evolution of the old Scorched Earth. A little 3D-like battlefield, half a dozen players. I had a lot of fun with that one.

Death Drome - kind of like Tron light cycles but an open arena with freedom of movement (not locked to a grid), weapon pickups, multi-sectioned arenas, countdown timer that eventually releases a killer force field that closes into the centre until one person left. As far as I can tell, this will not work outside of 16 bit Windows.

Hyperblade - 3D futuristic hockey/lacrosse like game with brutality, including killing off the other team, and taking off an opposing players head which you can then score with.

It does not.

Currently supports Stardew Valley.

Next in their roadmap is Cyberpunk 2077, Mount & Blade 2, and Baldurs Gate 3.

I want a fan of the first one, but I really liked Before The Storm.

This one I didn’t quite like as much, but I thought it was really good. And I think your review is spot on too.