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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon is delayed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, I get that. It’s not exactly something you can copyright. But when the entire art style heavily leverages stolen assets, that’s not a good look - I imagine they’re stuck redoing nearly everything from scratch just so they can be sure to remove anything that was stolen.

  I have zero faith in anything Bungie does though until Pete Parsons bites the curb and the studio becomes developer-owned though so I’m sure something will slip through the cracks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon is delayed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually almost surprised they didn’t just pull it entirely after this. It’s not like it’s just one or two assets, the entire goddamn art style ripped off that artist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Access homeserver through VPN + route traffic with mullvad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I feel like v15 released a bit too early outside of preview builds. It’s a substantial improvement but doesn’t feel quite ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Access homeserver through VPN + route traffic with mullvad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done exactly this with wg-easy.

  My config here is for v14, you’ll want to pin the image version: github.com/qdm12/gluetun/discussions/1192#discuss…

  In the same thread, someone posted a fantastic guide to get it working with v15: blog.bktus.com/en/archives/2918/

  V15 was giving me issues because it didn’t allow you to disable ipv6, but apparently the latest edge builds do. I haven’t tried that yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t day D4 is a good game but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. I stopped playing right after VoH came out, and the direction that expansion was taking the game didn’t interest me, but it was a fun time overall. Not a very deep game though and endgame was basically non-existent since everything falls over at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I started with Shadowkeep and I got sucked in hard for 5 years. The first year or two I heard these sorts of negative comments here and there, mostly from long-term players, but didn’t think much of it.

  Fast forward to this past year, and Revenant is what made me say fuck it and drop the game entirely. I was already sick of the state of the game, powercreep to hell and back, pvp in the dumpster, nonexistent loot, etc etc. But jesus that season was eye-opening.

  I was also a major completionist - near max triumph score, never missed a day 1 raid from DSC onwards til unfortunate scheduling fucked our SE run, every GM soloed to that point, shit like that. Missing that one single season and a couple shitty little time-limited events was enough to feel like I’d fallen behind, and that was it. Booted up the game once since to check out Heresy, activity was the same shit as always, loot was dogshit, so I checked out right away.

  And that’s just the gameplay gripes. Bungie as a studio is toxic as fuck in so many ways and I can never in good conscience support them again.

  It took a few years but I finally understand what people were telling me way back when I started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even TF2 gave special cosmetics and stuff to existing players when it went F2P ages ago. It’s a standard practice at this point. I sunk 12k hours into D2 until I quit it for good this past fall, and looking back I swear I just notice more and more red flags like this that I hadn’t thought too much about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, but personally I have no need to expose anything and would rather avoid the security headaches and such that come with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well a VPS or an exposed service, but I feel like the latter ends up somewhat defeating the purpose anyway.

  When running locally (not exposed), it worked great until I tried to make the initial connection from mobile data - can’t establish a connection to headscale if it can’t reach it in the first place. Unless I’m mistaken, the headscale service needs to be publicly accessible in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided to experiment a bit with Headscale when the wg-easy v15 update broke my chained VPN setup. Got it all set up with Headplane for a UI, worked amazingly, until I learned I was supposed to set it all up on a VPS instead and couldn’t actually access it if I wasn’t initially on my home network, oops.

  I might play around with it again down the road with a cheap VPS, didn’t take long to get it going, but realistically my setup’s access is 95% me and 5% my wife so Wireguard works fine (reverted back to wg-easy v14 until v15 allows disabling ipv6 though, since that seemed to be what was causing the issues I’ve been seeing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Juggling a lot at once right now.

  • Been working on platinums/100% for every single RGG game since Feb last year. Currently on Yakuza 2 (HD PS3 port since it actually has trophies but is entirely in Japanese lmao) and Kurohyou 1. Kurohyou 2 and Kenzan are the last games left after these.

  • Deltarune Ch 3 and 4 are gonna eat up a LOT of time this week and next

  • Sunk 20 hours into Nightreign, still haven’t beaten the first big boss because matchmaking is a nightmare. Might revisit this when some friends actually want to run it for once idk. Fun game but one bad teammate can fuck the whole run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better music management⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I set this up since this reply and it’s phenomenal, what a difference compared to the old way. Thanks a ton for the rec

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshot of my current game! Lies of P⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After trying Code Vein because of similar hype and dropping it 2 hours in, I expected the same from this game, but goddamn it’s phenomenal. Absolutely worth playing through. It feels like a love letter to Fromsoft, rather than trying to just do what they do - the inspiration is obvious, but it still feels like its own unique thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better music management⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit I hadn’t heard of this one. Soularr feels kind of like a hack and is annoying to wrangle, so a direct integration would be huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TRUE, I knew I was forgetting something else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was thinking of BL4. Still pretty egregious though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft (and by extension id and Bethesda) are a priority target for the BDS boycotts against Israel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s see

  • The game itself takes away a lot of pieces of the formula that made 2016 and Eternal so good
  • $80 price tag
  • BDS boycott

  I’m shocked that it’s not selling, absolutely shocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better music management⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried Jellyfin for music in addition to tv and movies, but ended up dropping that part. I set up Navidrome with beets - the adjustment is using album artist instead of just artist everywhere.

  Full stack:

  • Navidrome server
  • beets for management
  • Feishin client (local on my desktop, though I do have it hosted too for the hell of it)
  • Symfonium (mobile app, abour $6 but absolutely worth it)
  • Lidarr
  • slskd
  • Soularr (integrates the two above - it’s a bit hacky but it works fairly well)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the wake of all the layoffs and such I don’t know if any former employees have (as vaguely as possible) discussed the codebase yet. It seems like such an absolute nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, that game is still playable online?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hold up link me the discord, I played the absolute fuck out of this game as a kid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to MZLA Pocket?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just set up Readeck today. I’ve never used pocket or anything of the sort but it’s already proving pretty useful. I tend to do a lot of 100%/platinum runs of various games and I’ve been tossing guide bookmarks in a folder for ages, this is a great way to sort those out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll gladly buy indies, breakout titles with huge reception (BG3, E33 etc), or games from well renowned studios that have yet to let me down. Anything else I’m fine waiting for a sale. With these $80 price tags I don’t see myself buying a AAA title again for a LONG time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s actually so funny about that one is it’s actually kind of a fun game? Like don’t get me wrong it’s dogshit, but it’s fun dogshit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little bit of everything.

  I haven’t really dabbled with tech much outside of work since college. This year, I started on a huge journey to change that for a couple of reasons:

  • The ongoing technofascist shitshow was the biggest motivator. I want to move as far away from big tech as possible. I’m sick of passively supporting companies that supply and fund genocides, steal and cheat their way to billions, and shove AI bullshit into everything.
  • Regaining control and privacy. This goes hand-in-hand with the previous point. Complacency is part of how we got here.
  • On a personal note, I quit Twitch streaming last year after a decade, and frankly just needed a new hobby.
  • The Steam Deck showed me that gaming on Linux day-to-day is extremely viable after all these years. Last time I tried a Linux desktop, it was practically non-existent outside of Valve porting the Orange Box.
  • It just makes for some interesting projects

  I’ve done all of this in the past 5 months:

  • Got a new desktop (I just needed the upgrade in general), tweaked the hell out of Windows on it, but wanted more
  • Scrapped that plan and set up a CachyOS dual boot. I’ve touched Windows maybe 5 times since then. I keep it around just in case but I never use it.
  • Wiped my bloated phone and installed GrapheneOS
  • Started making some moves on the software side: finally bought a good VPN, moved off GMail to Tuta, started using LibreWolf and Fennec, etc etc.
  • In that process, I got a cheap VPS and set up NextCloud as a Drive replacement. No idea what I was doing, security nightmare I’m sure, and I ended up scrapping that and going the full selfhost route
  • Now I’m selfhosting 40ish services on a mini PC that not only replace big tech products I used to use, but also add so much more utility
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew out of just about everything in my old digital library so it’s been long gone, but I didn’t realize just how much stuff I had on my old bandcamp account already. Grabbed all of that, bought a bunch more, obtained everything else from my Tidal rotations and slapped it all into Navidrome.

  The initial setup is definitely a pain but the payoff has been tremendous. Not financially though - I spent more buying new shit from small artists than I would spend on a streaming service in a year. But that goes so much further for them than streaming does anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife was mentioning the other day that if something happened to me she’d have absolutely no idea how to work any of this shit and that convinced me to actually start documenting it LMAO

  Good time to start doing it too. Aside from setting up a NAS this weekend, I’ve got this project right where I want it for a long while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m putting together a pretty simple one this week. Got a used HP Elitedesk G4 SSF for around $150, already have 2 8TB external drives lying around that are easy enough to shuck and slap into it. Should be pretty easy to just slap TrueNAS Scale onto it, set up a mirror with the 2 drives, and be good to go for a while.

  I’ll definitely need more space down the road and this thing can’t fit more than 2 drives without some modifications (3 is doable, but 4 will take some 3D printed parts which I believe someone’s still working on fine-tuning). But it’s good enough for me for now, still got 2.5TB I’m not using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab the entire series, load it up on the tv, and let it rip all day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started this about a month ago, absolutely no idea what I was doing, and in that short time this little box has grown a ton. Got the basics for cloud storage, jellyfin with the arr suite, navidrome to replace spotify/tidal, etc. Got my scanner going right into paperless, finally starting a budget planner with actualbudget, even set up homebox to maybe eventually keep track of my collections of random bullshit. Spent 3 days fighting with Wireguard and gluetun to make a single VPN connection that’ll hook me into my LAN but also output all my traffic through Mullvad, using pihole as my DNS - I should get Unbound set up at some point too but that’s a project for another day.

  Today I learned about homeassistant, and while I’m not one to care about IoT shit or whatever, just dabbling with NFC tags for the lights and such has been pretty neat.

  This week I’m getting a second machine in that I’m going to use exclusively as a NAS and stop relying on USB external hard drives.

  I really just wanted a little 24/7 Bob Ross box with a bit of cloud storage, and this project blew up a lot more than I thought it would LOL