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bbbhltz, do gaming w Need some local coop recommendations
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

The Trine games are fine for couch co-op.

And Overcooked.

DudePluto, do piracy w Having a hard time settling on a VPN

I’d recommend deciding what you’re looking for in a VPN, then using r/VPN’s comparison guide to find which one suits your wants.

Is this the best method? Idk, but it’s what I did and I’m pretty satisfied. I decided that the most important factors to me were port-forwarding, price, speed, leak protection, and encryption - basically in that order. Using that criteria I settled on AirVPN, and I have no complaints so far (one month in).

Some people care more about ethics, or ownership, or what have you. So what you think is the best VPN will depend on your needs. There’s no perfect VPN anymore, imo

Edit: As others have pointed out, some VPNs also come in optional packages. Ones such as Proton. That’s something else to consider if you’re in the market for stuff like antivirus or secure email

DonnieDarkmode,

I’ll check it out! I’ve used trustworthy compilation lists to pick my PSU and PDF software so I don’t see the problem hahaha

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

Have a look at DeDRM Tools.

A guide can be found on the old repo

Make sure to use an older Kindle for PC version. I think I have 1.26. With that version you also need the KFX input plugin.

With the plugins installed, you should be able to drag the files you downloaded with Kindle into Calibre and have it detect them.
The next step is conversion. Be very careful here, Calibre likes to fuck with images. You’ll probably want EPUB as the target format.
Set the target device to Tablet, or your images get resized.
Also disable the title image resizing in the last register.
I’d recommend you set these setting as default, so you don’t forget changing them.

CrabAndBroom,

If it’s for a Kobo, there’s also the KEPUB format which adds extra tweaks and features, that Calibre also has a plugin for.

Pyr_Pressure, do gaming w Beautiful games?
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca avatar

ValheimValheim

CylustheVirus,

I take it your server has been BUSY.

TheEntity, do gaming w Beautiful games?

For some strange reason nobody mentioned Tunic yet. Definitely take a look at it!

LazyToad, do gaming w Beautiful games?

Ori, both of them.

simon574, do gaming w Beautiful games?

The Witness

ranting_sandfish,

I love how distinctive the art style is, but also how the gameplay rewards you for paying attention to the world and design.

reddthat, do piracy w Usenet Providers security
@reddthat@reddthat.com avatar

You are buying a legal service to access Usenet. What you do with that service is up to you.

Pick a provider that allows you to use crypto if you are worried about putting your identity to it: usenetnow.net/cryptoaccept/
They even allow monero!

Edit: I wish they had a referral plan, by now after recommending them so much I easily would have got a free month

matey,

I like that they have XMR and no middlemen. I use usenight, which does take crypto but has neither of those features - but costs $20/yr instead of $20/quarter.

thisusernameistaken,

Usenight is full speeds only at certain times of the day right? Plus the retention isnt as high so that is probably the price difference. Frugalusenet and Blocknews also take crypto the same way (same owners) and price is a bit more reasonable if you dont need the super high retention all the time but yes i agree about crypto. if you have to use a payment processor for it it sort of defeats the purpose.

reddthat,
@reddthat@reddthat.com avatar

usenight

:O This is too perfect for Australians! Pity its only 29xx days retention, but still pretty damn good.

theangriestbird, do gaming w Shoddy PC ports aside, 2023 has already been an amazing year for gaming.

We’re finally out of the COVID dev lull! Or at least, we’re currently in the window that all big games got delayed to. Lol

EremesZorn,

Putin fucked it up for the one title I’ve been waiting over a decade for. And it got delayed until next year. Again.

forgotmyaccthxbye, do piracy w Easy and safe linux piracy with jc141

jc141 member here.

Glad you like what we do. Some observations: there generally is no unpacking, we use an archiving system which enables users to play without populating their drives with the extracted files.

Also glad that you find them safe. We started including a scanning result from ClamAV (open source cross platfrom malware scanner) to each new torrent as well as instructions to scan it yourself. And a blake3 checksum for authenticity.

iturnedintoanewt,
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

Wouldn’t using an additional virtual layer for storage affect performance during load/save and normal asset streaming? I guess this might work for older games, but for newer games I don’t see how performance won’t be hit.

forgotmyaccthxbye,

99% of the games tested are perfectly playable. In cases where its not we can relax the compression settings. And we use zstd which is super fast. Try for yourself and see.

FOSSFloss,

I obviously can’t verify if you are a jc141 member but I’ll believe it, I think it’s sicc that you’re adding an antivirus scan to the gamefiles and that the games don’t require extraction.

forgotmyaccthxbye,

You can join our community on Matrix matrix.to/#/:matrix.orgCan ask there for a verification

uriel238, do piracy w Is it wrong to pirate movies I've purchased digitally and load onto my Plex server?
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

One of the rights we are continually trying to claw back from the IP Maximalist lobby (and their minions in office) is the right to enjoy the media you own in a format available to you.

However, the studios and labels like taking another bite of the apple by releasing new versions, or versions in new formats, sometimes twice as they release better versions that correct for bad transfers (e.g. the lightsaber problem with the early blu-ray release.)

Hollywood has established though repeated bad-faith behavior, it’s not interested in getting your money legitimately or while retaining a positive customer experience, but extracting your money any way they can.

The DMCA forbids breaking DRM even for legal or non-copyright violating reasons (which is how we lost the right to repair or even jailbreak phones). And they could use this to prevent you from converting formats of your media to one you can actually use, but they’d have to make a stretchy case in court.

Sony also overcharges for scratched or failed media, so they’ve been caught treating their stuff as licenses or media when it legally suits them.

PS: Illegal ≠ Wrong. LGBT+ people are not grooming children, but religious ministries are.

adonkeystomple,

Yeah it’s crazy how much the world has changed even in my short lifetime, especially with the mass adoption of digital media. It’s going to be so difficult for people to retain their rights to what they purchase.

to55, do piracy w Why almost every tracker have malware ads?

I don’t think regular companies want to advertise on piracy websites. And possibly the malware ads pay more.

all-knight-party, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

Can't believe it's not in here yet, but Monster Hunter. I find the eventual understanding of the gameplay loop to not actually be as complex as I thought it'd be, but getting a good overview of all what you want to do and use isn't really possible even in the latest entries, just specific information about specific mechanics.

Blackmist,

I couldn’t get into MHW at all, and I lay the blame on the awful tutorial, which is less a tutorial and more interrupting you as you try to get to grips with the controls, with dozens of full screen pages of text.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

Oh yes, legendarily awful. And again, I don't find it that impenetrable in the end, the delivery of the info is just so bad. If anybody wants to get into MH I'd love to help because I absolutely love the series now, but it took concentrated effort to teach myself without anyone to guide me.

NightAuthor, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?

Baldurs gate has almost no tutorial for non-gamers, there is SO much assumed you know.

PenguinTD,

There are actually plenty tutorials, but because of the open exploring aspect, players aren’t visiting those tutorial spots that the dev anticipated. They nudge you a bit using the enemy levels, but it should have covered more during the prologue.

EvaUnit02,
@EvaUnit02@kbin.social avatar

I politely disagree. Baldur's Gate III teaches you absolutely nothing about its rules and systems. You are expected to discover the rules and systems on your own. Things like crowd control, the actual numerical advantages of height, and repositioning while in dialog are never explained.

It is the most frustrating aspect of Larian games, imo.

TheRoarer,

The EA tutorial was longer and MUCH more explicit. I was very surprised they truncated it.

bermuda,

repositioning while in dialog are never explained.

I’m a few hours in and I don’t know what you mean? Do you mean being able to switch to a different character in a dialog? If so I’d love to know how to do that. I hate starting dialogue where I need charisma with my low charisma character

EvaUnit02,
@EvaUnit02@kbin.social avatar

Well, no. I mean using other characters while one is in a conversation. During conversations, there are some buttons in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. One of those will allow you to swap to another character. You will then be able to do whatever you wish with those characters while the original character is in their conversation.

If you wish to use a different character for a conversation, you can simply start the conversation with the given character.

hyorvenn,
@hyorvenn@jlai.lu avatar

Baldur’S gate tutorial was the manual. Unless you talked about the third one

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

At least in the enhanced edition of the first game, there is a tutorial.

NightAuthor,

I was practically a toddler when the others came out, I’m speaking of the one released less than a month ago.

CrateDane,

Baldur’s Gate 1 actually did have a tutorial in Candlekeep. Including temporarily giving you a full party to battle some critters in a basement.

miracleorange,

Literally all of Candlekeep is a tutorial with the quests and the guys in green robes everywhere. It’s kinda great, actually. Allowed you to skip it if you wanted, but there if you need it.

misserror,

I’ve found that bg3 is pretty bad at telling the player things. Such as why you have a advantage or disadvantage on attacks. Another example is I had to search on the internet to figure out what concentration saves against. I know now that I can hover over things in the combat log to see the rolls. But you wouldn’t really know that unless you have played rpg’s like dnd before. It should tell you in a tooltip for concentration.

shnizmuffin, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?
@shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol avatar

Elite: Dangerous (pre-Horizons DLC). They teach you how to fly forward and maybe auto-dock.

Overzeetop,

Funny, thinking back to that tutorial they teach you a couple of mechanics (like rebooting your ship) that are almost never used in game. OTOH, there are, what, 300 different bindings in the game now?

I found the Odyssey tutorial was frustratingly opaque as to how the entire new UI worked.

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