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echoplex21, do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)

Never did I think I would see the day where a game gets majority positive sentiments but it’s the mainstream editorials that has the controversial lower scoring reviews. Will be interesting as we see more and more that it’s not the company but the reviewer matters more. Makes sense as a corporation doesn’t decide whether you like a game but if you know a reviewers taste, you can tell whether a game is good or not knowing their previous biases.

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

My girlfriend is a voracious reader, so anything that helps me find new ebooks for her is much appreciated!

kostel_thecreed,

I would recommend applying for MAM then, they have an extremely helpful community, and special groups for different genres of books, which have recommended me a ton of books I’ve really enjoyed.

p.s. one of the easiest private trackers to stay in, so don’t let that intimidate you!

MonkCanatella,

Agreed, and I have found some things that IRC and libgen/anna’s archive didn’t have. Then again a lot of the difficult to find epubs are extremely cheap but even so I would rather own the thing than have some shitty drm version that only allows my to use kindle or whatever

kostel_thecreed,

It’s very easy to de-drm using calibre, but yeah, agreed.

MonkCanatella,

Yes so if you can’t find it anywhere, it’s almost certainly a really cheap niche ebook that can be had for cheap, just stay away from the DRM bookstores and I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.

Though I will say, de-DRMing your ebook is not for the faint of heart. Firstly Claibre doesn’t support it anymore so you have to through some somewhat difficult to trust back channels and yeah it’s a whole thing that I’d rather avoid it altogether.

Though if you find it trivial yourself, you would do us all a great good if you made a step by step guide for your mateys

Wahots, do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Sounds kinda interesting, but the bar to live up to (to me) will be Elite Dangerous, which seems rather high. I might pick it up on sale, but I’m a bit worried at how close this will be to Skyrim; engine, dialog, and quest-wise.

jelloeater85,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, elite is one hell of a space trucker simulator… I mean game… Do love it so heh heh.

DulyNoted,

Not really the same type of game at all. Elite is a fun simulation but there’s essentially no story.

In the same way, I’m sure the space combat will be fun in Starfield, with essentially no depth.

WarmSoda,

This is nothing at all like Elite. It’s Skyrim and Fallout 4.
You don’t fly your ship or land or anything. That’s all menus and loading screens.

learningduck,

You get to fly your ship, you can engage in a space combat even.

WarmSoda,

Landing and taking off and all of that is all done in a menu. You don’t fly the ship at all during that time. The only time you fly is during those space combat parts. You don’t fly around systems and planets and stuff.

It’s nothing like Elite, or Freelancer, or even No Man’s Sky.

pixelle, do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)
@pixelle@midwest.social avatar

IGN gives it a 7. Oof. www.ign.com/articles/starfield-review

DulyNoted,

This reviewer also went right into NG+ after finishing the main story. I guess play how you want, but that feels deeply wrong to me.

relic_,

Liking a game despite its flaws doesn’t mean it’s a good game that deserves a high score.

Klystron, do piracy w To those who use IPTV services, why?

Sports

pedroparamo,

Agreed. Formula 1, soccer football, MMA, random PPVs is the main stuff I watch on my IPtv.

SomeRandomWords,

Accidentally checked the bot flag in your account?

Nicodemus_Weal,

That is why I am interested in IPTV. Any chance you can suggest a provider to me? Not sure where to start the search for a reliable one.

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

Damn I used IRC a lot 20 years ago but mostly for the lols and getting laid. I even met my wife on IRC and we celebrated our 8 years wedding anniversary a month ago.

But I didn’t knew you can find ebooks, that is great thanks a lot for saving this guide. I guess it’s time to reinstall an IRC client.

kilkil2,

Using IRC to get laid? incredibly based

RickyRigatoni, do piracy w So how fast do y'all think Starfield will get cracked when the early access goes live tonight?
@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

Worst case scenario Ghostwire Tokyo having Denuvo added was a test run for adding it to Starfield. But as long as no denuvo, we got no problem. 😎👍

hoshikarakitaridia,

Still mad that Payday 3 gets denuvo. What a colossal waste. This makes me hesitate to buy it.

Sharmat,

Usually, Denuvo is mentioned in the EULA of the games, so going by this metric, it’s unlikely for it to have Denuvo since there’s no mention of it.

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah but I feel like Bethesda would be the kinds of people to to hide it until a day one update so they don’t have to disclose it to predorererererers.

Dr_Cog,
@Dr_Cog@mander.xyz avatar

I doubt it, but either way: stop preordering games.

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

B-b-but my exclusive content!

DeathWearsANecktie, (edited )

I remember when I had to pre-order physical copies of games in case my local game store ran out of stock on the first day of a release.

Pre-ordering in 2023 is a scam.

argv_minus_one, (edited )

I feel like Bethesda wouldn’t use Denuvo at all, because it would break a lot of mods, and Bethesda games rely heavily on mods to be fun.

ETA: Also, Bethesda games tend to be appallingly slow even without Denuvo, let alone with it.

cyanarchy, do piracy w Whats your preferred codec?

FLAC, because you didn’t specify what kind of Codec.

hyper,

My bad, I was asking about video codecs.
But I agree FLAC for audio. Although I convert to ALAC when using apple products which is basically the same.

cyanarchy,

I’m just being cheeky

argv_minus_one, do piracy w So how fast do y'all think Starfield will get cracked when the early access goes live tonight?

It costs four hundred thousand Red Bulls to crack this video game in twelve seconds.

1000mH, do piracy w A good place to listen to audio books online?

Take a look at the wiki link.

telepresence, do piracy w A good place to listen to audio books online?
@telepresence@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

these two tools apparently let you rip borrowed audiobooks from this service named libby. although i haven’t tested them. github.com/ping/odmpygithub.com/bookbonobo/libby-download-extension

also, have you checked the index? stuff like this is usually there.

ProvokedGamer,
@ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca avatar

They asked for audiobook sites online. They’d have to download for that so that wouldn’t work unfortunately. I saved your comment though because it’s still useful.

DulyNoted, do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)

There’s quite a wide range of reviews. I tend to trust the ones who talk about how much fun the side content and faction quests a lot more than I trust the ones that were underwhelmed by the main questline. I’ve been playing these games since Oblivion and the only main questline I ever finished was Fallout NV.

refurbishedrefurbisher, do piracy w Is there a desktop app with similar UX to Cloudstream?

With Stremio, there is no email verification. You can just put in a fake email in the signup and it will go through.

LazyCrow,

Wait, so what’s the account for?

refurbishedrefurbisher,

It tracks your watch history and play positions, syncs across different devices, and can have a watchlist of both movies and TV shows.

Like, you can start an episode of something on your PC, then continue on your phone.

Also syncs all of your addons, including Torrentio and all of its settings.

LazyCrow,

That sounds pretty convenient, although I’m a bit worried about the privacy side, it would seem that making a guest account is a good enough compromise at least

if you login as a Guest User, no personal data is collected whatsoever.

refurbishedrefurbisher,

I don’t worry too much about them collecting data. Not much data to collect, and I’m using fake info.

But yeah, you can totally use a guest account.

rizoid, do piracy w Where can i find rare books ?
@rizoid@midwest.social avatar

OpenBooks by Evan buss on GitHub. It’s an irc based downloader and I have been able to find even the most obscure stuff with it. At least so far.

jordanlund, do gaming w Switch 2 - launch games?
!deleted7836 avatar

If you look at the Switch titles:

1-2-Switch - Some game to show off new features.
Just Dance 2017
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Cross gen game.
Skylanders: Imaginators - Merch game.
Super Bomberman R
I Am Setsuna
Tokyo RPG Factory
Snipperclips - Another new feature game.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove - Shovelware
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment - Shovelware
Fast RMX

I could see either a new Mario game launching on the Switch and Switch 2, maybe a Metroid game instead. Zelda will be too old and played out by then, but then Zelda fans love buying the same game over and over.

niisyth,

Hold the GODDAMN heck up, did you just call Shovel Knight Shovelware??? b r u h

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

Ported from another platform with little to no effort?

It’s the literal definition of shovelware.

The Switch was literally the last of 11 platforms it launched on.

niisyth,

That’s called a port my dude.

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

With no new features or nothing added to take advantage of unique Switch capabilities = shovelware.

ryven, (edited )
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

It’s worth noting, I think, that the definition of shovelware has slipped somewhat since it was coined like thirty years ago, and I think this is leading to you and niisyth talking past each other. Shovel Knight for Switch was maybe shovelware by the original definition, which was “shovel a bunch of old software onto a CD and resell it,” but by the Wii era people were using it to refer to software that is just bad, but exists to trick people into buying it by promising to be more full-featured than it actually is. The Wii had so many titles like this that it seemed like they were “shoveling” shit directly onto store shelves and calling it games. In this new definition, it refers to titles like My Horse and Me or Imagine Party Babyz. So if they are thinking of the newer usage, it sounds like you’re insulting Shovel Knight’s quality as a game.

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

Yeah, never once heard that definition ever.

niisyth,

Also, by your definition, Skyrim and Witcher 3 are also Shovelware.

Which, I want you to think hard about for maybe 1 min.

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

On the Switch? They absolutely were. An afterthought at best.

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