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[–] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wish every game was like that AND the game saves were always in the directory.

I want to download, play, backup after I’m done without needing to manage all the save locations.

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    • [–] 46 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    Technically, when installing a fitgirl rip, it is doing an extraction only, just with some extra UI elements and other features like installing dependencies.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    With the added complexity that it can fail for reasons I don't comprehed. If it was just extracting that wouldn't fail under any circumstances.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    The only times it has failed on me was because either the storage device or RAM were faulty. It's definitely worth it to check both for errors every once in a while, as financially devastating as it is to replace either.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Never had a fitgirl install fail. Make sure your download was complete and not corrupted or missing required files. And make sure you have enough RAM not including swap. Some of these games use pretty heavy compression that uses a whole lot of RAM. And it seems swap sometimes causes the decompression to fail. Not sure why though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    why does it require admin rights to run, then? right at startup, and if you try to run it with a tool that fakes admin rights, it will crash (unlike other installers it can successfully make run)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    They need admin privileges to write to directories such as C:/Program Files, if I had to guess - I didn't need privileges when installing Halo: Combatevolved Butworse on Linux

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    but I always installed them on my other drive where it did not need such privileges. it works on linux because here everything runs as admin (in the wine world, it's not admin in the linux world)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It's not that Wine runs things as an administrator, Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;

    with Windows, if you have a separate drive and *you* create a folder in it, even if you call it "Program Files", it's going to let you access it freely because it's yours.
    However, the existing Program Files folder in your OS drive (C: by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by... I have no idea, actually, but it's a system account, not yours.

    The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less tech literate when I was still daily-driving Windows.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    It's not that Wine runs things as an administrator

    yes, it is that

    Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;

    I was always installing fitgirl games to my other drive, where I owned the entire thing. I know because I remember I set the ownership.

    However, the existing Program Files folder in your OS drive (C: by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by... I have no idea, actually, but it's a system account, not yours.

    The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less

    I have never installed fitgirl games there.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'll trust you on the Windows side of things, but you ought to explain how Wine is running things with admin privileges

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    You are misunderstanding him. Wine has not implemented any UAC dialogue like windows; when the application requests it, it just gets "elevated" as if the user had pressed that UAC button under windows; but Wine does this automatically, as there is no need for something like that.

    As stated in comment 50, applications requiring unelevated privileges can be run directly, without the need for "runas" or any similar manual intervention.

    https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40613#c50

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Wine acts as if it has admin on the Windows side, but that's unrelated to admin on the Linux host, very likely wine is just running with user privileges there.

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    • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Explanation of the last panel?

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    Lol, where is "download from steam, hit play"?

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  • [–] [S] 53 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    it would have a few step more: go to work, work for 5 h, get your minimum wage 60$, enter you credit card info, pay steam

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    unless you know who this guy is and what he is talking about: SLSsteam

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Hahahahhaha $12 minimum wage, you're a riot.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Can't tell if you're joking or not. US federal minimum is still $7.25 but places like California and Connecticut have higher minimums in the $16+

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    plus they are other country than US, each with different minimum wage. I ballparked it.

    the point being: whatever you buy, you sacrificied a lot of time for it (some more than other, obviously)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    My state voted for and passed a minimum wage raise, which would continue incrementally for the next few years, and paid sick time ballot initiative. The state legislature repealed the sick leave and removed the minimum wage increases from the future. Yay democracy. Cunts.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    denuvo won't run on operating systems that don't try to fuck you over, and makes the game slower on windows

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    • [+] -34 points 1 month ago* (20 children)

    lol, ’cause ð last 2 r installŋ malware on ur device.
    Just checkd The.Blood.of.Dawnwalker-RUNE
    & only 2 of ðs matç ð pre.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    What are those symbols?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    ð is edh, it represents a voiced dental fricative, like the "th" in "them"

    ŋ is eng, it represents a voiced velar nasal, like the "ng" in "sing"

    ç is a "c with cedilla" or "broken c". It's used in several languages with different readings, but they seem to be using it as a voiceless aveolar affricate, like the "ch" in "match"

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    You ok?

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  • [+] -19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I’m. u?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Erm, acþually, t'w're refering t't'ct þat y' deliberately write in a barely parseable manner

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  • [+] -6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    fact | xenoglossphobia?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I must say I had the same experience, even on cs.rin. Almost all of the blood of dawnwalker releases had malware in them. The only clean one was the GOG version.

    That's why I mostly grab the clean steam files and configure the emulator myself.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    In what country do people still write english with eth? Or is this some kind of internet fad?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Iceland. Yes, contractions are a fad. Threadiverse is still xenoglossophobic af.
    Crescent＠fedinsfw.app was the only person in topic.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Are you Icelandic? Or is this something you picked up on your own. And contractions are not a fad, they are commonly used. As for xenoglossophobia, its not an irrational fear of such linguistics. Its simply the fact that nobody outside of very specific parts of the world write in such a way. And normally not when communicating with strangers online who never encountered this style of writing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Its simply the fact that nobody outside of very specific parts of the world write in such a way. And normally not when communicating with strangers online who never encountered this style of writing.

    With the downranking, and off topic bs, it is XGϕ, otherwise I would have been met with:

    Heya rurusu, could you englishfy this for us?

    or in meme format:

    EL5

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