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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks, do gaming w "X is about to change forever!"

So it works and is never going away 😮‍💨

ShranTheWaterPoloFan, do piracy w How can I find my schools Adobe Premiere/Photoshop Elements 2020 key?

If you think it’s crazy your school uses three year old programs wait until you find out how many businesses are running XP!

user224,

My school is running Windows XP on many computers. Only this year they finally got rid of 32-bit machines.

WeAreAllOne,

I’ve seen BMS software running on Windows XP since 2008! And I mean they still run.

farcaster, do gaming w Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Review Thread

I enjoy these review threads. Very convenient to get an impression of a just-released game. Thanks for sharing.

chloyster,

Ofc! I always really enjoyed these back on reddit too. Opencritic makes it pretty easy to export this into a nice format for Lemmy (if you use the reddit option for copying)

theangriestbird,

I was just going to ask what the lineage was there - I also noticed the similarity to the reddit threads. Thanks for keeping the tradition alive on beehaw!

Stillhart, do gaming w Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Review Thread

Interesting to read the less than stellar reviews. I might try to hold off on this one and grab it on sale later, especially with Starfield coming out soon.

TheCraiggers,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m excited for Starfield but buying a Bethesda game on release week is probably a bad idea. Let them get a few patches out first.

Assuming Armored Core is as polished as many of these reviews suggest, it might be a great game to tide me over until then.

Stillhart,

I have Gamepass so I’m not paying for Starfield. :-D (I know I sound like a broken record, but Gamepass is easily my favorite subscription service that I pay for these days, when it comes to entertainment value per dollar.)

But yeah, getting AC6 first and waiting on Starfield instead is not a bad option if you don’t have Gamepass. Starfield will only get better over time with patches and mod support. AC6 will probably not change significantly over time.

Goronmon,

I’m excited for Starfield but buying a Bethesda game on release week is probably a bad idea. Let them get a few patches out first.

Both Skyrim and Fallout 4 were fine at launch. Skyrim definitely had some bugs, but the idea that was an unplayable mess on launch is a made-up thing.

TheCraiggers,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Unplayable mess? I never said that. However, more than a few people had game-breaking bugs in Skyrim and had to restart or hope they had a save from far enough back.

Obviously Skyrim was playable enough since it was an immediate critical success. I can’t really speak for fallout 4 since I never played it and didn’t bother following the news for it.

That being said, there are memes older than some people on lemmy equating Bethesda and bugs. They’ve earned their reputation, but good and bad.

SatellitePottery,

These are actually pretty high for the Armored Core series. Armored Core 3 has a 74/100 aggregated on Metacritic, For Answer has a 62, and Verdict Day has a 66, just to name a few of the fan favorites.

Goronmon,

Exactly what I was going to point out. Armored Core has always been a relatively niche series, that has never reviewed that well.

The fact that it's reviewing in the 80s (at least so far) is a marked improvement over previous entries.

TheCraiggers,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I have hopes from these reviews, although I do wonder how much of the score improvement is due to From Software’s new reputation.

Stillhart,

I’m not really concerned about the aggregate score. I’m sure it’ll be a solid game. I’m just interested in the presumed flaws. Like any product, reading the details of the negative reviews is often far more revealing than the gushing reviews.

ryven,
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Whaaaaat? I’ve played For Answer and Verdict Day and I remember them being rad as hell; why were the review scores so low?

SatellitePottery,

At the time, most reviewers considered the series as a whole stale and unnecessarily obtuse. Fans of the series didn't really see the difficulty as an issue, and newcomers to the series had no way to consider it stale, so those still became fan favorites.

coffeentacos, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th
@coffeentacos@beehaw.org avatar

Been slowly picking away at Blue Reflection Second Light. It’s nice and chill, and neat that the first game’s subtext of girls love isn’t subtext anymore.

Also been playing some Gundam EXVS Maxiboost On with a friend. Slowly getting our bearings and it’s neat how every session our play improves, as does our coordination.

storksforlegs, do gaming w Besides Robux, What Can I Give to My Little Brother that Plays Roblox?
@storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

Has he tried Minecraft?

empireOfLove, do gaming w Besides Robux, What Can I Give to My Little Brother that Plays Roblox?
@empireOfLove@lemmy.one avatar

What does he play it on?

If he’s like I was and playing on hand me down office PC’s, consider getting a better keyboard/mouse, headphones, a stick of memory or something in that line to improve his experience. Actual pc upgrades are probably a little expensive for your budget, although really nice large monitors can be had for <$150 these days.

toxictenement, do piracy w Connecting to Jellyfin on a computer thats using VPN
@toxictenement@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Since mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding anymore, you’ll want to split tunnel it outside of the vpn. However, if you’re considering switching vpn’s at all, airvpn has a dynamic dns service (and port forwarding) which you can set up to have a static url for your jellyfin.

Just be sure to enable the DLNA server and allow remote connections in the jellyfin settings either way.

UrLogicFails, (edited ) do gaming w Besides Robux, What Can I Give to My Little Brother that Plays Roblox?

Do you know what aspects of Roblox you’re brother likes (crafting, game building, the social aspect, etc)?

For a more crafting heavy game, there’s Minecraft or Terraria (I think). For game building, Game Builder Garage on Switch, or Dreams on PlayStation might be nice. Unfortunately, I don’t have any good social game recommendations, though.

luciole, do gaming w Besides Robux, What Can I Give to My Little Brother that Plays Roblox?
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

Never played Roblox myself, but my son had a big phase and still plays from time to time. Back then we’d get him Roblox figurines once in a while. They can be disassembled/mixed and they come with codes for virtual items as well.

Stillhart,

they come with codes for virtual items as well.

Ooh, this is a great compromise. I like this idea!

AphoticDev, do piracy w Any good tools for converting a YT playlist to mp3?
@AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Why would you want to convert to mp3? This ain’t 2003, there’s way better formats to use than that.

kingludd,

Can you give some examples to read up on?

AphoticDev,
@AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Depends on whether you want lossless or lossy. For lossy, OOG Vorbis is the way to go if you want to support open source. If you don’t care about that, WMA is a proprietary format alternative. Both WMA and Vorbis have better quality than MP3, with equivalent file sizes. I use Vorbis myself, because it’s free.

If you want lossless, idk, because I don’t fuck with that.

SBS1313, (edited )

Just a small question let us say i wanted to convert all of my mp3 files into oog or wma. Will i loose some quality or it is fine (my files are around 128kbps)??? Because better quality for same size seems like a switch i would do. (I will convert with AIMP)

ByteWizard,

If they’re already MP3 then don’t bother. Can’t make it sound better after it’s already been compressed. You’d need to get source material then convert to whatever format.

There’s nothing wrong with MP3 though. Hell most people are listening to streaming like Pandora and Spotify and don’t complain.

AphoticDev,
@AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Vorbis has better compression than MP3, so you won’t lose any quality, and the files should be a little smaller.

TerryTPlatypus,

There might be, but as a standard mp3 is by far the most cross compatible format on any device. Plus, if you feel like it later you can just create a program to convert all the mp3 files into other formats.

AphoticDev,
@AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

OOG Vorbis has been around for years, what device are you imagining that can’t play it? A Zune?

Likely they are putting it on mobile phone, and both major OSes can handle those files.

TerryTPlatypus,

you’re probably right about that, i never thought of it that way!

ArcaneSlime,

My phone will play .ogg with VLC, but the little bar that tracks song progress is broken, same with .opus. .flac works but phone manufacturers have decided I don’t need storage space and I instead need their cloud, which I refuse to use, so .mp3 it is.

AphoticDev,
@AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

If you’re having issues with OOG, then try AAC. It was designed to be the successor to MP3, and when MP3 is phased out in the coming years, it will be in favor of AAC. I use Vorbis because it’s open source, but there are other options than that.

ArcaneSlime,

I’ll give it a shot.

MaeTheDoctor,

Because the first audio format I think of is mp3, that’s literally it.

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bilboswaggings, do gaming w Besides Robux, What Can I Give to My Little Brother that Plays Roblox?

No matter what anyone says money is the best gift

Even robux is effectively a gift card (you could even argue that its worse because of the value of digital goods)

UrLogicFails,

I personally disagree.

While cash is the most useful gift, gifts aren’t a utilitarian practice. A gift is an opportunity to show someone that not only do you really know them enough to choose something they would enjoy; but also that you’re thinking about them, and that they are worth effort and thought to you.

Of course, good gifting gets harder as your giftees can afford what they want on their own, but that just makes the sentimental aspects even more important (in my opinion).

Evergreen5970,

For a certain type of person who heavily values utility, yeah, go with money. Most useful, the person you replied to has a point.

They’ll likely also appreciate that you know them well enough to know that they would like money the best instead of making the assumption (that would be correct for a lot of people, but not for this particular example person) that they’ll feel money is too impersonal. 😛 Sentiment probably would play a role, with the sentiment still being “you know me well enough to get me the gift I’d like the most.”

I like giving gifts because I feel it’s me showing the other person that I know what they like, that I see them and listen to them. I like receiving gifts that show that the person who got me it knows me well enough to know my likes. I would absolutely prefer money if you’re uncertain of my likes—I also value utility. Even if the gift of money was low-effort and not out of “I know you would prefer money over an incorrect guess at what you like,” I’d still prefer the money. More useful to me and would bring more joy than something I didn’t like.

So I mostly agree with you when it comes to gift-giving, but the person you replied to also has a point!

bilboswaggings,

Ofc something nice and thoughtful is ideal But this guy didn’t give us anything to build off of, other than roblox and not robux

If you know someone and they like gifts: give something useful they would like, but haven’t bought themselves (if they like things to have a use) or something that doesn’t need to have monetary value, like something more personal and thoughtful (if they like decorations and things with personal value)

If you don’t really know the person or they don’t really want random stuff: money, because even though it’s not the best gift out there still it’s better than something they wouldn’t use or already had

MrGerrit,

I really dislike gift cards.

Here, let me change my currency, that in it’s current state can be used in any store you want, to a currency of same value but now you can only use it on one store…

Wookie,
@Wookie@artemis.camp avatar

They have gift card for Visa, Amex, etc, and can be used anywhere

MrGerrit,

Ah okay, those aren’t commonly used where I live. I was thinking about those gift cards that you can only use at one store brand only.

Those you mention are at least a good way if you don’t want to give cash.

Tippon, do piracy w Prowlarr question

This could be a combination of both the other answers. Sonarr and Radarr will only process files they recognise, and only from the folders they monitor.

If you set up Radarr, and only added the original Star Wars to it, you could put every other movie in existence into Radarr’s watch folder, and it wouldn’t do anything with them. It would only deal with the original Star Wars. Radarr, and all the other *arrs, only deal with what you’ve explicitly told them to.

On the other hand, they only process files that are in their respective watch folders. If you created a watch folder for Radarr under downloads/radarr, but Prowlarr was putting the files in the downloads folder, Radarr would never see them. It can only look in the watch folder you set, and any sub folders.

What you can do is set the same root folder for them all, and tell the different *arrs to use sub folders, then use the root folder as a catch all. I can’t remember how to set it up off the top of my head, but I remember that it was pretty simple.

WeAreAllOne,

What you can do is set the same root folder for them all, and tell the different *arrs to use sub folders, then use the root folder as a catch all. I can’t remember how to set it up off the top of my head, but I remember that it was pretty simple. <

This is the way I’m set up. One downloads folder and two folders for Sonarr and Radarr respectively that are mapped by them. How do you mean use the root folder as catch up?

Tippon,

Catch all

I set them both to watch my completed downloads folder, named Completed in my case. When they grab something, they put it in a sub folder of Completed, named either Sonarr or Radarr. If I put something that one of them is monitoring into the root Completed folder, it still gets picked up. This way, I don’t have to specify a sub folder for anything I download manually, it just goes in Completed and gets processed.

CmdrShepard, do piracy w Prowlarr question

Not familiar with SABnzbd but with torrents and searching from Prowlarr, these don’t get assigned the proper category in the download client meaning radarr/sonarr don’t ever see them. With QBittorrent, I can just assign the proper category after adding them, and then the *arrs take it from there.

WeAreAllOne,

So I might wanna play with the categories. Thank you I will try this.

rambos,

Yeah thats a solution. Just right-click torrents that came from prowlarr and move it to sonarr or radarr category.

Categories are made automatically when you create a torrent client in sonarr/radarr. They are also synced with qbittorrent

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