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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation put the axe in a live service God Of War game, alongside a project from the Days Gone studio⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They write this juxtaposed right next to layoffs, like it’s inevitable. Just make games people want ffs. No one asked for a GoW live service game. You know what people would want? A good single player sequel/prequel/spinoff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody recreated all of GTA 4's Liberty City in GTA 5 aaaaand it's gone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If only someone kept the torrents…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 will be a make-or-break year for triple-A video games as we know them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Got assassin’s creed mirage. Was a decent game. For the $20 sale price I mean. Wouldn’t spend more than that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUTO just made a 14hrs long video introduction to Selfhosting! (plus a written version) 💾⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Until you have a bad config as the other commenter pointed out and miss a critical email like an interview or medical item

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUTO just made a 14hrs long video introduction to Selfhosting! (plus a written version) 💾⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rule one of self hosting. Do not self host your own email. Only pain will you find.

  You of course can, but there are so many additional hoops you have to jump through. I use my main domain for my email, but proton is one of the few subscriptions I happily pay for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA copycat Paradise is an alleged crypto scam, yet continues to gain Steam wishlists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always astonished at how easily and happily people will hand over their hard earned money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of, but probably not. I started writing this and was like “totally it could be stateless”. Docker runs stateless, and I believe when it starts it is still stateless (or at least could be mounted on a ramdrive) - but then I started thinking, and what about the images? Have to be downloaded and ran somewhere, and that’s going to eat ram quickly. So I amend to you don’t need it to be stateful, you could have an image like you talked about that is loaded every time (that’s essentially what kubernetes does), but you will still need space somewhere as scratch drive. A place docker will places images and temporary file systems while it’s running.

  For state, check out docker’s volume backings here: docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/. You could use nfs to another server as an example for your volumes. Your volumes would never need to be on your “app server”, but instead could be loaded via nfs from your storage server.

  This is all nearing into kubernetes territory though. If you’re thinking about netboot and automatically starting containers, and handling stateless volumes and storing volumes in a way that are synced with a storage server… it might be time for kubernetes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good point, and I don’t know. My gut says no, it would be on the other instance owner, but obviously I’m not a lawyer or anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a Brit (but worried similar stuff is coming here to America), but it sounds like you have to enforce those rules. Theoretically, from my high level understanding, would it be enough to have those rules in place, and when reported actively remove the content as a mod?

  I can’t tell exactly, but it sounds like the biggest thing is that there needs to be a way to remove the content quickly, which we have.

  As a higher more automated level, I’m guessing our automod stuff that most of us admins are using would probably be enough, or if not that some basic AI models.

  It doesn’t sound like they expect it to be perfect, here in the states they don’t expect me to be perfect, but they damn well expect me to follow correct process if I do become aware of something. It’s essentially A) I need to take reasonable preventative measures, like actively moderating, doing what I can automatically, banning bad users and removing content when needed and then B) Immediately taking action if I do become aware of anything, keeping evidence for the feds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beginner asking for advice on self hosting a lemmy instance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can if they’re using different ports, however, I’d recommend just running Lemmy through the nginx server and route the data to each as needed. There’s nginx configuration in the guide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Phew thank god. It wasn’t the insanely thin budgets or the lack of risk taking, it was all that damn wokeness! Finally we can get back to real gaming!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED wins Best Gaming Hardware in the Golden Joystick Awards 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam deck, satisfactory, you can tell when awards are given by the people instead of the gaming industry.

  Shocking that companies that make solid products, support them and their users, who don’t lie or oversell to make cheap sales are winning right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam tighten up rules for games with season pass DLC: "you have to commit to completing that content on time"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve doing the regulation our governments should be doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey you! You with your logic and reasoning and reading the issue notes from developers. You aren’t a real gamer, get out of here with that! We’re here to dogpile on a new game here!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 uses machine learning AI, and how much of your data it might need⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How much of your bandwidth it might need, not your data. Misleading headline is misleading

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help Running Scrutiny⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have more devices sent over, so for me I just pass through /dev/disk and /run/udev along with the configs. Could start there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not saying you can or you can’t, but if you could, and I’m not saying you can, I would have full DRM-free backups of every Blu-ray I own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun thing, even a DVD or Blu-ray is technically licensed by them, and they claim they have the right to revoke it whenever they want. In the case of Blu-ray they have tried to do this via “updates” to the Blu-ray players

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey lol very valid! I’ve been waiting for this for 10 years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SECOND?! ALREADY?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was realizing that a lot of our power is still, at its core, a steam engine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I feel so safe now. Like Sony wrapped me up in their arms and swaddled me. Thank you papa sony

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't get expansions, reports say, as BioWare move to the next Mass Effect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatives have their panties in a twist because they have the gall to have lgbtq characters, apparently forgetting that we had Krem in inquisition and that we’ve had several gay and lesbian characters already. I’m having fun personally, I will say everyone’s just a bit too cheerful for my taste, but that’s my only gripe so far

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am just love watching these companies seeing the downfall of it. Google did short term profits instead of quality for search and now people are looking for competitors and profits are dropping. People don’t watch new Netflix shows because they know they’ll be cancelled. So many more. It’s delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home server rebuild automation workflow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, if you’re considering it already, kubernetes might be something to look into. It’s a lot. Like a lot to learn. But I can honestly say I could do it for a job now with how much I’ve learned. Then it’s less about how to set up machines and more about just reapplying your infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft really doesn’t understand how well teams can work together. They notoriously hire contractors to avoid needing to pay benefits, rotating them out every 18 months. For them to create team dynamic ideas like “forming storming norming performing”, they really don’t follow any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 2.0 Is Here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, need a fork of revolt that uses Matrix 2.0 as a backend and I can get my friends to switch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost like they wanted it that way, to get you to think about it. (Sarcasm to the author, not to you).

  It’s like they felt guilty about it and decided to write a whole article about how they made them feel bad - and rather than taking the point that you’re supposed to feel bad doing it, and thinking on that they thought “Hey games should make me feel things like this”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But teaching people to favour the consistency of imaginary worlds may also teach them to vilify disagreement and the entire practice of interpretation. At its nastiest, this mentality both facilitates and camouflages bigotry.

  I mean… it’s a game. The RP in RPG is role playing. Isn’t part of the fun playing someone or something you’re not? I play the other gender in games because I’m not that gender. In Mass Effect I love playing renegade - punching reporters in the face even though I’m not like that in real life. This is the same stupid argument I’ve heard all the time. “Grand Theft Auto encourages violence”. No. It’s fun because we get to play this character who is so unlike ourselves.

  In Halo I played a bioengineered soldier who was ripped away from his family to put down violent uprisings. Does that mean I think that’s okay in real life? Or was I playing a game that set that as a premise?

  Do we apply the same scrutiny to movies? To theater? Just because we empathize or maybe even we admit that there is a part of us who want to speed through downtown Los Santos just for fun doesn’t mean that’s who we actually are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not what you think Dragon Age should be. I personally am excited for that. I loved Inquisition and hated Origins, I loved the high fantasy romp with Sera and Varric making quips all day. To me, that was the best story and characters in the entire franchise, and my opinions are just as valid as yours. If you didn’t like it, fine, but I think it’s weird to judge a game negatively because it changed.

  To give a reverse example for me. I don’t like where Halo went, but I have a lot of friends who love Infinite’s multiplayer. Now, I could go online and tell people that they shouldn’t play it because 2 and 3 were the best ones - or I could say nothing and let people enjoy things.