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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.

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

Datas_Cat_Spot, do piracy w Third party Reddit apps just got canned.
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The popularity of this community might finally get me into pirating, lol. I subbed out of curiosity.

Quill7513,

I like that this community is dedicated to the concept of piracy based on their principals. I’m not involved, but I appreciate it

beaumains,

I’m not involved either. I definitely would never do anything so abhorrent and inconsiderate of rights holders who purchased their copyrights fair and square.

Never.

Ever.

szczur, do gaming w Is it me or are games really not fun anymore
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To be perfectly honest I don't feel like anything is fun anymore.

AngrilyEatingMuffins,

You might be depressed my guy

brie, do NomadOffgrid w Mój mały projekt Nomad Offgrid działa już 2 tygodnie!

@m0bi13 @m0bi13 A tak z ciekawości, czy na dłuższe trasy pod chmurką rozważałeś dynamo w wózku?

m0bi13,
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@brie @m0bi13 Dynamo daje za mały prąd, by brać na poważnie. No i raczej zmienny, do wyprostowania.

Jajcus, do NomadOffgrid w Mój mały projekt Nomad Offgrid działa już 2 tygodnie!

Ja parę lat temu postawiłem panel (jakiś wielki stary cienkowarstwowy z demobilu) na altanie na działce. Zasilał Raspberry Pi najpierw z telefonem androidowym jako modemem, potem z modemem LTE, i zawór do nawadniania kropelkowego. Po dwóch latach już ledwo dawał radę, na zimę w ogóle. Potem dołożyłem wiatrak. Fajnie wygląda, ale inwestycja kompletnie bez sensu. Na takiej działce w środku miasta, metr nad altaną to rzadko kiedy wieje tyle, żeby wystarczyło chociażby na potrzeby regulatora ładowania.

W tym roku kupiłem nowy panel 100W. Znacznie mniejszy i lżejszy od tamtego i bez problemu utrzymuje całą tą elektronikę. Teraz doszedł jeszcze mikrokontroler do monitorowania warunków pod tunelem foliowym (lepiej było nie wiedzieć… teraz jestem ciekaw ile Rasberry Pi Pico wytrzyma przy wilgotności sięgającej 100% w nocy).

W każdym razie zabawy w off-grid są bardzo fajne. Przynajmniej dopóki się nie myśli „czy to się opłaca” (finansowo). :-)

m0iga,
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@Jajcus @m0bi13 Otóż to, w miejscu gdzie nie ma dostępu do sieci elektrycnzej, spoko, natomiast jeśli jest dostęp, to chyba wychodzi jak z samochodami elektrycznymi. Za samą różnicę w cenie modelu elektrycznego do spalinowego, spalinówką ok 5 lat za darmo można jeździć.

m0bi13,
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@m0iga Bezapelacyjnie prąd z gniazdka jest tańszy. Gdy jest gniazdko do dyspozycji :)

Sporo biwakuję "na dziko", pola namiotowe rzadziej, ten projekt to raczej prąd w dziczy niż "tani prąd" ze słońca.

@Jajcus @m0bi13

m0iga,
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@m0bi13
Strasznie wielki panel. Przydałby się składany.
@Jajcus @m0bi13

m0bi13,
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@m0iga Panel w trakcie jazdy ładuje aku, rama alu usztywnia całość. 80W trochę zajmuje. @Jajcus @m0bi13

mint, do gaming w Your favorite farming/townie sims, and what makes them unique?
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I haven’t finished it yet but i absolutely love Harvestella. It’s barely a farming sim, more like a Final Fantasy game with farming elements inside it, but I really really enjoyed it.

My favorite of all time is Rune Factory 4. God the amount of time I spent on that game is obscene lmao. I dunno what really makes it unique that I love it so much, maybe the bigger focus on dungeon crawling to go with the farming, but yeah, huge huge fan. Also Forte was so cute.

I didn’t like RF5 nearly as much, but I bought it twice (Switch and PC) because it’s a miracle it even came out and I wanted to support that. For those who don’t know, Neverland Co., the company that developed Rune Factory (and Lufia!) went bankrupt after Rune Factory 4. But then Marvelous hired most of the people on that team, which led to Rune Factory 4 Special, then Rune Factory 5, and now Rune Factory 6 and a spin-off that just got announced! Those sorts of comeback stories make me very happy. I’m really hoping these next two games allow them to refine their 3D engine.

GraceGH,
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So that’s why RF5 is so janky? Don’t get me wrong i’m playing it right now and deeply enjoying it, especially getting to see Doug and Margaret kicking around town again, but I have so many issues with this game lol.

The camera lags when you rotate 360 degrees around your character, sometimes the rocks that spawn on your field will be totally invisible until you save and reset, preventing you from tilling certain areas. I’m having some weird lighting issues too but that doesn’t bother me really.

On the bright side, they give you a lot of farming room quite fast if you play through the dungeons, and they finally made it possible to be a lesbian! How cruel fate is that allowed me to not get married to Margaret in RF4… For the record, I ended up with Vishnal.

MaladictusSgrAStar, do NomadOffgrid w Mój mały projekt Nomad Offgrid działa już 2 tygodnie!
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@m0bi13
Elegancko! Dawno dawno temu, jako pionier fotowoltaiki 😁, wykorzystałem palące słońce do chłodzenia - kilka ogrodowych lampek solarnych i wentylator na silniczku z jakiejś zabawki 😉
Powoli też przymierzam się do zbudowania stacji solarnej ładującej urządzenia przenośne.
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bikesarethefuture, do gaming w What are you favorite mobile games?

FTL plays great on the iPad

AdamBomb,

Great game, and sophomore release Into The Breach by the same studio is also available on iPad visa Netflix Games

verycoolusername, do gaming w What are you favorite mobile games?

Waking Mars! An incredible short sci fi game with a nice story

bl4kers,
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For reference, this game is only on iOS and PC (Steam/GOG)

tias, do gaming w GOOD games with female protagonists?

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. After playing it for a while I couldn’t stop until I reached the end. It looks aged now but controls are generally nice and the story is amazing. And I think the character feels feminine, it’s not just a neutral character with a female skin.

Lowbird,

That is a good game, agree. My one complaint is that there’re a few moments of drive-by transphobia in it. And some puzzles are obtuse or require items that can be missed, but a quick google solves that frustration easily if need be.

Along a similar vein, Syberia is wonderful.

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