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In the movie, the natives understand Miguel and Tulio, so either the movie's also very inaccurate, or they understand Spanish too. =)

Starbound maybe?

Might not match the hardware and controller requirements since its optimization changes depending on the machine, and the commands are keyboard and mouse-centric so adapting to a 24-keys controller can be hard.

Watching Crunchyroll's releases through Grayjay, if I follow a series as I would subscribe to an Youtube channel (they're treated as the same by Grayjay), they appear in the subscriptions and can be hidden by toggling off the default filter "watched". Also, you can generate a playlist of a series' episodes, and remove each episode as you watch them.

Grayjay's Crunchyroll integration only works if you log in to Crunchyroll and have access to the episodes, though.

Ever checked https://heroicgameslauncher.com/?

It's a launcher for GOG, EGS, Amazon Prime or whatever the name is these days, and still in beta, Zoom Platform. It has native Linux builds as AppImage, so you can run just by launching with the file, without installing anything.

They're also on the fediverse if you'd be interested: @heroiclauncher

Though about the instance itself doing backfilling, it could be pretty taxing on both the requesting and requested instances, so I worry communications may get timed-out or the requesting instance may inflate to the point storage becomes a big concern.

About backfilling, if @modem_down come across any yet unfederated links in the wild, maybe worth mentioning search links are standardized and hard-coded, making even redirect scripts efficient. Like e.g. https://thebrainbin.org/search?search[q]=https://mastodon.social/@artologica@chaos.social/116986639666818550 yielding https://thebrainbin.org/m/random/p/829840 (and using a remote link from a third instance to further make my point hehe).

A lot in Mbin can be improved with Ublock Origin's custom filters, by the way. Like auto-hiding posts you like/dislike, or hiding from the main feed and magazine feeds replies appearing as posts. But I'd suggest not using the infinite scrolling option if using custom filters as that's a massive load on the server and Ublock Origin after enough matches in a single page are done starts misbehaving.

Not an issue but a standard warning. Fediverse instances don't auto-populate, and the author of the original project¹ must have thought it was a good idea to raise awares of that by putting this warning. But if it bothers you and you use Ublock Origin, though no native option to dismiss it are availabe, you can put this in a new line of Ublock Origin's custom filters tab: `thebrainbin.org##.alert__info.alert` ¹Mbin's a fork, and the original software's no longer worked on

Checked how the JP dub was recently, and now I see the English dub as a major improvement 👌

To see only followed people's posts, without seeing subscribed communities' posts, I don't think there's a way.

However, since microblog posts on communities are still rare, one thing you can do is to browse the subscribed microblog feed, https://thebrainbin.org/sub/microblog, as then mostly the people you follow should appear on, and rarely posts to communities.

Also if that's what you seek, you can go to the general settings, https://thebrainbin.org/settings/general, and set "Homepage" as "Subscriptions", and "Front page default view" as "Microblog".

Still playing Mary Skelter Finale. I'm betting it's close to the previous games, 70+ hours for the true ending and most of the optionals.

I can't see such a question without this coming to mind... e.e"

https://tenor.com/view/senator-armstrong-source-i-made-it-up-sauce-take-that-gif-26625795

Also if I may add, having followed GOG for some 9 years now, it always seemed to me like their worst side is transparency/communications, only starting to change in recent years but weakly so. Having them share the information openly, even if by newsletter, is to me quite the improvement already.

Rotating between Mary Skelter Finale and Final Fantasy X-2 Last Mission.

For Mary Skelter, I was curious how to story would end, specially the previous two games being on the higher end of story quality for Idea Factory (bar's not very high but still work well). So far it's good, though gameplay feels more streamlined than the previous two games, likely given the multiple points of view mechanic not given much space for individual gimmicks.

For Last Mission, tbf I started playing as a pure test when I found a backup of my PS3 disc sitting on the PS3's HDD, and I was concerned it could have been corrupted (old HDD and all that). As I kept playing after confirming the disc works, to my surprise, the game is being more fun than I remembered, and for sure more imo than FFX-2 itself. However, it's a game that expects the player to lose a lot, being somewhere between roguelike and roguelite, and proceeding certain floors requiring a bit of moon logic testing randomly or following a guide. Also samurai job with white mage (for curaga/esuna) and alchemist (for item esuna) as secondary jobs ftw! Confuseproof is a good call too (personal experience saying e.e"), and remember to merge whatever job spheres you find for your primary one, so you become a walking tank.

Recently actually 😅

Also dunno how the third is, but the first two I totally recommend 👌

Nothing. I avoid Steam if I can.

Context would be welcomed.

She appears to be a former porn actress and former Italian politician, from skimming Wikipedia, though it’s not clear to me how that translates to the meme from that quick glance.

This raises multiple question. Why her specifically for the trade meme? Couldn’t it be any other porn actress? Or is there some specific reason it must be her? Is she being also a former politician relevant? If so, is it a joke about “fucking” in politics and the sex industry being different things? But if it is, there doesn’t seem to be an indication of contrast in the meme?

Furthermore, most recorded passages of history are still too niche for people to have the context ready to understand jokes related to them. And having to read a whole biography to try to understand a joke kills the funny factor.

And on a tangent, if there is an explanation or logic to the joke, maybe worth posting on !memes@fedinsfw.app too?

Apparently answered already, but in this subject, the site IsThereAnyDeal tracks only legitimate sources and their prices:

https://isthereanydeal.com/

Also a store not being tracked is not necessarily an indication of not being legitimate. The team behind #ITAD is small and each platform tracked increases maintenance/upkeep a lot.

If my rate limit theory is correct, I think it'd depends on how many feeds you're pulling. For a handful few, 100 minutes sounds in my experience. For 1000+, just refreshing might cause timeouts.

Might be an usage rate limit? Try to wait a little and also set Thunderbird to check a bit less frequent.

All Reddit communities and users have RSS natively, so if someone's on a fediverse platform that allows following users (main one Mastodon, but also Friendica, Mbin, Misskey, etc.) and still wishes to follow some Reddit feed, there's @birb. Bots generated through it don't pull images, only the embedded text and link included in the given feed's posts, so the bots shouldn't be as heavy either.

Context: both Hitler and Napoleon when trying to take on Russia, both miscalculated the Russian winter, while the natives kept retreating to grind the invading armies down.

Not familiar with DA: Origins, but being as old of a game and the first from the company (afaik) with such a function, you may notice every once in a while the limits of it. Still, having to cycle between gambits, battle speed and active/wait modes, it gives quite an unique spin on real time strategy. But that if either you are exploring earliest, doing powerleveling, or hunting optional bosses. Usually gambits carry you through most of a normal playthrough if you're smart about them.

Using what I know of the original version and the little I know that changes in this one, doing some slight powerlevelling in Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age.

Still, a bit annoying you can no longer get phoenix downs from Lohen in the Westersand, and best ways now are either a chest in the far corner of the first area of the Estersand, or the rarest drops and steals from an enemy that isn't easy to chain, the cockatrices.

Also glad now FFXII TZA allows resetting jobs. With how long the game can be, making a permanent mistake early on could be... tilting.

Mystic Quest for the SFC with the intent of finishing it before the 31st!

From the little I played of it previously, it seemed fine, far from what people complain about it, specially if thinking "it's a kid's JRPG". Also been partaking in the !12in12 challenge, and this month's been specially long for me.