sp6

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[–] sp6 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a form of score voting, and the specific form you discuss is the method used to elect the members of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (although they call it "Support", "Neutral", and "Oppose" instead of "Upvote", "Abstain", and "Downvote").

[–] sp6 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was all-in for ranked choice voting (and even started working on an app for it) until I learned that a candidate who would have won can end up losing by becoming more popular, which is extremely counterintuitive, and a flaw that I don't think any voting system should have.

Nicky Case wrote a fantastic explanation about how that can happen, plus exploring many other voting methods: https://ncase.me/ballot/

I still think RCV (and really anything else) would be better than the US's first-past-the-post system, but I'd definitely prefer some type of approval, score, or STAR voting over it.

[–] sp6 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are lots of Apex Legends and Halo players who do, but there are zero Counter Strike and Quake players who do.

Without specifying which FPS game, OP's post is kinda pointless.

[–] sp6 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you mean for casual play, then use whatever you want.

If you mean for competitive play, then until you specify the game, this post is pointless. Lots of competitive Apex Legends and Halo players use controllers, but you would never in a million years catch a professional Counter-Strike or Quake player using a controller.

[–] sp6 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When you hit the "login" button in Voyager, it asks you to choose your account's server. The default is lemmy.world, but your account is on the sh.itjust.works instance. So when it asks for your server, you will have to hit "other" and type in sh.itjust.works, then enter your username and password.

I expect this is the issue, because I am also on CalyxOS without issues.

[–] sp6 6 points 1 year ago

That Turbine reskin is incredibly high-effort

[–] sp6 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've mostly been using Voyager, but Eternity and Thunder are pretty good too. Just try them all and pick your favorite.

[–] sp6 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, a lot of games work fine without precompiled shaders. Others, like Apex Legends or Rocket League, are a complete mess (at least for the first few minutes of gameplay - it used to be much worse but DXVK 2.0 helped a lot with this). You've probably just only tried the games that work fine.

[–] sp6 96 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"Having to deal with pre-shader work" that you mentioned is a good thing. Without it, games will stutter more. And you always have the option to skip it or disable it entirely.

But otherwise, it's a classic delimma:

[–] sp6 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For Deck, you'll likely be using EmuDeck for your emulation setup, which will install PCSX2 for PS2 games.

You can see the other available EmuDeck emulators here: https://emudeck.github.io/frequently-asked-questions/steamos/#what-does-emudeck-install

[–] sp6 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

On the Playstation side, RPCS3 is the PS3 emulator, it's great. There are some experimental PS4 emulators, but they aren't ready yet.

On the Xbox side, Xenia works well as an Xbox 360 emulator; it's not linux native though, but it might work well under wine. I'm not aware of Xbox One (or later) emulators.

On the Nintendo side, I would be surprised if a Nintendo game that couldn't be emulated exists. Even Switch games run very well on day 1 of release.

[–] sp6 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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