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- Comment on Have you guys played Super Mario Bros Remastered??? 4 days ago:
I’ve never heard of this but I knew one of the host names (replacing the toads) sounded familiar for some reason, turns out he was a major character in yakuza 6 lmao
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 week ago:
It was kind of weird to me how a lot of folks didn’t seem happy with that one. I played the hell out of the original and the remake was almost 1:1 aside from the graphical updates and a small handful of QoL. They did a phenomenal job with it and really nailed the combat and vibes of the original in the best ways.
Dropping the entire studio like this is so fucked.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
I get that, but to me it’s honestly less about the inclusions, especially given the dev timeline, but more about defending it so staunchly today with his whole “balancing out” shtick. It doesn’t seem like anyone was actually paid for it, let alone under contract, so it would’ve been so easy to just go “yeah this is kind of fucked up after everything that’s happened, let’s cut these out before release” instead of doubling down on it and defending the inclusion of literal nazis and rapists.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
Yeah honestly, like I can’t say I forgive his past shit but he’s absolutely come a LONG way from those days, credit where it’s due. I’m more concerned about including literal nazis (the Kleins) and an actual rapist (Chrischan), along with not clearly communicating any of this to the people he pulled in.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
The game itself is really fucking good, I’ll give them that, but I stopped playing the moment I learned about the cast list and McMillen doubling down on it. Incredibly disappointed in this centrist bullshit to the say the least.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I need to figure this out for my wife, she got one recently and I’ve been dabbling with different services but haven’t hooked the thing up to anything yet. Right now I’ve got Shelfmark and Booklore running which seem like they’ll do the job just fine, but need to explore some more
- Comment on Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment" 1 week ago:
Ah maybe the article I was reading was a bit dated, good to know it might be on the horizon. Honestly I almost worry the dev’s gonna get slapped with a cease and desist because it’s almost literally a discord clone in every single way.
It did rub me the wrong way at first to see paywalled features already, but reading it more closely it seems to be mostly to offset server costs, and a self-hosted server seems to have all the paid upgrades available by default, so that seems fair enough.
After playing with all 3 a bit, I have a feeling Fluxer might be the one that sticks, mostly due to the ease of use and familiarity.
- Comment on Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment" 1 week ago:
The one I’ve been seeing crop up a lot these past couple days is Fluxer, which is literally almost a 1:1 discord clone, even more than Stoat. Though E2EE isn’t currently on the solo dev’s roadmap, which is a shame.
Matrix seems like the best bet in terms of privacy and security, but I swear every single client is hot garbage for some reason or another. I can’t imagine non-tech-savvy users will ever be willing to stick to it.
Realistically I think Stoat or Fluxer is going to win out here. I’m setting up all 3 for now, and I plan to ditch discord completely at the end of this month.
- Comment on Watch YouTube privately - Materialious 1 week ago:
I route my Invidious containers through Gluetun and it usually works fine. Occasionally I need to restart the stack to change the IP but for the most part it works great.
- Comment on Overseerr & Jellyseerr to merge into Seerr 1 week ago:
Doesn’t seem like OIDC made it into the new release, weird. It’s been working fine on the preview branch for ages.
- Comment on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification 2 weeks ago:
Yeah this one seems like the one to keep an eye on, but seems like there’s no equivalent mobile client yet, and it’s still missing some key features.
- Comment on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification 2 weeks ago:
This is my experience with it so far. The bones are there but the current clients are all far from a replacement.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I sunk a couple hours into it today, pretty good stuff so far, though strategy games aren’t usually my forte so I’m just full sending cats out at random lmao
It’s unmistakably an Edmund game, that’s for sure.
- Comment on GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform 2 weeks ago:
You know I didn’t even realize I said this and I’m gonna start using this one LMFAO
- Comment on GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, seems like this has been around for a while but I haven’t heard of it until now. With how much Discord’s shitting the fan and becoming (well, always has been) a privacy nightmare, this seems worth a try. The alternatives out there either need time to mature (Stoat) or don’t really fill the same role (Matrix).
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 3 weeks ago:
I played through it once (twice?) and put a good amount of time into endgame. Fun game for a bit, better than 3 at least, but god the performance is abysmal.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
All the random bullshit they kept adding and the emphasis on hats are what made me stop playing it around that time. Definitely want to give this a shot
- Comment on Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Demo Available Now | RPGFan 5 weeks ago:
I wasn’t the biggest fan of Gaiden (the Daidoji in general are imo one of the worst plot devices they’ve ever introduced), but 7 was phenomenal for sure. 3, 4, and 5 are admittedly all over the place and products of the time, but each has their merits.
Never go for Y5’s platinum completion though. Worst mistake of my life.
- Comment on Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Demo Available Now | RPGFan 5 weeks ago:
It’s sad how much this franchise has fallen off since Nagoshi left. The demo may have been some of the worst combat and visuals I’ve experienced in this series, and I’ve 100%'d every single game. A clunky mess in an oversaturated world with 3 movesets that all feel like amateur modpacks. Plus Rikiya’s recast is extremely jarring especially next to Mikio, they brought back the annoying friendship thing from IW/Pirates and made it worse, so many issues already.
And that’s just the demo experience, let alone how the full game recast Hamazaki with a known sex pest (should’ve kept the original model but with a new VA, since the old VA was actually even worse in that regard).
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround 1 month ago:
C-suite drove that game into the ground with dogshit decisions for the past 3-4 years, and that’s just the game itself- the way that studio treats their devs is abysmal.
- Comment on How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates) 1 month ago:
I’ve been eyeballing this one for a while, along with OpenFortress. Also found Gold Rush today which seems to be EXACTLY what I’m looking for (and the things they’re avoiding are literally the reasons I stopped playing TF2 around 2011ish). Unfortunately the playercounts for these sorts of mods are abysmally low.
- Comment on Anybody out there self hosting Searxing? 1 month ago:
Usually if this happens for me it’s an issue with the gluetun end, since all the big names love to throttle known VPNs. Fixes itself after a few minutes, but if I’m not feeling lazy a quick stack restart tends to fix it too.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 months ago:
Yeah this is something that keeps getting completely lost in this conversation.
The assets in question were from development during 2022-2023 at the latest. GenAI image tools at that time were extremely primitive compared to what’s out there now - remember DallE-Mini? That’s the kind of thing they were using. And because these tools hadn’t breached containment yet, literally no one was talking about ethical issues yet. Sandfall was basically just experimenting with brand new tech long before it was “good” and long before anyone was talking about it.
Now? It’s good to see them committed to avoiding it. GenAI is a plague and should be treated as such. But 2022-ish was totally different than today.
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 2 months ago:
I was already leaning against getting a Switch 2 when they first announced it, but advertising a tech demo as a paid product sealed it for me.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
A contractor used it for placeholder background assets in 2022 when the best genAI tech available was DallE-Mini and literally no one was even remotely aware of any ethical concerns yet.
Like I get that time feels nonexistent since 2020 but people seem to forget genAI was literally not even a known thing until 2024 at the earliest.
Today genAI and all those who support it in any capacity deserve to rot in hell, and it shouldn’t even be used for placeholders or concepts at any stage in the process. That’s a given. But why are we applying 2025 standards to something clearly done at a time before anyone knew anything about this shit?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
GenAI shouldn’t be used in any part of the process, including concepts and placeholders.
That being said, the assets that slipped through in E33 were from 2022. The most powerful publicly available genAI tool at the time was fuckin DallE-Mini, which basically just spit out fuzzy messes. None of the ethical concerns were common knowledge yet, Altman and his ilk were basically nobodies at the time, this was far before any of the current tools and companies that are driving everything to hell.
On top of that, there’s a dogshit article going around where Sandfall says they “use a small bit of AI” internally, and elaborate that they’re referring to Unreal machine learning tools and such, not genAI.
Fuck genAI, fuck Altman, and fuck anyone who intentionally uses any of this shit today, but the E33 case is a literal non-issue. They had 2022 fuzzy garbage slip through the cracks, immediately removed it, and there’s absolutely nothing to indicate that they’re using the modern, problematic tech today.
The only issue here is that there’s no reason for it to be considered an indie game. That’s it.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Also based on development timelines, these couple of textures were likely from the DallE-Mini era, long before anyone was even talking about ethical concerns with the tech and before fuckass Altman was a known name.
There’s another article going around where they say they use a “little bit” of AI but they’re very obviously referring to Unreal tools and regular old machine learning.
This whole thing is dramatically overblown. Absolutely fuck genAI and every data center should be bulldozed over. But this is a huge case over literally nothing.
- Comment on One of the most hilarious 2000s indie game tutorials. 2 months ago:
God I forgot about this one. Spent so much time with this back in high school before Clone Hero took over.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 2 months ago:
I’ve thought about switching to Technitium but dealing with network tools is a whole can of worms I don’t want to open up again until PiHole or Unbound shits the bed on me lmao. PiHole’s working just fine for what I need it to do.
