Auster
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- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
Personally, so long as it's DRM-free, physical, installers or zipped files sound like a good idea.
And like with vinyl, if it comes back, it's to be expected that it isn't as big as it once was. But being there, it's another option for the preservation and ownership folks.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Name was familiar but had to look up, so I guess it counts as an upvote?
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
F2P (not gacha) but pretty good imo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/802930/The_Rainsdowne_Players/
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But in the case of the China gov. cracking down on anything, I can't help but to think, did someone get in the gov.'s wrong side?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Consoles games burned onto CDs/DVDs in mine mostly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Usually LLMs don't meander as much. With how it's written, sounds like a journalistic piece indeed, but drafted in a language other than English and then machine translated. And I'd further guess it's LLM-translated specifically given an element used a lot in the OP's writing/"writing".
- Comment on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours 1 week ago:
DRM-free and contractual recognition of ownership though?
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
PS Vita or PS2.
PS2 mainly for the games, so many fantastic ones I still play and replay decades later. Keeping track per platform the owned-played ratio and how many liked games in absolute numbers each has for me, the PS2 is still king in both. Even lesser known games I generally have a blast with.
On the Vita, its library isn't as strong as the PS2's, even if many of my favorite games were found through the Vita. But it compensates at being a fantastic console to mod. While I know people modding consoles do it for playing ilegitimate copies of games, if you ignore that, its mods still give you a lot to use the console for, possibly risking seeing the console dying in your hands while you read an ebook on it, try some homebrew ROM from Itchio, play with PSP homebrews, etc. Also it's a bit of a learning curve and technical information on it is sparse, but learning how it ticks makes tinkering second nature (...unlike the PS3 =.=").
- Comment on Sonic Game Recomendation? 2 weeks ago:
Only played the earlier games as they were included in some super old collection (Sonic Mega Collection Plus), but of these, all were pretty fun.
A tip: in one those earlier games, if a moving barrel never seems to fully move enough up or down, stay still and hold the directional button to the direction you want.
- Comment on Can we use offensive language like slurs against race and sex and the disabled? Because I thought it would be fun on c/askhistorians to do a couple questions on where and why the words exist? 2 weeks ago:
Titles aren't meant to be as long, and if it's not a bait, try to interpret whether what you write is not a provocation.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 4 weeks ago:
Might I suggest game shows for indie games? Usually those don't have the budget to hide contents behind cinematic games, and usually they seem of a better quality than AAA games.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
Ah, another game that comes to mind: Persona 3 FES
Dunno how not liked it is, but I always see people getting scared away because of the difficulty, and that trying to convince people to play that version for the good part of a decade now.
But just saying, learning the ins and outs of the game makes it far more manageable, and even gets mechanics of P4G and Persona 5 to make sense.
Also, pinning a god-like being to the ground for ~50 turns and making another god-like being slap itself to death thanks to marakarn and tetrarn, both due to exploiting mechanics to my benefit, were certainly high points of the game. =D
Even Mitsuru was useful for a single battle in my whole 170h save because of having to exploit the game's mechanics
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
Arcane Labyrinth is fantastic. Adds much to the game, both in lore (which the base game barely has so it needed) and in challenge. 👌
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
NES FFII.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
Final Fantasy II, though from what I talked with people, it suffers more from bad reputation than people actively playing it and not liking.
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 1 month ago:
hidden as the list can be long; also should I list games not on Steam?
- 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
- A Vampyre Story
- ABZÛ
- Anodyne
- Battle Chef Brigade
- Celeste
- Codemancer
- Coromon
- Dandara
- Divekick
- Downwell
- Dreaming Sarah
- Dreamscaper
- DUSK '82
- Etherborn
- Hollow Knight (& Silksong)
- Ittle Dew
- JackQuest
- Knight Club (friends required for this one)
- Kraken Academy
- LiEat
- Lost in Dungeon
- LYNE
- Micro Mages (includes ROM!)
- Momodora III (iirc the franchise wasn't under a bigger publisher's umbrella then)
- Monaco: What Is Your Is Mine
- Notrium
- One Strike
- Phoenotopia
- Quest of Dungeons (dev is here on Mastodon btw!)
- Songs for a Hero (also play in Portuguese if you can understand!)
- Starbound
- Stardew Valley
- Super Dungeon Boy
- Super Skelemania
- Tallowmere
- Tanglewood (also comes with a ROM!)
- The Amazing American Circus
- The Corruption Within
- The Rainsdowne Players
- Tyrant's Blessing
- UNLOVED
- Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
- VVVVVV
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 month ago:
The time it takes to browse each feed and to go to the next builds over time and can be tiresome after a while. Plus sites usually don't allow hiding seen posts (e.g. Twitter), and the ones that do are usually slow at that (e.g. Mastodon). And also, RSS feeds allow having a local backup of who you follow, without the risk of shadowbans (e.g. Youtube silently unsubscribing you) or the site you had those you follow go dark overnight (e.g. kbin.social). And lastly, it helps controlling just how much clogging there is in your feed - after all, people only have so much time on Earth.
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 month ago:
In the scope of the post, I was commenting about following users specifically. But yeah, RSS is generally an "app", a program aside from the others. And you you embed links, yes.
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 month ago:
RSS feeds are a way to receive posts without having to access a site directly.
The "RSS reader", a program to display posts fetched from RSS feeds, usually gets new posts through the feed's link you provide.
This link updates the contents it delivers each time a new post is made.
RSS readers often have the option to open a post's original link through your default browse or a custom browser.
If the app you use can open links from Lemmy, a functionality from Android apps, you can use the RSS reader to get new posts from users you want to follow.
Does it make more sense now? Not asking angrily, btw. (absence of tone in text is a bit of a PITA "<.< )
Alternatively, to follow users, you could try using Friendica and/or Mbin. Both are compatible with Lemmy communities, and can follow users as well. However, I am not aware of any apps for them, meaning you'd need to use them on browsers.
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 month ago:
I am not familiar with fediverse apps, but you could pick the feed for a given user, put in a RSS reader, and open new entries if the app can pick links for a given instance.
As for the feed itself, for example, for your profile directly on Lemmy World, it's the signal icon to the right of the interrogation symbol at the bottom has the link for it, and you put the link in the RSS reader:
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 month ago:
About following users, that can be somewhat achieved with RSS - Lemmy provides a feed for each user's post history.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
There's Loops if you also want ActivityPub compatibity.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 month ago:
PS3. Coming from the PS2, the library was bland in comparison. And later on, when I got interested in console modding, the PS3 was the slowest and most cumbersome to do anything and with barely any variety of homebrew stuff. And also, I'm dreading having to replace the controller (due to the 3rd party PS button situation) and replacing the HD (due to how entangled pieces apparently are).
Later on, it'd become an overpowered PS2 console for me.
- Comment on Day 664 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Iirc, FFX is a ~200h game if you go for optionals, ~80h if you focus mostly on the main story. So if the start takes maybe 3h (at least how long I go about without rushing and without challenges), the start doesn't seem too long.
About looking weird, could be, yeah. Apparently from the SNES to the N64 and PS1 was a major leap too, which gave all those experimental 3D games;
- Comment on On Lemmy, can I @ or mention someone on another ActivityPub service? 1 month ago:
To @FarraigePlaisteach: there are also communities made specifically to test, so you can pick an alt or two and try ping each other back and forth.
- Comment on Day 664 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
If you don't like overly long and slow starts, beware Final Fantasy X e.e"
On these graphics, I'd been playing some GameCube games recently, and it feels like a trend for this console, to go overboard with lighting, excessive amount of details in the scenary, pastel colors when possible, and an almost otherworldly overall feel.
Even Eternal Arcadia Legends, which is a remaster, not even an original GC IP, gets a bit of this treatment. "<.<
- Comment on How to search Lemmy like Reddit? 1 month ago:
I meeeeean, I already tried something like that with !vitahacksplus answering questions I thought to be interesting from Reddit, since my account from Reddit had been banned already and even if the OP didn't see the post as a reply, it'd be floating the internet at least. But at the time I had been trimming my RSS feeds and the ones for the Vita had too much fluff.
So I think it's valid, though I'd say it's best to not pretend you're the one making the questions.
- Comment on How to search Lemmy like Reddit? 1 month ago:
First would be to be in a big instance, to ensure maximum reach. Iirc lemmy.world is one of the biggest, so that is ticked already.
Second would be to have such contents posted to your instance or to instances yours follows. The fediverse is generally young, so by simple age disparity, Reddit generally has more info. Going in this line, no matter how niche something may seem, if it was helpful for you, it could be helpful for others, so I'd suggest posting as these come.
Third, Lemmy might be a bit self-isolated, given its purpose is near exclusively to be a Reddit alternative. Considering to use hybrid instances, that bring together community-based posts (in style of e.g. Reddit, PHP forums, etc.), and user-centric posts (in style of e.g. Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) could give you a bigger reach, such as Friendica and Mbin, though for an immediate use, most of those instances are still rather small.
Fourth, RSS bots could help. There's some in the community-based instances, and some on the microblogging platforms (the Twitter and related ones). Posts received through RSS also generally have the same amount of information from title and blurb as search results. Also bridging technologies to be able to simultaneously post to AT Protocol platforms and platforms using other protocols could also help.
Fifth, going in line with the first and third points, hoarding communities and people to follow ensures posts come to your instance. Though as that can easily bloat your feed, I'd suggest checking your instance's rules to see if they allow "mule" accounts, so it can follow everything instead of your main one.
Sixth, if you find a post from another instance and it is compatible with Lemmy, you can search for the link in your instance's search bar. If the post hadn't been federated yet, it should then federate when you search for it.
In short, if you want it to be a search engine/knowledge database, first people need to build towards that. And the fediverse being rather young requires persistence, specially in an age people are trained to have everything immediate.
Trying to think if I missed something, maybe other than "most big sites have RSS or RSS bridges, Reddit included".
- Comment on The Moral Dilemma Of Supporting SNK In 2026 2 months ago:
Article is pretty straight to the point, but in case someone doesn't want to read through it, or the title seems too clickbaity, here's the part that imo sounded like the central idea of the article:
- Comment on Just so you all admins know, we have a library named after us The Patnou l.world Library Any thoughts? 2 months ago:
Not familiar with this library, but wouldn't this be better mentioned on any of the fediverse communities (!fediverse, !fediverse, !fediverse, !fediverso, etc.), or even "Press coverage of the Fediverse" (!fediverse_press)?