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to55, do piracy w Trying to download/export, and convert 1000ish kindle books to get out of amzns ecosystem

This sound like a job for Calibre. I don’t know exactly how to do it though.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Looks like there’s a plugin you can use

techradar.com/…/how-to-remove-ebook-drm-with-cali…

DaCrazyJamez,

Awesome, I’ll give this a shot!

YaxPasaj, do gaming w Beautiful games?

Gris, it has an exceptionally good art. Great landscape, sound effects and the storytelling.

loops,

Currently playing that game, and I fully agree.

Bitrot,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

The soundtrack by Berlinist is on Spotify.

Moonrise2473, do piracy w Is anyone concer about denuvo on switch?

On the bright side it will eventually make emulators more accurate

tiwenty,

I’m curious, how so?

moody,

Emulators typically cut a lot of corners to make emulation faster rather than make it more accurate. A truly accurate emulator would be impossible for the software to differentiate from the actual hardware.

Vilian,

but it gonna run slow as shit

tiwenty,

Ok i see, thank you!

AndrewZen,

anthrofox.org/starfox/superfx.html

nice read on the SuperFX chip.

tiwenty,

It was really interesting, thank you!

yote_zip,
@yote_zip@pawb.social avatar

Note that 100% accuracy on emulators is not always a goal. Super accurate emulators might take more computation/emulation and run slower.

HeneryHawk, do piracy w Publishing New Torrents

You’re going from a source of an encoded x264 and reencoding (the already encoded file) as x265?? What are the results like?

Most people encode from a high quality source like a remux, rather than an encode

heartlessevil,

Yeah, a lot of private travelers will not accept doubly-lossy encoded files as a rule. So you can’t just go from 264 to 265. You need the original lossless file.

To OP, yeah, you want a seed box. Both to pin the file up and host it for a while, and to preserve your anonymity (the original seeder is under particular scrutiny.)

rah,

a lot of private travelers

What’s a “private traveler” out of interest?

HeneryHawk,

It’s a typo, supposed to say “private tracker”

heartlessevil,

Auto correct typo of private tracker. Sorry.

rah,

Ah I see, thanks for clarifying.

pastermil,

Looks good to me… I’d be happy to take some feedback tho

HeneryHawk,

It will depend a lot on hardware and/or software but I’d bet users would see some artefacting, ghosting, and general noise when they play your x265 file

As another comment pointed out, an encode of an encode is banned on a lot of trackers… Or at least an encode of an already pretty lossy encode (x264) won’t be allowed

Does the filesize change much?

pastermil,

I was able to shrink down the whole thing from about 120GB to 90GB

GBU_28, (edited ) do games w I am LOVING Baldurs Gate 3

Loving the game as well but the character creation is kinda limited. Everyone turns out sounding like a Shakespeare actor, and looking too prim and proper.

I understand why that is, a game as large as this would be impossible to make with the range of voice variety I’m hoping for. Unrealistic on my part.

That said, the game is incredible, and as long as you accept what the character creator gives you, the models and faces look great

verysoft,

Yeah, was expecting a lot more from character creation, but it's just the same as DOS2. I mean most of the game is just DOS2, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, DOS2 was awesome. Just do yourself a favour and get this mod, it makes the game much more playable.

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

My first dude was a Dragonborn and that was my thought with the voice options, too. My dragon doesn’t sound like a dragon. He actually sounds like me, IRL.

riskable,
@riskable@programming.dev avatar

Yeah that’s the one thing severely lacking: Character screen voices. There’s only 8 of them!

They should put out a call to the community to make more and hold a silly contest where the winners get their voices into the game. All Larian has to do is release the scripts and provide somewhere for folks to upload the audio files.

They don’t even need to listen to 99% of them themselves! Just let the community listen to them and vote. Then Larian will only have to listen to like the top ten or twenty and they can have a second round where contestants are given instructions to “fix” certain audio files or whatever (e.g. to make them shorter or longer to match the cut scene timing).

Rhynoplaz,

That would be a fun idea! Probably a lot more difficult to implement than we imagine, but if I had the time, I’d totally record some voice lines going to get in a game I enjoy!

SCB,

Dunno why this is downvoted. My half-orc barbarian sounds like a schoolboy and it is weird.

Perfect is the enemy of good but I’d love a PC chatter mod.

RickyWars, do gaming w If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?

Always GOG. While I’ve loved Steam for years and still do, I’d rather have a stronger ownership over my games.

Faydaikin, (edited ) do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

I don’t think I have a lot to add to what was already said here.

But I will say that the Baldurs Gate series already had a pretty big following. It had an established fan-base, like Fallout. But unlike Fallout, Larian chose to stick with what people liked about the originals and expand upon that.

So there’s another tiny reason to add to the collective.

Jotain, do gaming w I don't want to "Press any key to continue" to the main menu
@Jotain@suppo.fi avatar

There was (is?) a requirement from Sony and Microsoft about how long a game can take to load as part of the game licensing process. One of the ways it is measured is by counting time from game boot to how quickly the game can react to user’s keypress. A “press start to continue” screen is the most simple thing you can load that passes this requirement. After that the game can do heavier operations such as loading save data, checking DLC or pulling latest messages from online server without having to worry too much about how long these operations take.

EvaUnit02, do gaming w Rant: Frustration Related to Ethics of Games Companies
@EvaUnit02@kbin.social avatar

I'm a former game dev and I can tell you, at least from my experience, there was no golden age where developers and customers were treated fairly. It's the primary reason why I left. Hell, I once interviewed at a place that showed off how the offices had beds in them, as if that was a selling point.

That said, I'd probably be someone who you'd consider "doesn't care about the bad things these companies did." I'm just too fuckin' old to be mad about shit all of the time. If I was only going to patronize folks and companies who matched my own set of ideals and ethics, I would be more than just gameless. I would be homeless and penniless as well.

What I do is simply detach products and services from those who provide them. I can buy a thing from a person I find distasteful. I don't have to invite them out for a drink and I certainly don't have to avoid taking them to task for their poor or unethical behavior. Moreover, ethics and behavior are saleable. If someone comes around who offers something comparable to something from someone I find distasteful, then I can go patronize the new person instead. I have jumped ship from many service and product providers for that very reason. If you want my business, then you better ensure you're either the only person who can provide what I want or ensure you're the person I want to buy from.

catalyst, do games w What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?
@catalyst@lemmy.world avatar

I would have swore there was a moment in Disco Elysium where a character makes fun of you for talking like you are trying to exhaust all the options in a dialog tree. But now I can’t find it. Anyone know?

rustydrd,
@rustydrd@sh.itjust.works avatar

Don’t remember that dialogue, but the OP made me think of the Jamrock Shuffle (constantly running around town like a crazy person).

catalyst,
@catalyst@lemmy.world avatar

Yesss that was so good lol.

It’s possible I’m thinking of another game entirely on the other thing. Haha

leftzero, (edited )

Also a certain obsession with containers, if I recall correctly.

And at some point Kim mentions the detective’s surprising endurance (especially given his physical and mental state) which allows him to keep running tirelessly all over the place.

Spoilers about the later.Turns out Harry was a gim teacher before being a cop, and still has some good health from that time, despite everything that he did to himself after.

Famko,

That was during the dream sequence at the end, no? You can even correct the character saying that they’re not lists, but trees or something like that.

30p87, do gaming w The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft
@30p87@feddit.org avatar

TL;DR: Fascists fucking over (mostly) fascists. How about we sit back, watch, learn and switch to alternatives (Luanti), or at least offline/cracked Minecraft?

mcforest, do games w Why would I buy this?

Maybe because there are still people who are not tired of Call of Duty, liked the predecessor and are still looking forward for a sequel and play it with their friends?

Oh wait, this isn’t even the newest CoD? Probably they just forgot to update the prices. Probably forgot it even exists because there is a new one.

snooggums,

Didn't forget, they just want full price forever.

mushroommunk,

Nintendo Intensifies

warm,

They dont want people buying the old games, even their 15 year old ones are still full price on purpose. They want you in the latest game each year, exposed to all the predatory extra-transactions, then they want you to do that again the next year and the next and the next... the games are not priced like that because they "forgot", it's a business strategy.

Nefara, (edited ) do games w Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)

Probably April Ryan from the Longest Journey. She was clever, empathetic, funny, and grounded. She certainly had more than enough opportunity to get annoying over the many, many hours it takes to play that game but I found myself reading the journal that served as a story tracker just to see what she had to say about events. I genuinely missed her during Dreamfall. Though I had a few other favorite games with female protagonists that I loved (like Rynn from Drakan, Cate Archer in No One Lives Forever), it says something that decades later I still remember April’s name, and her major character traits.

nuko147, do games w I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies
@nuko147@lemmy.world avatar

I am just ignoring them. Not playing their games even pirated.

Played the demo of Prince of Persia last year, totally liked it, price was good, saw the Ubisoft Logo (CEO tells that you don’t get to own your games, AAA games priced 70-130 €, anti consumer practices), never bought that game never played it.

Nintendo also took a red card this year from me, not another penny from my wallet.

Bonus i put in my Steam ignore list all the games that come out with price >60 €, so i wont make a mistake and buy them even on a huge sale.

I buy indie games and only AAA games full priced like BG3, Expedition 33, Elden Ring, etc… , games that they worth it and they don’t bloat you with stupid stuff. And also their companies respect the players.

TheOakTree,

BG3, E33, ER, all amazing games that don’t add live service junk, don’t require online connections, and respect the art of video games. They are all worth their price and then some, to me.

Evotech, do gaming w What game changed your life?

Outer wild hit that spot for me

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