Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/530320/Wandersong

I wish someone would do a NoClip-esque documentary on Sierra. That studio seems amazing and Roberta Williams was a crazy good game designer.

Come over to Last Epoch - I’ve had a much better experience solo and with friends. And shockingly, the global chat is helpful/welcoming of newbies.

I’ve been listening to the NoClip Crew cast podcast - they mostly talk about games they’ve been playing recently and after a few sessions you can really grok the types of games everyone on the pod enjoys. That mostly matches up with my play style, so it works nicely.

As an added bonus, they tend to highlight more independent/smaller game studios.

I wasn’t sure about the Steam Deck, but my god man - it truly is the best of all worlds.

• [x] Playing games in bed with instant suspend/resume
• [x] Easy emulation of old (and new) consoles
• [x] Supports and excels at playing the vast majority of my old Steam games
• [ ] Makes me snacks when I’m hungry.

I’ve played Chronotrigger on here, Skies of Arcadia, and Civ3. Lately I’ve been going through the Yakuza series for the first time.

I will say that I’m always a little tempted to get a console for the exclusive new titles, but I can never justify the price when I have such a big backlog of games already.

Yeah, and she can use boulders to block attacks - but it looks like the main method of attacking will be using echos of baddies. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I cannot over state how much I love that “Legend of Zelda” finally stars Zelda, not to mention the art style… But why did they give her apparently no offensive capabilities? Why wouldn’t she be able to swing a sword? I want to see my Zelda kick ass, not summon monsters to fight for her.

Moon reader is my go-to. Unfortunately it doesn’t sync reading progress, but since I only read on my tablet it’s not too bad.

This game was easily one of my favorites to playthrough blind, then go back and do a 100% achievement run. “Choices matter” actually applies as main characters can just die, and their absence completely changes the outcome of the game.

It was a delight.

How can this possibly stay available given Nintendo’s lawyers? I feel like I need to set up a mirror in my homelab.

Edit: answering my own question - looks like the actual game files aren’t provided, so that should hopefully give the project a pass.

Oh definitely. I’m sure backblaze and the like will pick these right up.

I remember reading an interesting take on the 20TB drives when they came out - the impact of drive failure skyrockets with large density drives.

Back with 2TB drives, you could fit 60-70 Blu-ray rips. If that drive dies (without backups/RAID), you’ll be hurting but not as bad as if you have a filled 20TB with 600-700 rips. Plus, even with RAID, the rebuild time increases with density, and for 20TB drives you could be waiting a week for rebuild.

I like the idea of higher density drives, but in my opinion they only really make sense in large drive arrays where you can spread the data over dozens and dozens of replicated drives.

Here’s the link to the official blog post: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/4031353003322171824

And to save you a clock, the entirety of the portion referencing their competitors.

The More the Merrier

We’re not the only ones who introduced amazing hardware last year. Several other companies have seized the same opportunity to serve users with high-powered on-the-go gaming PCs, with products like the Asus ROG Ally, the OneXPlayer OneXFly, and the Ayaneo Air. All these choices provide users with a bunch of options and price points for portable PC gaming, and reward the investments game devs are making to support better gamepad input and smaller screen sizes. We hope to see even more of these handheld PCs in 2024.

Feels like the OP article could have been much shorter.

Bradley Cooper?!?

(Didn’t watch the trailer, just going by the preview image)

In case this wasn’t asked sarcastically - Free and Open Source Software.

they’ll cannibalize code from their ad-systems

Imagine if their phone home system for tracking installs could be defeated by something as simple as Pihole DNS Ad block.

How do you like Jellyfin? I picked up the Plex lifetime membership waaay back in the day and have been using it consistently for the past 5-ish years, but audio (at least in the web player) is so hit and miss - 5.1 down mixing to stereo is always way too quiet no matter what settings I mess with.

Having sunk tons of time into D3, I can say it’s worth a look. The paragon leveling system from D3/D4 is a clever way of rewarding players who keep playing well after the main 3 (or 4 with D3 DLC) acts. I think I was at Paragon level 1100 or so when I stopped playing.

The biggest complaint people had about D3 IIRC was it’s too colorful (something they poked fun at with the Whimsydale/rainbow goblin).

D2 was a favorite in college, but admittedly I never played outside of some lab parties.

D4 is shaping up to be a solid game, but this is patient gamers, so I don’t know if that counts.