Until Google realizes normal.people would rather use this than take part in their AI search, and block usage of it outside of businesses.

Growing up in a 3rd world country. When my father gave me a PS2 it was hacked to play pirated games. We also burned CDs on our PC before that.

Bought it on sale earlier this year alongside Palworld and Helldivers 2. You might notice why I still haven’t started it.

I had a sudden urge to look into TERA Online private servers, downloaded 100GB of custom game clients… And that somehow resulted in me getting back into playing Grim Dawn. This time I want to play it enough to really learn it and actually finish the game.

No no no no stop talking about it, quick before the Nintendo lawyers show up!!

The golden days of Ultimate-Guitar uaer submitted tabs and pirated Guitar Pro 5 (which my guitar teacher gave to me on a burned CD) Good times.

Speaking of the state of piracy, how is the state of piracy on Linux? I usually only do that stuff on Windows, I’ve never tried installing Repacks and such on my Linux machines.

Yeah I tried actually joining a Foundry game because my friends wanted to use it instead of Roll20 for our next game. We only really played two sessions on it amd it was an absolute nightnare, so many technical problems that it completely soured the experience. The first session had a TWO HOUR delay because the thing wasn’t working and had to install a bunch of addons, and then I had to install a different browser because it didn’t want to work with what I had at the moment. Pissed me off, ngl.

Can we go back to when every technology was just weaponized instead? No? This is somehow worse.

Oh good I had just checked them this week and aaw that they were coming back soon.

I’d copy my Doom and Quake folders, hoping the modern sourceports still work on them. Well, PrBoom+ and ZDoom should both work. Then all my emulators up to the 32-bit era, some music and the seasons of Kamen Rider and Ultraman that I’m currently watching.Honestly I could just bring my actual external hard drive or my HP laptop from 2013 that I installed Linux on. It’s what I got on those.

Yes, all of their games in the past few years or so have DLCs like that. What I’m actually worried about is some of their games the MTX aren’t irrelevant like these. Monster Hunter has been getting more and more of these with each new release since World and I’m scared of what they’ll do with Wilds.

Yup, that one.

Ares is a standalone emulator that also does Nintendo and PC Engine consoles. Very versatile.

Eh, if it’s installed on your machine you get to keep whatever it is. I have both Kega and Retroarch installed for Genesis emulation anf it’s alright. I think Ares does that too?

The Armored Core Portable games are really good, if you can live with thr wonky controls. There’s Tekken 5 Dark Ressurrection, great port of the same.fighting game of the PS3. Gran Tourismo Portable is nice, alongside Wipeout Pure and Pulse, and Ridge Racer are all nice racing game options. And I cannot go without mentioning Monster Hunter Portable 3rd! One of the best in the series, easy to get into and has a fan translation available.

Add ActiBlizz and Epic for me.

Yeah, and it sucks because of that. The amount of misinformation, propaganda and fake news that has been circulated through Whatsapp on the previous 4 years was astounding and almost ruined the country permanently.

Both, it’s both.

Oh my gods, I thought we were going to have to wait another year for the PC version after the PS5 one released. I am now VERY hyped for this release! EDF!!

Having Lemmy alts is not a bad thing. Using them to circumvent bans very much is, tho.

You said it all. Episode 8 ruined everything forever. I didn’t even bother trying to watch episode 9 after that, and been majorly checked out of anything SW since. The last good SW movie was Rogue One…

They lost the deal for it, after how badly received the end of GoT was. Then again, the new SW trilogy managed to be shit entirely without their help.

Nintendo first party titles are very stingy with sales. Many third party titles however, go on some pretty good sales with decent regularity. You might also want to make a Japan/Hong Kong/Singapore account to grab Asia-exclusive games sometimes, if those interest you.
As for the games I own and would recommend, there’s:
-BOTW
-Metroid Dread -Dead Cells
-Hollow Knight
-Crimzon Clover: World EXplosion
-Burnout Paradise
-Fast RMX
-Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate (or Rise)
-Atelier Ryza (or Sophie)
-Mario Kart
Just some general, off the top of my head recommendations. If you want recommendations of specific genres, I might be able to recommend further.

Very much so! They add a ton of content to an already pretty content-rich game, and after you have them, you’ll barely notice they weren’t part of the base game before, except maybe the Castlevania one because of the obvious difference in theme. Still, lots of quality content that adds tons of variety to your runs!

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is one that instantly comes to mind. It surprisingly still has a very active competitive playerbase, mostly comprised of slavs that have been playing it since they could read words on a computer screen. Another one that I’ve personally can’t stop playing, is the first Warhammer 40K:Dawn of War game with it’s expansions and mods. It’s just so good, and I wish a modern version with a modern engine could be made. I don’t trust Relic to do that tho.

Other than that, there’s a myriad of old console and arcade games that are still excellent. Super Metroid, SEGA Rally, shmups like Dodonpachi and Mushihimesama, Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike… there are really way too many to count.

I have been able to follow all racing events I wanted for the past couple years through a few trusted restreamers that I found, sadly now, via Reddit on r/motorsportsstreams. They don’t have a community in the Fediverse yet (some of them opting for very badly managed and unmoderated Discord servers) but I hope that they do, soon. Their streams are very good and often better quality than official sources.

You WANT to cause a gang war, right?

I play Assetto Corsa. I have downloaded 300GB worth of cars, and I’ll do it again.

This isn’t even close to being a boomer shooter, wtf. Anyway this game is extremely well made, intentionally low poly designs but high quality in the action and the fun. It scratches the itch that many dissatisfied Battlefield fans were craving, and it does a good job at that.

Shit, eMule still exists? The only thing I remember about using it centuries ago, was the high chance of downloading viruses, and getting shitty rips of single music tracks.

I’ve never played Total Annihilation or Supreme COmmander back in the day. This game is so amazing that it makes me sad that I never did. But the good thing is, I can enjoy it right now. It’s still technically in beta, but it’s already a complete game that you can enjoy, and I strongly recommend you do.

I’d suggest buying the base game to use the Workshop, and then pirate the DLCs. But also, you are making one big assumption here, that the DLCS for the new game will be as easy to pirate as the previous game, or other Paradox title. They might not be. But we hope they will.

Did you try out the Quake 1 remake? I quite liked it, and felt it was very smooth and snappy. If this is done to that same level of quality, I think it’s gonna be great.

Never had one, but repeatedly thought about getting one because of portable emulation. Nowadays there are better options for that, but the Vita itself is still a really nice little machine. At least for now, I’m happy with my Switch tho.

Offline games that don’t have anything on the Steam Workshop? Yeah this is the perfect kind of game to pick up on GoG! At that excellent price, too.

I’ve read this article some time this week, don’t remember in what instance it was posted now. But it really is excellent and describes what is happening to Reddit before it happened. It’s a long read but I encourage it!

Yup, that’s why I ended up here. Used RIF on my phone, and can only stand Reddit on browser through RES on old.reddit. Gonna lose the RIF at the end of the month, and old.reddit’s undeniably approaching death will make me stop going back there too.