Saints Row 2-3-4 are great for this. 2 is the GOAT, but 3 and 4 are arguably better at providing the “screwing around” experience.

Sleeping Dogs is underrated and regularly goes on sale for like $5. There is not as much sandbox-ey stuff to do compared to GTA/Just Cause/Saints Row, but I loved jacking a nice car and cruising the freeway at night, or going on a murder spree and playing survival against waves of cops.

Elder Scrolls isn’t necessarily as wacky of an experience out of the box, but between mods and the sheer amount of freedom you have in the game, there is plenty of dumb random stuff you can get up to.

If you have Elden Ring on PS4/5 and know your way around the game, invasions have a ton of potential for shenanigans. Probably not what you’re after, and I imagine multiplayer activity is down since Nightreign came out, but it’s worth mentioning as such a unique experience.

Honourable indie mention: Mars First Logistics is a game where you build vehicles and use them to transport objects from point A to point B. The challenges are largely physics-based, with the objects often having unusual shapes or odd properties, and your vehicle needs to be able to self-load them in addition to bearing them across varying distances and terrains. It’s not really what you’re asking for, but I feel like it scratched the same sort of itch for me in terms of open-ended low-stakes gameplay.

I have no C# experience and both styles look fine to me. /shrug

WTAF. I was sceptical, but I’ve been using this all week and haven’t once had the issue in the OP. Whereas previously I had to log in 2-3 times back to back every morning.

Any idea why this works?

So how’s your brain coming along?

How do I make this my career path

Trainpotting

Write about a character in a new, strange situation!

ShindoL:

I would word it as: I should not have to allow strangers to execute arbitrary code on my PC just so I can view some text and/or images.

Damn, I knew shrinkflation was getting bad but this is crazy

Please place item in the bagging area. 💁‍♀️

🗣️📢 UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA 🚨🚨🚨

Maybe we could turn it around: adblockers are tools that block ads and other kinds of dark traffic such as trackers and malicious scripts.

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I thlammed my penith in the thower door

No webRTC apps work for me at all in Firefox. Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, whatever. I can connect but there is no video or audio in either direction.

RIP Presto :( I wish they had open-sourced it when they abandoned it

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Thanks for the heads up. I’m fine with X11 for general usage, but I’ve read that games tend to perform better under Wayland, so that’s probably going to be an important factor.

Imagine the answer to the Fermi paradox being that the aliens found us and immediately quarantined our entire planetary system.

This is my first time hearing of Bottles. It looks like it serves a similar purpose to Lutris? Have you used both, and if so, how do they compare?

Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds like Mint is mostly pretty manageable for a casual user, which is good news for me.

I think a lot of Linux programs have moved to a distribution format called “flatpak” which I am not super familiar with, but I believe behaves the way you prefer (just download the app file and run it). Though fwiw, the command-line script installers are generally not actually doing much different from installers on Windows or Mac - they’re just not hidden behind a progress bar.