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- Comment on Here’s a few music playlists I made for my FR campaign, which included places like Icewind Dale, Icespire Peak and the city of Waterdeep. 2 days ago:
For those of us who don’t Spotify:
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 3 days ago:
The FBI’s report from August, prepared by its New York division, does not make clear how the bureau accessed the Signal group.
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- Comment on D&D tabletop-style RPG Battlemarked is out on PC today with a singleplayer mode for Baldur's Gate 3 nutters 4 days ago:
Never heard of it.
Demeo is a cross-platform cooperative adventure for up to four players that recreates all of the magic and camaraderie of gathering around a tabletop with friends to do battle against the forces of evil.
Huh. Looks like they combined a 3D virtual tabletop with a pre-made adventure, so you can play without a dungeon master.
- Comment on Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source 4 days ago:
Good judgment. There is at least one puzzle all about navigating a confusing area without a guide. Having a pre-made map would rob you of the challenge.
I second the suggestion of mapping by hand.
- Comment on JSAUX are teasing Steam Machine front panels with built-in screens 5 days ago:
The posts in question:
JSAUX @jsauxofficial
We are developing accessories for the new Steam Machine—and the final decision seems to be in your hands.
Pick your fighter:
1⃣E-Ink — slow refresh, smart look.
2⃣LCD — bright, battery killer.
3⃣Dot-Matrix — retro vibes only.
Vote in the comments👇.
We’ll build whatever wins… probably🤪.xcancel.com/jsauxofficial/…/1990418613380186120
Ink or pixels? Either way, all Steam Machine product updates drop on Reddit first.✨
- Comment on How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack 6 days ago:
It is impressive to see Quake run at full speed knowing that Windows 95 runs DOS executable in a virtual machine.
To be clear, I don’t think it wasn’t a virtual machine in the modern hypervisor sense (as the term often implies today), nor in the bytecode interpreter sense (à la Java).
- Comment on It's not just you: Cloudflare, and half the Internet, is down 6 days ago:
You mean a single company being gatekeeper and man-in-the-middle to so much of the world’s web traffic?
What makes you think it’s not being exploited already?
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged, a free 20th anniversary revamp of the original Guild Wars, arrives this December 6 days ago:
Looks like it’s free to people who bought any of the existing campaigns. Not to new players.
- Comment on I've Wanted to Play That 'Killer Shark' Arcade Game Briefly Seen in 'Jaws' 6 days ago:
- The Librephone project aims to remove proprietary blobs from smartphones running an open-source OSwww.cnx-software.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
You’re not alone. The visuals are nice, the voice acting is good, and the music is gorgeous, but the gameplay is very repetitive JRPG combat with a minor twist.
As art, I could see it winning awards. As a game, I think others are more deserving.
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- Comment on The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’ 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_(video_game)
Critical Role fans will appreciate that a bunch of their favorite voice actors are involved in this game.
- Submitted 1 week ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 9 comments
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 week ago:
Sorry for being so wordy. ;)
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 week ago:
Even if you could expand the RAM and storage,
You can.
everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years.
That’s what some people said about the Steam Deck. More than a couple of years later, it is still popular; clearly not obsolete.
I just don’t get who they’re trying to make this for. You can easily build a PC with a reasonable budget that could easily tackle things this cube probably couldn’t.
I think you’re overlooking the fact that most gamers have different skills and priorities than yours. Not everyone would find it easy to build a computer at all, let alone build a quiet and compact one with well-matched components, a tuned and convenient OS, and good support.
This device is probably not a good fit for you. It probably is a good fit for many people outside of gaming PC enthusiast circles. Especially now that Valve has established its hardware as a well-defined platform for game developers to support.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 week ago:
What’s the difference?
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- Comment on Baldurs Gate 3 - spoilers 1 week ago:
So what you’re telling us is that you’ll still have new things to experience in your next play-through. :)
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 1 week ago:
Kind of funny: When Wikipedia was new, people often said that you couldn’t trust information on it because anyone could have written it, even if they were unqualified, biased, or deliberately deceptive. I guess that’s still true today, but with the advent of automated misinformation generators, the Wiki almost seems authoritative in comparison.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 1 week ago:
Sony’s DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers are plug & play on Linux. (IIRC, Sony contributed native drivers.) They work nicely over USB or Bluetooth. Their motion controls are great if you ever play certain console emulators or want to map them to mouse-like movement in Steam Input. (I use this for free look in flight sims.) The built-in touchpad is nice for navigating menus on PC games without having to reach for the mouse.
- Comment on Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop (VTT) is now free to play 2 weeks ago:
My group unanimously chose to leave Fantasy Grounds after about half a dozen sessions, and it wasn’t because of the price. Too many usability problems. Too many surprising, unexplained behaviors. Too much of our gaming time was consumed by troubleshooting and wrangling the software.
We moved to Foundry VTT, and haven’t looked back. It’s not free, but a license is reasonably priced, paid only once, covers an entire gaming group (or several groups if they don’t play at the same time), and includes new releases forever.
Here are some free virtual tabletops. These are comparatively minimal, but might be good enough if your needs are modest, or if your group can’t afford a 50 USD Foundry license.
- Comment on Anyway to clean this sink? 2 weeks ago:
According to the February 26, 2020 Safety data sheet (SDS), Bar Keepers Friend Cleanser contains:
- 85–94% glass oxide (CAS 65997-17-3),
- 5–10% oxalic acid (CAS 144-62-7), and
- 1–5% benzene sulfonic acid, mono C10–16 derivatives, sodium salt (CAS 68081-81-2).
The product called “original” contains only feldspar. For other products, the Bon Ami website lists the following as main ingredients: feldspar, limestone, water, baking soda, citric acid, corn alcohol, epsom salts, essential oils, and xanthan gum.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
My first attempt was Dark Souls 3. I went in expecting challenging but rewarding battles, and a mysterious world to explore. Unfortunately, I found myself bored within an hour every time I played, and gave up on it after maybe a dozen sessions.
I tried Elden Ring maybe a year or two later. I stuck with it for longer, but the experience was roughly the same. The combat felt tedious. The art and animation didn’t appeal to my tastes. The world seemed big, but desolate. The controls somehow made me feel awkwardly disconnected from my character. Nothing about the game made me care about it at all. The biggest challenge was in keeping my eyelids open.
I wonder if I would find soulslikes more appealing if I had grown up on console games. They’re clearly popular, but it seems they just aren’t for me.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
The game makers had no respect for players’ time.
I don’t know that game, but the importance of respecting the player’s time cannot be overstated.
I wish more game makers understood this and prioritized it accordingly.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
5e progression does feel kind of bland.
I feel the 5e rules are poorly organized, too. Lots of interdependent rules scattered far from each other in the books, and sometimes buried in the middle of seemingly unrelated sections, so unless you’ve memorized multiple chapters, understanding how to resolve common situations sometimes requires stopping the game for 15 minutes while someone digs through to books to find all the relevant factors. Even when you do find the relevant info, it’s often in ambiguous language describing what could have been made perfectly clear with a few keywords. The books are pretty, and the text might be nice to read for entertainment, but they’re pretty bad the the job of being game manuals.
Does 3.5e use the d20 system? Does it have the advantage/disadvantage mechanic? I like those aspects of 5e; they’re simple and they help keep games moving along.
Maybe I should give it a try. Or perhaps 4e, which I have read does a better job of clearly defining its gameplay mechanics.
- Comment on Tape containing UNIX v4 found – OSnews 2 weeks ago:
If you’re implying that I didn’t get that they were taking a jab at a unix command, then no, not whoosh. I got that. It doesn’t make a clever or funny joke, though, because the command they chose to ridicule is easy, and is the same in other archive tools like 7z and rar.
If you think something else went over my head, then perhaps you could enlighten me by saying what you mean.
- Comment on Tape containing UNIX v4 found – OSnews 2 weeks ago:
tar xis pretty easy, isn’t it? Ortar xfif they need to specify the input file/device.