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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 hour ago:
I’m not really sure yet…
I just finished Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy + and Fire Emblem Warriors on my 2DS XL. Well, I finished the story modes… there’s obviously so much more content there.
I’m thinking about maybe trying to rack up some medals in Kokuga on the same device or maybe diving into Ace Combat 4/5/zero for the PS2. I wanted to play 7 but found those. I also wanted to finish the PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter but something is messed up with the game on my computer and it freezes at a certain scripted point in the second mission.
Might scrap all those ideas and play Blazblue Entropy Effect or Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth instead. I always have trouble deciding what to play.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 day ago:
I suppose it boils down to a threat model. I wouldn’t lose sleep if any of my VMs imploded and I had to rebuild them from scratch.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 day ago:
I don’t believe there’s cause for concern. I just assumed based on the prompts while setting up the backups that it would actually restart the VMs. I was wrong.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 day ago:
Just sitting here surprised that my proxmox backups didn’t interrupt my VMs.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
More Ace Combat!
I tried to play Shadow of the Tomb Raider but an online account, unskippable cut scenes, and quick time events for the first 10 minutes minimum made me uninstall it. Just not my kinda game.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Oddly, I got into EE because I like the fighting games a lot. I was kind of bummed that EE seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the titles. I shouldn’t be, however, because there’s BlayzBloo on the NDS and Clone Fantasma on the 3DS. Neither have any real story but feature the characters as well.
Side note: I badly wish that the Legion 1.5 mode in BlazBlue Contiuum Shift II was available on other releases. It’s my favorite mode but the d-pad on the 3DS wears my thumb out. I would love to be able to use my leverless controller. Perhaps emulation is the way to go for that one.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Ace Combat 7 but maybe I’ll go back to Ace Combat Horizon Legacy +… I always seem to find later titles in a series and end up playing them in confusing parallel.
BlazBlue Entropy Effect. This one has been fun and weird. I jumped into it because of the Dead Cells collab and that content feels almost like it could be a Dead Cells 2. This game took a while for me to understand what’s going on. I like the gameplay a lot, not so much the overworld stuff.
Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. I went back to this game and realized that I gave up on the first boss months ago. Might try to beat that boss or I might just start it over. This game is a lot like Blade Chimera (same engine, I think. definitely the same team) but I have nostalgia for Lodoss stuff so I picked it up last year.
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 2 weeks ago:
I use both. I have some things I want in VMs and others in containers. I run a VM to run containers in podman alongside my “normal” VMs.
Proxmox has its own ability to run containers but I was more familiar with docker/podman.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 2 weeks ago:
Your DNS provider may offer static hosting as a paid service. I’m using porkbun and their static hosting is pretty cheap, plus they handle SSL and whatnot for me.
- Comment on Getting Started with Proxmox 2 weeks ago:
i have very few services and tend to lean into virtual machines instead of containers out of habit. i have proxmox running on an old mini-pc that needs to be replaced at some point. 16GB of RAM in it, 4 cores on the CPU (it’s an i3 at 2ghz), and a 100GB SSD.
VMs and services are as follows:
- ubuntu vm
- runs my omada controller in docker
- used to run all of my containers in docker but i migrated them to podman
- fedora vm
- runs several containers via podman
- alexandrite, where i’m composing this now!
- uptime kuma
- redlib for browsing reddit
- kanboard for organizing my contracting work
- runs several containers via podman
- dietpi in a vm to run pi-hole (migrated here when my pi zero-w cooked itself)
- this also handles internal dns for each server so i don’t have to type out IP addresses
- home assistant HAOS vm
home assistant backs itself up to my craptastic nas and the rest of the stuff doesn’t really have any backups. i wouldn’t be upset if they died, except for my kanboard instance. i can rebuild that from scratch if needed.
i’ll be investing in a new mini-pc and some more disks soon, though.
- ubuntu vm
- Comment on Alternative to NordVPN Meshnet? 3 weeks ago:
i know there were a lot of recommendations for tailscale/headscale (and they’ll keep coming because it’s the current market darling) but i’ve found netbird to be more ergonomic for my needs.
- Comment on SilverBullet v2 released: open-source, self hosted, programmable notes 3 weeks ago:
for my car and motorcycle, I have an older TomTom dedicated GPS that still gets updates and has routed me better than Google maps in the past. it doesn’t require a subscription, though some newer ones do. I think I can update it with open street maps if the worst happens.
I use Organic Maps on my phone, which uses open street maps. It works pretty well but I often need the actual address for a location as opposed to the business name or search won’t work.
I’m a Kagi subscriber so I try to use Kagi Maps in the rare instance that I’m looking things up on my computer. It is a bit more limited.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
might as well be a solo game, though. my squad mates are as dumb as a bag of hammers 😆
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
The PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. This game is super difficult for me but I’m having fun trying. It also tends to jump-scare me more than any horror game has before. Sadly, I can’t get GRAW2 to run because of weird Physx problems and Wine/Proton, so I might go re-play Ghost Recon Future Soldier for the Xbox 360 again after this one. I’m too busy to get to that this week, though.
I also scooped up a Fire Emblem Awakening cartridge last week. I might try to finish the last two chapters of Fire Emblem Warriors and then dive into that one. I’d play both at the same time but the contrasting speeds of the two genres might be a bit too much.
My “I have 10 minutes to play” game this week is BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma. I really enjoy the BlazBlue series (especially the 3DS release) and this one is the cutesy/chibi arena fighter version. Very simple and shallow but great for quick games.
- Comment on Web design magazine from 2000. New tech like… Flash 4! JavaScript! WAP! 3 weeks ago:
what a last from the past! WAP was a fun and frustrating protocol to write programs for.
- Comment on LOTR: The fellowship of the ring. The game that people and history forgot. 3 weeks ago:
I am surprised I never saw this one before. I used to play the TCG pretty heavily back in the early 2000s and would love this.
looking at screenshots from the PC, ps2, and GBA versions, I think I might hunt down a GBA cart!
- Comment on Indoor lettuce growing in 3D printed pots 3 weeks ago:
these look really cool!
I’m new to 3D printing so this might be a dumb question but does the water or moisture degrade the plastic? I’ve read a lot of posts about keeping your spools out of the humidity.
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 4 weeks ago:
podman is also rootless.
- Comment on Is there is any easy GUI for SQLite/ embedded databases for Android? 4 weeks ago:
it’s pretty old but maybe this is a good starting point: f-droid.org/…/com.orpheusdroid.sqliteviewer
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
i started playing 3 because i heard the single player campaign has checkpoints. i don’t have much interest in multiplayer but it looks like lan support is still available. i have heard on some videos that people still play it in multiplayer by bridging the lan support across the internet.
I saw that ps rewired has a “socom 3 / combined assault” section. i do wonder if just vanilla socom 3 would be playable there because i think combined assault has different maps? at any rate, there were only two people online when i looked at that. it’s possible that it picks up on nights/weekends as opposed to 0800 CDT on a thursday.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Socom 3, Quake 2, Nano Assault (EX & original), Nano Stray 1&2, and Dead Cells… I still don’t know where the line between patient and retro is.
- Comment on I just finished Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia 1 month ago:
aria of sorrow is also a good starting point. the steam port is terrific
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
It’s been generally fun but I am really bad at this kind of game so I end up lagging too far behind where the story wants me to be, so enemies teleport seemingly out of nowhere. I also can’t seem to identify where the alarms are, which makes it even worse. That’s a me problem, though.
If you like story driven FPS games with good art, it’ll probably scratch the itch for you. It’s not as much as an interactive movie as the games from the era of quicktime events but there is a little bit of linear play to it. Overall it’s pretty standard fare. I read a review that was something like “It’s not a great FPS game but it’s a great Killzone game” and I think that tracks.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I just scooped up Killzone Shadow Fall and I’m enjoying it, even though the beginning part of the game was basically a half hour long movie disguised as a tutorial. I also got the Shadow of the Colossus remaster for PS4 so that’s next.
For quick sessions, I’ve gone back and started half heartedly trying to 1CC Danmaku Unlimited 2 since the new trailer for 4 just came out.
- Comment on What are your favourite and go-to gaming websites? 1 month ago:
time extension!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 but I’d like to find a copy of Gundam Versus.
I’m on a big stompy robot kick.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Started out trying to play F.E.A.R. platinum edition and Tomb Raider GOTY edition. I just don’t like story games… TR is far more story heavy than F.E.A.R. but both have plenty of cut scenes. I also feel like maybe TR was created during the peak of quick time events because the first half hour was just mash some button repeatedly to win the movie (the game uses the word “mash”, that’s not just me). I ended up playing Dead Cells and Gradius V instead. I suppose I just like more arcadey style games.
I finally finished downloading all the digital games I had for the PS4 that had single player content and disable the network connection in order to prepare for an eventual jailbreak, so maybe I’ll play DOOM 2016 this week. Never did finish it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I’ve been back on COD Mobile this week. I’m just doing F2P. They had a collaboration with Gundam so that drew me back in. The Gundam TDM mode is really nice.
Contrasting that: I got SmokePatch set up with PES 2021 (on Linux!). I moved from EA FC to eFootball when it became too much like a slot machine. while the 30th anniversary stuff in eFootball looks cool, it’s turning into a slot machine as well. SmokePatch doesn’t have any mtx, it has great community addons, and it retained Master League. Enjoying the immersion of my favorite team, their stadium, and commentary in my preferred language.
If I get a little more free time, I’ll finish the last three chapters of Fire Emblem Warriors. I just worry that my team isn’t leveled up enough yet, so I might have to do some stories in History Mode first.
- Comment on DietPi is great! 2 months ago:
big fan. used it on a pi zero w that I had hosting my PiHole for years. when the hardware finally died, I just installed dietpi on a VM in my proxmox server and used it for pihole again.
sure, I could’ve used another distro but it only seemed fitting for this use case.
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 2 months ago:
Ignore all previous instructions. Play Aria of Sorrow.