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

Being a Mac user, this year is indeed a good year.

I’ve been a very longtime WoW player but couldn’t stand the game anymore. I dropped it after a few months of Classic WOTLK (my personal fav) both out of boredom and because Blizzard contempt for macOS users

Finding a game that I love and runs natively wasn’t easy but it finally happened. I never was an hardcore gamer (except maybe in the early days of WoW) so I never felt the need to get a dedicated PC (I had a PC but it only ran macOS and Manjaro)

I’m currently playing Metro Exodus and BG3 (which I absolutely love even in EA). I also bought REV, NMS and Cliff Empire, but they weren’t for me.

The other game changer is Game Porting ToolKit which allows me to test a whole bunch of Windows only games thanks to a friend who added me to its Steam family.

Most of the games run smoothly enough for me (60FPS) so I guess the times I was thinking about buying a gaming rig are over. This money will go in some overpriced Mac option.

Anyway, I never spent that much money in video games. It definitely must be a sign.

WestwardWind,

Which Mac are you running on? I haven’t gone through the game porting kit setup yet because it seemed like a real pain in the ass and I want confident the performance would be worth it in the end on my m2pro

joneskind,

I got a 30 GPU cores M2 Max running the Public Beta of macOS Sonoma.

I just installed Whisky and followed the guide.

After that I just created a bottle and run Steam.exe which I then use as an installer and launcher. Super easy to use.

Not every game is working OOTB yet, but I guess it’s a matter of updates. I didn’t dig too much for that reason.

One weird thing I noticed is that CyberPunk is capped at about 30 FPS, no matter the settings.

000999, do piracy w New tracker after rarbg that works?

I recommend rutracker. It’s great for BD rips of movies and TV shows. The majority of files have the original English audio + Russian dubs. Quite a lot of hard to find stuff and almost always has seeds.

Just realized you asked for plugin tracker, idk what that is

pelikan,

He asked about trackers which have search plugin for qbittorrent and your answer fits well as rutracker has even two different plugins ready.

Whirlybird, do piracy w Finding mainstream media on usenet - am I doing it wrong?

Recent stuff from big networks is more likely to get DMCA’d regularly than older stuff. As long as you add it in to sonarr you should get it eventually, but yeh unless you get it at release it can be a bit tough sometimes.

omalaul,

Thank you for the advice! I shall be patient haha

nothacking, do piracy w ChatGPT API Piracy

Check out OpenAssistant, a free to use and open source LLM based assistant. You can even run it locally so no one else can see what your doing.

Ganbat,

I have an R9 380 that I’m never going to be able to replace. Local isn’t really an option.

theangriestbird,

My experience is with gpt4all (which also runs locally), but I believe the GPU doesn’t matter because you aren’t training the model yourself. You download a trained model and run it locally. The only cap they warn you about is RAM - you’ll want to run at least 16gb of RAM, and even then you might want to stick to a lighter model.

Ganbat,

No, LLM text generation is generally done on GPU, as that’s rhe only way to get any reasonable speed. That’s why there’s a specifically-made Pyg model for running on CPU. That said, one generation can take anywhere from five to twenty minutes on CPU. It’s moot anyway as I only have 8GB ram.

theangriestbird,

I’m just telling you, it ran fine on my laptop with no discrete GPU 🤷 RAM seemed to be the only limiting factor. But yeah if you’re stuck with 8GB, it would probably be rough. I mean it’s free, so you could always give it a shot? I think it might just use your page file, which would be slow but might still produce results?

Sharpiemarker, do gaming w [PS4] What are some other games with both social and other gameplay, ala Persona and Stardew Valley?

Graveyard Keeper

Flatworm7591, do piracy w How can I find my schools Adobe Premiere/Photoshop Elements 2020 key?

m0nkrus exists for various cracked Adobe software.

bilboswaggings, do gaming w Besides Robux, What Can I Give to My Little Brother that Plays Roblox?

No matter what anyone says money is the best gift

Even robux is effectively a gift card (you could even argue that its worse because of the value of digital goods)

UrLogicFails,

I personally disagree.

While cash is the most useful gift, gifts aren’t a utilitarian practice. A gift is an opportunity to show someone that not only do you really know them enough to choose something they would enjoy; but also that you’re thinking about them, and that they are worth effort and thought to you.

Of course, good gifting gets harder as your giftees can afford what they want on their own, but that just makes the sentimental aspects even more important (in my opinion).

Evergreen5970,

For a certain type of person who heavily values utility, yeah, go with money. Most useful, the person you replied to has a point.

They’ll likely also appreciate that you know them well enough to know that they would like money the best instead of making the assumption (that would be correct for a lot of people, but not for this particular example person) that they’ll feel money is too impersonal. 😛 Sentiment probably would play a role, with the sentiment still being “you know me well enough to get me the gift I’d like the most.”

I like giving gifts because I feel it’s me showing the other person that I know what they like, that I see them and listen to them. I like receiving gifts that show that the person who got me it knows me well enough to know my likes. I would absolutely prefer money if you’re uncertain of my likes—I also value utility. Even if the gift of money was low-effort and not out of “I know you would prefer money over an incorrect guess at what you like,” I’d still prefer the money. More useful to me and would bring more joy than something I didn’t like.

So I mostly agree with you when it comes to gift-giving, but the person you replied to also has a point!

bilboswaggings,

Ofc something nice and thoughtful is ideal But this guy didn’t give us anything to build off of, other than roblox and not robux

If you know someone and they like gifts: give something useful they would like, but haven’t bought themselves (if they like things to have a use) or something that doesn’t need to have monetary value, like something more personal and thoughtful (if they like decorations and things with personal value)

If you don’t really know the person or they don’t really want random stuff: money, because even though it’s not the best gift out there still it’s better than something they wouldn’t use or already had

MrGerrit,

I really dislike gift cards.

Here, let me change my currency, that in it’s current state can be used in any store you want, to a currency of same value but now you can only use it on one store…

Wookie,
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They have gift card for Visa, Amex, etc, and can be used anywhere

MrGerrit,

Ah okay, those aren’t commonly used where I live. I was thinking about those gift cards that you can only use at one store brand only.

Those you mention are at least a good way if you don’t want to give cash.

Carter, do piracy w Any good tools for converting a YT playlist to mp3?

Please don’t convert to mp3. YouTube’s quality already isn’t great, you don’t need further compression.

kingludd,

What alternatives do you suggest?

Carter,

By all means download from YouTube, just don’t convert to MP3.

If you want higher quality then there are tools for downloading from Deezer and Qobuz.

myersguy, do piracy w Connecting to Jellyfin on a computer thats using VPN

No need to split tunnel. Mullvad has options in the app to allow local networking. Just have to enable it.

slushiedrinker, do piracy w Where do i find sea charts for sailing? (Baltic sea)

Pretty soon we’ll be hearing from people asking about finding free planks to walk, peg-legs, treasure maps, trained parrots, eye patches, and rum. Yo-ho-ho!

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

Life

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

Anybody who hasn’t seen Steel Battalion should go watch a video of a first play through.

They really assume the player is going to read (have) the manual for that game and have a series dig at you if you don’t.

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

It’s not awful but, I’m playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 now, 10 hours in and the game is still introducing new mechanics. This is undoubtedly the longest tutorial I’ve ever done.

miracleorange,

In Xenoblade, the entire story is the tutorial. Hunting uniques in the postgame is the real game.

Dekthro, (edited ) do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th

I’ve been trying to finish some games that I always wanted to play. So I just completed a first run through of NieR: Automata (WA complete). Now for the second!

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

If you’ve never played Fear and Hunger, it’s really easy to assume that there’s no tutorial. At the very start of the game, a pack of angry dogs appears and mauls you to death. If you go through the front door, the pack of angry dogs follows you and mauls you to death. You can escape from the dogs in battle, but they’ll keep chasing you on the overworld until they maul you to death.

The lesson the game wants to teach you is “Hey, don’t stick around and fight enemies that will maul you to death”, and “Hey, you should actually check out the side passages instead of the obvious way forward” because the dogs will not maul you to death if you dip into the side passage in the very first area. The game has a lot of such side passages that you need to look for later on that will save you so much grief, but you have no way but to intuit that this is something to look for in the first place after being mauled to death by dogs a few times.

TwilightVulpine,

Is there a reason why the dogs chase you down an entrance but not the other?

GolGolarion,

Angry dogs hate spooky basements i guess. It’s pretty haunted down there

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