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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This little doodad reminds me of Jenova Chen's old freeware game flOw. Fun little game, but iirc it isn't free anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Love his games, Journey is still one of my top 10 gaming experiences of all time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I loved flOw and Flower, but I still haven't played Journey, I need to get a good ps3 emulator just for that. Also I just checked and the 2006 "student" version of flOw is still free, the 2007 ps3 version is paid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Its in steam now and works even better than the original ps3 version! Its also 70% off right now :0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Ehhh I guess I need to figure out steam/proton then lol. I haven't played games in years. Is Flower up there too?

Edit: Thanks for all the advice on steam/proton everyone!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not much to figure out, just make sure to not get the flatpak/snap. Any non-arcane distro should have a working package, the trick to packing steam being not trying to be smart about things you basically have to give it a libc, gpu, and FHS (chroot or not), it takes care of everything else.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It is! They're both steam deck verified so they should run on proton!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The vast majority of games on Steam will just work when you hit play on Linux. There's not much to figure out. You just need to create an account, download the launcher, and purchase the game. You shouldn't have an issue figuring it out. If you do, feel free to ask for help.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Viruses are Schroedinger's cat confirmed

[–] RGB3x3 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh great virus! What is your wisdom?

[–] ThrowawaySobriquet 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

R E P R O D U C E

[–] YarHarSuperstar 2 points 7 months ago

Nice, thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

That's just some punk genome! Fuck em.

Fungi is the third thing.

[–] Got_Bent 3 points 7 months ago

Schrodinger's biology?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't metabolism one definition of life? If so, they're not alive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You commented twice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Weird, i didn't even got a server timeout, which is usualy the cause.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Weaponized information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While technically phages are viruses, i think it is important to label them as phages.

Typically a virus does not look like a robot. The by now rather well known SARS-CoV-2, with its spherical shape is a more common depiction of a virus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus

Bacteriophage look like little robots and from the view of a bacterium - they probably are the equivalent of a terminator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

But phages are the most ubiquitous form overall. Maybe not as relevant if you mean viruses that infect humans.

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