VinesNFluff

I honestly think the US and China might be neck and neck

Both are empires Both are very concerned with both their outward image and with what the peasantry is up to, lest they get too antsy.

And both have very advanced technology and a very well developed media ecosystem at their disposal.

They both probably push out about as much propaganda by weight.

Yeah the US only became....

... The US.

Because of the World Wars.

Europe, the then-seat of every worldwide empire, was killing itself and dragging all of Asia and Africa down with them.

The Americas in general were "safe". Isolated from this chaos. Every country in the New World got a boost from the wars.

.... But the US had a nation that was a. Fully Independent b. Relatively Stable and c. Rich in resources -- So they basically got a decade-and-change of time to develop themselves while everyone who had previosly been rich and powerful was getting fucked, and by the time the dust settled, they were the top dogs just because they were lucky.

Dammit

Why'd they have to make a character that is a representation of corporate media look so goddamn adorable?

I love pretty much every animal depending on how I'm feeling that day.

So here's one pick from each major category I can think of:

• Cnidarian: Portuguese Man-o-war. I just think they're neat.
• Worm: Leeches. They look cool.
• Mollusk: Blue-ringed octopus. Dangerous boios with pretty colours
• Arthropod: Ants. Eusocial insects are so cool!
• Fish: No
• Amphibian: Any large toad. They look funny.
• Reptile: Tegu, they're like the cats of reptiles.
• Bird: Corvids in general. Crows, ravens, etc. Playful smart cuties.
• Mammal: So many choices... But I'll go with Raccoons. They have grabby little hands and funny lil' masks. They are ADORABLE.

I see what you're saying

And it's correct

But

A lot of people also long for the relative simplicity and predictability of peasant life.

What is the entirety of the cottagecore aesthetic if not a longing for that? (well, that and a hint of racism but y'know y'know y'know)

I am decidedly an Irresponsible Adult.

Hey

They didn't just thrust spears

They also thrust their "spears" into their battle-brothers

Greek soldiers were SUPER GAY.

What I'm saying is -- If a lost hoplite ever found themselves in the 21st century, alllllll you'd need to do. Is point them to the nearest gym. They'd bond with the local queer gymbros and IMMEDIATELY feel right at home.

One of them is only known to history by his literal wrestler alias, because he was a wrestler before he became a philosopher.

Greek philosophers would be more perturbed by the fact that we don't have slavery (/DO have automaton slaves for a lot of jobs but DON'T spend 99% of the day fucking around, and instead just keep producing more and more useless shit) than anything related to our jokes and memes.

Lutris is just for organization, and managing the Wineprefixes. I don't even use it as an installer per se. I install manually with wine and then point Lutris to the right prefix and game executable.

Anyway, the steps outright skipped are:

• Having to unlock the FS for writing and set up SSH and (...) -- This is a security liability if you CARE. I don't, I just think it's more effort than necessary.
• Transferring the game folder from a PC to the Deck, since you just. Do it all inside the deck itself.

It's no big deal doing either of those, but I find it less of a hassle.

My procedure for pirated games, on both PC and deck is:

• On terminal, create a prefix by using export WINEPREFIX=. Like /home/myuser/Games/NameOfTheGame/pfx
• Run winetricks -q corefonts -- The fonts ensure the installer won't have any rendering errors, plus running winetricks at least once forces wine to create the prefix's folder structure.
• Run the installer from the same terminal session, just doing wine Setup.exe
• Usually install to /home/myuser/Games/NameOfTheGame/game for organisation's sake, but this is unnecessary and requires dealing with Wine's handling of your unix folders which is always slightly annoying.

From here, you could launch the game directly through Steam, but then Steam would create its own prefix, and some games require fiddling around with the things installed on the wineprefix (or with envvars or...), which is why I use Lutris as a middleman, as it ensures the game will run on the prefix I created, and if anything is missing, I can winetricks it. Lutris even offers a 'create Steam shortcut' option to make it all look neat on the Deck's console mode screen.

This answers a lot and yet nothing at all. Thanks :>

Most of these steps can be skipped by installing the Lutris flatpak on the deck itself and using desktop mode (... Plus an external mouse and keyboard) to set up your pirated games directly from the deck.

Additionally, if you're smart about it you can use syncthing as a ghetto "cloud" solution to synch your progress between PC and deck.

This post would instantly kill a medieval peasant