After taking a break due to being really busy and replaying Icewind Dale II during that, I've finally started playing Pillars of Eternity again -- I've still not finished it. Also playing GTR2 from time to time, and I ventured back into Unreal Tournament 2004 for the first time since I got a mouse (as opposed to a trackball). That didn't go as badly as I feared, but clearly I still need a bit more practice with the mouse to get to where I was!

Quote from: GigaLem on September 12, 2015, 10:06:04 PM

We can Dream

Oooh, that could be great! You could use moves from Lemmings, Lemmings 2, Lomax... lots of possibilities here.

Indeed! That could be quite a bit of fun.

Sounds interesting!

I've been playing a lot of Pillars of Eternity lately, after having to avoid starting in on the game for months after I got it due to being too busy. It's been very good, so far, so I'm happy about that. It's basically a new game in the style of the old Infinity Engine RPGs made by Black Isle, although there are certainly differences. Definitely not recommended if you don't like RPGs, but if you do (and especially classic RPGs), so far I'd recommend it quite highly. I've not finished it yet, but it's been a long time since I've had this much fun with a new game.

Sunglasses. My eyes are very sensitive to light, and so I get headaches from bright light easily, so sunglasses are something that I wear when out of doors the majority of the time -- winter included, especially since the reflected light from the snow makes everything very bright during that season.

Hats help with the sun as well, but they alone won't do it, so if I'm only picking one item it must be sunglasses. Sun screen is quite useful and a good idea to use, of course, but I don't sunburn very easily at all (despite having very pale skin), so it's less important than the other two. If I'm going to be spending a decently long time in the sun, however, I will typically wear all three.

Thanks for the advice! Yeah, I'm already fairly careful about updating drivers, but I'll certainly take that into account. I have used Linux before, but that was Slackware quite a few versions ago, so I expect that Ubuntu/Mint/any other distro I might consider for gaming will have some differences. I wasn't a particularly advanced user at that time, although I knew at least the basics.

I never use a controller -- grew up using only keyboard and mouse, and controllers feel clumsy and awkard to me -- so that won't be a problem.

PlayOnLinux sounds quite useful. I'll certainly keep that in mind. Any advice about wrangling Steam is always appreciated, since that's something I've a few concerns about, having had large troubles with Steam in the past (albeit on Windows and when Steam was relatively new). I figure there's no way reinstalling Linux can be as much of a pain as reinstalling Windows 95 from floppies, so I'm cool with that. Good to know, though.

I've heard that Nvidia cards have tended to work better with Linux than AMD cards in the past, but I'm having trouble figuring out whether or not that's still true. Do you know? I've been using AMD processors and video cards for the last few years, and would rather continue that if it's reasonable to do so (partly 'cause they're less expensive, I admit, and partly because my last two computers have been the most stable I've yet managed), but I'm not against switching back to Intel and Nvidia if that's the way to go.

I've never really been overfond of Windows, and I've become progressively less fond of the latest couple of iterations of both it and OSX to the point that I would prefer to avoid using either in the future if they both continue down the same developmental track they seem to be on, so I have lately been returning to my old goal of managing to make a Linux gaming computer. In the past, the thing that always held me back was that not enough games would run on it (and more specifically, not the ones that I wanted to), but it looks like it's more common now for games to come out with a Linux version -- at least, for Ubuntu -- and also that most things can be run with Wine these days. I've heard that Steam works reasonably well for some Linux distributions as well, which should help.

I'm planning on putting together an experimental PC soon in order to test my theory that the time may be right, but I'm wondering whether anybody here uses a Linux machine as a gaming computer, and what issues you may have run into if you do. Or advice you might have, games you have or haven't much luck running, all that sort of thing.

Wow, and I thought I was a late LemEdit holdout! I moved on around the time of making Lemmings Plus III's bonus pack (or Lemmings Plus III, if you count "a self-made NeoLemmix-friendly Windows remake of LemEdit" as moving on).

Heh, yeah, it has apparently been out of date for some time now. Last time I was particularly active around the forums (and level design in particular), LemEdit was still going strong and Cheapo had just come onto the scene, so I've got a lot of catching up to do. I kept using LemEdit even when I was mostly away from the forums, so that's what I've still got. Moving on should be interesting!

Look what i got 

Neat!