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Confetti_Camouflage, do piracy w Why are categories basically useless in qbittorrent?
@Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social avatar

Tools > Preferences > Downloads > Saving Management

Change “Default Torrent Management Mode” to automatic

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/d980de24-a190-46c9-a569-300ee4d3b890.png

counselwolf,

what does this do?

rambos,

It will move files to location you have set in category settings. If you are using sonarr it can automatically set tv-sonarr category and then qbittorrent will move it to your tv shows folder.

Confetti_Camouflage,
@Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social avatar

Qbittorrent will save downloads to the assigned category’s folder instead of manually specifying the download location each time.

UntouchedWagons,
@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

Oh okay, thanks!

coffeentacos, do gaming w Beautiful games?
@coffeentacos@beehaw.org avatar

17 years on, Okami is still one of the best.

loops,

Hell yeah. I love that game, but got stuck on the last block guard guy. :_(

averyminya,

Use a piece of paper :)

loops,

Just gave me a flashback of my friends and I doing the same thing on a CRT lol.

averyminya,

That’s how these puzzles are meant to be solved and I won’t accept any other answer! Lol :D

algorithmae,

Just picked up the HD remake and was thrilled to see someone made a mod to patch out the film grain and motion blur. I’m puking rainbows.

sic_semper_tyrannis,

I came to say the same thing

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

Used to be GoG but now Steam. I run Linux so it’s nice to have a client that makes that easy rather than having to rely on a 3rd party one.

Platform27,

Check out Heroic Game Launcher. It works with GoG, handles GoG Galaxy Cloud Save support, and works with Proton (similar to Steam). A very good client.

exu,

As someone also using Linux, Steam has an official client, the workshop and is continuously advancing gaming on Linux. While GOG promised a native client years ago they haven’t delivered and Heroic has much fewer features than Steam.

Aurenkin,

Yeah, heroic is amazing and I really appreciate the amount of work that’s gone into it. It’s still much more convenient to buy direct from Steam and it rewards the company for the efforts to push gaming on Linux forward.

Katana314,

I’ve been trying to get Heroic working with my Epic account to no success.

Generally, that has been my experience with most open source solutions to closed source app gardens.

Hundun, do gaming w As a recovering video game addict, what is the best way to avoid 'the jitters' when exposed something that reminds you of gaming?

Are you sure you are addicted? I’m sorry, but to me it seems like you only have a problem with games that are deliberately designed to be addictive (WoW is basically a giant Skinner box, no wonder). In that case you would be just as susceptible to lots of things: like infinite-scrolling feeds on social networks, or recommendation algorithms on TikTok and YT.

Maybe if you find a way to filter out games that exploit your psyche for engagement, there will be a way to enjoy your very clearly beloved hobby in a healthy way?

Also, have you talked to a professional?

bionicjoey,

Yeah it sounds to me like OP could get on fine if they restricted themselves to games where you pay once and get the whole game. No subscriptions, no microtransactions, no DLC. Also it might have been a mistake for OP to ask a gaming community about this

Gerudo, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.

I don’t necessarily hate dual bars. What I do hate is burning all my ultimates or potions or whatever to take that last chunk of health off to secure the kill. Realizing I now have to kill the boss again yet without those extras, is what kills me.

buddascrayon,

…literally

mjsaber, do gaming w ADHD gaming
@mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I feel like this also works for depression. I will go through half my library doing this, just to turn it off because there’s no desire for anything.

Emi,

That’s exactly me, I hate depression cuz I want to play and enjoy games but can’t get myself to do it because there’s just emptiness.

SkyezOpen,

If I’m lucky I can find something new to hyperfixate on to get me out of a rut. Old stuff doesn’t do it for me. Discovered my favorite genre this way actually.

Kbobabob,

Discovered your favorite genre, for now

SkyezOpen,

Listen here you little-

But also yes.

TriflingToad, do gaming w Let's hear both sides

if there’s a “funny” react option there should ALSO be a ‘display negative, but be positive’ option because joke reviews harm the view of amazing games SO MUCH

fnaf1 has 96% positive reviews where nearly half of the negative ones are just shitposts

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c72b8b69-25de-4d7a-90c0-1ba7e0e1b899.png

steamcommunity.com/app/319510/negativereviews/?br…

AntAcid,

Counterpoint. That game deserves a shitload more bad reviews. But people that understand what bad games are, don’t play it, and thus don’t review it.

And before you start, no, I don’t have to eat shit to know it tastes bad.

phlegmy,

The original fnaf isn’t that bad, the community is.
It’s not an amazing game, and it’s not a good horror game, but it’s fun for a few hours.

TriflingToad,

I’ll disagree with your disagreement lol

I think it is a good horror game, at least for the first playthrough. (Though most horror games aren’t good for replayability)

You directly control your fate and the first two nights you hardly have to do anything which lead to you micro analyzing everything, terrifying yourself even if there’s not a real threat, which means in the later nights when there ARE threats it actually terrifies the shit out of you. Add the “holy FUCK” feeling of foxy running made my soul fall out of my socks.

that being said though replayability is mid and when the whole series is just the same game over and over but different it loses its charm. Also the community is really insane which is the reason I didn’t play it until wayyy after the hype died down.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

no, I don’t have to eat shit to know it tastes bad.

So you wouldn’t bothering reading the reviews of people who ate shit either.

Katana314,

I think this is the problem gooner games have run into.

Like the Neptunia games. They are not great games at all by any measure. But the only people that would publically post reviews of them are likely going to review them positively.

Ephera, do gaming w Oblivion "remastered"

Oblivion Remexicoed.

Revanee, do games w Suggestions for mouse only games?

Balatro

Contentedness,

Haha as soon as I posted I realized I forgot to mention I’ve been playing Balerto already! GreR suggestion tho!

Gremour,

When I turn on my PC and can’t decide what I want to play, I launch Balatro. Easy choice.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

NES Metroid, being replaced by Metroid Zero Mission.

NES Metroid is interesting to play through to see where the franchise came from, or for the nostalgia factor, but Metroid Zero Mission is vastly superior in nearly every conceivable way, its not even close. Its not like Silent Hill 2 or Resident Evil 3, where the originals are still better than the remakes overall, everything taken into account (though in that case, SH2 remake is superior to the RE3 remake). Absolutely every element of Zero Mission is an improvement on the original.

Metroid Zero Mission did not make vast sweeping changes to alter the identity of the game, making only minor adjustments to designs that were not thematically important (for example, the physical appearance of Ridley or Kraid being different is not thematically important). There were not big amounts of cut content, with only minor elements being cut like the fake Kraid enemy, which was not thematically important. The music is all familiar with the same composition, but with added flair. Its not different just for the sake of being different. Items and suit upgrades are almost all in the same places as the original NES Metroid, with the addition of new items that were added to the Metroid setting later on such as the Charge Beam and Super Missile. A map was added to the game, and the beam weapons now stack like in Super Metroid, rather than replacing the last beam you had.

All in all, Zero Mission leaves very little reason for the player to play the original game, especially if all the player cares about is the overall story of the Metroid IP. The player won’t get more thematically important designs that enhance the story like they would playing the original Silent Hill 2, and they won’t get more original game content and story like they would playing RE3 Nemesis. They wouldn’t get an improved experience. The choice to play NES Metroid mostly just comes down to nostalgia, historical value, or personal preference. Or if someone only has an NES or device capable of emulating the NES but not the GBA.

dogslayeggs,

I have an NES and a PS5. I guess I’ll be on the old version.

RightHandOfIkaros,

If you have a smartphone, or a computer built after 2005, you can definitely emulate Metroid Zero Mission, but unfortunately Nintendo makes it really hard to do it the easy way.

MimicJar,
@MimicJar@lemmy.world avatar

I completely agree and to I’ll add that this also applies to Metroid II. As Metroid II was on the Game Boy the game resolution is far too small to ever revisit. For a side scrolling game you can barely see what is in front of you.

Luckily the fan game AM2R, or the slightly less good but still excellent 3DS remake do for Metroid II what Zero Mission did for the original.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

Luckily the fan game AM2R, or the slightly less good but still excellent 3DS remake do for Metroid II what Zero Mission did for the original.

I just started with the Metroid saga (it is never too late I guess) and I started with Zero Mission, I am actually struggling with what is next for me, whether to start with AM2R or the 3DS one… Both look appealing to me, but as I don’t have nostalgia googles for the older 2D games and the 3DS one has always called my attention, I might lean more to it… On the other hand, AM2R is a fan game… And I have a huge respect for those…

Isthisreddit,

Did you look into Super Metroid for SNES? I was just replaying it recently and it still holds up as a true gem

MimicJar,
@MimicJar@lemmy.world avatar

Super Metroid is definitely the gold standard. Zero Mission definitely feels like it uses Super Metroid as its base. The same is also true for AM2R.

I think if you are getting into the series for the first time, Zero Mission, AM2R, Super Metroid & Metroid Fusion is the order to go in. They all share a similar set of gameplay & graphics.

I think the 3DS Metroid II remake is great, but in terms of cohesiveness, it’s going to stand out among the four games.

That being said it’s made by the same developers who will then go on to make Metroid Dread, which is probably my favorite Metroid game behind Super Metroid, which is the best.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

I haven’t played it, I guess this one should come after Metroid II shouldn’t it?

Anyway, yeah, I obviously know about Super Metroid and it is one of the prettiest games even today.

RightHandOfIkaros,

If youre playing the games according to lore timeline order, I believe that the Metroid Prime games all take place inbetween Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid II. Prime 1, Prime Hunters, Prime 2, Prime 3, and potentially Prime 4. Then Metroid II, Super Metroid, Metroid Other M, Fusion, and finally Dread.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

I didn’t know, I actually was gonna make my way with the 2D series first and at the very end the Prime series.

Isthisreddit,

I don’t know if it really matters if you play them in any sort of order - Super Metroid really perfected the style and set the standard for the rest of the games

Viri4thus, do gaming w I'm doing my part (unfortunately)

This completely ignores people that pirated games and then bought them once life let them contribute to the authors/devs they liked.

Admax,

I’d think these people probably make up a single number digit of the amount of games bought and never played.

It would be interesting to have a breakdown of which games werr bought and never played. How many of them were gifts ? What’s the share by rating ? Even better : When were the copies the most bought but never played ? This could bring up some interesting partterns.

Viri4thus,

Which ones were ever present in humble bundles or other key bundles, what is the age of the purchase vs the age of the game, etc. I agree, a deeper understanding of the data would be great.

Sasuke, do gaming w What video game franchises do you not need to start from the very beginning to enjoy? What would you recommend as the entry point into your favorite series?
@Sasuke@hexbear.net avatar

You’ll miss out on some spider-lore, but it’s possible to jump into Spider Solitaire for the Windows XP home computor system without having played its predecessor, Spider Solitaire for the Windows 98 home computor system

JudahBenHur,

thank you

chicken, do gaming w The sino-soviet split of the modern age.

Seems like a good thing, 3 chances one of them will get it right

Petter1,

Exactly this is why current copyright rules are BS. Having multiple studios with pressure from competitors results in better games (and less micro transactions shit to sqeeze franchises to death)

asteriskeverything,

… I’m imaging the natural extreme conclusion to this. There are 16 sequels to masseffect and you need to research which games you need to play before you play the newest one. This also leads to conflicting cannon and infighting

Maultasche,

Like the F.E.A.R. games. There are four sequels but not all are in the same timeline. At least with Drakengard, the sequels in the different timeline have completely different names.

Petter1,

I would still prefer the extreme outcome over what we have today.

And I think the community will know and happily share which line to take and if you want sell in the franchise, you got to look out that the community is happy with what you create, which includes plot holes / inconsistencies.

The big corporations just want you to believe that franchises dies if other studios can use it, when it only is about earnings the last penny out of a franchise with the least effort possible. They happily save on production cost and invest a lot in lawsuits (or similar) to maintain their monopoly position.

dragonfucker,

Drag would like this. Drag thinks Mass Effect 2’s combat system sucks. They should have kept the RPG mechanics.

paultimate14,

I mean, that kind of stuff already exists today with the current copyright laws. I remember as a kid reading all sorts of X-Men books and wondering why the characters in the cartoon were so different. Did Han shoot first in Star Wars?

I played the Ratchet and Clank (2016) game this year that’s like… Kind of a re-make ish of the first game? Except the story is quite a bit different, there’s new characters added and some old ones removed. Half the old levels are gone and there’s a couple of new ones added. Mechanically it’s a completely different game. And yet that’s even from the same studio.

mindbleach,

Endingtron 3000 --> Startingtron 4000.

linkhidalgogato,

thats not really what happens tho before disney was the big evil king of intellectual property and they were running around adapting other works their stuff was stand alone despite being based on existing stories or being adaptations of existing stories. When superman became more or less public domain we didnt see this happen despite his popularity people just did their own unique adaptation/retelling of the story rather than a mess of sequels. What i think would actually happen is that people would retell masseeffects story with their own takes on it and make new stories in that universe or with the original characters (tho im sure it would happen idk why they are all so fucking bland).

And even if there were unofficial sequels the original studio can always slap a “from the original creators of” label to theirs so people obsessed with the official telling of fictional stories know what to obsess over.

Madrigal, do games w Any game with a forced stealth section needs to have it as a warning so you know not to buy crap.

That’s your biggest worry with modern gaming?

TherapyGary,

Maybe they have a physical limitation like MS or Parkinson’s?

Madrigal,

Fair point, but I suspect even people with disabilities hate the general enshittification of games.

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

Hold up, “enshitification” is just turning into a buzzword now.

Enshitification has from the beginning described a service or product which is first released one way, and then over time is made worse for the users in ways designed to squeeze more profit out of them.

Without some serious mental gymnastics, forced stealth sections tend to just be bad design choices. Not every bad thing is the same kind of bad thing.

MossyFeathers, (edited )
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

Without some serious mental gymnastics, forced stealth sections tend to just be bad design choices. Not every bad thing is the same kind of bad thing.

While I disagree with your comment on the definition of “enshittification”, I agree that forced stealth sections are just bad design. I remember those have been a thing for a long time now, and before then it was ice levels.

Copying from a later reply: I was reading their definition as being too specific. Imo enshittification is any time the relative average quality of a class of products or services decreases, either due to increased prices or decreased quality at the same price. This can be applied to a specific product or service, but can also describe a decline in quality across an industry.

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

Wikipedia isn’t the end all, but in this case I think it provides a working definition.

Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

MossyFeathers,
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

I was reading your definition as being too specific. Imo enshittification is any time the relative average quality of a class of products or services decreases, either due to increased prices or decreased quality at the same price. This can be applied to a specific product or service, but can also describe a decline in quality across an industry.

Ashtear,

The term is more specific than that, referring to runaway capitalism being the cause. Otherwise you’d just use something simpler like “worsening.”

The original context comes from a 2022 blog post.

Zorsith,
@Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Nah, Escort Missions are way worse than Ice.

Madrigal,

I wasn’t implying that stealth sections were enshittification.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Entshitification itself has been entshitified.

mox, (edited )

This is not enshittification.

Enshittification refers to a process with specific phases that ensure services will degrade at the expense of users, and then business customers, so that shareholders can extract as much profit as possible from both of those groups. It was coined by Cory Doctorow, who explains it here:

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

drunkpostdisaster,

It wasn’t until I had spend a almost a half an hour on that fucking MJ missions on spiderman.

Grass,

thats literally the second easiest stealth section in the past 2 decades of gaming.

There are some out there that are actually so infuriatingly bad due to shitty programming and npc noticing you is rng and skill isn’t an option.

drunkpostdisaster,

Honestly, Spiderman’s stealth sections are way way worse. But they don’t make me dread continuing the story.

Nibodhika,

On the one hand I get where you’re coming from, those sections are very thematically different from the rest of the game, but realistically it’s just a couple of minutes of very easy stealth.

CarbonIceDragon, do gaming w Thank you Skövde
@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

Sweden in general seems to have way more good game dev companies than most countries, especially most of similar size. I kinda wonder why.

DebatableRaccoon,

It’s cold outside a lot of the time.

ByteOnBikes,

I remember listening to a NPR Planet Money podcast that said Iceland has the most published authors per capita.

Also cold.

echodot,

Also it’s really expensive to do anything. The way we want is incentivized to find some way to supplement their income.

match,
@match@pawb.social avatar

i knew all that “touch grass” bullshit was counterproductive

AndrasKrigare,

I actually looked into this, part of the explanation is that in the 80s, Sweden entered a public/private partnership to subsidize the purchase of home computers, which otherwise would have been prohibitively expensive. This helped create a relatively wide local consumer base for software entertainment as well as have a jump start on computer literacy and software development.

GissaMittJobb,

This is the real explanation. Couple that with a push in the late 90s/early 2000s to roll out high-speed unmetered internet in the form of ADSL and later fiber.

general_kitten,

Finland also has a disproportionate amount of highly successful games compared to the population. I guess one theory is that good social safety nets make it more feasible for people to take a risk starting an indie game studio that might not yield any money for years instead of working for a big corporation for a guaranteed paycheck.

Segab,

Quebec also has a disproportionate amount of successful games for similar circumstances. Video game salaries are pretty well subsidized (although it was originally only meant to encourage Ubisoft to open a studio then other companies joined or got created so they kept it). The current government is threatening that though. That’s on top of socialized healthcare, low electricity cost, and the Canadian Media Fund but those all apply to the rest of Canada as well.

Quick list on top of my head: Indies: Outlast, Dead by Daylight, The Messenger, Spiritfarer, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Fez… AAA: Deus Ex, R6 Siege, For Honor, some of the better Assassin’s Creed and Farcry, Batman Arkham Origins

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