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amio, do gaming w Anybody else in love with the base-control gameplay loop of the middle Far Cry games?

Yes. I keep being surprised at how "fresh" 3 and 4 stay for me, given that the gameplay is not all that varied in the end. The gunplay is nice, the basic idea is nice, the execution works and I think Vaas and Pagan are interesting enough to sell the campaign for a good while. Hoyt is... also definitely one of the Far Cry villains of all time. 5 is fine if modified heavily, and 6... is undeniably a thing.

bermuda, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 17th

Trackmania. It’s always what I go to when I run out of things to play

princessnorah,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Woah, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Are they still developing new games, or are you just playing the classics?

bermuda,

A new one was released in 2020 on epic games and I think it’s on steam now. It’s a remake / remaster the TMNF/TMUF games. It’s just called Trackmania but most people call it TM2020. It’s a subscription based game with tiers, which sounds shitty but the prices are pretty normal. Like the best tier is $60 for 3 years and that’s how long most people play $60 games anyway…

anyway I’m currently mostly playing TMUF.

princessnorah,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Is there enough people to play against to make it worthwhile? Over just playing one of the older games I still own on Steam…

bermuda,

Player numbers aren’t that great daily on steam (considering most owners bought the epic version anyway), but all of the developer tracks plus most of the community tracks have leaderboards in the tens of thousands, even the hundreds of thousands for the seasonal track releases. There’s also a daily community highlight where players can race and compete on a community track hand-picked by Nadeo staff, so that really bolsters numbers on community tracks.

Multiplayer is kinda dead compared to the older games, but I also don’t think a lot of players play the game for the multiplayer anyway. There are even community playlists of tracks that you can play in singleplayer that go up to I think 50 tracks in size. So you can just pick one of those and play through a bunch without ever having to connect to a community server.

pascal, do piracy w With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.

Why would Plex block a specific hosting provider!?

Schmeckinger,

Large amount of people selling access to pirated stuff on hetzner servers using plex.

pascal,

Well, fuck.

I guess “that’s why we can’t have nice things” apply here.

skullgiver,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

Too many pirates concentrate on one single hosting provider.

Plex has to keep up pretenses that it doesn’t want their customers to exclusively be pirates. Only legal CD/DVD/BR rips allowed! If it doesn’t, it’ll get sued to hell and back, and the Plex owners may go to jail for selling piracy as a service.

MarcomachtKuchen, do games w Recommendations for good YT channels exploring lore and stories

The Tarnished Archeologist makes great Videos fokusing on elden Ring and Bloodborne. His strengh is how He intertwines the Lore with the Real word historical inspiretions and their usage in These games. The (visual) presentation is worse than other Souls Youtubers but his Script is really well done and i usually learn a lot of New Things from games where i thought i knew everything

Kitikuru, do piracy w With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.

I’m curious on how you have your setup and which tier you have? I currently have a basic tier virtual server with them for a few microservices

Vaggumon, (edited )
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

I have 2 servers through Hetzner, both I got from the auction side of the site.

My lower end server is what I use to run my seed box and up till now PLEX. I use the Higher end server to run some work projects and for experimenting with.

$75 US Per Month:

  • CPU - Intel Core i9-9900
  • RAM - 128 GB
  • Drives - 2x 10TB (RAID 1) + 1x 512 GB NVME SSD
  • Running Ubuntu as the OS.

$145 US Per Month:

  • CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • RAM128 GBDrives
  • Drives - 2x 4TB SSD (RAID 1) + 1x 480 GB NVME SSD
  • Usually runs some flavor of Linux.
Kitikuru,

Thanks! I just found out about the auction option through this post. I’m curious, given the price per month, wouldn’t it be better to self host with similar hardware? Higher upfront cost but lower over time I’d think?

Just curious because I’m thinking about switching up my setup, self hosting Plex currently but lack the bandwidth that I’d likely get if I moved to a hetzner server.

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

Oh yeah, would be lower cost over time for sure. For me though, internet is kind of crap in my area and the work server gets a ton of access from coworkers. And my sister in another state watches movies and tv shows on my Plex. Both these server get over 1.2 gbps up and down. There is also no cost if I have a hardware failure. There are pros and cons for sure, like I’ve been wanting to do some stuff that could really benefit from a GPU but not really an option with the auction stuff.

Kitikuru,

Awesome. Yeah that would be one of my concerns for what I have now. My internet service is some pretty terrible residential internet so my upload speeds are absolute garbage here but I have some good hardware for Plex/jellyfin.

How’s transcoding on the hetzner server? Any issues there at all? In any case thanks for all the info!

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

99% of stuff worked fine, but when I had issues it was a random error about server being under powered which wasn’t true at all lol. Someone on a forum suggested using the official windows app from the store and once I moved to that for client side access, never got the error again.

Keep in mind though, if you plan to do Plex from Hetzner, after Oct 2nd it won’t work anymore. But others here have suggested JellyFin instead. I’ll be testing that out this weekend, and if all is good moving over from Plex all together.

Kitikuru,

Yeah I’ve been wanting to make the full jump to jellyfin anyway. The only thing holding me back really was some extra services I was using that were Plex only. Posterr for example, but jellyfin is on the roadmap and I can just roll my own version until then. The mobile clients have at least gotten pretty good as well for JF.

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

Well, good luck, and I hope if you try it out, Hetzner works out for you as well as it has for me.

Kitikuru,

Thanks! And again thank you for all the answers and advice!

PolarisFx, (edited ) do piracy w Ripping Audible Audiobooks
@PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I checked out OpenAudible posted in this topic and it seems interesting, and might be a better choice. But if you’re looking to rip your audible files yourself you’ll want inAudible: github.com/rmcrackan/inAudible

There are other options around, but none of them are as free or as good as inAudible, IMO.

Fermiverse,

Ripping myself is what I did with Libation as suggested here. You log into your audible account when starting the software for the first time, your libary is shown and you can start to download.

When adjusting the auto tagging then audiibookshelf automatically sorts the stuff in the correct way with series etc.

Perfect combination and totally free.

Grangle1, do nintendo w What are you playing this weekend? 2023-09-16

Did something unusual for me and picked up the Pokemon DLC and started it before finishing Tears of the Kingdom. Needed a break from TotK for a while anyway. Since it’s only been out a couple days I don’t think I’ve gotten too incredibly far into it, but it’s still good ol’ Pokemon fun so far. I just really wish Game Freak would put more effort into fixing the optimization (if they can) because almost a year in it still chugs in places it really shouldn’t.

slimerancher,
@slimerancher@lemmy.world avatar

Well, with Game Freak, voting for wallet isn’t going to work, as Pokémon is really big and they have big enough following that is just going to buy anything with Pokémon name on it. So all we can do is pray. 😛

picandocodigo, do nintendo w What are you playing this weekend? 2023-09-16
@picandocodigo@lemmy.world avatar

Still playing Pikmin 4, I think I might be close to finishing. It’s been fun, but I’m starting to feel a bit bored after almost 30 hours…

After yesterday’s Direct I got Horizon Chase 2 which I was expecting on the Switch. It’s a bit buggy (nothing major, just small things here and there), and the frame rate drops in some stages, but it’s still quite fun and the music is amazing. Barry Leitch never disappoints 🙌

slimerancher,
@slimerancher@lemmy.world avatar

How long are remaining Pikmin games? Have you finished the main campaign?

Horizon Chase 2 looked pretty nice. Not much into racing, but this one looks fun. May check it out.

picandocodigo,
@picandocodigo@lemmy.world avatar

I think I’m at the last site of the main campaign. I’ve been playing pretty relaxed and getting 100% in each site. HowLongToBeat says it takes 38½ hours for “Completionists”, so I’m guessing that’ll be how long it takes me at least. But I’m in no rush 😅

Horizon Chase 2 is pretty fun, it’s arcade racing, so pretty accessible for people who don’t play realistic racing games like me (the only other racing game I play is Mario Kart!).

I also played some Smash Ultimate during the weekend and I’m seriously considering getting Nintendo Online again to play online (and also for F-Zero 99…).

pelikan, do piracy w What are the best alternatives to The Pirate Bay in 2023?

rutracker or 1337x

conciselyverbose, do piracy w Ripping Audible Audiobooks

I think there are probably some that were loaned via audible plus or whatever, but audible says I have 440 audiobooks. Backing up the couple hundred I actually bought would be nice.

scrubbles, do games w Controllers with paddles?
!deleted6348 avatar

The Razer Wolverine is by far the best controller I’ve ever purchased. Got it now… 7 years ago and it’s still just an absolute champ. The initial price may scare off some, and the fact that it’s wired, but it’s the best damn controller I’ve ever used.

Flappers are 2 can be mapped to existing buttons (I have mine as up/down on the D-pad), and the other 2 raise/lower sensitivity of the sticks. So I can hold a flapper while sniping to get real precise.

It also has two little toggles on the inside between the bumpers which I have mapped to left/right on the dpad, which is really nice because I don’t have to take my fingers off the sticks, Witcher 3 this is amazing because what’s how you pull out a specific sword.

Cannot recommend more, Razer Wolverine.

sabreW4K3, do piracy w [Request] Remove ads from Duolingo?
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

Just set up a school.

nightwatch_admin, do gaming w What are some games that "spin" failure states?

In Chernobylite, when you die (either by getting killed in specific circumstances or by committing suicide in a special device), you get a chance to alter the past by changing decisions you made in the game, which will end up in changing the story and a whole lot of things like companions’ attitudes, weapons at your disposal etc.

Gailthesnail, do piracy w A way to disable laugh tracks?

i need this to mute certain people in shows like debbie in shameless

jameskirk,
@jameskirk@startrek.website avatar

She’s a pain but she’s also part of the family. I think it makes s very good point to make her like that and to have us bear her.

Gailthesnail,

her voice is too fucking gross and nasty. i dont care about anything else about her she just needs to shut up

sandriver, do gaming w What are some games that "spin" failure states?

Odd Giants is based on the old MMO Glitch, and in that, when your character succumbs to empty stamina, you go to the underworld to recover. It’s a truly special game.

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