(And if you haven't played Cryptmaster yet—consider doing that! It's great! You get absolutely golden moments like this one without any GenAI fuckery involved!)

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Meanwhile, you can load up Cryptmaster and have NPCs spout fully-voiced responses, (albeit very SIMPLE responses most of the time, but I digress,) to just about any inane bullshit you could possibly think to type at them.

SKILL. ISSUE.

As someone toying with the notion of possibly getting into Vtubing at some point, this is something I've thought about, yeah. I've loved games for as long as I can remember, and I would hate to get to a point where I can't just enjoy them on my own time.

I totally agree with this.

For real. I'd bought my original copy way back when it was relatively new. Due to Life Stuff™, I lost my whole gaming collection a few years back, which included this and a few other rare games that cost an arm and a leg these days.

And god, I would LOVE to see this game get a statue or something!

Thankfully, I've qualified for free Win10 ESU and have it on a separate boot drive while I still get everything set up and figured out on Mint... But I'd like to eventually get to a point where that isn't necessary anymore.

I will say, as an artist who's recently made the switch to Linux Mint, I actually only had a little trouble getting my natively supported XP-PEN tablet display up and running. It's the software I'm having trouble with. Krita is great for open source freeware, but it ain't Clip Studio or Photoshop.

Right? All the beautiful things these rich fucks are capable of affording with their obscene wealth, and they invariably end up going with just the cheapest, gaudiest-looking shit.

experimenting with brushes