Life is full of choices, isn’t it.

Its goog so:

• you get Debian terminal, run whatever you want!

• they get to track everything you do, remember your passwords for you and sell that data to everyone they can!

Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap, both single and multiplayer. Super fun extension to the series.

And Noita, when I just want a short game session. It’s fun, in its own roguelike way.

I used this when I got mass effect Legendary edition recently. Their 120 hour estimate was a concern. At the rate I play that would be a lifetime.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Looks neat, but no connection with the Asimov stories there. (I got my hopes up)

Patient Gaming is usually a good idea, yep.

But I just played it and liked it a lot. I think people are just taking some time adjusting to all the changes.

But I didn’t want just another continuation of the previous games, so to me, this is all good news.

I hear you but two things:

1. give this game more time, I think it’s differences are exciting and worth trying.
2. give the devs some time to fix the stuff you didn’t like – and let them know the stuff you didn’t like!

I just played for 1.5 hours and I liked the new changes a lot. I have over 300 hours in OMD3 so sure, I will prolly go back there too, but for now, I am digging the new game.

Awww, I remember loving that game. Gonna check it out again. 👍

I so want to like that game, but that UI is so hard for me to get used to, I never have (after a few tries). Always glad to see it mentioned online though.

My son plays some Warhammer games. I should check it out.

Good news about OMD, there’s a new game due next month, Deathtrap. I’m super stoked.

I’ve had Subnautica on my wishlist forever. I should get to that soon

Is it right to say that is always multiplayer?

With Minecraft, just walking around, seeing what you can create, listening to that chill music. Good times.

Caves of Qud

Ohboy. It’s git that simple text UI. I need more … visual interaction I think.

Enter the Gungeon

I had to look it up but that looks cool! Thanks for the idea.

For me, that would be Flatout 2 - more debris and stuff flying around but same great racing in some ways.

Oh me too. I can just roll around for a long while, not even doing anything in particular.

Skate 3, the relaxation tool.

Oh! I just started the Legendary edition this week for the first time.

dl-ling!

Heliboard!

Yeah, you all get all the nice things we don’t in the US.

I’m curious about this. Do either of you run a custom dns for blocking ads, like adguard or pihole?

Did you turn off a bunch of stuff when you first got the PC?

Do you have corporate policies being applied in your registry?

Thanks again and yep, I should have thought to reboot the server sooner.

I had a thought after all the above. What if there were two devices in the lan with that same .137 IP? It’s inside the DHCP range but I thought having the router reserve the 137 address for my server would mean no other PC could get it.

I’m gonna check out that angle, move the server to an IP outside the DHCP range next.

I installed the suggested he.net app. Sending its Ping from the phone (.106) returns no responses from the server (.137).

I’ve no idea about the rest of what you wrote, or how to test layer 2 or 3 specifically. I’ve no way to run a packet capture, that I know of. Thanks for trying in any case.

Hey, thanks. I’d really rather not change the server’s IP; it runs a number of docker-based services and I have other PCs configured to use the current address (like Rokus).

Can a stock Android phone have a custom HOSTS file? Or could there be a firewall I didn’t install?

I tried pinging the phone from the server. No responses at all. Not sure if that’s normal for Android or not.

Both the server and phone have static IPs assigned and use the same gateway - 192.168.68.1 / 24.

Oof, Ok. Thanks for that info.

Yah, thanks. Was it fun at least? Like, as much fun as wd2?

Oh wow, I remember receiving System Shock 2 as a gift wayyy back in the day, trying to play it and my PC at that time wasn’t up to the challenge. I have to admit, I’m not really inclined to go back and spend time with games from that era now. (I tried to play the original Deus Ex recently and was just appalled at the janky combat) but thanks for the idea.

Ok. You said the magic words for me: William Gibson. I’m in.

No idea why I never made that connection in my own head before, but thanks!

Stick to your story, eh. Thanks

Have never heard of this Plague Tales series, so will definitely check them out. Merci beaucoup.

Good to know - thank you both.

Yes! That’s looked interesting and I think it’s on Steam now, right? Added to my list - thanks!

CyberPunk

My son keeps telling me I should play that and someone else here did too. I will add this to my queue for sure.

DA: Origins has been in my list forever and I just… I dunno … didn’t quite sede it as my type of game. I’ve been wrong about that many times though so next time it’s on sale, I’ll grab it.

Played the Deus Ex series and all of the Valve games many times.

Thief looks interesting. Thanks!

I tried Witcher 2 and never finished it. Just not my thing, I concluded.

I had no idea GTA had a story at all, so thanks for that idea.

Should have said I’ve played those and the 3rd one too. Great stories, for sure.

Cool, thanks!

Sounds a little short but I’ll check it out - thanks!

Something about DE’s interface seemed kind of… off putting to me but it sounds like I should check it out. I’ll go watch someone play it the first few minutes. Thanks

Cool. Is Cyberpunk stable now? I heard some bad things early on.