I will say, I’m running in Desktop mode and using keyboard+mouse. Presumably controller works, but I haven’t actually tried in handheld mode.

GOG version runs great for me. I just installed via Lutris using Proton Experimental, no problems to speak of while playing so far.

See my reply to this user above, but yea don’t bother buying it if you only have the Steam Deck. Cheaper and a better experience to buy the original on GOG.

You always have the option to get a full refund within the first 2 hours of gameplay on Steam though, if you want to see the performance for yourself.

I can confirm, even trying several different combos of optimizer mods, plus running the resolution at 1280x720, it stutters like crazy as soon as you get out of the initial area surrounding the Imperial City and looks like dogshit because of everything at low or lowest.

Baldur’s Gate 3 with almost 100 mods (including optimizers), and similar upscaling settings at 1920x1080 in Desktop mode, runs smoother and looks better on the Steam Deck.

Since the remaster is literally using the same game logic as the original, I ended up just installing the GOG version of the GOTY edition, installed a bunch of mods, and it runs amazing. I don’t think I’m missing much in the way of changes/improvements.

I agree with you. I just think about how some government entities are less-than-efficient when it comes to the customer service thing, and that would probably apply here as well.

Probably also makes a difference if it’s at the state or federal level. Local DMVs in some areas are, well, many jokes exist.

The idea is sound, I think. Treat emails, in a way, like we do phone numbers and house addresses. Except this doesn’t ever change, when your name could (or you share a name with thousands of others). I wonder what the identifier would be for the address? Obviously SSN[at]usa.gov is a bad idea 😅

However, could you imagine the nightmare (on both sides) of a tech support call center for official government email account support?

Unfortunately, the people that still use it are not on Lemmy. They’re still on Twitter.

Some further suggestions I haven’t seen mentioned in all these comments yet, surprisingly:

• Foundation
• Manor Lords
• 0 A.D. (FOSS and impossible to get ripped off, AoE clone)
• shapez / shapez 2 (the first one is only $2)

And maybe a little more casual, but still similar vein as city management:

• Mini Metro
• Mini Motorways

Out of all of these, I think I’ve played Mini Motorways three times as much as the rest, combined. I dunno why, I just love it.

lol, glad I clarified it. I was going to leave it vague and then remembered tables.

Also, yes. Markdown is the shit and I’m glad Lemmy didn’t try to reinvent the wheel!

Nah, Teslas will set themselves on fire with a family inside before it allows something like that to happen.

He forgot to give us the point values…

I wonder what they’ll offer in the Tesla rewards shop

Probably for the same reasons that healthy food is a luxury. Make it easier and far less tedious to get the shitty end of the stick. Most of the proles will just give up and accept it, especially in a world that seems to put instant gratification at the top of the TODO list over self-reliance and self-respect. In other words, fashion over function.

If they can surveil our conversations and control what we see and hear, then they can advertise shittier foods, which then puts us in the pockets of insurance and pharma once we develop conditions and diseases from said shitty food. Once you’re in that loophole, it’s already been said by the pharma execs themselves, “healing your customers is a bad business model.”

I wonder if we could get EU to take over some states if we got enough votes to secede in some areas.

I imagine the list will be dynamic. Those projects might be on a list somewhere, just haven’t been vetted yet by their standards. Start with the source projects, then dive through the forks.

IMO, anything dubbed a “War on ____”, especially by officials, is actually about precisely this.

lmao, valid and true.

Get your placebo and spam sandwich while it’s hot!

My general opinion of change.org is that it’s just a placebo for people to feel like they’re doing something productive when they should be calling their relevant political representatives, instead.

This is precisely why I asked the question, because I feel the same way.

I do wonder still if there is any way this petition could actually be useful for IA, though. My hopes are not high.

The day has been had, and now I am in the lack of day. However, I am experiencing weighted precipitation.

Yea, good point. Maybe something devised by their lawyers that could be used in a court of law to show public opinion without misinterpretation.

Genuinely curious, as I truly don’t know, has a change.org petition ever made a positive difference when fighting billionaires?