Gaming

Since I started with the Kubernetes Migration in my Homelab last December, It had gotten a tad bit monomaniacal, spending my free time only on the migration, and almost nothing else. So by beginning of March, I hadn’t even launched Steam in three months, let alone played anything. To remedy that, I went ahead and didn’t just chose any game. Oh no, I chose one of my all-time favorites: Stellaris. It is a game in one of my favorite genres, Grand Strategy or 4x, whichever you prefer. And it is from one of my favorite Grand Strategy studios: Paradox Development, of Hearts of Iron and Victoria fame. I discovered them and Grand Strategy way back with Hearts of Iron II and bought pretty much everything they’ve released up to now. To me, there’s no better 4x studio than PDS. Even Firaxis and their Civilization series only comes close. Yes, I’m a fanboy. And if your think that this is already bad, you might want to stop reading now, because the next paragraph is going to be a love letter to Paradox’ DLC policy. 😉 ...

I’ve been a gamer for all my life, and I’ve been using Linux as my main OS since I started studying computer science and thought to myself “every self-respecting CS student should run Linux”. (I was young and deeply into CS nerd culture okay? It was a different time! 😉) For a long time, those two things, Linux and gaming, didn’t really go together, at least as long as you were a mainstream gamer. So on every machine I used, I always had a Windows partition that was nothing more than a game console. It had Steam, and not much else. ...