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The press preview version for Steam's Next Fest is available. The public version starts next week, but you don't need to be press to access it.

It is a bit challenging to find the good stuff right now because you don't have options to sort the list by quality, or for most popular or most wishlisted. But you can have some luck in your discovery queue.

I enjoyed playing Don't Kill Them All, Chained Beasts, CastleOn, Takeover 2, Brigador Killers, Some Type of Trip, and Hollow Home. I still have a handful more demos to test.

Tip: Use 'steam://openurl/' at the start of the url to open links from your browser directly on steam.

steam://openurl/https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest_june26_press/ (just copy and paste this into your browser, and it will ask if you want to open it with Steam).

Every year there is a jam on Itch to make a first person grid based dungeon crawler. Sadly, this year is already done, but there are some fun stuff to play.

My favourite this year is Y2K Crawler, made in Godot and playable in the browser. https://wookbee.itch.io/y2k-crawler

Check this cute firewall

https://lemmy.ca/post/64027827

Just saw this community popup.

Not sure if people here know it, or voted for it yet, but Angine de Poitine is one of the recommendations to represent '.ca' on lemmyvision.

They are bundled in the French category, just follow the link above to check the bands and cast your vote.

It ends May 2nd, 11:59 PM PDT.

Canada already gave it in last time they talked (end of tech tax, retaliatory tariffs, ...). I wonder what they want now, and if Carney will go above and beyond for Trump again (as in he could easily have bound the concessions with the continuity of the negotiations).

I noticed that the community care a bunch about licensing, and since I moved to Linux I have been paying attention to that a lot, for both games I play and software I use.
So I am making a list of tools I use for my campaigns, in person or online, that still work on Linux, or that I found as an alternative to what I used before.

If you are a forever GM you probably have a licence for FoundryVTT, or are used to other online alternatives, or use those editable PDFs. There are plenty of tools out there for more permissive systems. Like my favourite https://compcon.app/#/ for Lancer.

But I think, on the top of my list, for playing and GMming D&D / Pathfinder PCGen is still king. It might also be a sign that I am old as the tool has been around for a long while.

It works the same on Linux as it works on MacOS or WindowsOS. As long as you have java, you just need to extract the release from github (https://github.com/PCGen/pcgen) and run the '.sh' (or .exe). (make sure you got a file like this pcgen-6.08.00RC10.zip that it comes ready to use, as there is a file called Source Code.tar.gz and you will need to take more steps for it to be usable.

I like that it is straightforward to create a char, PCGen helps you at every step. From this screenshot from the website, you can see there is a checklist "Things to be Done", that reminds you of the things you need to do to a given character.

You can use to manage every aspect of your player, and it gives you options to export if you would rather not use it for playing.

More screenshots here (http://pcgen.org/benefits/screenshots/). The website is old, so it does not have https.

There are also some features for GMing, but I never used, I usually print or use a digital file like PDF or HTML.

http://pcgen.org/benefits/gmgen/

Now, the negatives.

Licensing is a problem, it does not ship with less permissive systems. So you will have to add them yourself.

It comes with a bunch of stuff for Pathfinder, but for D&D you will need to fend for yourself on how to find/install PCGen D&D Data Set

Last, the Data Set file format, and the data format. It is daunting to look at, and a bit tricky to work it. It is just some sort of text file, but it depends on a lot of proper data format and indentation. And as the file grows, it becomes hard to manage. It takes some time to get used to it, if you want to create homebrew classes, items, etc...

Here is the wiki - http://159.203.101.162/w/index.php/Data_LST_Standards

It is nice that someone compiled a bunch of videos helping people do that http://pcgen.org/get-help/videos/

I have nothing to do with the development of the tool, I just use it and wanted to share and read about other people experience, suggestions, workflow, etc...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/63094441

The Triple-I Initiative is about to announce a bunch of new indie games (in 10min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShrDsKDQjtc

There is a steam page already https://store.steampowered.com/sale/triple-i-initiative-2026

There are some solid games this year, on top of my list of expectation is Dead as Disco.

The Triple-I Initiative is about to announce a bunch of new indie games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShrDsKDQjtc

There is a steam page already https://store.steampowered.com/sale/triple-i-initiative-2026

There are some solid games this year, on top of my list of expectation is Dead as Disco.

*edit: my bad, I thought it was live, but I was a bit late to click, it was announced 09 PDT / noon EDT / 18 CEST

It would be great if we join it again.

I learned about a bunch of local musicians in the previous editions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c

It is also first in the Distrowatch rank

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=cachyos

I distro hopped to it from Bazzite a couple of months ago, and I could not be happier.

If you try the installer, be careful when selecting multiples DE/WM as the conflicts were not listed anywhere for the installation process.

Picking a single environment and then adding the others later was what worked for me.

The point and click adventure is Linux native, released in 2012

*Edit: Sorry, I did not know how creep this game was when I shared. A friend told me even more shady stories of the bad things you have to do in the game. Like erasing the memory of a love interest after doing some shitty things to her.

I keep seeing news about separatist movement in Alberta. My understanding is that some of their cities do not align with the province.

**Could a city, Edmonton for example, start a separatist movement to stay in Canada? **

On the same note, if the separatists win by a small margin, are they going to force it down to the rest of the population that want to stay Canadian? Or are they going to divide the province land with Canada?

There was an interesting thing during voting, someone noticed their ballot stuck on the urn slit, and asked for help.

They brought this “official” ballot pusher, it was like a long ruler they used to unclog the box. It got me thinking on how archaic is this method, and on the many ways that this can go wrong.

I found that Canada did some study on internet voting, but things are very slow. https://www.canada.ca/en/democratic-institutions/services/reports/online-voting-path-forward-federal-elections.html

News about voting technologies always bring up Estonia as a modern voting system. But it seems that other countries have been successful with electronic or internet voting for around 20 years too.

Another thing I saw is that some of those countries have the voting age down to 16 years. That makes sense to me, they have to live with those decisions longer than I. They can drive and join the army (with parents consent), voting should be added to their rights.

I could not find any organization in Canada taking care of those. And from what I read in the FairVote Canada website, it seems to cover only PR.

I ask it here because I am not sure where to ask, since those seem to make elections "fairer".

tl;dr;

Does Fairvote Canada only covers PR? Do they have any sister organization that would cover:

• Electronic/internet voting?
• lowering the voting age?

Thank you in advance.

Amar Pelos Dois is one of my favourite Eurovision songs, and Zioferblat covers it beautifully.

I am looking for a carpet cleaner machine, but it is ok if works for upholstery as well. I think some of them are also advertised as Steam Cleaner.

The company I see most people recommending, Bissell, is from the USA, and so are most of the other companies I see around except 2:

• Noma
• Dupray

But I cannot find much information on their products online, or reviews of their quality. Noma does not list their product on their website. It appears that none is made in Canada.

Do you have any recommendation on carpet cleaner machine, or where to buy them?

Thank you very much.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has promised to raise the contribution limit on tax-free savings accounts (TFSA) by $5,000 — as long as it's invested in Canadian companies. Andrew Chang breaks down what makes the plan more complicated than it sounds, and who would actually benefit from it.

Alternative YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL1X7mZkuU0