religiously scanning everything
I love and hate this feature from the prime games. It makes an amazing way to give you the lore and setting the ambient, but it is so annoying to have the scan visor constantly on and worrying about missing a one-time scan I didn’t have time to check because I was trying to survive.
I played through the whole trilogy recently and I can confirm, while the light/dark worlds gimmick of MP2 is quite cool, it’s a pain in the ass, mostly in the early game. Good luck finding those keys, I recall I had to use a guide for one or two of them because of how weirdly it was hidden.
If you can play Prime 3 be sure to do so, it neatly rounds up the story across the previous games and has some good gameplay changes that make it more enjoyable (not having a gazillion weapons and visors for one example).
(Note: I’ve not watched the video yet, but this is what I think of common hate towards every project mentioned)
systemd hate is just “fans” of the UNIX philosophy complaining that “it does too many things to get it right”, while they follow a flawed philosophy and also fail to separate systemd the init and systemd the project.
Wayland hate is just silly, yeah it’s not the same as X, but it’s getting there while still avoiding becoming a total mess of software. Same with flatpak.
Ubuntu and snap hate is deserved because of how canonical is steering those projects.
GNOME hate though… I can totally understand the dislike for it. It can force too many opinions onto its users with not much choice, but thats kinda its thing, having a simple and consistent desktop experience. I kinda like their approach to a usable desktop.
Didn’t get the semaphore part and thought those were fans with a wind speed sensor below, glad there’s explainxkcd lol.
Using fans would make for a far worse connection than the one on the comic, at least that one is easily full duplex and somewhat free of interference.
Been using it since the alpha came out, absolutely love what they’ve done with the app. The installation flow is much smoother with the instant prompt for confirmation, the more granular categories and improved search make browsing so much better. I tried other stores before, but I couldn’t get myself to like any of the actively maintained ones, v2.0 is good for me.