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LW is hosted in Germany, and as it proxies youtube thumbnails, youtube serve him the german version 😅. It is a known issue.


Honestly I liked a lot Subnautica 1, and despite the leadership change, still look forward to Subnautica 2. Better juge on the product than on internet dramas.


You may also like Coffee Talk (1 and 2). Good story, the characters are likable, and it works with controllers, so you can play it on the go with a Deck or anything similar.


Patient Gamers - Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41405196
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For those who wonder, yes, this is OK according to the community rule 6.
Talking about piracy is OK. What is forbidden is directly linking to it. Mainly for legal reason, not because we condemn it.

Nonetheless, OP asked for permission beforehand, which is nice. Authorization was of course given.


cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/36744 > This an an interview with Ross Scott and Steve from the GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy side channel. > > **⚠️⚠️ Sign here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home ⚠️⚠️** > > "We got together with Ross Scott of Accursed Farms to discuss the Stop Killing Games initiative that he is presently spearheading. The Stop Killing Games initiative aims to preserve games in a reasonably playable state even after the game's publishers and/or developers abandon it, helping ensure consumers keep some level of what they have paid for rather than having all access revoked and the game destroyed." > > TIMESTAMPS > > 00:00 - Stop Killing Games > 03:26 - The Basics > 05:55 - Games Make It Easier to Dismiss > 07:17 - Where's Stop Killing Games Now > 13:58 - Technical Alternatives to Stopping Service > 19:47 - How Would a Law Work > 23:50 - Momentum > 27:18 - UK Petition > 31:45 - Misconceptions > 35:51 - Benefits for People Outside the EU > 39:36 - Next Steps
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That’s indeed possible, but hard to prove unless you give an archived proof (wayback machine, etc.). AI made creating fake screenshot trivial, so I can’t blame anyone for thinking you may have faked it.


I checked his modlog, and found no such thing, at least on LW. Care to give a link as proof ?


Honesty I’d agree that it should be allowed, but the EU has a much more strict rules on fair use than most countries has. And as LW is hosted in the EU, that’s the rule we have to follow.

But the jurisprudence made it clear that source code is considered as ok as soon as it does not contain copyrighted materials (original 3d models, music, etc). That why I’d prefer to link directly to the source code.

And if they have a direct link to the playable version of that game on said repository, that’s not our problem anymore 😅.


Good read, as always. The link to lego island is broken, on my end at least (it redirects to LW).

For copyright reasons I’d rather it be the link to the decompiled/ported source code rather than directly to the game itself. I doubt they got the 3d models IP owner autorisation to use them, thus falling into the no linking to piracy rule.


There is a little error on the first link of the Next Fest, btw.


I missed Dead as Disco during Next Fest, but as a rhythm game and music aficionado, I’m definitively gonna enjoy this one. 😆

Looking forward to your next interview.


Great read, as always. A little broken link on the previous posts section (forgotten “]”).

Nice to see MS decided to make their (remored) pricing quite aggressive. Especially since it is sold with the dock included.
The base Xbox Ally should be as powerfull as the Deck. It is basically the same chip with 5 more watts of TDP, which can easily be done on the OG deck with a little bios mod.
The biggest one will be a serious blow to the Deck as well as other handhelds. The specs are clearly superior on all aspects, while still being very competitive. Depending on the autonomy and how much bloat was removed, I may be really tempted, despite being a pro-Linux… And probably install SteamOS (or Bazzite) as soon as it works on it.
I hope this will prompt Valve to update the Deck to newer hardware, or at least allow to officially tune up the APU power envelope to 20-25W (vs 15W currently), especially when docked, so we can enjoy higher definition gaming without sacrificing too much graphical settings to the Frametime gods (E33 looks kinda bad on the Deck, especially when docked 😂).




It may need some formating though. Add two space at the end of a paragraph, then the line break (I know, markdown is weird sometimes)


Sure, but that’d be quite the costly upgrade just for better framerate. 😆

Not that I ever did the same with a GPU at the same price tag… (Who am kidding? 😂)


OP asked before posting and got mod authorization.

OP is a good OP. 😁


I’m definitively gonna keep a look on that. Hope it will work with Heroic and the Steam Deck.


As a Switch 1 owner, I’m definitively gonna wait to finish my current Switch backlog, and also probably for the Oled refresh. But since I got my Deck, I barely touched my Switch, so it will probably take a long time 😆.


Looks nice, let’s hope big N won’t be too much of an asshole with this one 😂.

Who am I kidding… 😅


Meh. I still prefer my Deck. I hope Valve won’t be too slow to launch the Deck 2 😅.


I knew from the beginning the art vibes where familiar. Then I saw " Spiritfarer", and I knew why 😂.
There is a few game that managed to make me tears, Spirifarer was one of them (along with Gris, Ori, and lately, E33). Yeah, I’m kinda a softy 😂.
That’s an instant buy for me.


There are multiple event right now, showing a lot of new games. So it was kinda expected. I’m considering new rules about that, should be part of the new rules proposed in the community overhaul.

In the meantime, I’ll ask him to consolidate such event in a single megathread.

Edit: after a quick discussion with simple, he/she/they will consider a megathread for the next big event. The current posts will stay up.




It ran great.
Obviously it is better to keep it to a medium to small sized galaxy for his tiny CPU to keep up during endgame, but I was very surprised how well it ran.

I should try one of my enormous galaxy endgame one day, to see how well it will manage 😆


I’ve spent so many hours building empires in that game. I even played to it on the Deck (docked) with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. :D


Lemmy-UI, directly on the browser. Works on Voyager too.

But I believe that LW has a couple of patches over the official release, that may be why.



I think I will put like 10 5 everything, then link to a dedicated page on the git repo (I’ll try to make it a wiki so everyone can add its own)

Edit : Reduced to 5 to keep it concise as a start. I’ll put the others in a dedicated topic

Edit 2 : Fuck it, let’s put everything


On that our opinion differs.

Games, like movie, are a way to make art. It allows ways of expression that other medias cannot.

Of course not all games are made with the artistic value in mind, like not all movies are, but those are nontheless pieces of our collective culture, be it something like a racing game, or a little platformer.
All thoses are the result of hundred, if not thousands of hours of work, from programmers, to musician, with all others support tasks in between.

For a movie, imagine if you had to constantly be connected to a server, and that suddenly, for nobother reason than saving a buck for the company owning the movie, no one could watch it anymore. Countless masterpieces would be lost to time, not because the original band was lost in a fire like many did through time, but because of someone greed and refusal to make them readable without that punny server.

That petition ask just that same treatment for video games, nothing more. We are not asking for remaster, nor a continued support on new consoles, just a way to preserve the shared memories we hold dear.
Memories of friends who played with us, friends that may not be of this world anymore. Memories of stories told and lived.
To not forget what was, what could have been, and what can be.


  1. Well, I don’t. It doesn’t void my freedom to express my opinion on the matter.
  2. I also maintain server (my own, sometime other people server when asked to), and even worked with an open sourced MMO server (Ryzom). Those don’t need to be hard to maintain, except if the architect is a idiot that followed the tend of “microservices”, which does’t make much sense for an MMO.

If they aren’t good enough to make software that makes sense, we’ll find a way to make them work. Don’t underestimate a band of hyperfocussed nerd.
Some guy already programmed a whole unofficial MMO server from scratch, which ended up to be even better than the official one. Unfortunately is wasn’t ever released for obvious copyright infringement reasons, but still.


Considering how much time and effort you put on your posts, I’m sure you’d make a good moderator. I’d sure need help in the future, as both moderator are temporary (unless they chose otherwhise), and as such I’d use all the help I can to moderate.

I’ll DM you to discuss about the details.


Will do

Edit : Actually the second link worked and sent me on LW.


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30578134
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You know you just have to block one user to stop seeing them. 😅


Will add them after my nap. Allergies hit me like a truck today 😅

Edit : tomorrow, probably. Damn those allergies 😅


[Announcement] The community and its future
Hi everyone. It has been a while since last community update, as the old moderation team mostly vanished, and I was for a while the only moderator still active. A lot happened since then, and it is time to get the community back running at optimal pace. ## New moderators First, I'd like to welcome two new (temporary) moderator, that will help me moderating while we reform the community and examine permanent moderator applications. - u/JonsJava : You may already know him as the moderator of [email protected], a video game focused community - u/[email protected] (and its moderation alt, فكسومت مدمر العوالم, aka u/modfxomt) **If you wish to help moderate this community, feel free to PM me in order to candidate to be a moderator for this community.** ## Sidebar rewrite I took some time to rewrite the sidebar to better reflect the community evolution. I added two new section: 1. "Authorized Regular Threads", which are allowed to be post on a regular basis as long as they respect the rules 2. "Related communities", which contains links to other games related communities. Feel free to PM me to add more of them I also added links to a git repo to each rule, which point to the current ruleset. Currently all of them points to the same root anchor, but in the near future, every rule will point to their specific section. This will allow to give a lot more detail, as well as examples, without polluting the sidebar. ## Community contribution As a community, I'd like to encourage users to participate in the community. We are not meant to be monolithic, like Reddit was, and we'd like to offer the community the way to better itself, according to its own rules, not some corporate greedy interest. As such, I'd like to offer you all way to make it your own, with a more democratic approach to moderation. In the following weeks, I'll post multiple topics about it, from which we will collectively amend our rules to better fit its collectively defined purpose. This will be done in multiple steps : 1. First, we will open a discutions on current rules, in which we will be able to discuss about them, suggest improvements, and maybe create new rules 2. The rules will be then internally rewritten in order to respect the community wish while still following LW rules 3. The new rules will be individually put to vote. If the total is positive, the rule is adopted, if not, the rule will be bought back in a new discussions/amendment topic, until it reach consensus Best regards, u/Dremor Edit 1 : I continued my work on the sidebar, feel free to give me your feedback on it.
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I’d agree for an MMO, which can be quite complex server-wise. But most “online single player” would be quite easy to modify.

I’m a software developer who worked with asynchronous online systems.
A simple disk caching system could replace any uploaded data, and any online call can be written to work with cached data with a few line of code. Heck, on some frameworks you could write a simple middleware to make it work without changing a line of the original code.
I could do it on such game in less than a week on a language I don’t know, and probably a day or two on one I know about.


I’ll sticky it for today, thank you for your work on those topics.


As you are not a gamer, I’ll try to make it simple.

If a game ask for an online connection, is usually for three reasons:

  • multiplayer, or some kind of social interaction
  • drm, to make it harder to cheat, or redistribute cracked versions of said game
  • telemetry, either to know how players plays their game, or to sell you as an ad target

When the publisher decide to stop the online component, to save a buck, it often mean the game stops working altogether because of the DRM part, as it basically refuses to start without the proper authorization from the now defunct server.

The petition do not ask them to keep running the server indefinitely, but rather to

  • make it possible to bypass the DRM always online part to be able to play the single player part, if there is one. In most case, it is a simple change to do, a function to modify in order to always return “true” (game can be played)
  • allow the end user to self host the server. It doesn’t mean open-sourcing it, just to release the server software and allow to point to another server than the defunct ones

In both case, the code already exist, and the changes required are minimal, so why not do it? It costs barely anything to the devs/publisher, and gives the game a second life, even without official support.

But they don’t. Mostly out of greed, to push people to buy the newest, micro-transaction infused game they wish to sell, sometimes even the same game with half the content replaced by micro-transaction (Overwatch 2 being the perfect example).
They don’t want an older, maybe better game to overshadow their new shiny cash grab.



Damn that website screams the 2000’s 😂.

Interesting project, I’ll keep an eye on it.



cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25029901
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24129356 > Because why the hell not!
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18354109 > October 23, 2024. > Hello Everyone! > > Our last update saw players enjoying a nice chilled time, fishing in No Man’s Sky. Our next update couldn’t be more different! As we approach Halloween, we are embracing the spookier side of the No Man’s Sky Universe, drawing upon threads first established way back in Atlas Rises, when ancient portals began to open and the boundaries between realities first began to crumble… > > Today, we are announcing expedition sixteen: The Cursed – where players will fight to keep a grip on reality while haunted by visions and voices from another dimension. > > The Cursed takes place in a sort of twilight realm, straddling the boundary between one reality and the next. > > ![](https://nomanssky.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2024/10/SEAN-PC-18_10_2024-10_37_45.png) > > Travellers will not have access to hyperdrive technology, meaning no warping between star systems. Instead, interstellar travel can only take place via the ancient portal network. > > ![](https://nomanssky.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2024/10/PurplePortal-4.png) > ![](https://nomanssky.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2024/10/GlyphRow.png) > > Haunting voices, leaking through from another dimension, will provide guidance, information, strange blueprints… and mystery. It is up to you to decide who these voices belong to, where they are coming from, and if they are to be trusted.
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18354109 > October 23, 2024. > Hello Everyone! > > Our last update saw players enjoying a nice chilled time, fishing in No Man’s Sky. Our next update couldn’t be more different! As we approach Halloween, we are embracing the spookier side of the No Man’s Sky Universe, drawing upon threads first established way back in Atlas Rises, when ancient portals began to open and the boundaries between realities first began to crumble… > > Today, we are announcing expedition sixteen: The Cursed – where players will fight to keep a grip on reality while haunted by visions and voices from another dimension. > > The Cursed takes place in a sort of twilight realm, straddling the boundary between one reality and the next. > > ![](https://nomanssky.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2024/10/SEAN-PC-18_10_2024-10_37_45.png) > > Travellers will not have access to hyperdrive technology, meaning no warping between star systems. Instead, interstellar travel can only take place via the ancient portal network. > > ![](https://nomanssky.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2024/10/PurplePortal-4.png) > ![](https://nomanssky.azureedge.net/app/uploads/2024/10/GlyphRow.png) > > Haunting voices, leaking through from another dimension, will provide guidance, information, strange blueprints… and mystery. It is up to you to decide who these voices belong to, where they are coming from, and if they are to be trusted.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24657681 > > A complete implementation of Tetris in a SQL query.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27602592
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14421942 > Europa – Reveal Trailer – Nintendo Switch > > Coming in 2024.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14421504 > Little Kitty, Big City – Release Date Reveal – Nintendo Switch > > Releasing May 9
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Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all! Please **don’t forget to use the spoiler tag** as soon as you start talking about a storyline.
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