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FPS titles with great environmental world-building? e.g. Alien: Isolation, Metro, DOOM '16, even Portal 2 counts -- games that feel like real, lived-in places and not just a series of arenas.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

All three base games. So many mods.

The zone feels vast, lived in, dangerous.

The ai is dynamic, moving through an area once you mind find a group of friendlies engaged in a firefight with a powerful psychic mutant, and other time find an eerily peaceful vista.

It's not a power fantasy. On harder difficulties you're always on edge when you're exploring even with end game gear. A single bullet from a sniper or a random pack of wild dogs can easily end your run.

Highly recommended of you've never experienced it before.

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None so Vile changed the game as far as death metal goes. Super aggressive, sloppy sounding production, lord wrym in his tight leather pants. You've got a solid back catalogue to visit. Check out Phobophile, that's one of my favourite tracks.

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FPS titles with great environmental world-building? e.g. Alien: Isolation, Metro, DOOM '16, even Portal 2 counts -- games that feel like real, lived-in places and not just a series of arenas.

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Pripyat is the more polished game mechanically. SoC has the best story. They're more or less equal in atmosphere.

I bounced off SoC the first time I played it, but after I finished Pripyat the first time I gave SoC another go and I got totally immersed.

It's hard to recommend one over the other. They're both great.

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Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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Looks like someone made a tutorial specific to tomb engine and wine: here Doesn't look super complicated compared to some other windows only applications I've been tasked with getting working, (I'm looking at you proprietary Harley Davidson software my father in law was struggling with).

It boils down to a) install wine, b) install winetricks c) install tomb engine, d) use winetricks to fix a dll.

You're right though; Native wine isn't particularly noob friendly.

Alternatively you could try bottles (basically wine with a better GUI) or just install your application using native wine, then add it to steam as a non-steam application and enable proton compatibility (this works surprisingly often with no extra config weirdness).

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Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty

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It's actually quite simple to determine who an organization uses for their mail and data. All you need to do is review a domains DNS records (using a tool like dnschecker.org) and look at the MX record.

For Microsoft/office365, you'll see some variation of "protection.outlook.com"/"exchange.domain.com". For google, you'll see a variation of " MX.google.com".

DNS records are public information. The two biggest players in the space are Microsoft and google, the majority of SMBs do not host their own mail servers.

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