I mean… You guys should really start caring about domain names… That domain name is both hard to type and hard to spell… Domain names are important people.
Since it is still in its infancy, I would suggest buying a proper name. Might seem harsh, but ya.
<span style="color:#323232;">1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
</span><span style="color:#323232;">to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when
</span><span style="color:#323232;">they serve to delimit components of "domain style names". (See
</span><span style="color:#323232;">RFC-921, "Domain Name System Implementation Schedule", for
</span><span style="color:#323232;">background). No blank or space characters are permitted as part of a
</span><span style="color:#323232;">name. No distinction is made between upper and lower case. The first
</span><span style="color:#323232;">character must be an alpha character. The last character must not be
</span><span style="color:#323232;">a minus sign or period. A host which serves as a GATEWAY should have
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"-GATEWAY" or "-GW" as part of its name. Hosts which do not serve as
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Internet gateways should not use "-GATEWAY" and "-GW" as part of
</span><span style="color:#323232;">their names. A host which is a TAC should have "-TAC" as the last
</span><span style="color:#323232;">part of its host name, if it is a DoD host. Single character names
</span><span style="color:#323232;">or nicknames are not allowed.
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<span style="color:#323232;"> The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> [DNS:4]. One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> syntax.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Host software MUST handle host names of up to 63 characters and
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> SHOULD handle host names of up to 255 characters.
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I mean, I agree with you in principle - domain names can matter. I remember people were similarly concerned about lemmy.zip back when it launched since .zip links on the internet can be… not so great.
In this case though I don’t see it, I think indie-ver.se is a great name and super fitting.
Changing the domain of a lemmy instance is quite hard. (Already did it once during testing). And I don’t think indie-ver.se is that hard to spell. Anyways, I am not asking the 100+ users who subscribed to change it, but I do see your point.
I have many pet peeves when it comes to games, but the biggest that I can think of off the top of my head is the boss fights in games that don’t let you use the weapons & skills/techniques that you’d used to get to that point. It just pisses me off when they let you develop a character with particular skills and weapons only to force a particular combat style that’s contrary to what you’d used up till that point.
Deus Ex Human Revolution’s initial release was the worst about this. A bunch of people who took the skills and inventory for non-lethal/stralth/hacking gameplay found themselves at boss fights that were straight-up gunfights. If you were kitted out and skilled properly to face-tank while using explosives and big guns, you were just screwed and couldn’t progress.
In subsequent releases, they added additional options in the arenas that allowed you to kill them using stealth and hacking skills.
RPGs are absolutely terrible about giving you the ability to inflict status effects on enemies, but not giving random encounter enemies enough HP to justify inflicting statuses, and then also making the bosses immune to them.
Cyberpunk 2077 one of the quests in the expansion drops you into basically Alien: Isolation when up until that point you can beat the shit out of or hack the brains out of any other NPC you’ve come across. You go from being a cybered out demigod to basically a rat in a maze being chased by a giant metal invincible doberman.
That was mine too. I hated it. I was playing to feel like a badass in Night City, not to scamper around and hide like a rat until the invincible robot catches me and drills into my face again. I was so happy to finally get out of there. Not because i beat it, but because it was finally OVER.
I felt like everyone I know has at least owned one, and they where more consoles where actually used as Netflix boxes back then out of necessity due to lack of good smart TVs or set top boxes.
Plus they had an extra 5 years of being around, not to count the fact most early adopters bought another twice, especially with the 360 due to RROD.
I think the Wii stole the momentum. PS3 and 360 were just crazy expensive compared to the Wii and the prev gen of consoles. And unlike PS2 those two consoles lacked a lot of games for kids. So for parents it was an easy decision to just get a Wii. Not to mention if you already had a PS2 you had a large library of games at your disposal and the machine was modable, it’s why it still sold very well in the end of the console’s lifetime especially in middle income regions, like it sold super well in South America. So many PS2 owners weren’t going to convert to PS3, just way too expensive and can’t play pirated games.
After genuinely laughing at this, I anecdottaly remember my father asking, “If your home sick, why are you playing vidya games?”…it was ‘Rise of the Triad” at the time…
I returned to it when the corvette update dropped. Might come back when there’s another huge update. I usually lose interest after two weeks of playing it, because things start to get repetitive.
I don’t get hyped for games anymore. I’m too old, I’ve seen too much and been disappointed too often. But did you just fucking seen that sheeeeeeeeeeeet!!!
At this point Remedy has my trust with these games.
At least when it comes to the single player games, I’m sure Firebreak was still cool but I didn’t really want to play that one since it was multiplayer focused.
Their single player story stuff though? I’m here for it always now. So long as Sam Lake is involved at least!
I was recently discussing Farcry 2 with some friends and how cool the fire spread system was - And how it essentially was never used again after that title.
In case you didn’t know, Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have a very similar fire spread system.
When a fire breaks out on grass, it spreads like it would in real life. In FC2 you could watch a small flame spread and become an inferno. It was awesome. Games don’t have anything like that these days.
Back then I would play games for hours and hours to the point my parents would get angry at me. Now above my 18s I can not even play more than 50 minutes because for some reason everything quickly gets boring.
Something inside you is not being satisfied by gaming, and you need to listen to that voice. It doesn’t mean you won’t ever enjoy games again, but it also means you need to find that fulfillment in order to enjoy them again.
I recommend figuring out what the last thing you did was that you really felt free from outside thought and were focused on, or what left you feeling satisfied with your own efforts. Was it an art project? Something you cooked? A hike you went on?
Your brain is screaming at you to make something of your experiences, to have a sense of growth and proceeding forward towards a goal. It doesn’t have to be career or studying either, we’re not wired to feel fulfilled from answering the phone for 8 hours a day, nor are we wired to feel fulfilled extracting virtual loot, at least not long-term, we’re wired to feel fulfilled creating things with our hands or moving our body.
I stopped enjoying games, so I started making games. Totally new experience, feels completely different and after getting past some initial hurdles of feeling overwhelmed, it’s now addicting. I have no idea if I’ll ever launch a real, finished game, but there’s incredible satisfaction in making your first hallway that you can run and jump through, it feels far different than buying and downloading even the most expensive commercial game release. I’ve played a thousand hallways and crates and jumping, but that first one I made myself beats them all. And now I have new appreciation for some indie game that some person made, I feel a connection and it makes games more enjoyable.
I used to draw a lot back then. My loss of interest for games gradually made me go back to drawing and I am fine with it, it is nearly a decade I have not drawn until I decided to work on something yesterday on a paper. Did my first dedicated drawing yesterday and I am planning to do more in the next weeks 🙂.
I still play games sometimes though (warframe, minecraft, worldox) but again just for a few minutes and rarely an hour or more.
That’s awesome, one day someone who can draw pictures with their hands will be seen like an ancient fucking wizard, do not abandon the Old Ways! Also, I highly recommend joining an art club, a forum or discord/chat group for art, whatever the genre is, social connection while being creative is a driving force that can open entire new avenues in your life :)
I have this feeling about niche, hardcore survival experiences and social games that have slow-burn like Project Zomboid or SCUM. It’s really hard to find someone who doesn’t just want instant satisfaction and action and wants to get lost in a world and enjoy the process instead of the objective.
Maybe it’s just the type of games you play that you’ve lost interest in. Steam has lots of demos for games from just about every gaming genre, so maybe try out demos for highly rated games of genres you don’t normally play. You may end up surprising yourself. Maybe you do like cosy games, or real time strategy, or management simulations, etc, but because you’ve never tried them, you never realized that you like them.
When rebinding the keys, the game wont let me save the changes unless everything has something assigned.
During character creation the lightning on the model is completely different what you will see in game and I end up with an ugly character (Dragon’s Dogma, Saints Row 3 remaster, etc.)
Games that refuse to let you change the difficulty once you begin a game. More broadly, single player games that worry too much about preserving some sort of honor associated with doing well and make it annoying to play. Like rougue likes that have no save and quit for fear of people save scumming.
I feel like I have no freetime now and I used to somehow play games go drink do my homework and exams.. oh wait now I remember, 3-4 hours of sleep and ocassional allnighters, I was dissasociating and in a haze by graduation I didnt even shave or get a haircut, looked rough
I don’t feel like playing a lot too which is why you see a lot of gap between skyrim and rdr1. I have a lot of games installed rn but nothing gets finished. I only have one single player game at a time but been playing minecraft a lot with friends these days so thats where my time was going towards
Oh man, that’s big news. Lazer’s standard mode been essentially playable since like 2020. Recent updates have been chasing corner cases and adding features with no end in sight.
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