the atmosphere in o:1886 is great all round; but i've never actually played it because the gameplay looks so shit

nice avatar by the way, i think that's possibly their best album

yeah you did, don't worry

it was just a small semantic feature i happened to notice. i'm impressed you managed to get my meaning even though i apparently used the wrong phrase, though [edit: or possibly i didn't, i guess]

fair enough, it is conjecture either way

perhaps pre-apocalyptic vs post-apocalyptic is a better distinguisher? and i'd say this looks pre; but it could be recently post and the electricity's still running. so i won't fault you for being confused

i mean there could be people in a wasteland (exempli gratia) even though it's clearly post-apocalyptic, so i guess that was bad advice to give you

this is absolutely perfect, and i love it

well it's very annoying. stop pre-empting what i'm about to do

not you too? why is everyone suddenly posting victoria francés?

actually i almost went for sdf instead of l.ee. the reason i didn't was that it seems almost too good to be true? i see so many sites around that proclaim they're hosted on sdf, the biggest text on their homepage says "create a free account" and yet there isn't a donate button

i realise there's one on their lemmy instance, and i might choose them if l.ee does fold, but i felt like i was taking advantage of something meant for others

^i'm^ ^sorry^

it's that it's not currently inhabited by the society that built it

i've been a bit inconsistent with the theme of this 'sphere - my first plan was specifically this kind of depressing and rain-drenched mediæval hamlet sort of thing (i.e. the degradation of the architecture and society in general, hence the original name & url),

but then i realised that's probably a bit niche, considering the current population of lemmy so i expanded it to any type of dystopic village or city

but yeah, the idea is just any currently functioning municipality in which you wouldn't want to live; as opposed to /c/wastelands where there may be a society, but it's collapsed and rebuilt itself (i.e. mad max 3). most likely if the buildings were built from scratch for their current function, it fits here, whereas if they're scratch-built from old vehicle carcasses or whatever, they'd fit better in wastelands.

i know i personally have a predilection toward mediæval and victoriana, but i would also welcome cyberpunk dystopiæ; or any sort of ill-repaired buildings or smog-filled overpopulated cities^[or any type of dystopia, but i have no idea how you'd find art depicting a huxleyan dystopia...]

(sorry that was rambly, i literally have no idea how to describe it..)

this is a userscript that i'm using, and has the option to enable open all links in new tab. i also found this whilst searching for it just now, but i haven't used it

but what device are you using that doesn't have a mouse, trackpad, or ctrl key?

Oh, I’m only on cinnamon atm because I was having issues with my mounted SSDs not working in steam and valve wouldn’t help unless I was on ubuntu. So here I am.

if you have to use ubuntu but want kde, kubuntu is very good (in my personal opinion, don't use neon).

Are there distros that come without this shit by default?

not to my knowledge, although it's a one-line fix (export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1)

If I can get a damn virtual machine to install properly I’m going distro hunting. ElementaryOS has been my favorite so far.

good luck. i tried that and couldn't find anything i liked..