• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This little doodad reminds me of Jenova Chen’s old freeware game flOw. Fun little game, but iirc it isn’t free anymore.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I loved flOw and Flower, but I still haven’t played Journey, I need to get a good ps3 emulator just for that. Also I just checked and the 2006 “student” version of flOw is still free, the 2007 ps3 version is paid.

        • Daxtron2@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Its in steam now and works even better than the original ps3 version! Its also 70% off right now :0

            • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Not much to figure out, just make sure to not get the flatpak/snap. Any non-arcane distro should have a working package, the trick to packing steam being not trying to be smart about things you basically have to give it a libc, gpu, and FHS (chroot or not), it takes care of everything else.

              • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                2 months ago

                This should not be seen as advice for anyone but a very small number of people:

                There is a good purpose for the flatpak. My use for it is Squad’s anti-cheat uses I think a depricated function in C, and the most updated version of glibc doesn’t support it anymore. The flatpak does contain a version of glibc that works, so I have two versions of Steam installed on my system. I only use the flatpak for Squad, because that’s the only game with that issue.

                • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  In principle steam should be able to manage such things by using a different runtime for the game.

            • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              2 months ago

              The vast majority of games on Steam will just work when you hit play on Linux. There’s not much to figure out. You just need to create an account, download the launcher, and purchase the game. You shouldn’t have an issue figuring it out. If you do, feel free to ask for help.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I found this to be interesting. The word (and concept) of a virus predates its actual discovery by over 500 years.

    The English word “virus” comes from the Latin vīrus, which refers to poison and other noxious liquids. Vīrus comes from the same Indo-European root as Sanskrit viṣa, Avestan vīša, and Ancient Greek ἰός (iós), which all mean “poison”. The first attested use of “virus” in English appeared in 1398 in John Trevisa’s translation of Bartholomeus Anglicus’s De Proprietatibus Rerum. Virulent, from Latin virulentus (‘poisonous’), dates to c. 1400. A meaning of ‘agent that causes infectious disease’ is first recorded in 1728, long before the discovery of viruses by Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892.

    • RuBisCO@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      At this scale we’d be seeing with electrons not photons, and everything would be gold coated. It’s unlikely the head would be transparent. But other than that, not bad. False color gets applied to the B&W EM images, which helps.

      Rabies is shaped like a bullet!

        • Zink@programming.devEnglish
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          2 months ago

          That was my takeaway too. I knew Ebola was a big long shape, so it didn’t stand out much, but then “ohhh of course rabies just randomly looks like invisible nano bullets!”

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Dannng. Cool reference pictures, thanks for sharing.

        Complex viruses seem almost too complex to function. Just from a human lead engineering standpoint, I can see so many points of failure

        • dch82@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Viruses throw dung at the wall and see what sticks.

          A real life genetic algorithm, essentially.

    • flora_explora@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      More or less yes, that’s the type of virus we learned about in biology class at least. Although there are various shapes a virus can have. Like covid that is round or other viruses that look more like bacteria.

    • jobby@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Would you prefer it to have a little hat and mysterious (and unnecessary) white gloves ?

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The image is in fact CGI, but yes there are several viruses known as bacteriophages that look like this.

      Trying to find this confirmed electromagnetic scan of this phage led me down a truly fascinating rabbit hole about antibacterial phage therapy, taxonomy, and more. Let your curiosity take the better of you on Wikipedia

    • Beryl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Artist’s view of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria and look like this. They attach to the bacterial wall with these fibers that look like spider legs, and then inject their DNA into the bacteria by contracting the sheath that attaches to the DNA-containing head. They kinda work like a syringe.

      • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        They almost seem like just a “living” reproductive system, as if that’s the entirety of their existence. Like real-life Daleks going “IN-SEM-IN-ATE!”