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• Post #1553998

  I got a Switch 2 for a couple of Nintendo-exclusive games (one of which I needed to play for work reasons, honest guv I swear) and child hand size reasons, and I fear I will never travel with my less-portable Steam Deck again. Any recommendations for particularly good Switch-exclusive games, or even games best played on Switch?

• Post #1271224

  Me, a few years ago: maybe one day I will no longer be woken up every morning by my children. [Monkey paw curls] Me, today: I wish I didn't wake up for no apparent reason at 0530 every morning.

• Post #788290

  My colleague @manuq pointed me to this great devlog series about the composition of the music in Runa & the Chaikurú Legacy. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3-De6T8JZwbPLksAPrWkWGr0NXffvJMf

• Post #665622

  I'm doing a livestream tomorrow at 16:00 UK time (15:00 UTC), hosted by @cassidy, showing ways to playtest Threadbare (the game we're working on at @EndlessAccess) on a Steam Deck. Come and watch my makeshift setup with a phone camera pointing at the Steam Deck fall to pieces live on air! https://www.youtube.com/live/6DpWcX_Emno

• Post #665618

  I made some “fan art” today at work in celebration of the new @EndlessAccess brand colour and the game chosen for our next game club. #BluePrince

• Post #665615

  Threadbare, the game we've been working on at @EndlessAccess is now available for Linux on Flathub. It's early days, so please bear that in mind! (If you install it via desktop mode on your Steam Deck, it looks terrible because it's being downscaled from 1920×1080. I don't recommend that right now. Desktop/laptop only for now!) https://flathub.org/apps/org.endlessaccess.threadbare

• Post #622939

  TFW you are the only short-haired person in the house, and also the person who is charged with unblocking the vacuum cleaner head when it becomes too clogged with hair to spin.

• Post #622938

  Launching Signal from Flathub for the first time pops up this (untranslated!) Zenity dialog box full of scary computer words. The best part is that if you copy-paste the command, it fails: $ flatpak override --env=SIGNAL_PASSWORD_STORE=gnome-libsecret org.signal.Signal error: Failed to create file “/var/lib/flatpak/overrides/org.signal.Signal.T1YXK3”: Permission denied In a better world, doing this would be grounds for the app being delisted.

• Post #622937

  @alatiera That's actually why I switched to Fractal.

• Post #622936

  I periodically need to convert a folder full of audio files to Ogg Vorbis, tweaking the compression settings but not changing much else. But I can't find a good, simple batch-conversion tool for the Year of Linux on the Desktop. Surely there must be one? (I can Google how to operate oggenc/ffmpeg but I'd rather not have to. Similarly I know how to use Audacity to import & export a file but would prefer not to.)

• Post #622935

  I'm a sucker for an irregular time signature so I'm delighted that our game's composer has written some great pieces which are mostly in 4/4 but drop a beat every 8 bars or so. Unfortunately Godot doesn't share my enthusiasm and assumes that every clip must have a fixed BPM — OK — and number of beats per bar — uh oh… I can't even tell it that the piece is in 31/4 (7 bars of 4, 1 bar of 3) because the intro is in straight 4/4!

• Post #622934

  I'm thinking about assembling a kit guitar, i.e. neck is supplied with fingerboard and frets already made, but one must join it to the body, paint/stain the body, fit the hardware, solder things together, perhaps carve the headstock into the shape of a swan, etc. Has anyone done this? Any recommendations for kits?

• Post #622933

  With such a great grasp of English grammar, I'm sure Gemini's notes from this Google Meet will be great.

• Post #622932

  It took me 2 months to discover my new laptop has a touchscreen. Three pointing devices (screen, trackpoint, touchpad) on one laptop!