There’s a full PC port released for Infinity Blade 1, you can find it on r/infinityblade (think it’s legal gray area so I’m not gonna link it directly). It released 2 months ago. All the controls were ported to mouse and keyboard too so you don’t need a touchscreen monitor. Finished a whole playthrough on it a few weeks ago with no issues at all, just rebinded some things like Q and E to dodge left and right.

Hope the second and third are somewhere and they can do it too, but I think those ones might be lost to time sadly. 1 was only ported to PC because its source code leaked

Didn’t expect this app to ever get to US appstore that’s really nice to see

Hope it goes well!

Interesting to see the different approaches they both take, Google has way more trackers but they’re easier to block, Apple has less but they’re much harder to block.

I haven’t noticed the iPhone doing that thing where when trackers are blocked it keeps trying to ping them over and over draining the battery endlessly, iirc that happens on some manufacturers for Android, but I wonder if that’s just because it looks like it’s blocking but after a few tries circumvents the dns, which wouldn’t appear in the logs in the dns app? I’ll see 3 blocked pings and then it stops, so maybe it gives up, not fully sure. I should dig deeper into it before I trade the phone in and actually monitor my whole connection to see how often they slip through.

Oh, and a random tip since you said you’ve got an iPhone again now, in settings > privacy & security > tracking, if you disable “Allow Apps to Request to Track”, it prevents non-Apple apps from tracking entirely cross-site/apps. While it sounds a bit like that just allows them to track without asking consent from you, it’s actually making them default to deny tracking instead of asking. They can still do analytics but they can’t track anything outside of their app sandbox.

Side loaded a lot on iPhones, figured I’d just infodump here a bunch of general info on it in case someone might find it helpful

Edit: ended up writing a whole essay, I’ll put it in spoiler tags so it doesn’t take too much space

As a current Apple user, using a DNS tracker blocker (on-device, Adguard’s app switching between their DNS and Mullvad’s DNS occasionally) blocks a lot of tracker and data collection pings to Apple. Even if you block it via regular dns, iOS can circumvent your VPN or DNS provider in times of “low connectivity”. Unsure if that means your actual connection is low, or if those analytics not connecting counts as them detecting “low connectivity”. Regardless, even with data collection blocking in place, iOS occasionally will just circumvent it and collect anyway under normal circumstances.

Haven’t tried a pi-hole or similar yet, that could probably fully prevent it but it’ll just happen when I’m on mobile data or someone elses WiFi then.

Edit: I’m switching back to Android soon but it was interesting to get first-hand experience at how trackers on Apple products work.

I remember when I used to use those apps that spoiler tags never worked properly

I don’t understand using Discord for documentation or official dev communications, it just doesn’t sound reliable even if you aren’t chancing running afoul of a billionaire corp or DMCA. Not to mention, there’s now an extra barrier to entry to your project.

User communities and just chatting is fine, but it just makes way more sense to have a forum or other location for documentation and collaboration to happen that can be archived, backed up, and uploaded on other services as well.

If all else fails, just make a .onion site or forum for it

I think if someone asks someone repeatedly to not message them, and they proceed to message them twice more, that it is harassment regardless of what the justification is. The CEO is displaying narcissistic, manipulative, and toxic behavior, and there is no defense for that.

There was no issue with the initial reach-out, that’s fair to reach out to criticism to discuss it, the issue was with the follow-ups after they were asked to not continue the conversation any further.

Let’s not victim blame please.

Track record is CEO is likely transphobic (alternative/private reddit frontend link), and Tumblr accounts are opted into LLM training

Fair enough, I like to try to avoid the CEOs that strike home for me when possible, even if that’s a losing battle. Beeper honestly sounds really convenient, I hope the CEO lets the team stay mostly independent on their choices for it

Same, basically unusable without them for me.

I’ll keep using them until if i get banned one day, try to make another account, then just move if I can’t because without custom clients discord is just death by a thousand papercuts imo

Would like to point out that this was acquired by Automattic, who’s CEO is notably transphobic. They repeatedly ban transgender transition progress pics (fully clothed) for violating the “sexual content policy” of Tumblr.

Apparently this acquisition happened on the same day as this post (not accusing, just saying it’s completely reasonable if you did not know about it, I didn’t know either until earlier)

Here’s some archived versions that’ll let you read it: GhostArchive, Archive.ph (ghost has just the text, .ph has the full page)

tl;dr: It does breach Discord TOS. It’s rarely enforced, but still use at your own risk.

It connects via the bot api with permission “send and receive messages on your behalf” on your user account which itself doesn’t break TOS, but it toes the line of what discord considers “self botting”, and you’re technically logging messages which is against their TOS

So yes it definitely breaks TOS, Discord rarely enforces it against it, but it’s still a use at your own risk thing. Many will say it’s perfectly safe to use but there’s still a risk to be considered for how much you value your account. It’s in the same risk area as third party clients even though it isn’t one.

I don’t value my account so I use things like this and third party/modified clients and haven’t been banned for years, but any day now I and anyone else using these could be banned.

Only $541 needed with 14 hours left on the kickstarter, it was at like ~$1000 earlier today when I checked the post. Really hope this kicks off because this looks so close to A Link to the Past which was my favorite

Edit: Only $14 more now with 10 hours left, looks like I’ll get to play it

This looks really interesting, will definitely be an instant buy from me, drm-free release is the extra cherry on top too.

Always love coming across cool stuff like this.

On the kickstarter, on the tiers that say you get a copy of the game, does that come via steam or do we get to choose the store that it comes from? Never used kickstarter before

The worry of this is why I’ve been buying games on GOG when they’re available on both stores, unless Steam just has a really good price. I prefer to own my games (or at least, offline installers for them whether I actually “own” them or just have a license saying I can play it, legalese and all that) so if the stores ever go to crap that I can still have and play all my games without dealing with it.

Edit: you can download offline installers on GOG’s site or in “extras” in the Galaxy client on the game page, or using lgogdownloader or a windows/Mac equivalent for it if that exists to bulk download them

Seems interesting, I’ll keep an eye on that one

Yeah it’s a shame. Seems like true independent indexes are a dying breed. The only one I know of is Mojeek, but I avoid them for political reasons (“Colin” responding in that thread is their CEO, spreading covid misinformation)

For example, I have been using DuckDuckGo for decades. At first, I had to compromise search result quality, but now it has enough users and support that results are on-par with the likes of Google.

Just to make sure, you know that DuckDuckGo pulls results from primarily Bing for the main links and images, mixing in their own DuckDuckGo crawler results in with it for the rest of the types (instant answers, wikipedia, etc)? https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ (end of second paragraph)

Not saying that’s bad, but just wanting to make sure you know that DuckDuckGo also uses other major search engine results in case you were unaware

Found a new brand to never buy, chuck that on the end of the mile long list that’s still growing. Wish we could get away from the enshittification

Yeah whatever that forum was sounds kinda toxic, Linux from Scratch is like, notoriously one of the most complicated Linux installs there is so that wasn’t even bad advice, just straight trolling. Sadly there’s a few places like that that are hostile to newcomers because they’ve heard the same questions asked a lot and see that as a fault of the user, instead of remembering how it was when they first switched to Linux as well.

I’d highly +1 to giving Linux Mint a go, it’s designed to be very similar to Windows layout (specifically Windows 7) to make a lot of things more familiar for someone switching over, and their forums are some of the most beginner friendly I’ve seen.

This install guide is pretty good for it, not making it complex, images to walk through the process https://itsfoss.com/install-linux-mint/

If you prefer videos, I just gave this one a watch through and it looks good to follow, just download the latest version instead of the one downloaded in the video (current is 21.3 “Virginia”, though following the video should put you at that one anyway), the install process is the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EBueufP0o

Others will also likely recommend other Linux distros to start with and that’s fine too, whichever one seems the most easy or comfortable for you is fine to go with. I like to point people towards Ubuntu-based ones like Linux Mint because there’s a large community around those so you can find answers to any issues from searches easier.

Edit: Changed video to a more up-to-date and easy to follow one that also gives some post-install advice (though a bit geared towards gaming pc use). Speaking of gaming, on https://www.protondb.com/ you can type your games in the searchbox to see how well they run on Linux. Generally if something is verified/playable on Steam Deck it’ll run great on pc/laptop Linux as well.

Edit 2: As others have recommended in the thread too, it’s good to try it out in a virtual machine first to see if you like it. For Windows, Virtualbox and VMware Workstation Player (not pro) are some I know. If you do a full install on your PC, make sure to backup all important files and write a Windows install usb as well so if it doesn’t go well you can easily get back to a working pc