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Mgineer, do games w Half Life Battlefield Dodgeball Meet Up inspired by Fallout Meet Up

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radiouser, do games w Half Life 'n' the Boys: Dodgeball Exhibit

Sounds like a lot of fun. I’d love to see the outcome of such an event.

BodePlotHole, do games w what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting?

Boom Bewm

youtube.com/watch?v=4cfhQYGznAI

Start at 50 seconds in. I couldn’t figure out the link with timecode thing.

mathemachristian, do games w Half Life 'n' the Boys: Dodgeball Exhibit

Italy?? Half life was inspired by eastern european aesthetics, the Ukraine more specifically. There’s a colonel Odessa for crying out loud.

CorneliusCopernicus,

We could have multiple locations for different experiences, and I hosted a few dodgeball practices in Odesa, Ukraine in 2021 and I hope to return to Ukraine soon!

mathemachristian,

I mean I dont have that kind of money and if I did it would go to Palestine but Italy seems weirdly expensive when you have romania right there.

insomniac_lemon, (edited ) do games w Half Life 'n' the Boys: Dodgeball Exhibit

€1,950,000 5,124 people for the first event goal

I think it should be on the moon with a Black-Mesa-branded rocket (with a gnome on-board), for thematic reasons. It’s no Xen, but you could probably add some decorations and even without that it’d be a better match than Italy.

Not sure about dodgeball though, I think area combat would fit more as well. Just make sure to have first-aid stations and have everybody sign waivers.

…or maybe you should just do free meet-ups with people to play dodgeball or talk-about/play your favorite games etc. (and maybe you’ll find some overlap) without it being some record-breaking event?

CorneliusCopernicus,

I forgot to post another way it all relates to gaming and another popular game it all relates to while still fitting the theme, to bring multiple communities together, and the record-breaking event was never meant to be a requirement to make it all happen. I will try to post another update soon.

rapchee, do games w Half Life 'n' the Boys: Dodgeball Exhibit
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i subscribe to this discussion

Fizz, do games w Half Life 'n' the Boys: Dodgeball Exhibit
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I’d love to but I have absolutely no chance of getting to a location. Hopefully this goes viral across various Internet communities and you get a big crowd.

CorneliusCopernicus,

I hope to try to offer something for people who can’t attend, and also hope to create plenty of highlight footage to show everyone the experience. Thank you, and if anyone has any suggestions for communities to post this to, I will try.

Fizz,
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probably reddit, twitter and tiktok if you wnat even a tiny chance at those kind of numbers.

Pappabosley, do games w what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting?

Sephiroth - Final Fantasy 7

pilferjinx, do games w what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting?

The first time you fight Magus in Chrono Trigger.

bungle_in_the_jungle, do games w what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting?

Oryx at the end of the Destiny Taken King expansion. Walking down this dark passageway and his symbol appears in light in front of you and the door opens to reveal him. So epic!

Ashiette, do games w what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting?

It has to be Riku in Kingdom Hearts. He takes about 5 minutes or more to tell you that your path ends there and he actually delivers. Then he tells it again when you inevitably try again, because you can’t skip the bloody cutscene.

Starski,

Have recently played this for the first time, and I’m stuck on the final Riku fight, it’s excessively difficult and worst of all I just don’t really care about the characters for it to be worth it for me to finish the game, honestly a super overrated game.

Ashiette,

For a long time I thought KH to be the best game ever but… It is ! When you’re a teenager, when you’re going through angst. But when you’re a grown up, it is not as good.

zrst, (edited ) do games w If you miss old network multiplayer games, or would like to try them with your friends for the first time, may I suggest setting them up via SoftEtherVPN?

You should be able to accomplish this with any game that supports LAN and Hamachi.

Pretty sure you don’t even need port forwarding.

ampersandrew,
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If you’re using Hamachi, you won’t need port forwarding, correct. I tried to make that clear above, but maybe it was easy to miss.

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w RomM (self-hosting emulation) releasing a significant update - 4.2

Heh, heard about this yesterday on a different board and gave it a go.

It is definitely jank. Super easy to set up and get running (one of the best docker compose files I ever used) but the hodge podge of grabbing your own API keys for the metadata services is a mess. Would have preferred it if their folder structure were the same as the “industry standard” retroarch (ugh. transphobic shits) layout but whatever. Same with support for distinguishing that a .cue file means the associated bin/iso/chd files probably shouldn’t be scanned to.

My only real complaint is that it doesn’t have a clean way to remove missing files (for example, if you moved said isos into a subfolder rather than using the .cue file that was always a mess) or providing in-UI excluding of matches (e.g. shader caches for modern emulators or a memory cards folder of older emulators).

Still, I like it a lot. Not likely to play anything in my browser but really nice for browsing what is actually on my NAS when the mood strikes. And gonna take a look at the romm APIs in the not too distant future to see if I can leverage that to finally set up my sync utility (which will probably involve research/getting involved to figure out how save states and memory cards are handled… or set up a way for them to be handled).

vorpuni,
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Do you have a link that explains how RetroArch is transphobic? I’m OotL.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

resetera.com/…/duckstation-now-on-indefinite-hiat… is a good thread on the subject of the RA/LR crew turning to harassment the moment someone won’t specifically package their emulators for LR and www.resetera.com/threads/…/page-7 for transphobia specifically.

I’ve seen increasing statements that the harassment campaign that murdered Near was driven by RA/LR folk but haven’t managed to find any direct evidence and there is zero chance I am wading through kiwi farms for it. But I definitely recall a few clashes with RA/LR as that was coming up and its priorities (and market share) were shifting. But, to be fair, there is not a single emulator dev from that era who didn’t have a clash with RA/LR as they were pressured more and more into specifically developing “cores”.

But it is generally one of those things Games Media doesn’t cover since protecting trans folk is a good way to get boycotted and EVERYONE loves retroarch for their emulation needs. And the outlets who DO tend to cover this kind of stuff are under near constant attacks from kiwi farms et al to begin with so…

vorpuni,
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But it is generally one of those things Games Media doesn’t cover since protecting trans folk is a good way to get boycotted and EVERYONE loves retroarch for their emulation needs. And the outlets who DO tend to cover this kind of stuff are under near constant attacks from kiwi farms et al to begin with so…

Thanks for the links, took me a while to get to it. It’s really missing some actual investigative journalism into this because it’s a confusing mess.

I did not realize there were so many toxic people around emulators, of all things…

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Its one of those things you can only really “know” by actually keeping an ear open. I mean, look around. Lemmy generally seems to skew left (how much of that is the tankies on dot ml is a different discussion). But there are basically two or three of us who point out that BDS is specifically calling for a boycott of Microsoft every time a gamepass or Gears of War thread comes up because fuck that shit, No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism™ means Fuck Off Palestine New Forza Dropped.

But if you listen and ask questions when people reference Internet Lore, you too get the brainworm and can make informed decisions going forth.

Which, truth be told, is not that different than anything else. If you only watch the news when something interesting happens, you might think a nazi is a good man and father. Whereas, if you have suffered even a bit of continual psychic damage over the years, you KNOW that is bullshit and can start thinking about why CNN is glazing him and so forth.

The Internet is a spectacular pleasure box and a great way to find out information on demand. But relying solely on The Algorithm and Others to inform you is how you get… 2025.

bitwolf, do games w RomM (self-hosting emulation) releasing a significant update - 4.2

Oh that’s awesome I didn’t know it ran the games locally in browser with wasm. Def will be spinning this up now

chilicheeselies, do games w If you miss old network multiplayer games, or would like to try them with your friends for the first time, may I suggest setting them up via SoftEtherVPN?

You think battlefield 2142 would work with this? Best battlefiekd game in the franchise

ampersandrew,
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I’m fairly sure every Battlefield game until BF3 had LAN and private servers, so it ought to work, yes. Bad Company 1 never got a PC version, so you’re at the mercy of what those consoles allowed for, but Bad Company 2 is on PC.

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