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pcjones, do piracy w Where might I get German (mostly tv) content?

Usenet is the secret for German stuff. I have a German beginners guide: github.com/PCJones/usenet-guide

LazyKoala,

Danke Brudi, top gemacht!

Sailing7,

Heilige scheiße, danke!

youRFate, do piracy w What are good mullvadvpn alternatives with port forwarding

I use azire now. Works well so far.

SexualPolytope,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I don’t really see people recommending Azire. How are the speeds?

youRFate,

I like how they have an api for stuff like port forwarding etc (albeit with mediocre documentation), and how they use all their own servers.

So far I could always max out my connection, it is only 100Mbit/s tho.

adonkeystomple,

Been thinking about trying Azire, do they provide static ports?

youRFate, (edited )

No, the ports expire, but you can script the renewal / new port process via their API. I want to set up a job that gets a new port like 1x per week and tells it to the applicating using the port. Haven’t done that yet. So far my port stayed active for like a month.

adonkeystomple,

Oh that’s neat. Yeah I use Airvpn currently, but would be interested in Proton or Azire if I could automate with a script like you said.

EvaUnit02, do gaming w Fighting game stick recommendations?
@EvaUnit02@kbin.social avatar

I can't think of any wireless sticks off the top of my head other than 8Bitdo's offering. They're generally not legal at tournaments.

Personally, I like just about anything from Hori. I like their Fighting Edge stick a great deal. It doesn't seem to be in production anymore, unfortunately. I've since modified mine pretty extensively but I liked it a lot right out of the box.

I have a Qanba Obsidian that I use whenever I play games on my computer. Again, it's out of production but Qanba now offers the Obsidian 2.

They're two of my favorite sticks and I own a lot.

SteleTrovilo,

Thank you! I hadn’t heard of Qanba before - they definitely have some interesting joysticks.

HovringSquidworld97A,

The 8BitDo stick has been pleasant to use, and is compatible with a ton of systems. Why is it banned at tournaments? Wireless? Or something else non-standard about it?

EvaUnit02,
@EvaUnit02@kbin.social avatar

Wireless. While players should be unpairing any controllers prior to their matches, sometimes they don't and a third party can wirelessly interfere (intentionally or not) with a match.

HovringSquidworld97A,

That makes sense, thanks!

ConstableJelly, do gaming w Sea of Stars (2023) review thread

I think 2023 has officially become the 21st century’s year of the RPG. Any flavor you want, 2023 has got it.

I’ve had my eye on this one and am very pleased to see it score so well.

Arotrios, do piracy w Is movie-web down for anyone else?
@Arotrios@kbin.social avatar

Working fine on my end - sounds like ISP filtering or possibly a firewall setting. With an ad blocker to handle popups, you could also try g o k u dot s x - not quite the same server collection, but you might find what you're looking for.

open_door,

That was it, yeah. Thank you.

arudesalad, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?

I think your just playing games that don’t have a grid. I still play a lot of games with a grid. If you want a strategy game that has a grid, my dad has been playing a lot of jagged alliance 3 and has been saying very positive things about it.

anakin78z,
@anakin78z@lemmy.world avatar

I know I’m late to respond, but I did check out jagged alliance 3,and it looks awesome. Thanks for the recommendation!

TheOneCurly, do piracy w Visions of a larger plunder
@TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page avatar

Unless they start offering on-prem or there are some very high profile server hacks I don’t see that being possible. Unlike media and client software they don’t need to provide the core functionality to end users, just the output.

aldalire,

I agree. As for the how, it’s gonna be tricky to say the least

dingus,
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

You can start by using the same data sources they do. Several had admitted to using Books3.

huggingface.co/datasets/the_pile_books3

metaStatic,

let me just check how much supercompute I have and ... oh, zero.

dingus,
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

Well, let’s just assume we have a can opener.

Thelsim, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 27th

Like many, I’ve been playing a lot of Baldur’s Gate 3. I love the game, but part of me is already longingly looking at the Pillar of Eternity or Pathfinder games for a bit less complicated level design.
The 3d worlds are nice, but I always have the feeling like I’m a little lost.

rivingtondown,

The Pillars and Pathfinder games are both relatively daunting in terms of world size and, at least for Pathfinder, the rules are much more gritty… remember Pathfinder is a spin-off of DnD 3.5e and sticks relatively closely to that. While BG3 is based on the much more “friendly” DnD 5e rules. Pathfinder is much closer to BG2 than BG3 is, gameplay wise.

The big differences between BG3 and the other modern CRPGs is that BG3 does an exceptional job at presenting unprecedented player choice in traversal and combat. Other games have dialogue skill checks and all that but traversing the world is flat, literally practically menu driven and combat is all measurements and numbers. BG3 has free-form qualities that, in the world of video games, have so far only been utilized in immersive sims like Deus Ex and, oddly enough, I’d say the modern 3D Zeldas.

Thelsim,

Oh, I agree on all those points. The rules are definitely easier to understand, especially compared to Pathfinder. And I do like that you are more free in how to resolve a conflict.

The thing I meant was that for me, personally, interacting with the world is daunting. Having a 3rd person view of a fully 3d world filled with tons of items to interact with and with different elevations makes it hard for me to make a mental map of the game world. It’s not such a big deal for Deus Ex (where it’s in 1st person and you can get really up close to things) or with Zelda (where the amount of stuff to interact with is a lot more sparse). In BG3 I just constantly feel like I’m lost and missing out on things that might have been hidden from view because I looked at it from the wrong angle.
It’s just me. I miss the overview of the flatter maps in those other games. It allows me to focus more on the story and the exploration funny enough.

Again, I agree with everything else. I still love the game and the design, I just realize what I’m missing from my other favorite games.

rivingtondown,

I feel you on that front. I have a Steam Deck and use it over my PC 90% of the time and even have BG3 running well on it but I prefer to sit at my desk for this game because the clutter is so dense that I need that big monitor and mouse to pixel hunt for all the little items and clicky things hidden around the world… and being able to spin that camera quickly around with a mouse while traversing is super important to catching things

empireOfLove, do piracy w What are the ways to play minecraft offline (single player)?
@empireOfLove@lemmy.one avatar

Mineshafter[dot]info is what I used to use back in my cracked minecraft days. It basically provides a modified launcher that patches itself and the Minecraft JAR to look for the Mineshafter login servers instead of Microsoft’s. It lets you use singleplayer as well as multi-player on cracked servers that do not force online authentication.

The site is still up and paid for, which means someone still gives a shit about it, so I think it may still be functional. I haven’t used it in literally ten years though, so I doubt it supports the latest Minecraft versions though, but you can try it. Oh God. Ten years. I’m old…

bartolomeo, do piracy w What's the best way to rip music off Spotify so that I can store it on my HDD?

Freyr is amazing.

github.com/miraclx/freyr-js

Chewy7324,

According to the readme it downloads the songs from youtube or other sources and then adds metadata after reencoding. This means tracks might include unwanted audio from a yt music video.

But I also used tools like this in the past, they work great.

TheRealMalc, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 27th

Vampire Survivors co-op!

blindsight,

I’m dealing with thumb injuries, so I’ve mostly been playing Vampire Survivors for the last few weeks. WASD and no mouse is perfect to let my thumbs heal.

I only just bought it recently. I’m still working through unlocking everything and just beat my first Inverted level, which took me quite a few attempts. I also realize that I probably shouldn’t be trying to kill Death on Inverted mode, but I’ve been building around that goal each game…

Really fun game. I prefer Soulstone Survivors, but I can’t play it with my thumbs rn!

Oneeightnine,
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The game has co-op???

Limeaide,

couch co-op. i don’t think it has online co-op

TheRealMalc,

Yeah local coop came out about a week or two ago! You can do remote play together on steam, but performance has been pretty shitty. It’s still been a lot of fun though!

Chewy7324, do piracy w What's the best way to get German content?

If you’re using Radarr/Sonarr, I can’t recommend this guide enough if you want german + english dual language media. github.com/…/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language

Usenet is great once I got SceneNZB recommended. They include content from House of Usenet, a forum for german usenet (getting media from forums can’t be easily automated, which is the big drawback of HoU).

I also found DrunkenSlug recommended, but everything I wanted in german was also on SceneNZB anyway.

iagomago, do gaming w Switch 2 - launch games?
@iagomago@feddit.it avatar

My money’s on an Animal Crossing, possibly not immediately on release but close to it nonetheless. New Horizons had just too much success for the company not trying to ride the wave, and they have so much room to improve on the mechanics and the variety of the setting.

terminateprocess,

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    Didn’t New Horizon have a DLC AND a microtransactions-riddled mobile game?

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  • magus_clap,

    My own experience with animal crossing was riding the wave of hype and then giving it up. I don’t think I would get the sequel.

    MDKAOD, (edited )

    You underestimate the casual gaming crowd. The same people who buy all of the sims content, still play animal crossing to get cozy in bed before sleeping every night.

    EnderofGames, do gaming w How was inside for you?

    INSIDE was easier than LIMBO, but a worthy spiritual successor. Very good in the genres of puzzle platformer and horror. No cheap tricks, just good work all the way through.

    The story is VERY open ended, and I felt a little slighted at first, but it grew on me. As far as very open ended stories, so was LIMBO's.

    MJBrune,

    Really? I feel like 90% of it was just plowing ahead to realize what something does because the game wasn’t clear in the answer. Like I’m inside death is required to figure out what you need to do. Even if it’s not death it’s going forward, pressing a button, realizing you aren’t supposed to press the button and going back to press it again.

    Honestly the biggest issue is the player verbs aren’t clear. There was one point that you have to hide behind a box but the game has never had that mechanic so you have no clue you can even do it. The game will respawn you hiding behind the box to explain the mechanic to you. So that’s essentially one place of forced death but there are dozens of examples of information you get the best after death.

    lossykittens, do piracy w Real Debrid is Down

    Forgive my ignorance, what’s Real Debrid?

    Grappling7155,

    A torrent caching service

    sylverstream,

    More info here: …vercel.app/…/no-more-pricey-streaming

    Stremio + RD is awesome, when it works.

    Blizzard,

    Some kind of a knock-off of Real Madrid?

    Crabhands,
    @Crabhands@lemmy.ml avatar

    It’s a service that allows tv/movie streaming from torrents. I use it with the ‘Seren’ addon within Kodi on my HTPC/FireSticks. It’s $20/6 months, and works great. No buffering.

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