Every time it goes on sale, I think about picking it up, but then I remember…

It takes me long enough to finish 10-hour games I already own…

I would love to see what someone could do now in the same vein.

Genki is finally making a new TXR, got announced a few days ago.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2634950/Tokyo_Xtreme_Racer/

I have a work-in-progress list here, strictly games I would consider “must play” in the genre. Notably missing the Ridge Racer and Tokyo Xtreme Racer games because I haven’t played enough of them to have an opinion.

https://howlongtobeat.com/user/atmur/lists/40754/Peak-Racing-Games

Mostly arcade and simcade racers though. If you’re interested in sims:

For modding, Assetto Corsa is basically the modern rFactor.

For offline racing, Automobilista and Raceroom have pretty solid AI. Note: Raceroom’s pricing model is dumb, kind of like iRacing just without the subscription.

For career mode, Project CARS 2 (not 3) is basically the only sim that even tries.

For online racing, ACC and iRacing are unmatched.

For rally, you’re already playing DR2. Richard Burns Rally is also shockingly good for its age.

This website has a decent summary: https://manjarno.pages.dev/

TL:DR: Repeated dumb mistakes that a (relatively) big distro like Manjaro should not be making. Haven’t heard any drama in the past year or so though, so maybe they’ve finally gotten their act together. Time will tell.

For as much as Linux nerds (myself absolutely included) complain about distros like Ubuntu and Manjaro, I’d still take either one over Windows or MacOS any day.

Better Living Through Chemistry is so fucking good

In an ASMR voice:

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Unfortunately, anon died of heart failure after posting this due to consuming “food” from Long John Silvers one (1) time.

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I love watching live service games fail, it never gets old.

I wish my GPU only pulled 80W…

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 had a massive impact on my taste in music.

Need for Speed was that series for me. Pendulum, Justice, The Qemists, Junkie XL, Hyper, Madeon, Feed Me, Nine Inch Nails, Celldweller, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Noisia, Haezer… Man NFS had some killer soundtracks.

Really good, but I did have to remove the screen protector as I was getting line jitter with it on.

Palm rejection is better than I expected but not as good as an iPad.

I’ve been using a Wacom Bamboo Ink Plus. Pressure sensitivity and stuff works out of the box, no additional drivers needed or anything.

Krita is excellent.

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Oh hell yeah I’ve played almost all of both series.

Flatout 1 is alright, hasn’t aged especially well. Suffers from being completely overshadowed by its sequel in every way.

Flatout 2/Ultimate Carnage is still my favorite Bugbear game, with Wreckfest being a close but firm second.

Flatout 3 is.

Flatout 4 is honestly not terrible, but still feels like a cheap imitation of the first 2 games.

Burnout 1 also suffers from sequel shadow.

Burnout 2 is a great arcade racer that no one talks about because…

Burnout 3 is quite possibly the best arcade racer ever made. Absolute masterpiece.

Burnout Revenge is somehow just as good. Whether I prefer this or 3 depends entirely on how much I enjoy traffic checking on that day. I posted Junkie XL - Today to the music community a few days ago because I was playing Revenge recently, what a soundtrack.

Still haven’t played Dominator, should probably get around to that.

Burnout Paradise is also excellent in its own right, but I think going open world took away some of the charm that the previous games had. Tracks were so well designed in 3 and Revenge. Still love Paradise too, but 3 and Revenge are just absurdly good.

Fuck yeah. After Test Drive Solar Crown turned out to be live service garbage, I’ve been waiting for another racing game to look forward to. Hopefully the career mode has a bit more depth than Wreckfest 1.

I can’t imagine a future of non-electric cars (assuming cars remain the dominate form of transportation in the US because we suck). They’re so much better than ICE cars and it’s not even close.

I’ve owned a Spark EV and a Bolt EV, basically the cheapest EVs you can get, and they’re two of the best cars I’ve ever driven. Driving a family member’s brand new ICE Kia felt like going back 50 years. It’s so slow, it makes so much noise, it feels like a boat, ugh.

If I had twice the budget for a car, I’d get an Ioniq 5 or 6. If I had quadruple the budget, I’d get a Lucid. If I had half the budget, I’m going back to the street legal go-kart Spark EV. I just can’t even consider ICE cars as options anymore after getting used to an EV.

The frozen chipotle employee watching me walk behind the counter and make myself a burrito 180 times before time resumes

Linux User Space is excellent. I also listen to Linux Unplugged, 2.5 Admins (not strictly Linux), and The Linux Experiment’s patreon podcast.

This is just blank writable discs, movies and TV shows on bluray will continue to be produced… for now.