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yamanii, do games w Dead Game News: Early plans for stopping companies from destroying games | Accursed Farms/Ross Scott
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After seeing the USA part of the video I understand why Cyberpunk always happens over there, what are those lack of rights holy shit, “it can’t be fraud because you had no right to your game to begin with”.

It’s like the law is some insane reality where you are a criminal for utilizing software after support was closed down, but in real life the game is effectively yours if it’s a single player. Also “the gaming sphere is very unique on it’s abuse of the lack of consumer protections”, I hope this industry rots to the bone, but I’ll still try to contact my national consumer protection agency in Brazil, Ubisoft is particularly big over here so maybe something can be done.

Dremor, do games w Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Review by MandaloreGaming
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That’s quite the old game to review. I remember playing to it even before Stellaris launch.

kboy101222,

Mandalore reviews mostly older games.

Give his Mystery of the Druids or Limbo of the Lost videos if you want to experience some of the most absurd games ever made.

nimmo,
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Thanks for that additional insight into this channel. This completely changes the way that I will now look at this content.

kboy101222,

I genuinely can’t tell if you’re being a dick or sincere here

nimmo,
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Haha, that’s fair. I was being sincere.

I’d initially scrolled past thinking “I played this whilst I was still at Uni, why is anyone talking about it now?”

Now that I know this person’s focus is intentionally looking at older games I’m willing to go and give it a watch.

kboy101222,

Ah, awesome!

Yeah, Mandalore does some newer stuff (I think he reviewed the newest Total War Warhammer game as it came out), but it’s mostly older.

I’d also recommend the Ring and Anonymous Agony videos if you want more utter absurdity. Fair warning with Anonymous Agony, it’s as edgy as edgy can possibly be. And the Ring is complete nonsense but still a great time.

dangblingus,

He’s a real “PC Gamer’s Reviewer”. Sometimes the best games already came out and I haven’t played them yet!

obinice,
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Now you listen here, Sins only came out a couple of years ago in 2012, that was what, …5 years ago? See, not so bad!

(Side note Sins is fantastic and I hope once the new one is out of early access that it will be a similarly fantastic game)

Dremor,
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Your internal NTP server may need an update. It is off by… Some time 😆

RebekahWSD,
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N…no! It’s just the early 2010s, clearly. Surely. Okay, maybe the late 2010s… but no later!

Oh no…

JayleneSlide,

Maybe they were in the mall? 😆 (that thread was immediately previous in my feed)

Dremor,
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Can you link said thread ?

JayleneSlide,
malaknight,

It’s even older than that, Sins originally came out in 2008.

PeterPoopshit, (edited ) do games w Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Review by MandaloreGaming

Great game. Awesome game. Runs like shit in late game even on modern hardware unless you keep things smaller and boring + the modding situation sucks a lot. Fun enough to still be worth playing. Hopefully someday they’ll make a sequel to address some of these issues or someone else will make a similar game with better performance. Sins 2 is a thing but it’s only on epic and I don’t use Windows. We might get a steam release some day but until then I’m too lazy to pirate it.

Owljfien, do games w Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Review by MandaloreGaming

I know nothing about this game but every time I see it mentioned I always think that it has an awesome name

Telodzrum,

Best 4x game of the 2000s and still one of my favorites to go back, play exclusively for a month or so, and then put down for years at a time.

There are some amazing overhaul mods, too. The Star Trek and Halo ones are particularly good.

c0mbatbag3l,
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Also the Mass Effect overhaul was cool, playing as the Reapers lol

cupcakezealot, do gaming w It's Not Nostalgia. Old Minecraft WAS Great.
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old minecraft is great.

old minecraft developer wasn’t.

MangoKangaroo,

What do you mean? Taylor Swift made Minecraft.

Sidyctism,

Common mistake, actually it was made by tommy tallarico. His mother is very proud

Ephera,

New Minecraft developer isn’t either…

SimplyTadpole,
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Eh, issues aside, I’d rather have a greedy late-stage capitalist developer than a proudly neo-nazi developer.

cyborganism, do gaming w It's Not Nostalgia. Old Minecraft WAS Great.

It was! It felt peaceful. Simple. You didn’t have to find or craft food all the time to eat too stay alive.

maniacalmanicmania,
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You mean Minecraft is a survival game by default now?

kogasa,
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Yeah but survival is the worst part about minecraft.

amio,

It's easy enough to just start a Creative world. I don't remember whether the hunger mechanic just gets disabled if playing Survival on Peaceful difficulty, that might have been how it works.

RandomException,

But doesn’t Creative get rid of the need to actually collect the materials you need? It was so fun back in the days to dig out huge holes in the ground just to build a castle, and also die a bunch of times because you were a bit careless and dug straight down only to discover a large mine right below you :D I don’t miss the buggy trains though. If I remember correctly, it took quite a long while for them to actually work properly in multiplayer.

But oh how time files - I just bought the damn game back in 2010 😂 IIRC it was right around the time Notch bumped the version up from Infdev to Alpha and I think there wasn’t even proper multiplayer implemented yet then, or it was so much in it’s beginnings that it had pretty much no features, like not even spawning mobs or having damage or anything. Later during my university studies we were actually using Minecraft to get our heads wrapped around electronics and latches in our study group and as a part of our course work first built our digital clock in MC with redstone before actually making the assignment on paper 😄

Even if Minecraft isn’t exactly the same game anymore as it used to be, it’s still nice to see it exist and be available after all these years. The core mechanics are still great and one can still play the older versions if they so wish.

The_Sasswagon,

You can play with no survival mechanics on peaceful mode, but then there’s no mobs. I’m sure you can mod out hunger though for that og feel, theres a mod for everything.

pbjamm,
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It all went down hill (literally) when fall damage was introduced.

Patches, do gaming w Investigative Report: The Day Before – Fraud or Megalomania? (German audio with English subtitle)

It’s fraud. I saved you a click

ferralcat, do games w ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree | Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer

Heh. I’m still waiting for them to discount elden ring enough that I can buy, play to the first boss, die a dozen times and then put it down to nevenr play again like I do most souls games. $10. $10 is my limit from.

RinseDrizzle,

Just git gud!

CryptidBestiary, do games w ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree | Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer

Ready to cry and be confused again

RinseDrizzle,

Looking forward to the Vaati lore breakdown already

RinseDrizzle, do games w ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree | Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer

Time to roll up a couple new characters! Currently grinding up a witch bitch. Kinda want to do a Metal Gear Solid Snake build that focuses on sleeping peeps.

Hit me with your favorites FUN builds, ideally viable for PVP!

Obviously early as hell, any idea what level one should be for DLC content?

Kata1yst, do games w Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Review by MandaloreGaming
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Sin's is a game my friends and I always come back to. Such a dynamic rts with so many ways to win.

The expansions are fairly priced and also one person having an expansion is enough to host an expansion game for everyone who has any version installed.

FenrirIII, do games w PowerWash Simulator x Warhammer 40,000 - Official Release Date Trailer
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Mud for the Mud God!

MacedWindow, do games w PowerWash Simulator x Warhammer 40,000 - Official Release Date Trailer
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One of the most unexpected crossovers of all time

FenrirIII,
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I thought this was a joke.

Essence_of_Meh, do games w Dead Game News: Early plans for stopping companies from destroying games | Accursed Farms/Ross Scott

I don't expect anything will come out this but I really appreciate Ross trying to give it an honest shot. I can't help since I don't own the game but I can at least cheer from the sidelines an lend my power for a spirit bomb.

Go Ross Go!

insomniac_lemon, (edited ) do gaming w It's Not Nostalgia. Old Minecraft WAS Great.

Yeah, one of the things I liked in old versions was having just one type of planks (not having multiple variants of everything wood, particularly). And I've never cared about the bosses or searching for something 50K blocks away from spawn or whatever. The other annoyance is hunger, though eating to insta-heal isn't much better either.

One issue for me is that I really liked the block model system of newer versions (release 1.8), particularly as a resource pack creator. A ladder looks so much better as a few cuboids than it does as a flat texture, and my models (which I made in a text editor) looked a lot nicer than my textures.

Also, never migrated my account. Are the servers to download the old versions from the old launcher even still up?

Minetest could be a solution here, but it seems like most Minetest games are either following new MC's footsteps or are doing something completely different. At least I've never played one that made me want to keep going, something good enough to start my own thing with (I would like chaining sticky pistons or similar things that are powerful in single-player, blocks that look cool but offer specific benefits like an iron grate floor/ceiling).


Parallel timeline mods are interesting, though I am not having luck with trying them thus far and I also doubt the modding tools are there enough especially for me who doesn't want to code in Java. I could also see it interesting if there were an easy way to just disable a large amount of blocks/items/mobs etc and then just add in new stuff... maybe even with data packs especially for this sort of thing.

I am thinking about game mechanics that interact (has anyone tried liquid-like gravel/coal piles yet?) or that just connect simply/are instant (rather than high-throughput automation). Or different systems for healing/buffs/food. Maybe alternate tools/transportation/skybridges etc.

EDIT: So they really added data packs without the ability to make "true" blocks/items (instead still dependent on entities and commands, data overridden not data driven), huh? Guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Stelus42,

I have no clue about the old launcher, but the current launcher allows you to select any version all the way back past alpha. It was a lot of fun to try to hunt down which version I probably first played.

Kerb, (edited )
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i have no idea if it still works,
but manny third party launchers like polyMc still have a option to sign in with old mojang accounts

EDIT: it doesnt work, poly is just outdated.
also, use prism instead

insomniac_lemon,

It seems like the old login servers don't even exist anymore (so I don't see how it'd actually verify unless it just checks a username's purchase status), but yeah that launcher does work for offline. (I still have my lastlogin file assuming it can't overwrite itself easily, but I don't think anything uses that other than the old launcher which can't seem to actually download the files because 404).

It's also interesting for the built-in modding, though it doesn't seem to be perfect. Also added an edit to my original comment mentioning parallel timeline mods. Though I'll just check out some classic(/revived) mods if I can get them to work.

@Stelus42

Kerb,
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i wasnt sure if the old login servers are online.

i dont know why they would still show the menu entry if the servers are down

JustARegularNerd,

Just a note to say that PolyMC has previously proven itself a troubled project, with the project owner Lenny at one point completely removing all other contributor’s access as he “purged the leftoids” (or something to that effect), and PrismLauncher is a fork made by those contributors

Kerb, (edited )
@Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Oh wow, apparently im a whole drama behind here 😂
I just recently discovered PolyMc because i learned about MultiMc drama,
while searching for a flatpack build.

Ill guess ill look up what happened, and then probably switch

EDIT: i just looked it up WTF is wrong with that guy,
i switched asap

cafuneandchill,

I use Prism Launcher, and it does seem to have all the pre-1.0 versions

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