You piqued my curiosity enough to go find this waste of a question:

I have some short-answer questions. The woman who runs the Bombchu Bowling game. What happened to her after seven years. And is she single?

Aonuma: That's something we're not going to touch, and I'll leave it to your imagination.

Direct question... does this have any value for a Steam game, given Steam already does this? Might be very worthwhile for Heroic launcher or something, but if I play mostly on Steam on Linux do I have any reason to care about this?

Wow, that's fast. Crazy. And on the stable branch, no less.

Pardon my ignorance here, does this eventually extend to Silverblue and thereby Bazzite? Or are those further removed?

Amethyst is amazing, so happy with it so far, have used it for both Nexus mods and some BepinEx Thunderstore mods, works great for each. So nice to have a native option.

Oh, that's fantastic to hear. I've been quite annoyed as well, and don't really want a local video player, even with good options. I mostly just want to poke around YouTube, poke around for something stupid like a guy base jumping with a 360 camera, say "that's neat", and go back to gaming on it. Having to find some YT downloader to sit in the middle of that kinda ruins the appeal, even if it would work.

Thanks for the tip! I'd seen them on the steam page and wondered if they were important/worth playing first.

Yeah, I also got to play through Black Mesa as my first ever HL1 experience last year! Very cool, although uh... not especially balanced for controller, VR evens the scales a bit, which is why I waited for the Steam Frame rather than playing them back to back.

I'm finding the experience pretty interesting. The game is great, ofc, but I'm finding VR affects it in a few ways. Firstly, way scarier, I have a visceral "hell no" reaction to head crabs here that I didn't in Black Mesa. I'm also finding some of the puzzles much harder for whatever reason, I think because of the sense of scale and immersion. Need to put more thought into exactly why that is though. Gunplay is dramatically better than it was on a controller, ofc. I still need practice, but I can pretty reasonably go for headshots now and aim fast enough for head crabs.

All in all, solid experience, eager to finish it. I've got a lot of story questions and such too, which is rad. I must be one of the only people playing HL2 spoiler free around. Also eager to play Alyx too, ofc, and see how that differs in that it's designed bespoke for VR.

Oh, excellent! I didn't realize that wasn't already supported, but that'll be an excellent feature for when I get to it (Currently working through HL2 VR, my first ever playthrough of HL2).

Yeah, I've been using Qwen 3.8 lately, the infamous overthinker, and ooh boy watching it think made me realize my context is full of contradictions. Using Hermes, and by default it came chock full of skills that are very uh... not my ethos.

For example, I impressed upon it immediately to never commit to git, but I've seen Qwen confuse itself repeatedly because half the default skills: review, plan, execute a plan, etc all include instructions to commit often, with lots of little commits after every step. Makes sense if you're all-in on AI and don't even read your commits anymore, but I very much do, and need to present the final product to my coworkers with confidence. And I've also seen my own skills include contradictions, the AI getting confused and hardcoding its misunderstandings into self-written skills for it to reference.

So I can definitely agree, if you're using a tool like Hermes, and not watching the thought traces with a self-doubting AI like Qwen, your context is probably full of contradictions too.

Huh, talk about a feature that's so close to great. With a little "automatically translated from language by Reddit" that sounds awesome.

Good tip! I'll definitely be checking this out, as someone who also uses Qwen3.8 27B. The capability leap over the model I used before is definitely worthwhile, but wow does it overthink really easily.