Still spoiler, obviously

AoC is technically deviating from BotW right from the beginning, because the starter point is the time portal from the very beginning (that originated from Zelda’s prayer in the canon Hateno wall battle).

It changes a lot right from the start. Thanks to the little guardian, the Sheika slate gets full power immediately and they get to unlock the towers and their teleport function. On the other side, Astor who is not known to have played any role after the prophecy in BotW gets a literal incarnation of his god to worship through the Malice infected guardian.

And it has a huge effect before Hateno wall, since Astor uses that to betray the great Kohga IIRC.

And it also makes Zelda’s progression arc a bit weird, because even before awakening, the powered-up slate makes her quite powerful.

My modlist is a mess, but I’ll try to list the ones I can think of right now.

The ones that really make VR worthwhile are VRIK (the body + holsters mod), HIGGS and PLANCK (body physics), Spell Wheel (gives you 2 hand-controlled radial menus, quick access to not just spells but really any power/item you want to put there). Weapon Throw VR is exactly what it sounds like and VR arsenal adds more stuff to yeet, very fun. Interactive Activators VR lets you manipulate levers/pull chains/etc physically too. In general everything made/maintained by Shizof is worth looking at.

Graphics mods are mostly a matter of preference, but for starters I use the Cathedral collection for plant replacers, and the static mesh improvement mod (SMIM).

For bodies I use oBody NG, that lets you configure different body frames depending on race and other stuff (with possible randomness on an NPC basis). Not sure I would recommend oBody though unless you want to spend a lot of time messing with stuff, because it requires Racemenu, and attempts to port it to VR still have a ton of issues. It can work, but it’s not easy.

I’ve tried several lighting mods, ended up on lux customised to be quite brighter, it’s a bit better than vanilla bit nothing I tried was a perfect fit. I suspect my headset doesn’t allow quite enough contrast for dark scenes to look good. I tried community shaders but never could get them to work. Broken shaders in VR tend to hurt the eyes a lot.

Lots of standard Skyrim SE mods work, but you’d better find some that are fully voiced, because though there is a VR version of Fuz Ro D-oh (the “subtitles on non-voiced dialogue” mod), it has the IMO major issue of forcing subtitles all the time, not just for missing voices. It’s very distracting in VR.

A mod like 3DNPC for example works very well.

From someone who really liked Age of Calamity, the one based on Breath of the Wild, if you haven’t yet, play that one rather than Age of Imprisonment. Age of Imprisonment is just not as fun.

Most of its characters feel bland, unlike the crazy movesets and unexpected characters from AoC. This time they had to create a lot of new characters while the first one had them already established, but the new ones are mostly uninspired.

While AoC had slate powers that were interpreted differently for all characters, AoI replaces that with the Zonai artefacts that work the same for everyone. There are also individual powers that are slightly different, but they use the same slots as the artefacts, and unlike them they have long cooldowns, so you end up equipping the convenient but boring gizmos instead.

And the worst part, the game never challenges you. There are very tight battles in AoC having you running through the map and using a bit of strategic planning, and messy but exciting fights against several dangerous enemies at once. This never happens in AoI, it’s mostly routine.

Base Skyrim VR feels like another quick and dirty “it just works” job from Bethesda, and is not that amazing.

Modded Skyrim VR though is pretty great. With some mods, instead of just being a floating weapon, you get a body that can physically interact with stuff, you can take weapons from holsters, have other move-based real-time shortcuts that greatly reduce your need to go through menus, you can throw your weapons, etc.

And some level of graphical update definitely helps too, especially plant replacers IMO. The very basic Bethesda models look terrible when they’re literally in your face.

Regarding motion sickness, I personally don’t feel any even in smooth movement and after long sessions, but that might not be for everyone. Like many open VR games there is a teleport movement style where you can just skip to a target. Skyrim is kind of a slow game, though, so even smooth doesn’t feel terrible. Probably best keeping fixed-angle rotation though.

I may have been on lemmy for a while, but I only got seriously into linux for like 2 months. Part because I am fed up with the AI/advertising bullshit in recent Windows, part because of end of support for my hardware. So, that definitely happens.

My previous personal desktop linux attempts were like early 00s and didn’t last long so I don’t think I’m officially part of the cult yet. I work with linux, I tinkered a bit with RasPi debians, but it’s the first time I am really considering it for my all purpose PC.

I still have a PC on W11. I am not in a hurry to convert it, because there is still stuff stucked on windows that I don’t expect will be easy to replace. Like Virtual Desktop.

I think I’m too sober for this shit.

One of my 2 PCs already switched to linux because of mandatory TPM 2.0 for windows.

It’s like they want us to leave their ecosystem. Requiring hardware changes in the middle of a major component crisis, one that they are in no small part responsible for, is certainly a choice.

No actual date, but they said recently it was scheduled for “spring”.

I am a backer and they haven’t started surveying for platforms yet, in any case.

I am ready to believe those that allowed this law to pass were.

Well, another big hint is how the thing answered by addressing a username that wasn’t part of the exchange, twice. And then messed up the “@” when they pointed that to it.

If it’s even manually copy-pasted, the guy doing that didn’t allocate a single braincell to what was being discussed.

The great thing about asking gen AI to look for problems, is that it’s so helpful it will create new ones for you.

Like arguing for hours that if you were to remove safeguards from your code, it would become unsafe.

https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307

Oh cool, now there’s a new way of using AI to destroy the environment. Old one wasn’t deliberate enough.

would increase costs

For us? Microsoft licences aren’t exactly cheap, keep getting more expensive, and every single basic functionality is an extra.

cybersecurity risks,

Trust the megacorp with a huge target on its back that will deny any responsibility when it fucks up instead.

limit AI and cloud services

Sounds exclusively like a “you” problem.

expand government control in ways that can undermine civil liberties and enable censorship,

Sure, give that control to the US government instead.

Fuck that bullshit. Hopefully no clueless politician falls for it.

Not a company since I’m in public administration, but my structure has a few thousands workers, most of them having access in some form to the network.

They do filter our internet. I don’t give a fuck whether people consume porn with their own devices and connections. But if you can download porn, you can download anything, including malware. And a bad actor having access to data on our network would be disastrous.

Unfortunately, meta has that kind of data too. In fact hoarding private data is what their business is about. Not securing their network is criminal.

I get it, I mean, what else would you do with a carrot cake?

Yuck.

Absolutely. Or, as they say, “sporadic” amounts.

I don’t think I really care who wins that one, but :

Meta responded in October by filing a motion to dismiss, arguing the sporadic downloads were consistent with ordinary ‘personal use’ by employees and visitors on the corporate network.

Oh, yeah, just your ordinary downloading porn on the corporate network of a tech giant megacorp, as you do.

Either a lie or an admission of baffling incompetence.

The collective works of billions of people are up for grab to train a LLM without their consent, but a couple gigabytes of responses collected from another parrot machine is theft.

Sure, Anthropic.

That’s okay because even though I’m cursed with a rather vivid imagination, in this case the resulting image looks like abstract nonsense.

I don’t have access to my machine right now, so I can’t check exactly what worked for me. I didn’t have the previous configuration either (the lutris scripts I used to install the games must have done this), so I just tried other options I had for runners. When I checked them they were all set on the last entry on the list.

I think for the 32-bit prefix error I had to choose a wine one instead (probably latest wine-GE).

For others that didn’t show anything but had the gamemode error in logs, I switched to another proton version. I remembered being confused seeing two slightly differently worded entries that looked like latest proton GE, and using the other one worked.