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Some notes on PICO-8
This post is kind of a brain dump of info I might need to help myself in the future if anything breaks. I bought PICO-8 finally, figured spending the $20 for thousands of games was well worth it. I had previously used the RETRO-8 emulator built into Retroarch, just for testing out some PICO-8 games.…
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Gaming on Linux, 2023: Part II
just going to write a quick follow up here because I’m vibing with how well everything is running on Debian 12. I didn’t even realize when I wrote that post yesterday that Steam has a whole Proton compatibility layer built into the Linux client which helps non-native games run. So that comment about half of…
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Gaming on Linux, 2023
On a whim I installed Debian 12 on a spare hard drive today, went through the graphical installer, and had a working system in about 20 minutes. I didn’t have a primary goal in mind but I was curious if I could “de-Windows” my computer at some point; I chose Debian because I’ve been using…
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Underdelivered Games
Twice this year, I have been burned by a game being released in an abysmal state by game developers. The first one was Kerbal Space Program 2; to be fair, this one was released as early access, so I knew the risks going in. However, even for an early access game, it was fairly barebones…
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Holiday Steam Scam – “Breathcup”
Breathcup.com appears to be a scam site meant to steal Steam account credentials. It is masquerading as an e-gaming competition site encouraging users to log in using their Steam credentials to take part in, and vote on, e-sports competitions and teams. I had an acquaintance on my Steam friends list message this to me, asking…