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- Comment on Space battle games for casual player? 2 weeks ago:
Try out Star Conflict store.steampowered.com/app/212070/Star_Conflict/
It has the following gameplay types that you can switch to and play as long as you like:
- PvE missions where you and other humans (team or randos) battle AI
- PvP missions where its you and your team up against anther human team
- Free Space missions that you can complete solo or in teams
- Free Space exploring where you can jump system-to-system and explore without any objectives
The game studio, Gaijin, is Russian-based and has a tank game War Thunder (infamous for real-world military leaks) and a vehicular combat game called Crossout, though I’ve never played them.
Anyway Star Conflict is free-to-play, pay-to-win (PvP), but if you play the PvE and open space parts you don’t need to invest any money to have fun. You can stick to the lower ship tiers for casual gaming, and switch between fighting styles and ship roles easily. You can pilot blazing-fast interceptors, balanced mid-size fighters, heavy-hitting frigates, or super-slow but massive destroyers, and customize each one with a huge selection of weapon types, shields, and auxillary syatems. The underlying fighting principle is kinda like rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock, so an interceptor can easily solo a destroyer, a destroyer can take out a group of frigates, frigates outpower fighters, fighters hunt interceptors, etc. And the same goes for weapons and shields too, with thermal, EM, and kinetic types and their shield counterparts. If you venture into a space region infested with pirates who use kinetic weapons and thermal shields, then equip your ship with weapons of the opposite type of their shields to maximize damage, and equip shields of the same type as their weapons to minimize damage.
Anyway go try it out and let me know what you think!
- Comment on I finally caught it on tape! The stutter that will randomly happen once per day and I have no idea what's causing it 4 weeks ago:
I had this happen to me too with an AMD card. I tried:
- Updating the BIOS
- Updating Windows
- Updating video drivers
- Unplugging all unused USB devices
- Tried the beta gaming video drivers
- Tried the studio video drivers
- Updated the CPU/chipset driver
- Updated the SSD firmware
- Uninstalled a bunch of programs
- Reinstalled Windows from the factory recovery
- Reinstalled Windows from Microsoft’s USB tool
- Swapped my UPS for regular surge protector
Finally in frustration, i disassembed the computer completely. When i was taking it apart, I noticed something that I couldn’t see from the outside: That one of the motherboard offset screws was stripped and not fully seated. And, because this screw was next to the PCIE slot the graphics card plugged into, the motherboard was slightly warped upwards by a millimeter or two, and prevented the video card from seating fully. I replaced the stripped screw, put the computer back together, with the video card now seated snugly in the PCIE slot.
And the random stuttering was finally GONE!
Maybe you can start at the bottom of my list and work your way up to save time…
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 4 weeks ago:
I think the GUI is more refined and the initial setup a bit easier for casual users. I’m a Jellyfin user, because my online entertainment budget is exactly $0.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 months ago:
Maybe that will happen in those giant urban nightmares they call cities. I moved out of the decaying concrete jungle (Escape From L.A.!) and have been living in small towns for the past decade. Here, live music is made every night, spilling out onto the boardwalk and carried by the wind to brighten and invigorate minds old and new. Real music is an art that will survive the AI apocalypse, and perhaps be the last echo of our civilization, spreading out into the cosmos long after we’re gone, and exchanting distant (alien) minds.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 months ago:
Well, just think about how pervasive cheap junk plastic (toys, food packaging, vehicles, furniture, etc) is in our society, yet there are tons of people who make or buy things made out of high quality materials like solid wood furniture or quality steel kitchen appliances. So, there will always be people who reject imitation and embrace originality (and you can find them at art festivals!)
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 months ago:
I would recommend going to some local art faires, it will soothe your anxiety about the future (of art). I bought a small oil-on-canvas painting of a sailboat at sunset from a young artist at a recent art faire, who was thrilled to talk about art and even tried to give me the painting for free. Creating art by hand is soul-satisfying, and rest assured, my friend, it will never be replaced my AI.
- Comment on Which kind of applications need legacy processor but up to date OS ? 5 months ago:
Most industrial embedded PCs I’ve serviced ran on Windows XP Pro but you’d never see it (under the machine control software that autoruns on boot) unless things had gone pear-shaped. It was kinda trippy how at the time you could find that OS running on everything from grandpa’s old Gateway 2000 all the way up to $100K+ industrial CNC machines and million-dollar medical imaging equipment.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 6 months ago:
You’re correct! And its done such a good job that it’s allowed me to forget (unintentionally) that issue even exists!
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 6 months ago:
I used newpipe for a long time, currently using a fork called pipepipe. I forgot why I switched lol
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 6 months ago:
VW sold the e-Golf in the US between 2015 and 2019, which was available with physical key and no-frills interior - some base models even sported an analog instrument cluster!
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 7 months ago:
Psst the URL is: alternativeto.net I always stop here first to research what software options there are available and also learning what other people are using. Extremely useful and trustworthy site!
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
If you ever figure it out I’d love to know, too. I relied entirely on Libre Office as an undergrad but missed this feature of MS Word. I currently use a combination of Scribbr and Purdue Owl but would prefer an offline and open source solution.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 7 months ago:
I do, and have used them in the past. However I’ve had issues with the profiles getting corrupted. Could be user error ;) Installing Waterfox was easier than trying to sort out my profiles.ini and so as you know, nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix :D
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 7 months ago:
I didn’t see Waterfox mentioned in the article or comments, so I’m giving it a shout out now. Firefox is still my #1 browser, which I have synced to all my critical accounts, and use very cautiously, only using a few trustwothy extensions. However, when I want to explore unfamiliar domains or experiment with lesser-known browser extensions, I’ve relied on the equally dependable Waterfox browser. It’s fast, free, and 99% the same as Firefox except it’s a completely different app so you can basically have 2 Firefoxes set up and customized for completely different roles. Between the two, I can keep Chrome frozen on my phone and off my desktop (although I have a portable Chromium on USB for emergencies).