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GeneralRetreat, do gaming w Gaming often fetishises the new but many great things exist in the past, so let's strap into our time machines and talk about our favourite games released before say 2010?

One of my all-time favourites is Freelancer, 2003. Just a really fun arcade space sandbox with an engaging campaign and great multiplayer and modding scene.

Donkdonkboom, do gaming w Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Played it casually in spits and spurts. Never got that far, but enjoyed it. Very good game.

ono, do gaming w Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Yep. It’s an outstanding game in the classic roguelike style. Nice to have it available on both mobile and desktop, too.

donio, do gaming w Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Shattered is my roguelike of choice on mobile (along with Hoplite if that counts). On desktop I play DCSS and Brogue. Used to play a lot of Nethack too. Never ascended in any of them but that doesn’t make it any less fun.

MJBrune, do gaming w Is Gabe Newell a hardcore anarchist?

This is entirely silly. Specially when you consider they removed the flat structure at Valve recently. Also even when it was flat it was still structured as more important people’s opinions carried more weight. It made it feel like high school according to one developer where there was cliques and entourageous. That’s not anarchy.

Additionally Valve is not overall for Foss projects. Steam itself is still very closed and very restrictive. Proton was created to keep costs down and because Windows at one point threatened to enforce the windows store for outside apps. Potentially destroying steam.

Steam and Valve only contribute to open source as far as it benefits them. They are ex Microsoft employees that understand the embrace and extend side and are embracing Linux and it’s community. Extending wine. And potentially one day extinguishing the broad availability of Linux to replace it with steam os. You see this on their storefront already. Years ago when a game supported Linux on steam you’d see an icon of tux. Now you see an icon of steam os. A subtle reminder that Valve does not care about Linux but instead of being a thriving business.

Gabe is a capitalist. You don’t become a billionaire without abusing workers.

Syn, do piracy w Third party Reddit apps just got canned.

Rip sync

noUsernamesLef7, do piracy w What do you use to actually manage your stuff?

For managing my library on disk, I just recently made the effort to set up the *arr apps. I love having the metadata, tagging, organizing, and file naming all consistent and automated. Previously I used mp3tag and filebot to manage them and it was way more manual. Everything is set up with docker-compose and Ansible.

Library file stuff:

  • Two Radarr instances, one for 4k and another for lower resolutions
  • Sonarr for TV
  • Lidarr for music
  • Two readarr instances, one for epub/pdf and one for audiobooks
  • Jackett
  • deluge+openVPN

For library frontend stuff:

  • Jellyfin for movies, tv, music, audiobooks
  • Plex, for when Jellyfin is acting up
  • Jellyseer for TV & movie requests
  • LaunchBox for videogames and emulators
  • Calibre + calibreWeb for ebooks & syncing to my Kobo eReader

Haven’t set up yet:

  • flaresolverr
  • unpackerr
  • audiobookshelf

Doesn’t exist yet/wishlist:

  • *arr app for emulator ROMs (I’ll have to check out romm, looks pretty cool!)
Icedrous, do piracy w Third party Reddit apps just got canned.

I’m pretty sure I’m in the minority but it doesn’t make sense why these elitists are so upset. It was bound to happen eventually. Then they say the official Reddit app is unusable? It’s functional, it probably works better than half of the third party apps do anyway.

The only thing I’m upset about is the developers lost well earned money and their time and effort to make these apps only for them to shit the bed. But let’s be real: nobody’s really going to quit Reddit. I joined lemmy because I wanted a new social media app and I’m going to be using it alongside Reddit. Will I use Reddit more than lemmy? No, probably not. Will I use lemmy more than Reddit? Also no, probably not that either. I’ll use them side by side.

It’s kind of a shame that lemmy has mods though, from what I’ve been reading up on it, I thought it would be better than Reddit when it comes to freedom of speech. But just because it’s “federated” doesn’t mean you can’t say whatever you want. It just means it’s not owned by anyone in particular.

snowbell, do gaming w What's achievement in videogames are you most proud of?
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided non lethal playthrough. That and my position on some audiosurf leaderboards.

ModernRisk, do piracy w Third party Reddit apps just got canned.
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Switched yesterday and so far, really liking it. Might even say, it’s better than Reddit at the moment already.

No heavy echo-chamber/ toxicity (yet). Just waiting that it becomes more active with more communities.

Falloutbros101, do piracy w Third party Reddit apps just got canned.

Yeah switched to lemmy yesterday and currently finding it ok. I’m usually just on phone so it’s a little weird, but I’m here for the community XD

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov, do games w What are your favorite split-screen co-op PC games?

It Takes Two is a masterpiece for co-op gameplay and is great for casual gameplay. A Way Out was made by the same studio before It Takes Two and it’s easy to see where they were able to improve on the experience, but it’s also a great game for local co-op.

gemew26, do piracy w Guide: The idiot proof guide to downloading ebooks off IRC. With Pictures and everything!

yeah I remember when I was a kid I used to do this

vulgarcynic, do games w What are your favorite split-screen co-op PC games?
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Not exactly a recommendation (most of what I would have said has been covered below) but, my partner and I use Co-Optimus to find new games to couch play together. Here’s a filtered list of PC split-screen and couch co-op games.

co-optim.us/1m8Ysft

Hope that helps!

dabe, do gaming w Good video game blogs/RSS feeds?

I specifically like to keep up with linux gaming news, so I have these two in my RSS feeds:

www.gamingonlinux.com

linuxgamingcentral.com

They just make good informative posts in general, not always relating to Linux.

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