brb moving to brazil

This is probably the first time I’ve felt any sort of “hype” for a game release in over a decade. That being said, I’m still not preordering.

Holy crap lois, they’re making Skyrim with guns!

I’m going to conclude you’re lying and haven’t actually used a webkit browser, because in terms of feature parity with blink and gecko, webkit is pretty good. Maybe some stuff breaks with RTC WASM and other questionable browser capabilities, but for 99% of the web they’re fine. All of the browsers I’ve recommended are regularly updated (except links, superceded by links2), all of them are “modern”. If I wanted to recommend old dead browsers, I would recommend retawq, dillo, elinks or xombrero. Even textmode only browsers are very usable for documentation and reading news and blogs.

Least quixotic lemmy user

Thank you for teaching me a new word. I would hardly call using webkit instead of gecko idealistic, but normies gonna normie, I guess.

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If you don’t know how to differentiate between a dev having stupid idpol takes and an ad-company feigning to be a privacy organization mass-distributing spyware and adware inside privacy conscious communities then I can’t help you.

There’s a decent selection at the moment:

If you need javascript+css: qtwebkit, gtkwebkit, qtwebengine ( blink based :( ), Ladybird (I really don’t care if the dev sucks; goolag/mozilla’s browser monopoly is too important for me to care about some stupid idpol takes)

If you don’t need javascript but want css: netsurf (there is technically javascript support, but it’s worked absolutely nowhere in my experience)

If you’re an epic hackor that doesn’t need either: w3m, links2, links, lynx

I mostly use w3m, but I use qutebrowser (qtwebkit and qtwebengine) when I need js. I’ll probably replace qutebrowser with Ladybird once there’s a port for OpenBSD (trying to write my own at the moment).

If you just want to abandon www all together, check out gemini and gopher clients.

If Mozilla needs Google to survive, they can go down with the ship for all I care. Mozilla are bad actors anyways.

1. Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead
2. Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup
3. This is a hard one… Minetest, maybe? Would be the most interesting one to hack.

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Imagine how old Michael Bay feels.

Nice, was looking forward to this game, and was sad the performance made it unplayable on the deck (my only gaming hardware at the moment).

Looks like a class action lawsuit, smells like a class action lawsuit

advantages of owning a mail server:

• create alias gogspam@domain
• add game to account under gogspam@domain
• immediately delete the alias

Capitalism thwarted

“Well you pay a lot of money for movies that go away after you watch them, so this is the same, right?” -richoids, probably

AI-en{hanced,shittified}

Intel will stay silent exactly forever until a class action lawsuit comes their way

enshittification machine go brr

wonder how much money microsoft gave them to do this

@ssm is ‘actively working’ on finding more ways to never hear anything relating to ubisoft ever again

Noita is great and extremely unique, but I dislike that once you find a few orbs of true knowledge your runs always start with getting those first. I’m usually too lazy to get the one at

before ending mines, unless I can get a good teleport spell.

If a 2D tarkov-esque extraction shooter roguelite sounds interesting, check out Zero Sievert. I recommend playing on Hunter difficulty (lose all carried equipment & loot on death) for the real extraction shooter experience.

Other Note: You’re not going to like 5BC in Dead Cells because the game mechanic it introduces (Malaise) requires you to play fast or the game gets way harder.

Windows is a good Linux advertisement

Linux is a good *BSD advertisement

*BSD is a good Plan9 advertisement

Plan9 is dead

Guess I’ll live in the woods 🤷

EVE Online AKA Spreadsheets Online, back when I played it in 2009. No idea if it’s the same now. Almost entirely player driven economy and factions (outside of hi-sec).

Elite Dangerous, sort of. No other Space Sim is on its scale (I wouldn’t really call something like Space Engine a space sim). Unique, but mixed recommendations because it’s a very shallow game in a lot of ways, but it’s got a cool vibe. Speaking of which…

Space Engine. Not really a game, so much as a universe-simulator. It is unknown to this day how a mortal could create something of this grandeur. Maybe the source code will be released eventually.

Someone else already mentioned Noita :(

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is the most realistic game ever made. No other game had made me ask “what would I do in real life?” before. Of course, this dies out the more you learn the meta, but your first dozen or so runs are special.

Minecraft is hardly unique now, but when it came out it was one-of-a-kind.

I keep playing open source roguelikes and ignore the corpoids encroaching on my passtime

Or even better, write userscripts that can be used anywhere instead of inside some non portable extensions framework

Baldur’s Gate 3. Currently 20% off on steam, but I want to wait for at least 50% or something, especially for a $60 game.

based, please leak the source code so I can illegally build fromsoftware games on openbsd

Awfully positive comment section here for a rancid shitty megacorp known for rancid shitty subscription services now trying to predate on gamers.

A time for celebration

The longer Bethesda doesn’t touch Fallout the better, as I see it.

My cheeki is breeki’d

It’s easy to blame the monetization model, but the devs did decide to pour their effort into a project, knowing that they would likely be cucked by their publisher. There was an way to easily avoid this, even if it meant the game wouldn’t have gotten as much attention. The fewer people use publishers, the less they dominate the front page of retailers.

Since the consensus is that Borderlands is now a dead franchise, anyone know of any alternatives? I enjoy Roboquest, but it doesn’t quite scratch the same itch (minus the artstyle). Gunfire Reborn seems closer to Borderlands, so I’ll check it out eventually.

The window decorations in my video are provided by cwm, not the player. The player UI is just default mpv.

I’ve been using pipe-viewer (formerly/alternatively youtube-viewer) for years. It’s an extremely minimal yet feature-rich and customizable perl youtube client, designed to be used without a google api key (If you want to use an account, use youtube-viewer instead). No other client I’ve tried comes close in my experience (I’ve tried Freetube (bloated), Minitube (buggy, feature incomplete, uses embedded player), Newpipe (restricted to android)).

Also works great on mobile, and can be used with a Gtk-perl client for people who want a graphical client. It can also be used with any native video player, like mpv or mplayer (and adding an unsupported player is trivial in the config).

Demo:

Great game, terrible performance issues. I don’t know why a game that looks like Half-Life 1 needed to use Unreal Engine 5. Nearly unplayable on the Steam Deck at times.

Wow first time in my life I agreed with a CEO, at least only from reading the headline

Here’s where to do it on the web client (you can get to the publisher from the right sidebar in the game’s store page), unsure if it’s the same in the steam client.

Did you know that Coffee Stain Studios, the publisher behind the beloved pro-consumer Deep Rock Galactic, belongs to Embracer Group? I’m sure this mentality will lead to nothing bad happening to the monetization of this game in the long run.

Sony is testing the waters with trying to console-ify/enshittify PC gaming, for now it’s making a PSN account and living in an “approved” country, next it’s going to be paying online subscription services to play PSN games. My thoughts are game developers and consumers should avoid Sony like the plague (and request refunds / class legal action in cases like Helldivers 2 where it was introduced after the fact), there are better publishers; and if you can afford it, self-publishing.