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starman, do piracy w Gary Bowser is out of jail after being sued by Nintendo and would be an interesting AMA here
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I somehow read his name as Gay Browser at first

prole, 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?

I just picked up Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (the original, not the Remaster) again. Installed it on my Steam Deck along with DSFix after a year or so of scrolling past it and seeing the “unsupported” icon. Looked it up on ProtonDB and apparently it works just fine.

What a game. The level design is still unmatched imo

MayonnaiseArch,
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I have that edition and can’t for the life of me get my xbox controller to work with it. I swear I’ve tried ALL of the solutions people give and just gave up in the end.

prole,

Have you tried something like xpadder where it just maps the keyboard keys used in the game to your controller buttons? I’ve had to use that from time to time way back with older games before controller support got better. Not ideal, but seems to work usually when all else fails.

I’m not sure if/how it works exactly since I mostly do my “PC” gaming on Steam Deck these days, but if it’s possible to use Steam Input on Windows, you may be able to do something similar right in Steam.

MayonnaiseArch,
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I’ll try that, never heard about it! Steam input is an option in steam on windows, I guess it’s the same deal? Thanks for the xpadder thing, it will come in handy for sure.

prole,

Nice, I’m glad I could be of some help. Let me know if you get it to work.

Steam Input is amazing, it’s one of my favorite features of the Steam Deck that nobody really talks about. The amount of customization you can do for controller layouts for individual games is incredible. You can even create radial menus if you want.

CorrodedCranium, 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?
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I played Max Payne and its sequal recently and I was surprised how well they held up. The gameplay and level design kept it consistently fun

fritata_fritato, 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?

I still play Doom 1 & 2 most days. Nothing matches it for speed of play. Doom is fast.

Doom 2016 is a good game too, but I’m it lacks speed.

Rolive,

Same. Project Brutality makes the old Doom games quite enjoyable as well. It’s a bit edgy but it’s kind of a mix of modern Doom with the old ones. It’s the perfect kind of game to just turn your brain off and shoot some demons without having it be too difficult.

Doom Eternal is too much of a dance to play, you have to swap weapons all the time and carefully juggle ammo, chainsaw, dashes and a bunch of other buttons to play optimally.

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.

azureeight, 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?

Had a partner want to practice hacking a 3ds before they closed the shop so I can play PS1 games. The first one I put on that mofo is Azure Dreams, my first and probably favorite dungeon crawler roguelike with a city builder. Also Breath of Fire IV is one of my absolute favorite games ever.

0nyxee,

Both Azure Dreams and BOF IV were great. Haven’t heard mention of them in years

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.

Barky, do piracy w Unpopular opinion : Bing is a better search engine than Google when it comes to piracy

So far the only comments have been ‘everyone knows this already’, but I did not, so thank you for posting it

elxeno,

They’re part of today’s lucky 10000.

ten thousand xkcd comic

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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.

Hieracosphinx, do gaming w A recommendation pleading post (with a twist)

APICO maybe? It’s got some crafting, but is mostly pretty chill, concentrating on breeding bees.

Dorfromantik is relatively mindless. You place tiles and create landscapes. There’s nice music too. There’s a sort of strategy to it, but it’s pretty light. Unlocking new tiles is the main grind. If you wanted a bit more thought involved, just about any turn-based strategy like Civilization 6 should do.

If you want to keep to JRPGs but at a calmer pace than FF7R, False Skies might be up your alley. ARPGs like Chronicon are also low on the intense/concentration scale (although like most ARPGs, you shouldn’t expect much of a story).

But more than any of those, I think Dave the Diver is your best bet. Ocean theme, doesn’t require great concentration (besides the odd minigame), and has a bunch to be taken in at your own pace.

domage,

Just got Dave the Diver. That’s an awesome pick for the described specifications :0)

brickfrog, do piracy w Sonarr/Radarr, is this still a thing?

Automation apps have gotten more popular over the years so yes, they are still a thing.

Sonarr/Radarr are the most popular ones but there are others too. Most work with torrents and usenet but you’d need to check the individual projects to be sure.

Book Automation Link Description
LazyLibrarian gitlab.com/LazyLibrarian/LazyLibrarian Audiobooks / Books / Magazines
Mylar3 github.com/mylar3/mylar3 Comic Books
Readarr readarr.com Audiobooks / Books
Movies/TV Automation Link Description
DuckieTV schizoduckie.github.io/DuckieTV TV
Medusa pymedusa.com TV
Nefarious lardbit.github.io/nefarious Movies/TV app (using Jackett/Transmission)
Radarr radarr.video Movies
SickChill sickchill.github.io TV
SickGear github.com/SickGear/SickGear TV
Sonarr sonarr.tv TV
Watcher github.com/barbequesauce/Watcher3 Movies
Music Automation Link Description
Headphones github.com/rembo10/headphones Music
Lidarr lidarr.audio Music
General Automation Link Description
Autobrr autobrr.com Monitor IRC announce channels and RSS feeds
FlexGet flexget.com Monitor RSS feeds
RSSToolBot rsstoolbot.infymus.com Monitor and aggregate RSS feeds
MonkCanatella,

fucking lemmy man, wrote out awhole ass answer to this and got deleted. god fucking dammit.

welp. here goes again.

headphones is a monthly subscription and not that great, not worth it at all.

lidarr is garbage and the folks around it are assholes. you iether love it and froth at the mouth when someone says they’re having trouble with it, or you hate it. It also is a fucking resource hog like I’ve never seen. MAJOR memory leaks

I use Roon and Qobuz, and Nicotine+ for stuff that isn’t on Qobuz. qobuz-dl is really robust and awesome and can do anything you want lidarr to do: just maintain a list of artists in a document, and qobuz-dl will automatically download anything new as it keeps track of what’s already been downloaded before.

The Roon folks are just as bad as the Lidarr folks. This shit costs $7-800 for a lifetime license and it does’t even include ANY music streaming. It’s just a music server and manager. And they don’t actually have tech support. Literally if you go to their support page, they direct you to a fucking forum full of morons high on the koolaid (bc honestly you have to be if you invested $700 on a shitty music player), tell you to get lost if you don’t like a program with bugs up the ass.

I would love to make an open source offering that does what roon does but also allows you to automatically download stuff using qobuz-dl, tidal-dl, bandcamp-dl, etc.

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

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

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