Games I Played In 2025

TL;DR

I played 54 games in 2025 - 35 of them for the first time. Most of them were pretty good.

✅ means I rolled credits or otherwise meaningfully played the game to completion or satisfaction.

❌ means I dropped the game.

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Civilization VII: I Have Thoughts

TL;DR

This game is not finished. Give it a few months and a UI overhaul mod or two, and it will likely be excellent, but it’s not worth the price right now.

Civilopedia and Tooltips

The Civilopedia, tooltips, and ui generally are not complete or sufficiently descriptive. Regularly during the game,

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Fixing Discord Audio On Linux

Notes

These steps worked for me using pipewire and pipewire-pulse as originally installed by the archinstall script and using the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 via a usb3.0 slot

Changes

Install realtime-privileges and add your user to the realtime group (see the wiki)
Create /etc/security/limits.d/99-realtime-privileges.conf

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