I’m disappointed that nobody’s mentioned Pony Island yet.

I tried, unfortunately my purchase was a 4-pack deal and Steam couldn’t refund mine separately from the other three licenses. shrug

Site hosting should be (almost) free, because it costs (almost) nothing.

I used to work for a popular web host and 99% of the business could have been rendered obsolete by p2p hosting infrastructure.

Also, they spelled it wrong. The logo clearly says “Darkochaser”

Didn’t they fall into Crypto BS?

I don’t understand why they’re bothering with this. Isn’t the Moba shooter genre already played-out? It felt like it was losing steam over 10 years ago when they dropped a sequel to Monday Night Combat that nobody asked for.

Auto Assault, the vehicular combat MMO that died less than a year after it was launched.

I’m still salty that NCSoft never released server binaries so folks could host their own. >_<

Pass.

I’m wholly uninterested in yet another moba.

Did they ever fire that cop?

As it should be.

XD

Yeah! I dunno why I’ll get a notification that my post wasn’t uploaded because of a timeout, only to find out later that it actually did. XD

The first known example of furry art is The Löwenmensch figurine, also called the Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, a ~38,000 year old ivory figurine of a lion-headed man:

It shouldn’t be. Youtube could have been a public good but instead it’s for-profit.

Can’t, because of the way multiplayer works in GTA:O.

Rockstar doesn’t host their own GTA servers, any time you join an online game you’re either hosting the world yourself or joining a game that’s hosted by another player. If the game you’re playing is being hosted by a hacker then they can do whatever they want and your only recourse is to find another session.

In terms of expectation, this is more in line with my fears than my hopes.

All the effort they’re putting into slowing the pace of the game is just added cost for development and it’s going to hurt them where it really matters, music licensing.

Half the appeal of the original was a soundtrack of popular music that fit the mood of the frenetic gameplay perfectly. Now they’ll have to pick lower-energy tracks to suit a meandering “open world” game that might get interrupted by other players at any moment.

IIRC, you can run the Xiaomi unlocking software in wine: https://www.hardreset.info/devices/redmi/redmi-9c/faq/faq/xiaomi-bootloader-unlock-miui10/

Good, get it all offline so the LLM Assholes can’t use it.

That’s a good recommendation, unfortunately I’ve already played it to death. 😸

I already play the heck out of it on my steam deck and I’m looking for something else for my phone.

As long as you want, assuming that you’re fine with the security risks and everything that’s rendered incompatible in the future.

Quit ruining the joke. XD

If you have root, then AdAway: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.adaway/

I’m not giving Helldivers a chance either. Live Service games died when Warframe introduced a rival system.

A “side-channel attack” is one where fundamental flaws in the encryption implementation method are targeted, as opposed to flaws in the cryptographic algorithm itself.

By means of analogy, if your cryptographic method is to go to a locked room to have a private conversation, then a spy doesn’t have to pick the lock if they can still hear you through the door. The locked-room security method itself isn’t flawed, but implementing it without a soundproof door has much the same result.

In this case:

The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access in the near future. By loading the contents into the CPU cache before it’s actually needed, the DMP, as the feature is abbreviated, reduces latency between the main memory and the CPU, a common bottleneck in modern computing. DMPs are a relatively new phenomenon found only in M-series chips and Intel’s 13th-generation Raptor Lake microarchitecture, although older forms of prefetchers have been common for years.

Security experts have long known that classical prefetchers open a side channel that malicious processes can probe to obtain secret key material from cryptographic operations. This vulnerability is the result of the prefetchers making predictions based on previous access patterns, which can create changes in state that attackers can exploit to leak information.

So, the encryption the chips use is solid, but some of the hardware employed can still leak data.

Guess I should set up a brokerage account and get ready to short them.

Really tired of hearing that buzzword. Can the “AI” bubble pop already?

Blockchain?

Good, that means I won’t have any FOMO when I ignore this game and it collapses within a year of release.

I want smaller games with worse graphics made by people who get paid a living wage to work reasonable hours and I’m not kidding.

I’m going to guess you mostly mean servers

Yep.

It’s really more for the convenience of getting your games from a web browser.

Exactly, it’s a niche service that only appeals to a fraction of the folks who play games, but it also requires the operator to purchase servers with graphics cards and set them up in datacenters near everyone who has an account in order to minimize latency. It’s not viable for people who have slow internet or live in a rural area, especially when so much of their income goes to licensing game titles for use in the service.

I still have an OnLive console from the second time they tried games-as-a-service.

The market isn’t big enough to justify the distribution at scale it’d take to make this tech profitable.

Uhh, wtf?

The new app isn’t finished, there’s no way to refresh mailboxes and RSS feeds other than restarting it.

How on earth did they decide this was good enough?

Nintendo is too litigous, and just successfully sued a switch emulator out of existence.

I give it eight months. Wayland support is getting better every week and some major distros plan to drop X11 by the end of the year.

I get where you’re coming from, but as counterpoint, we’ve learned a lot about dinosaurs from fossilized shit.

Bethesda lost me for good when they thought Fallout 76 was ready for release and refused to give me a refund when it very much was not.

I charged back the purchase price and haven’t given them a penny since.