Imagine a scenario where you are lending a not super tech savvy (maybe a little gullible) friend or relative your old gaming PC that already has a bunch of games installed and you want to prank them and scare them a bit by secretly modding the game.

What mods would you choose?

I thought this could make for a fun discussion in the lead up to Halloween. Kind of similar to finding a haunted copy of a game urban legend scenario.

The image attached to this post is from the From The Fog mod for Minecraft.

I considered including the Sirenhead mod for Fallout 4 but I don't know if it would feel too out of place in the Fallout universe.

I am running EndeavourOS with XFCE4 and when I enter my password the underscore cursor appears in the top left corner for a moment then I get bounced back to the log in screen. This happened after an update. I don't think I made any other alterations to the system or installed new packages.

From my searching around I tried the following from the terminal:

ls -lah | grep -i Xauthority says that I have rw privileges.

I've tried updating my system using sudo pacman -Syu and yay -Syu.

df -h Says I have 18GB available in /dev/dm-0. I even deleted a couple files to make sure I had space available.

I ran rm ~/.Xauthority.

I made sure session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession was in my lightdm.conf.

I tried downgrading the xfce4-session package but that didn't work so I updated it again.

I checked to see if I have libxfce4ui-devel installed instead of libxfce4ui. I only have libxfce4ui installed.

I ran systemctl start xfce4-notifyd.service but it says "Failed to start xfce4-notifyd.service: Unit xfce4-notifyd.service not found". The user posting the question had the same result but that wasn't their solution. They had a fancy tablet plugged in or something.

One of the sign in options in my login screen is for Weston and I am able to login fine to that.

I'm pretty stumped here. I've started getting into loops while searching for an answer online. I feel like it's probably something on the XFCE side but I'm struggling to find out where to begin looking. Some users said to check .xsession-errors but apparently "Failed to fetch NET NUMBER OF DESKTOPS; assuming 0" is a normal message. I don't know about the four other messages but they all seem similar.

Any ideas? Even if it's rechecking something above. Maybe I missed something.

Update:

I downgraded my AMD GPU drivers through pacman and was able to get things working. Does anyone know why upgrading them might have caused my system to act this way? Would it be fine updating them in the future or do I need to make tweaks to my setup?

Update 2:

It seems like it may have been an issue with conflicting graphics drivers. I think at some point I may have installed something related to Nvidia but I'm not certain. It only became an issue after running the update mentioned earlier. I essentially removed everything and installed packages recommended by the Arch Wiki page for graphics. Everything appears to be working now.

I have found a few on 4chan. A rotating realistic chicken burger with a transparent background for example.

It seems to be mostly the same 20 or so GIFs in regular circulation.

Ideally I'd like to avoid individual downloads or signing up for an account. I thought someone here may have stumbled across a page on the Internet Archive or something.

When clicking using the bottom right side of the touchpad on my NexDock nothing happens when using EndeavourOS with XFCE4. When connected to Windows I am able to right click using the touchpad without issues.

Does anyone know how I can remedy this? I feel like it's probably something obvious.

I tried looking under the Mouse and Touchpad settings application but don't see anything that looks relevant. The NexDock does appear as multiple devices. SINO WEALTH NexDock Touchpad Keyboard Consumer Control, SINO WEALTH NexDock Touchpad Keyboard Mouse, and SINO WEALTH NexDock Touchpad Keyboard Touchpad are all listed but only give me the option to switch hands or adjust pointer speed.

You can check out the full list of supported games here but some examples are Minecraft, Skyrim, Elden Ring, and The Long Dark.

There's a Nucleus Coop Steam curator that can tell you what games on Steam are compatible.

Heads Up

I would recommend reading the notes behind the handler of the game you wish to modify before attempting to install them.

Handlers vary in how local split screen co-op is implemented. Some add it to a normally single player campaign (ex. Fallout New Vegas uses NVMP) while others add it to existing multiplayer modes (ex. Dying Light) or unofficial multiplayer modes (ex. Grand Theft Auto IV uses Grand Theft Auto Connected).

Due to this some games feel more polished than others. The complexity and length of setup also varies but it's generally pretty straightforward. I'd say setup usually takes 30 minutes. The most annoying part for me (besides how sluggish Nucleus Co-op's app feels) was alt-tabbing out of various game windows to configure the settings in game to work.

Linux

All reports I have seen say that Nucleus co-op does not work on Linux despite attempts at tinkering.

The closest alternative I have seen for Linux is PartyDeck. A GamingOnLinux article about it from May 2025 can be found here.

Other alternatives that I have seen recommended like Co-op-on-Linux haven't been updated in years.

Bonus

If you are interested in multiplayer mods in general FMHY has a tab dedicated to multiplayer mods and the website Unmoddable has articles about many of them.

For example if I want to play Fallout New Vegas with DUST and switch to Nuclear Sunset.

I feel like having multiple installations of the same game is the easiest way if I have the space for it. They would both share the same FalloutNV folder for the INI files and save games and I'm wondering would this cause issues?

It would be easy enough to basically copy files back and forth when I want to play one version versus the other. Maybe a simple batch script that moves a FalloutNV folder into the My Games folder before running the game and, when the game is exited, moves the FalloutNV into the same directory as the game's executables.

I feel like the modding scene for Bethesda games is big enough that there must be an easy, more polished, solution to this.

I tried looking up solutions online but a lot of forums posts get wrapped up in Steam not easily allowing you to have two installs of the same game.

Some older posts recommend applications such as Skyrim Installation Swapper but it seems like people may have moved past them. There hasn't been a new comment in the post tab or update for years.

I imagine profiles and instances provided by managers could help but I don't know how well they do with hundreds of mods. Nuclear Sunset for example uses Tale of Two Wastelands as its base which I feel like could cause issues.

I have a router with a fresh install of Fresh Tomato so none of the settings have been changed yet. The Samba server is on the other side of the access point.

It seems like it should be as simple as making the following alterations in the Network tab:

WAN0 Settings

Type: DHCP -> Disable

LAN

IP address 192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.0.2, DHCP -> Disable

Default Gateway 0.0.0.0 -> 192.168.0.1, Static DNS 0.0.0.0 -> 192.168.0.1

On my other server I would set the Fresh Tomato router as a static IP address.

Whenever I make all these alterations and click save computers connected to the Fresh Tomato router become disconnected from the internet and I can no longer seem to access the router. I've had to reset it.

Is there something I am missing?

Fallout 4 is what comes to mind for me. I hate the dialogue system with a passion. I want to know what my character is going to say. I don't want vague LA Noire-style prompts that are immediately going to go off the rails.

Given the original's respectable modding scene and the remaster being out for nearly a year now I am curious what mods people would recommend.

They don't need to be vanilla or quality of life mods.

Context:

I am running EndeavourOS on my X200S that has Libreboot. I have one drive that is encrypted. A while ago I had issues with my system not booting at all and had to switch to the Linux LTS kernel. I ran sudo pacman -Syu recently and after rebooting I've consistently had this issue.

So far I've tried:

• Reinstalling the linux-lts and linux-lts-headers packages and running mkinitcpio -P. This seems like the typical fix for only being able to boot in intramfs.

• Switching GRUB to loglevel 7 and when trying to boot normally it seems to get stuck on "timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/UUID/the UUID of EndeavourOS". The messages afterwards are about dependencies failing like /sysroot and United Root File System. From what I could find online this seemed like an issue with my drives being mounted so I tried regenerating fstab with genfstab -U -p / >> /etc/root.

Does anyone have an idea of where things went wrong?

By remakes I mean projects like Fallout 4 Capital Wasteland. They're attempting to recreate Fallout 3 in Fallout 4's engine.

There are several in the works but a lot of them eventually lose momentum and are left in limbo or are cancelled all together. Here is a mod that was attempting to recreate the original Fallout in Fallout New Vegas for example. It was cancelled after an extended period of time without any major updates in 2019.

A lot of them also have their own websites or post updates on different platforms like VK, YouTube, Facebook, or Discord so they can be a bit of a challenge to follow. Could someone save me some digging and let me know how they're progressing? Are there any new projects in the works?

I'd be interested in Van Buren remakes as well if you have details.

I'm playing Pokemon Unbound and the clock is out of wack. It also think it's 2024.

I've tried the following options:

• Emulation Station - There's a section to change the time zone but I would need to set the time zone incorrectly to display the correct time.

• RetroArch - I couldn't find anything.

• IUX (the basic system UI) - There's a section to change the time and date under the settings tab. It was way off. Years in the past and completely the wrong time. Changing the settings didn't do anything.

What I think would fix it would be connecting it to the internet using a driverless dongle and a USB C adapter. Unfortunately my wireless adapter doesn't seem to work so I would have to buy another one.

My RG Nano had an option to configure the RTC (real time clock) so I thought there might be a standalone app for it but if there is something like that in PlumOS I can't find it.

The Retro Games Corps How to Make the GKD Pixel II Software Suck Less doesn't seem to say anything about this.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Update: I just read about Rogue OS and it apparently has an app similar to the one I had on my RG Nano. Is one OS really more feature rich than the other?

Update 2: I switched to Rogue OS. The setup process was a bit weird. I had to flash version one then update the SYSTEM file to get the latest version.

Rogue OS seems fine. There were some shaders turned on for GBA I didn't care for and the firmware uses a different core for GBA so I changed both.