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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



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.

ETG


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.



What’s the game you play when nothing else sounds good?
Do you have a game you play over and over, when nothing else fits your mood? That game that is infinitely re-playable, somewhat the same every time and somewhat new and interesting? For me it's the games in the [Orcs Must Die series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcs_Must_Die!). But mostly [OMD 3](https://robotentertainment.com/omd3). I play the mode called Scramble, where you have to beat 5 rounds of orcs, and they get harder and harder as you progress. There are random things to make it harder (nerfs) and you can choose 1 thing per round to make it easier (buffs). I've probably played that something like 300 times now since I beat the main game + DLCs a long while ago. I go into a special mental state while playing, since I know it all so well, and just zone out for about an hour each time. Patient gamers, what's your "I will keep playing this game for the rest of my life" fallback?
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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.


RESOLVED - Can’t connect to home server from Android phone
Hi folks, a little troubleshooting help here, please. I have a Samsung Galaxy S9 with Android 10 rn. I use Firefox as my main browser, but I've tried this on others (Internet from Samsung, DuckDuckGo browser) and get the same result. When I am at home, connected to my personal wifi network I want to connect to my self-hosted server at 192.168.68.137. In all browsers, just starting this week, I get "Can't connect to the server" or "ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE". This just was working fine the other day, but something (???) has changed and it won't connect. When I am trying this, my phone's IP is 192.168.68.106 so def on the same lan. And, my phone can connect to 192.168.68.100 without error - it's just the .137 address it can't connect to. This isn't a DNS issue; I am trying to reach it only via the IP address. The server is definitely up and other PCs can connect to it just fine on the same LAN / 192.168 segment. I've tried rebooting the phone, same result. I turned off my pihole ad blocker - same result. The craziest thing (to me) is that if I disable wifi on my phone, (so now it's on the cellular network) then connect my Wireguard VPN back into my home network, then I can browse to my home server. That *should* work, of course, but so should it work for me to connect while on the home wifi network without the VPN. If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful. EDIT: I rebooted the server and voila! The phone is connecting again. No idea why, but sure, OK. Thanks anyway, folks.
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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!



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



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.




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.


Looking for a game with a great story… Could it be Watch Dogs: Legion?
So two-part question here: If you've played Watch Dogs: Legion, did you like it? And especially, did you like it for the ***story***? This makes me think the game is not primarily about the story: https://opencritic.com/game/7405/watch-dogs-legion I played WD2 and enjoyed that quite a bit though never finished it. I want the next game I play on my PC (via Steam, etc...) to have a great story. Recommendations greatly appreciated. Other games I've played with what I thought were great stories: Psychnoauts 2, Portal 2, Soma (though I'm not really into scary games), Firewatch, Metro *all*, The Talos Principle Cheers,
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Very excited. I started to play the demo to make sure it would run on Ubuntu and it does – it just works.

And I just created a Talos Principle community so we fans can share news and discuss the games:

https://lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle

Join us if you’re into the games.



I just played the demo on Ubuntu and … perfect. No tweaks, just works.

I also started this community so I’d have others to talk about the games with:

https://lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle


Just know, I can’t uninstall it either. Instead I went into the Android settings, did Force Stop on the YT app, and then I was able to Disable it.


My issue was just that YT puts me in a bubble where it thinks I want to be. But then you only see videos like the ones you’ve been watching - a bubble. Imo, it’s better to see lots of different videos.




Smartest thing I’ve done this month: Disable the YouTube app
I'm using a stock Samsung Galaxy 8 phone right now (with Android 10) and I disabled the YouTube app. I was basically sick of its s***. Since then, I never sign in to the app/site, and so may aspects of using the site are much better now. * Everything is faster, since they don't know me / aren't tracking as much. * I always open YT in Firefox Focus, which doesn't ever keep cookies or history each time I close it, so there's no history for YT to mine each time I visit again. * I'm pretty sure I see fewer ads since I don't have a deep history for YT to mine / target. * More random suggestions from YT means I am mostly broken out of the bubble caused by their tracking. I find new, interesting music, for instance, now, from the suggestions. * Hitting "back" in the browser means I go back wherever I was before, not to the YT home page (like the app used to do to me) I still visit the site often, and appreciate all the good music and channels I watch, but now it's overall a much more positive experience, more like YT was a few years ago versus the horrible mess it's become recently. I'd still appreciate any other tips anyone has for making YT visits even more enjoyable.
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