maybe perhaps related to this: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/

the affected addons list only mentions jiffyreader for chrome (or some addon masquerading as actual jiffy reader). Could be Mozilla found the addon doing something it shouldn’t?

edit: in jiffy reader’s github: https://github.com/ansh/jiffyreader.com/issues/342

blender 2.79b was the last one to ship with the engine, it’s been abandoned for ages

edit: https://upbge.org/#/download wait, what? Released 07 May 2025? o_O

This looks absolutely delightful. Thanks for sharing!

they’re not really platformers like, eg. Mario, they’re a lot slower with the focus being on environmental puzzles (levers, boxes, elevators, avoiding obvious enemy sight etc), with the occasional escape sequences here and there. The puzzles aren’t really any sort of headscratchers, basically “how do I get there? oh, I drop this box to break the floor here (telegraphed hard)”

If Little Nightmares -series is familiar, they’re basically like that. While the puzzles aren’t hard, they’re generally timed to allow the obvious enemy to get close enough for the player to “pucker up” a bit and then flee the scene with a relief.

Finished Kathy Rain 2 few hours ago. Very nice point & click game with reasonable puzzles. The first game and this one went kinda off the rails towards the end, but it seems like “a thing” this series does, I say hoping there’s a 3rd one.

The pixel art is just stupidly gorgeous with modern lighting/reflection effects and voice acting is good accross the board.

If anything negative, there’s quite a bit of back and forth traveling to unlock-stuff-to-do-the-thing-elsewhere, it comes a off as a bit of “trial and error” style of exhausting options to get the crucial hint to progress. But other than that, the game is great.

Eeeeyyyyyyy, the wow64 option was the ticket. I was bypassing the redlauncher, but entirely possible either redext or cybertweak’s is 32bit dll and broke without the flag. Though performance of the game not really affected, probably entirely because I run it with RT enabled.

Yet again bitten in the ass by skipping a paragraph x)

Thanks!

hmhm, seems like some games don’t even start with NTSYNC on. I had heard that Cyberpunk specifically gets pretty nice performance boost, but I can’t even get it to start. Oh well.

ooh, nice. finally some ntsync support starts showing up. I’m not expecting miracles, but in general it still should (?) be better than existing e/f-sync thingies in general?

edit: probably depending on the application/game, but still. Nice to see things moving forwards.

It’s great in VR, i just have an ancient oculus devkit 2 or so, its horrid mess of cables I don’t want to deal with

Too early adopter issues. :P

well, they probably didn’t back when 510 drivers were a thing (as the link you provided links to 510.xx driver documentation), but later on they were enabled.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#GSP_firmware

The use of the GSP firmware, enabled by default since version 555 of the NVIDIA driver released in June 2024, is known to cause a range of issues including Vulkan failures and system crashes.

and https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/575.64/README/gsp.html

The GSP firmware will be used by default for all Turing and later GPUs

Which nvidia driver you’re using? If you’re using the regular old nvidia blob, you might want to try disabling the gsp firmware. But note that this can’t be done with nvidia-open, only on nvidia.

Previously the gsp firmware was a bit problematic on some systems and wayland, disabling it solved some issues. But it has been fine since the 575 drivers, at least for me (rtx3090)

I’m going to go with Euro truck simulator 2.

The experience of chill driving across europe and listening to podcasts is nice. The game isn’t complicated enough to affect listening experience, but also engaging enough on it’s own right that it stays interesting.

I have probably seen 80% or so of the roads and cities, bit they still feel fresh… Could be that I’m forgetting places faster than I’m getting familiar with them as well.

I do have a steering wheel and pedals, but they’re just too cumbersome to get out and my wheel stand is made for someone at least 20 shorter than I am, so the experience is hampered a bit anyway. Because I’m lazy I’ve just resulted to driving witn mouse and keyboard combo.

Edit: typos. Typing on phone is butts

While I do agree, I dunno how meaningful or realistic data it would offer when some users switch between platforms.

huh? or did I miss something here?

edit: or are plain-text curlable websites a feature I’m not aware of? Or curl’ers use some striptags feature?

nice.

… oookay, never seen a group credit before

also related: companies which track your spending to help you unsubscribe from services: so essentially someone else is tracking your payment history. They either sell that payment data to make profit, or you pay a subscription to cancel subscriptions (and get your payment data sold), sounds like a lose-lose deal.

mean while: me, a strongly questionable intellectual who bought the 7 wardog discount package.

Ladies? Your move. /s

I could see a single short mini-episode where Duke shoots shit up and saves the day, and that’s the depth it goes. A whole series? Kinda seems a bit too thin for that.

Besides, considering the character: if they keep him as is - some people are gonna raise hell. If they don’t - other people gonna raise hell. I don’t see there being a winning move here.

But, eh, whatever. If someone really wants to spend money on making it happen, sure, go ahead.

edit:

“It’s a middle finger to everybody,” Shankar said when describing his vision for Duke Nukem. “When Duke Nukem blew up, a bunch of people sat around trying to turn it into a brand, when it’s just a middle finger. Duke Nukem can’t be made by a corporation, because the moment a corporation makes Duke Nukem, it’s no longer Duke Nukem. I don’t intend on having anyone tell me what to do on this one.”

as the article says. I guess they have a vision, but at the end of the day, a “middle finger to everybody” doesn’t seem like a commercial success. Oh well, remains to be seen what comes out of this.

frames, probably not. But textures, geometry data, shaders and stuff like that, probably? I guess.