FINALLY! I'm super fucking stoked but I'm also super fucking overwhelmed. There's so much more to this game than I thought, and I have no idea how things work but God DAMN do I love it!

My game is modded to hell, I have a lot of them. Naturally, due to all the extra scripts and stuff, it played fine, but it had points where things would lag slightly. Plus, using a mod for punching, I would sometimes hit npcs so hard that their bodies would stretch, skew and deform to such extremes it would absolutely tank my fps and crash the entire deck. However, using 9.0, I've noticed the lag is gone, the game feels smoother, and the punching issue seems to have gone away, because it happened a few times on 9.0 but the game still ran fine. I will add, that before using 9.0 I verified the game files. So, my question is, is it the verification or the new proton that has possibly improved the game? I'm still learning as I go with this thing, so I'd appreciate it if you could help me expand my knowledge on Linux and the deck.

Sometimes I hit an npc so hard with the gorilla arms their body deforms, and the game slows to a crawl. When this happens, I have to exit the game completely. When I get to the main menu of my deck it runs fine but putting it to sleep doesn't work, it just black screens, like its struggling to get caught up from the frame drop in the game. Any idea what's happening?

What's the lore here? Erebus and Canto basically trap the souls of the dead they kill and banish the "soulkilled" to beyond the black wall right? How are these rogue AIs using "dark energy"?

I wrote the lyrics, but the music was the AI.

https://suno.com/song/33940822-5dcd-4e42-ab68-6c6326c20894

Back in the day, as a kid, there was a free shareware game that I played an obnoxious amount of times: Graal. Not the shitty "Graal classic" we have today, (it's a shell of its former self), but the original Graal 1.4.0; I searched EVERYWHERE and I couldn't even get a blip more than old forums about the game reminiscing about the "good old days". It's widely believed that Stefan wiped the OG versions of Graal from the map, but he didn't. But not only have I found it, I've found nearly all the player made creations for it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180312164234/http://nekoroy.com/graal/index.html

The site is long since abandoned it seems, but it has EVERYTHING for the classic graal, from clients to server backups to player made levels, etc, and what's more I actually got the 1.4.0 client running nearly perfect on my steam deck. This, for me at least, is my holy grail. I have a lot of nostalgia for this old game from before it got destroyed for the shitty "new" version we have today, and with it a lot of memories flooding back to me. Probably doesn't seem like much because hardly anyone knows or cares about the original Graal, but for me, it's huge, and I just wanted to share I guess.

What's the lore? What the hell allows the blades to fit neatly back in the arms?

When drinking coffee in Vs Glen apartment, I had a gold, blank dialogue option that only appeared when I was doing the animation. I selected it, and V went "Hehe." Then, nothing, and it won't appear again.

Things immediately come back even after despawning them, and the arcade machine keeps defaulting to the roach race arcade when I'm trying to just get trauma drama. I'll spawn it in as trauma drama, save it, then save the preset, then when I reload the preset, it's fucking roach race again. Am I doing something wrong or is this mod just broken code cobbled together with string and scotch tape?

It took three years but I finally got them their diagnosis and now I don't know what to do next. Their school always gave us issues when we held them to the expectation that my kids would get the help they needed from their school. They refused to let my youngest stay a full day last year for his first year of school, and now CMH (community mental health of Northern michigan) is trying to say he no longer needs their services and should stay in his normal classroom, like they're trying to get rid of him. And with my daughter, they refused to get her onto an IEP before we forced them to. Now that I have the diagnosis, what are my options to ensure my children get the help they need?

I keep reading how hard it is to get this game running. I'm still quite new to Linux. Whats the easiest way to get this game working?