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- Comment on How big is your media library? 4 days ago:
I'm kind of surprised that it's only 51 GB. They're all FLAC files ripped from CDs -- I was expecting like 300 GB at least.
So apparently this 1TB SSD is going to last me a while. :P
- Comment on Smaller rally/racing games I recommend you try! 5 days ago:
This is such a great writeup, thank you! I always can't believe the actual photos I see of Group B races, lol.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 5 days ago:
Sometimes I hear about other people's storage setups and I think, "that is overkill, no one really needs that." According to this thread, I am quite mistaken about that. 😳
I have 2,057 songs, taking up a measly 51 GB, on a Funkwhale server. No movies or TV shows.
That should get a little larger soon. I have about 100 vinyl records that I want to make digital rips of.
- Comment on 11 years ago I released my 1st ever game on the Wii U - ZaciSa's Last Stand - A Tower Defense game 1 week ago:
Having a game out there on any platform is super cool. I love the art style, too!
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 1 week ago:
First time I'm hearing about this; looks great!
- Comment on Sign me up 2 weeks ago:
Reposting what I said on Mastodon, since a few people seem to be falling for this one:
[...] but this looks like satire, and searching for that poster's name suggests that he's not being serious here.
Case in point: he has a blog that shows he's not a Trumper.
https://drewpavlou.substack.com/p/maga-maoism-trumpism-as-a-third-worldConservatives have a hard time understanding satire (article about this), let's make sure progressives don't become the same way. (I know, it's hard, especially when a lot of conservative opinions are indistinguishable from satire.)
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival and Stranger Than Heaven will both release in FY2027 or beyond (after April 2026), according to SEGA fiscal report 3 weeks ago:
Anyone know what "European IP" means? They announced a while ago that they working on new titles for Virtua Fighter, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi, and a few others, so I'm assuming those are the "Legacy IPs." What is their European IP? The Total War franchise? The developer, Creative Assembly is from the UK. That just seems like a weird way to phrase it, if that's what they're talking about.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 3 weeks ago:
I use Funkwhale, which I have liked, but my use case is just streaming music through my laptop and listening with headphones. I don't think there is a client available that will run on your Autonomic streamer.
Funkwhale does have a subsonic API, so you could use a subsonic client, but you mentioned that didn't quite work before. (Is that what you mean by __sonic? I haven't actually heard that term.)
Funkwhale is nice, but I think for most people it doesn't (yet) offer any useful features beyond what Navidrome has, and probably even lacks a few things that Navidrome has. Funkwhale's main appeal is that you can follow someone's music library via the fediverse, although there hasn't really been a lot of use for that so far. Version 2 is coming soon, though, and adds a whole bunch of new fediverse features.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 4 weeks ago:
It definitely had a lot in common with Onslaught mode. There was some overlap with the types of vehicles, too.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 4 weeks ago:
I was using the GAMESPOT weighted numbering scale:
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TrafficReliesOnThem - Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 4 weeks ago:
It's a very different game, although it does have vehicles, so it has something in common with UT2004 in that way.
Unreal 2's multiplayer only has one game mode. It's kind of like capture the flag with some resource management. There are power generators that you need to take for your team in order to use vehicles. You can also capture respawn points which give your team more choices of where to respawn from.
You choose one of three classes when you spawn, with each class having specific weapons. You don't pick up weapons as you go.
There is a release of the multiplayer that's available for free here: https://xmpcommunity.com. After Epic tool all Unreal titles off of digital stores a while ago, they specifically mentioned xmpcommunity.com in a blog post as a way of still playing the game. So it has their blessing.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 4 weeks ago:
Unreal 2, at launch, was the most absolutely 7/10 game I've ever played. Just a very generic singleplayer FPS, and not the sequel to Unreal that everyone was hoping for.
I say "at launch," though, because almost a year after the game's release, they added multiplayer, and that is still my favorite multiplayer game.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it definitely seems like it was to just make it take longer.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
Same here, I always liked SA1 more than SA2. I remember being so amazed that you could pick any character to play next and then you'd find out, in any order you chose, how their stories would intersect with one another. SA2 felt like a downgrade without that. I also liked the art style of the first game over the second one.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I meant Deadly Shadows. It was liked overall, and moreso as the years went on, but I remember plenty of people thinking it was disappointing at the time. Heck, there's one in this very thread. :P I haven't played the first two (and I know that I need to), but I know that it deviated from those quote a bit, and that seemed to be one of the main things people disliked about it.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
Thief 3. I had never played a Thief game before and thought it was great. Apparently, fans of the first two games were disappointed with it at first. I think the criticism didn't last long, though. Everyone now seems to agree that it was good.
- Comment on Invincible VS | Official Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Oof. Marvel Tokon was just revealed three days ago, and is being made by a developer that everyone already knows and loves. This has to be the most unfortunate timing I've ever seen.
- Comment on caddyserver.com has those vintage browser buttons at the bottom of the page 5 weeks ago:
Same here. Thinking about that class just now, I remembered the name of one of the sites that we were told to use to find GIFs and animated buttons. I think it was called "animation factory."
Well there is an https://www.animationfactory.com and it has exactly the types of GIFs I was thinking of. More classics right there.
- Comment on caddyserver.com has those vintage browser buttons at the bottom of the page 5 weeks ago:
Very!
- Comment on caddyserver.com has those vintage browser buttons at the bottom of the page 5 weeks ago:
Those are amazing, thanks!
- Comment on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Summer Game Fest Trailer 5 weeks ago:
The first two Sonic kart racing games were good, but I heard that the third one was a step down from the first two. (I've only played the first two myself.) I liked the fact that the first games had split screen for couch multiplayer on PC -- that's not common.
- Comment on Street Fighter 6 - Year 3 Character Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Glad to see Crimson Viper come back, I thought she was going to be a new series mainstay after being in both Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
The trailer was definitely unexpected. :D
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- Comment on Is there a quick way to know which instance might need mods? 5 weeks ago:
I'm wondering if the fediverse in general (but especially Lemmy) would benefit from some kind of "fediverse help wanted" board for moderators, donations, technical help, etc.
- Comment on A WYSIWYG editor for personal website? 5 weeks ago:
I've never actually used it, but Faircamp caught my eye a while ago. https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/
I'm not sure if you can create a blog with it -- it might only be for showcasing your music, no text posts. It definitely looks nice, though.
- Comment on Breaking in the nice weather with some Dreamcast 1 month ago:
I never had it back then, but I had the demo disc and we played that for hours. Just two characters and one stage, and that still gave us endless fun.
I played Power Stone 2 with a friend last weekend (the new rerelease on steam, not on a Dreamcast) and it was great. A perfect "pick up and play" couch coop game.
- Comment on Looking for a software suggestion 1 month ago:
Gotcha. The web UI in wallabag is nice and works pretty well with ereaders. It's already black-and-white, although it doesn't have pagination, so you'll have to scroll.
- Comment on Looking for a software suggestion 1 month ago:
I've been using Wallabag for a few years now and really like it. (It's the one thing I'm not selfhosting, though -- I've been using their hosted service. But it should run on a raspberry pi with no problems.)
You can also export to epub, but you have to do that manually. OP, does your ereader run android? There are wallabag apps available, which are nice because they usually work offline after downloading articles from your wallabag server.
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 1 month ago:
If you really liked the interactions between the characters, honestly I think The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog did that better than any of the other games did. If that's the main appeal for you, you've already played the best one. I haven't read the comics myself, but like others have mentioned, that's probably what you're looking for.
Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 feature many of the same characters as The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, but the dialog isn't really as polished. It's an English translation of a Japanese game at a time when they were still trying to figure out how to do cutscenes in 3D Sonic games. But based on your criteria, I'd say those are a good starting point. They're both on Steam. (The first game is called Sonic Adventure DX because it has the "upgraded" graphics that many fans think is actually a downgrade in art style. There are mods to change things back to their original look. I think this SADX mod installer installs all of them for you.)
Sonic X Shadow Generations has many of the levels from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, but lacks the same cutscenes and characters. The gameplay is great, though.
And if you liked the OST, then you'll definitely like the music in the 2D games, especially Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic Mania.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 1 month ago:
When Redis messed with their licensing terms a while ago, I thought to myself, "which project that I rely on will be next?" And I kept thinking it was going to be Minio.
So I switched from Minio to Garage a few months ago and it has worked great. I used the AWS cli to start copying everything over one evening, and when I get up the next day, it was done. My S3 use is just one giant bucket for my music collection in Funkwhale, so I only had the one command to run. After updating the S3 urls in Funkwhale's configuration, everything was good to go.
This has all made me start paying closer to attention to what kind of organization is behind the various open source projects that I use. Garage is made by a web development shop in France -- they might even be a coop, or I might be thinking of someone else. I could be wrong about that last part. But they're definitely not a VC-backed operation like Minio.