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  • A few answers here are mixing up season passes with battle passes.

    A season pass is just a bundle of multiple pieces of DLC, often sold in advance with a schedule for when each item will release. Sometimes the contents can also be purchased individually, but buying them bundled in the pass will get you a discount. Generally this is a fair enough business model, even if the idea of preordering DLC doesn’t sit right with you, you can always wait and just buy the pass once everything is released.

    A battle pass is a model found in a number of live service games. After purchasing the pass, you can grind for in-game rewards. Oftentimes there’s a deadline to finish grinding by, and once a pass is over you can no longer obtain the rewards and will have to buy the next pass for the next set of rewards. These are engagement bait to keep players grinding so that playercount remains high, and they rely heavily on FOMO, which makes them controversial. But they make a lot of money, so you’ll keep seeing them.




  • Never heard of it, what’s your reason for picking this one? Looks like it’s an Arch derivative, but the site doesn’t tell me much about what’s supposed to set it apart from vanilla Arch.

    If you’re new to Linux, I would strongly recommend a mainstream distro popular enough that you can easily Google any issues that arise. Beyond that, distro honestly really doesn’t matter all that much - at least not until you’ve been using Linux long enough to know that there’s something specific you want from a particular distro and are interested in tinkering around for it. But starting out, just pick something Googleable, any mainstream distro will do.









  • I got into Skullgirls because it was the first even halfway-decent fighting game with a native Linux port. Still playing it nearly a decade later because it’s that damn good.

    I also love Them’s Fightin’ Herds for being the next game to get a port. But with the current state of the game I haven’t been grinding as much lately since I can’t always hop on and get matches very easily… It’s always gonna hold a special place in my heart and I will keep entering majors whenever it’s there, but I’ve accepted its fate…

    I’ve also been hooked on UNI2 as of late. I bought the Switch version since I have neither Windows nor PS4, but we’ve got an active Discord and biweekly bracket at least. I only know about half the matchups in the game though, so I’m at risk of getting caught out at majors.