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freakrho, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 10th
@freakrho@programming.dev avatar

Death Stranding on steam deck, the version I got for free on epic

Nicadimos,

How do you play the Epic version on Steam?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

You can side load a program called Heroic Game Launcher that will automatically download from other stores and apply the best known version of Proton to it. It's not as good as proper Steam support, but it will often get the job done.

Nicadimos,

Awesome, thanks. I’ll have to check it out.

freakrho,
@freakrho@programming.dev avatar

with heroic launcher, it handles everything for you

mateomaui, (edited ) do piracy w How would someone, hypothetically, pirate Baldur's Gate 3 without being able to torrent?

If you’re acquiring a GOG release somewhere, it should be the regular, normal installer because GOG releases don’t have DRM that needs cracking. Someone just needs to first get it legally from GOG and then share it somewhere. If you scan it with antivirus and it finds something, get rid of it and try another source.

Otherwise without torrenting, you’d have to find a place with direct downloads.

edit: though you may want to wait longer for them to patch more bugs etc, because if you don’t have a source to download the GOG updates only, downloading 100+ GB each time is a pain.

blakeus12,
@blakeus12@hexbear.net avatar

Thank you!

peereboominc, do piracy w Is Direct Connect still 'a thing'?

That is a long time ago that I have heard anyone say that. Wasn’t there a client software called DC++ or something like that?

Discola,

We were using DC++ on campus to share files over twelve years ago!

iHUNTcriminals,

Yup. Where people would share their entire c drive to be able to join servers…

Their entire c drive… Everything.

Uranium3006,
@Uranium3006@kbin.social avatar

They'll get your system32!

HackerJoe,

That was super helpful to just grab one or two broken files from any installed software though. I just had a 250GB ISO with 2MB of compressed zeroes to get into servers with ridiculous requirements. Fun times…

ebc, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 10th

I just got into Factorio, and I’m lucky I have other stuff going on in my life, because it’s such a big rabbit hole I don’t think I’d come out! I never played it or even knew what the game was about, but the announcement last week about the space expansion got me to download the demo.

WarmSoda, do piracy w How would someone, hypothetically, pirate Baldur's Gate 3 without being able to torrent?

“Hello kids”

burgersc12, (edited ) do piracy w What is your go to music grabbing solution?

I like SoulSeek, not sure if they have a grabber?

Solaris1789, (edited ) do piracy w OST For Games
@Solaris1789@jlai.lu avatar

A lot of them are on youtube and can be ytdled (thanks to the random heroes who upload them full)

RandomLegend, do piracy w What is your go to music grabbing solution?
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Onthespot is awesome

Perrin42, do games w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If you don't give the sandwich to the small dog you can't finish the game.

Davel23, (edited )

I got bit by this one. Went over to a friend's house to spend the day playing HHGTTG. Several hours later we discovered we couldn't win the game because I had neglected to feed the dog 15 minutes in while he was up getting a drink or something.

AnyOldName3,
@AnyOldName3@lemmy.world avatar

It really shows that Douglas Adams was an author and not a game designer with how easy it is to soft-lock that game if you visit rooms in the wrong order or spend too long or short a time exploring one. Most of the possible mistakes become reasonably apparent reasonably quickly, but not always.

InLikeClint, (edited ) do piracy w Soccer streaming sites?
@InLikeClint@kbin.social avatar
jesus_christ,
@jesus_christ@reddthat.com avatar

Thanks!

NaoPb, do gaming w Does anyone know of any kid-friendly "horror" games out there for children ~7 years old?

How about Spookie’s House of Jumpscares?

At least I think that’s what it’s called?

CharlesReed,

I second this one. It's pretty straight forward, and just as the name suggests, is filled with jumpscares.

Xirup, do piracy w Every modded apk I install crashes

Personally I have used Mobilism for years and it is simply the best site to download apk with pay options unlocked, although sometimes there may be crashes, from my experience can I say it, but it is not the most normal.

Have you checked that the apk you are downloading is compatible with your device? For example, depending on the age of your device and the version of Android you should download apk that are armeabi-v7a (old architecture) or arm64-v8a (newer architecture), although there are also apks that bring all versions in one.

Sasori323,

It’s not an architecture problem, as I said, I downloaded the same game from the same web and the modded one crashes while the normal one didn’t. I don’t understand…

Xirup,

Personally I have never used a Xiomi device to comment on whether it is a problem or not, but maybe it is, maybe it is like Windows Defender that deletes cracked .dll files when installing a pirated program or game and then the program does not start for no reason because of that.

Sasori323,

I know that it’s been some time but I just found this. There’s an option on developer opts that allows you to see crash reports. This is what I get. I know this might not be the place to ask about this. But as it only happens with pirated / modded apks, support forms wont help me.


<span style="color:#323232;">java.lang.SecurityException: Not allowed to bind to service Intent { act=com.google.android.finsky.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE cmp=com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.externalreferrer.GetInstallReferrerService }
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at android.app.ContextImpl.bindServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:2050)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at android.app.ContextImpl.bindService(ContextImpl.java:1961)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at android.content.ContextWrapper.bindService(ContextWrapper.java:863)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at c1.b.d(Unknown Source:132)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at com.reactlibrary.RNInstallReferrerModule.getReferrer(Unknown Source:17)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaMethodWrapper.invoke(Unknown Source:148)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaModuleWrapper.invoke(Unknown Source:147)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at com.facebook.jni.NativeRunnable.run(Native Method)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:942)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadHandler.dispatchMessage(Unknown Source:0)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:211)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:300)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadImpl$4.run(Unknown Source:37)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)
</span>
kzhe,

I’m looking on Mobilism for stuff and all the forum comments make the releases seem suspicious

Xirup,

I use it because it is in the Megathread of FMHY, apart from that I have never had problems but obviously you have to use common sense because anyone can upload a file as in any torrent site. My setup is a firewall (RethinkDNS in my case) that blocks internet access to the application as soon as it is installed and suspicious domains, download only from known uploaders like Balatan and do not give permissions blindly, and when in doubt there is VirusTotal.

kzhe,

Ah ok

figjam, do games w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

I played Earthbound as a kid and got stuck in a golem without the item needed to get out. Since I got it used I didn’t have the game guide. No idea how much stuff I missed but I never picked it up again.

abraxas,

I remember that, and I remember finding a way out too. I just don’t remember what it was.

I’m pretty sure that’s not a full-on softlock. Just so bad it feels like one if you miss something.

AceFuzzLord, do games w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

Don’t know if anyone has said it yet, but Fallout 3. There is a story quest where you have to ask a radio host named Three Dog information about your father and it’s a percentage based skill check that if you fail it, I don’t think you can progress (unless I am completely mistaken since it’s been more than a half decade since I last played).

To make matters even worse, even at a maximum 100 in speech, the skill check can still be failed. Again, not 100% sure whether or not the Three Dog skill check is even required or if you can just run to the right place to progress the main story, but if you are a first time player you could absolutely screw yourself over not knowing about this.

loutr,
@loutr@sh.itjust.works avatar

IIRC failing the speech check is the “normal” outcome. If you convince him he gives you info you would have come across later, allowing you to bypass the next main story quest.

abraxas,

Yeah, that was always a weird one to me. It’s one thing for speech checks to give you advantages and shortcuts, but that straight up cut 30 minutes off the game.

jws_shadotak, do piracy w A way to disable laugh tracks?

Not really, unless you know a lot about sound engineering.

I don’t think there’s any version of the show that doesn’t have a laugh track.

SirGaston,
@SirGaston@feddit.de avatar

Too bad, thanks!

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