Since this is a gaming rig, I think it’s worth considering an X3D CPU instead of the 9700X. The extra cache has been known to help games quite a bit.

if it contains any negligible amount of a drug whatsoever

The word negligible here contradicts your point. Did you mean minute?

The card recommendations you’re getting are reasonable.

I’ll just add that, as a long time Linux user, I no longer buy Nvidia. Although their drivers can work for gaming, I’ve had far fewer problems outside of gaming since I switched to AMD a few years ago.

(I’m also glad to no longer be supporting Nvidia’s business practices, but that’s not the main reason I switched.)

attempting to smuggle more than 2,000 queen garden ants out of the country.

It is believed that the intended destinations were the exotic pet markets in Europe and Asia.

A couple of minutes. I did a search to find a video from the right time, and quickly scanned through it to find a frame showing the science menu.

Nobody has claimed otherwise.

But he’s unlikely to get much sympathy from people who notice that what he does for work shouldn’t be allowed, let alone paid out of their pockets.

Slow to change sucks on the desktop pretty often.

Subjective opinion there.

I like Debian on the desktop. It does what I need, gets out of my way, and minimises surprise changes in the software I use. In other words, it respects my time.

If I were new to unix admin (as OP appears to be) I might try something like openmediavault for a home server.

If he wants taxpayer money, perhaps he should consider a line of work that’s beneficial to taxpayers.

It’s important not to confuse emulator with hardware emulator. (Sadly, this confusion has been common on social media in recent years.)

A system can emulate another system without emulating hardware.

Unity games always seem to run my hardware excessively hot and hard. I think I would rather see new games built with more efficient engines.

This reminds me of anime subtitles from the 1980s. Most of those I’ve seen are simplistic, boring, and sometimes misleading.

Bad translations still exist today, of course, but I don’t run into them as often. I’m guessing that the growth of anime popularity in the west, along with increased translation budgets, have something to do with that. Better translators are probably doing some of this work now.

Losing a game’s flavour in translation might be a challenge to overcome, but I don’t think it’s inevitable. Suggestion: Don’t make translations an afterthought when producing a game. Instead, recognize that the words used to tell your story and illustrate your world effectively are your story and world, and seek out translators who are especially talented at conveying nuance and feeling. Accept that they are probably better than you are at communicating in their language. Give them room to be creative. Pay them well. You will probably get better results.

I don’t run the same distro on everything, but I find Debian works well for PC, laptop, and server. Updates become available at about the same time, and I can apply them in whichever order I like. My scripts, tweaks, and personal backports are portable between devices. Anything I learn on one can be applied to the others. This arrangement keeps things simple, and Debian respects my time, both of which are important to me.

I use different distros for special-purpose devices like phones and media players.

Maybe it is now? I don’t believe that was present when I played years ago.

I think you somehow missed it, mate. Here’s a screen shot from the year of its release:

It apparently isn’t designed to your tastes, but to say it isn’t designed well would be to overlook decades of highly regarded roguelikes. Even Nethack, which is nearly 40 years old and still loved, requires lots of experimentation (and many deaths) to discover how things work.

Seriously, where did this BS come from?

The components to build a science machine in Don’t Starve don’t strike me as much stranger than those to build crafting stations in other games. In my experience, they’re often unrealistic.

And how the hell would I know this necessary recipe without looking it up?

Did you miss the fact that the recipe is shown in the build menu?

That’s still true in BotW. (I think it requires the set to be upgraded as well.) The bonus from the Flamebreaker set is fire damage immunity, which can be handy when fighting certain enemies. You don’t need that bonus just to be in a scorched climate, though.

I think you only need one piece of the flamebreaker set to be fireproof survive in Goron City. You would need a second piece (or one piece and an elixir) to get closer to the caldera, but by that time you can buy a second piece in the city. You never need the third piece.

I went to the stables just to check out what was there, and discovered that they have quest information, quest triggers, rumors about the world, vendors that don’t show up elsewhere, mini-game challenges with rewards, hints at the locations of Link’s lost memory photos, etc. It never occurred to me that someone might miss out on all that stuff if they weren’t given a reason to visit a stable. (Maybe the game gives a hint to go there? I don’t remember.)

Sorry you drew the short straw.

Wow. Seems like your approach must have been really off the beaten path.

From memory, I think I was offered a fireproof elixir by an NPC at the nearest stable, and by a traveling vendor further up that road, and was given the flamebreaker armor for helping an NPC about halfway to Goron City. (That last one caught my interest because the help needed was in catching fireproof lizards, which seemed relevant to my immediate needs.) Any one of those would have been enough.

Your experience must have been frustrating. Were you avoiding roads and NPCs, by any chance?

Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 both bored me to sleep. I didn’t find anything in their worlds to care about, and the meta-game of endlessly memorizing monsters’ attack patterns just doesn’t hold my interest for more than a few minutes. I guess soulslike games are not my cup of tea.

And some of them are unskippable.