MentalEdge

You mention timeshift, did you restore to the working snapshot after selecting it in grub, then reboot AGAIN?

Booting a snapshot, does not restore from it. When booting a snapshot from grub, you need to open timeshift, restore the snapshot, then boot up a second time (this time without selecting it in grub).

Otherwise, you didn't really restore it, you just booted into it, and if you re-attempted the broken update, messed the snapshot up, too (leaving you with no working snapshot to go back to).

He's kinda grown up with his audience. I dropped out of watching as I hit adulthood, then tuned back in for his "meme review" phase, where the inside joke was that everyone watching was a nine-year-old, when in reality he already had an aging audience.

He eventually grew bored with the format (and at that point already he made it clear he was doing it for fun, not because he needed to). The view counts steadily trended downwards as he switched to making videos he wanted to make, instead of ones that made money, as he was set by then.

At some point he ran a book-club style format, because he wanted to get into reading more. At least some portion of the fanbase was into that, but at that point he lost a lot of viewership.

Nowadays he seems to post very infrequently, and it seems to mostly be vlog-style content about family life and living in Japan.

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Did they bother to opt-in to battleye linux support yet?

The integrated GPU in your processor is not an additional bit of computing power your computer is not using, but special software that can use your processor to put out graphics if a dedicated GPU is missing. It is extremely inferior at processing graphics compared to the real dedicated GPU, and if you were running firefox to watch (Not decode) youtube, you would very likely see things like screen tearing as the processor struggled to keep up.

This is straight up wrong. You are confusing GPUs with display adapters.

iGPUs are an actual on-die GPU, consiting of their own hardware, present on the die in addition to the CPU.

They can game. They can hardware decode and encode media, etc. They are full GPUs. Some are even quite powerful, though usually you'll find them to be designed for everyday use and only light gaming.

The GPU in every recent game console is technically an iGPU, same goes for phones, and the Steamdeck.

They do not "translate" GPU instructions into running on the CPU cores.

That's software rendering, and is what CPUs do when there isn't an iGPU at all. (Though they'll still need a display adapter, which a GPU can act as. But a display adapter doesn't need to be a full on GPU. And iGPUs aren't just display adapters.)

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I'm halfway through Rebirth, and shit has me so confused I stopped trusting any of my theories for what is going on.

It's continued to be good though. Excellent even.

To be fair, Intergrade and Rebirth remix some things that mean they don't really replace the original game.

They're doing something different with the story that we still haven't had fully explained, which means I'm playing completely riveted to the story, with no idea what'll happen, even though the original game has existed longer than I have.

And the gameplay is obviously completely different.

It means they're more than "remakes", imo. They're more like adaptations, making changes that alter the source material to fit a new medium. Almost like going from book to TV.

And in the same way, both the "book" and the "TV Series" both remain worthy of being experienced. Different people might prefer one or the other, while others will insist the "full experience" is to engage with both. Either way, both add to the whole by existing.

The combat is fanatastic. But they don't lean into it enough, and so you don't get to fully engage with it beyond a superficial level. Except for some fleeting moments most people wont even notice.

I love it, but I hate how they're too afraid to commit, even to the point of not allowing you to play Rebirth on hard until ng+.

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Are you sure?

That said I really like the combat system in modern FF games. It's a mix of hack n slash + strategy you don't really get anywhere else.

They've made something unique, and I approve. My only complaint is that they don't lean into it, and all but the highest difficulty lets the player get away with button mashing.

I don't know how much you know about the intricacies of the newer FF combat systems, but "turns" are still in there, but among a bunch of new stuff that may or may not jell with you.

If you want, in the remakes you can set the combat to "classic" which makes it so that the AI controls all three charachters, rather than just the two you aren't playing as.

This leaves you to deal with only the "turns", and which abilities, spells, or items, to use them for. And you don't need to be quick, the passage of time nearly pauses while you engage with the action menu to decide what to do with a turn.

Characters and enemies can only engage in basic attacks outside of their "turn". To use abilities, spells or items, it must be your "turn".

All the decisions that make turn based combat interesting are overlayed on top of the real-time action. At times they even overlap. When not using classic mode, it matters how you control a characters real time actions. The exact timing of when you use a turn can have consequences, you need to make sure you are standing in a good spot for a given ability, you need to make sure you're not about to take an attack that might interrupt an action, etc.

You have to decide stuff like whether you need to use your turns to spam cure just to keep the party alive. Should Aerith spend one turn and the MP to use Cura on one party member, or wait two turns to use Pray on everyone. Should Cloud go for damage on this turn, or build stagger in case it leads to a stun and bonus damage next turn? Can Tifa keep herself alive with Chakra or do I need to have another charachter heal her? Do I remember the pressure conditions for this enemy or do I need to spend a turn on Assess to find out?

If all you want is turn based classic gameplay, then yeah, it isn't here. But they have made something very interesting. It's got hack slash style flashy action, but with an amount of strategy involved I don't think any other games have achieved. It's unique.

The synergy skill that allows you to have another party member throw you into the air at an enemy, when controlling a melee fighter, (Tifa, Cloud, Red) is so satisfying and welcome in Rebirth when fighting flying enemies.