That certainly doesn’t make the game more appealing.

Started playing the first Watch Dogs for the first time in six years after learning about the wide variety of mods. As a Linux gamer I of course had to do a bit of tinkering. Ubisoft Connect would only make a black screen and take me to the login screen. I read that had something to do with Wayland and Proton not handling Electron apps really well. After switching to Wayland I could finally use Ubisoft Connect and download the game.

Performance-wise the game does well. After setting geometry and LoD levels to High instead of Ultra, the frame rate stays above 60 FPS. This may be mainly due to me using Linux and the game’s optimization as hardware is well above the recommendations.

Modding is currently annoyingly janky, as I had to create an XML file for each zipped mod for Disrupt Manager. Still I couldn’t get that working, as I got a weird error message. Interesting to know if that tool works all well on Windows. I resorted to installing The Worse Mod with Living City, so the game’s graphics get overhauled and more randomness and chaos is added to the game world. The graphics get more closer to the infamous E3 2012 demo, but as a downside the depth of field effect is closer to the player, as if Aiden Pearce were near-sighted.

My view on “Youthanasia” is mixed. It’s evident how Dave Mustaine wanted to chase the top of the charts and how many metal bands had a hard time staying relevant in the 90s. With 1992’s “Countdown to Extinction” Dave already attempted to streamline Megadeth’s sound in a similar manner to what Metallica did with their “Black Album” and it yielded success, so “Youthanasia” was the next logical step forward. The album succeeds in that streamlining, but it happens with costs one can expect.

The overall mix is softer and more polished but it feels duller, especially compared to 1990’s “Rust in Peace”. Many songs have their tempo approximately at 120 BPM as the producer Max Norman wanted so, and their structure is conventional verse-chorus-type of thing. The strength of early Megadeth was in quirky song structures: technical guitar riffs, fast tempos and abrupt changes mixed in, and Mustaine snarled on top of it. “Youthanasia” has all that replaced with catchier songs and Mustaine attempting to sing melodically (“A Tout le Monde” as a good example). Yes, I get that Megadeth wanted to expand their sound and do something different, but is that evolution or many steps back? One’s mileage may vary.

God dang it, apparently he has now stated how he is “going to dedicate more time for making music and reduce the amount of work”, so he’s not entirely retiring. I’d say to him “make up your mind!”

Can’t say anything about that, as I played the game on GameCube.

• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
• James Bond: Everything or Nothing

Just finished the main story of Yakuza 0, now it’s time for all the side content.

Just finished Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Got it five years ago but got frustrated and uninstalled it. Then I played it on-off for some time. But after lots of tries I got the final boss killed. Yes, there is an option for New Game Plus but nope, time to play something else. Brilliant game, hard but rewarding.

The band could have worded the reason for stopping touring as “Steven Tyler’s vocal cord injury and other issues”. Just read about that sexual abuse case, Tyler claimed to have immunity as the victim’s legal guardian (?). Even though it was dismissed by court, it still was an awful thing that surely has damaged Tyler’s and Aerosmith’s reputation.

This is quite understandable, as Trump is one of the few friends King Jong Un has. An authoritarian likes another authoritarian.

Most Switch games support gyro functionality, and of course the Joy-Cons also have gyro.

Ergonomics, NFC support and gyro. Of course the rumble could be stronger but I have gotten used to it.

• 8bitdo SN30 Pro
• GameCube controller
• Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
• Super Famicom controller (mainly the face button colors and layout)

For me the way has been using gyro aiming. It provides a mouse-like precision for aiming, which is really good for FPS games. It is supported on Steam nowadays. Of course on Steam Deck it may be not the best option in terms of playing experience, as turning the console also turns the screen.

Yes I had. DuckDuckGo was crippled as Bing was down today.

Holy hell.

And I can’t exploit enough of you, baby, can you exploit enough of me?

Been playing Vanquish. The game feels like a Japanese take on then-popular cover-shooters like Gears of War, but with faster pace and mechanics like sliding that incentivize not relying on covers too much. Like with Platinum’s titles, there’s deep mechanics and really getting into the game starts when replaying the game’s missions.

The compilation is however a bummer as it doesn’t have “The Eternal Idol” from 1987. It had something to do with releasing rights from Vertigo and IRS Records.

What could possibly go wrong?