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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • The saints row series is pretty good. It was kind of a GTA knockoff but was much sillier and let you actually keep and upgrade/paint cars. It really lets you make the game yours. In… Number 3 or 4 the player gets movement abilities that make using a car actually slower so that really killed the vibe, but the ridiculousness was higher than ever so it kind of balanced. I’d recommend playing them in order or at least watching YouTube videos because the story is sort of linear.

    Someone else said morrowind which really is the ultimate “do whatever you want” game. You’re basically never locked out of anything by not doing the main quest, and nearly every npc is killable, even essential ones (though the game will tell you if you do this so you can reload a save). There’s no vehicles really so I don’t know if that’s the vibe you’re going for, but it really is a blast if you can accept the painfully outdated graphics and mediocre combat system.

    Valheim is a survival crafter exploration game that can be surprisingly cozy, and sailing around is fun. Also not the vibe I think you’re looking for but I love it so I shill it when I can.

    Cyberpunk is actually a damn decent game now, and the world has SO MUCH crammed into it you can just wander and do whatever activity you run into for ages without getting bored. Even the smallest side story has lore that illustrates a tiny piece of night city and I find that really cool.

    I think saints row probably best matches what you’re looking for without being a sequel to a game you already mentioned. Cyberpunk too, probably.




  • I’m using a PSX mat with a PSX to USB adapter. I think that might be causing the problems. Stepmania detects it as 2 separate “Twin USB Joystick” but only the top buttons (start, select, X, O, and up arrow) respond in the input test. I did try adding it to steam and enabling steam controls, but that just adds 2 Xbox controllers to the existing list and stepmania still only sees input from the PSX ones. I did see it in input devices but I’m not experienced enough to know how to muck around with that.

    I think my best bet is to get a proper USB mat and hope that just works.







  • Arch box endlessly (30+ mins) loading apps for export so I can’t even open AUR, but I noticed stepmania pop up in bazaar so… One click install basically. Finding the folder to drop songs in was a small hassle and themes and announcers aren’t showing up, but the game runs and songs show up so I’m content for now. Gonna see if the dance mat works tomorrow.




  • Yeah I tried a bunch of stuff and kept hitting walls. Cmake doesn’t work on bazzite or my mint on distrobox. Apt-get install on mint checked some dependencies but didn’t install anything. Think I tried pulling source files from git but something went wrong there too. Tried stable and beta branch as well. I kept notes on my efforts I can check later for more accurate info.