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Quoting: JarmerI SOOOOO wish I didn't suck absolutely terribly at these style of games :( I was having a blast in CrossCode until the difficulty wall (and by that I mean I just am HORRIBLE at this style of combat) slammed me in the face at one of the bosses and I tried like 20 times and couldn't even make a dent and just gave up entirely. I think this dev is awesome though, and for fans I couldn't be more excited for them!

Crosscode had a good difficulty system that you could tinker with at any time. I used it on one of the bosses, and that made the whole experience a lot more fun.

Hopefully they expand on that concept here. I didn't really look in the demo if they did.

Yeah, CrossCode is an excellent example of how to do adjustable difficulty. It's not just a few preset levels, you can independently adjust several different values both for combat and puzzle-solving (like how fast things moved in puzzles, affecting how much time you had to pull off different moves). I was able to make to it through the entire game + A New Home DLC on the default difficulty, until I finally had to lower the combat difficulty for the final final boss battle. Hopefully Alabaster Dawn retains that system (I also haven't checked in the demo).

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Quoting: LoudTechieYour boss can't fire you any moment he likes, yet you still fear his power.
The same is true for politicians.

Actually, here in Canada, your boss CAN fire you any moment he likes. I know as I used to be a business owner and employer. There is a whole list of government-proscribed reasons why you cannot be fired (race, gender, theft without proof, layoff if he rehires, etc.) but your boss can still fire you without providing any reason at all.

Where politicians are concerned, unless they commit a crime, they are safe until the next election which gives them a safety net that relies on the voter's notoriously short memory. The party system doesn't help, because voters sometimes overlook individual foibles in favor of their preferred political party. So politicians have a lot less to fear from their "employers" (the voters).

Myself, where politicians are concerned, I don't have a short memory.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrIn my case this d7vk still running

😀

Gotta ask. What game is it that you featured in your picture?

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[Dragonkin: The Banished on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1863430/Dragonkin_The_Banished/)

A lot of reviewers compared it favorably to Grim Dawn and Titan Quest. High praise, indeed.

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Quoting: JarmerI SOOOOO wish I didn't suck absolutely terribly at these style of games :( I was having a blast in CrossCode until the difficulty wall (and by that I mean I just am HORRIBLE at this style of combat) slammed me in the face at one of the bosses and I tried like 20 times and couldn't even make a dent and just gave up entirely. I think this dev is awesome though, and for fans I couldn't be more excited for them!

I had that experience with Nox (by Westwood Studios). Same thing with Arco. I love the games, they're fun to play but the bosses are almost impossible to get past. Ruins the immersion for me.

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Quoting: LoudTechieTor-browser and if I remember correctly firefox have their own download folder sandboxing.

Regarding Firefox, not to my knowledge. On my systems, Firefox defaults to my Download folder. No sandboxing that I'm aware of -- unless this is a feature I have to enable.

Yeah it should default to your download folder, but can you look beyond it. Can you work in your document folder.
Tor-browser maintains its own seperate folder, but I thought firefox limited itself to only the download folder.
Based on what you said I would assume the answer is no, but I still wanted to clarify what I meant.

By default, Firefox automatically places all downloads in the Download folder but I can go into settings and choose a toggle that lets me choose whatever folder I want to download to, on the fly - Documents, Music, Videos, other drives or any combination of subfolder.

Now, on Android however, I am definitely sandboxed to the system's Download folder. It cannot even maintain a virtual Download folder on the SD card (unlike Vivaldi and Chrome).

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Quoting: JarmerI SOOOOO wish I didn't suck absolutely terribly at these style of games :( I was having a blast in CrossCode until the difficulty wall (and by that I mean I just am HORRIBLE at this style of combat) slammed me in the face at one of the bosses and I tried like 20 times and couldn't even make a dent and just gave up entirely. I think this dev is awesome though, and for fans I couldn't be more excited for them!

Crosscode had a good difficulty system that you could tinker with at any time. I used it on one of the bosses, and that made the whole experience a lot more fun.

Hopefully they expand on that concept here. I didn't really look in the demo if they did.

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Quoting: Jarmeryall checked out Dragonkin? ITS SO GOOD. Seriously, if you like argps, this is a hidden gem.

I like 3rd person ARPGs much more in general, but I really love hyper-complex skill systems I can tinker with. The main reason I play(ed) POE. How complex is Dragonkin skill system in comparison?

oh man. GIVE THIS A TRY. It's got a very unique skill system I've never seen in any other arpg ever. You use a hexagonal grid to place skill tokens, and some skills have modifiers, others don't. Sometimes you can get modifiers that are totally free. Then whatever it TOUCHING that active skill gets modified by it. Then add in that pet skills can be triggered by active or passive mods, AND by whatever is touching it. Then the skills and mods themselves can drop all over the world from mobs, OR you can craft / buy them in the town. It's also cool that you slowly build up your town and unlock more and more things in it.

I ALSO love that it was developed as a completely offline single player experience first, and then added in multiplayer later. So I play in a completely offline city / world all by myself and there's no online servers or anything. LOVE.

Here's an image of the skill system (ancestral grid) ...

https://p.kagi.com/proxy/dragonkin-the-banished-2.jpg?c=zvju-pRNZnmO3WzmYU_ek-h4f1c4q02Yrqx6EG69Ti3WRy5qdsNeVTPHDPWYxIvRyp_42yt4TuGj-ndbywarRaly30Jck80rIrpe-NorM22aQvWx6vwqSOMD05XuQy7L

This system can be a turn on / turn off depending on the type of player. For players who just want to click and unlock a skill like in Grim Dawn for instance, this system will be insanely frustrating because it is SO complex. For people like you and I, it's amazing and wonderful.

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider DX12 is now playable with this new version of VKD3D! (previously it was suffering from heavy rendering glitches)
+1 for Linux gaming!👍

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Played all day with the Steam Controller. I can say it's the best controller I've ever used.

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Quoting: LoudTechieTor-browser and if I remember correctly firefox have their own download folder sandboxing.

Regarding Firefox, not to my knowledge. On my systems, Firefox defaults to my Download folder. No sandboxing that I'm aware of -- unless this is a feature I have to enable.

Yeah it should default to your download folder, but can you look beyond it. Can you work in your document folder.
Tor-browser maintains its own seperate folder, but I thought firefox limited itself to only the download folder.
Based on what you said I would assume the answer is no, but I still wanted to clarify what I meant.

Problem here though is that sandboxing will not protect against this. Sandboxing protects against malicious userspace or userspace code with open exploits in them IF and only IF there also are no privilege escalation vulnerability in the running kernel.

That's exactly my point.
The comment I reacted to questioned whether this exploit is even usefull for compromising consumer devices, because when you have user access, you have full access to all the data.
I showed these examples to show that even on consumer devices root is helpfull.

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I will easily sound unpopular, but I don’t think it is a good strategy. It doesn't matter if the “Protect the children” statement is genuine or pure gaslighting. What counts is that it is an easy win for politicians, and if SKG ties up against age verification laws, the risk is that it could lose support of those politicians who have expressed their interest in it.

Think about it: SKG could risk to be ruled out by those politicians who are endorsing the Online Safety initiatives. If these MEPs are put in the position to choose between “Protect the Games” or “Protect the Children”, there is no way they will choose the former, because the latter is an easier reputational win.

It’s a matter of strategy: you should take a little battle at time, because the moment you are clubbing battles together, you are just increasing the probability of losing all of them together.

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Gothic fixes, yay.

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Quoting: The_Real_BittermanThere are people not using the official flatpak? Geez ...

It's actually news to me, I think last time I checked it still wasn't official, and it had a bunch of issues like shipping an old version of discord for months because the current one used a version of electron that broke something. And of course they had to use some weird hack to make an old version work with current servers.

Then it wasn't the official flat, yes. But it is official since a long time now. I bet there was even an article her on GoL abut it.

Yep, here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/discord-for-linux-gets-flathub-verified/ 3 years ago

It's verified but it's not official. Here: https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.Discord/issues/343

Just because it's verified it doesn't mean that Discord is actually the ones developing/packaging it and, as a result, the flatpak has issues. There's a reason the flatpak isn't linked anywhere on the official discord website.

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Quoting: Jarmeryall checked out Dragonkin? ITS SO GOOD. Seriously, if you like argps, this is a hidden gem.

I like 3rd person ARPGs much more in general, but I really love hyper-complex skill systems I can tinker with. The main reason I play(ed) POE. How complex is Dragonkin skill system in comparison?

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I SOOOOO wish I didn't suck absolutely terribly at these style of games :( I was having a blast in CrossCode until the difficulty wall (and by that I mean I just am HORRIBLE at this style of combat) slammed me in the face at one of the bosses and I tried like 20 times and couldn't even make a dent and just gave up entirely. I think this dev is awesome though, and for fans I couldn't be more excited for them!

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yall checked out Dragonkin? ITS SO GOOD. Seriously, if you like argps, this is a hidden gem. I'm having a blast minigaming my little hexagons of active powers and trying to make my pet powers get stronger as I chain lightning everything in sight to death.

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Quoting: PhlebiacAlways amusing to see blood splatter animations when striking skeletons. Where does it come from, the sword? 🤣

They should be dust/grey color obviously. Not sure if the developer is doing it for lol's or just lazy. lol

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I absolutely LOVED the first game, and especially that it was geared around 3 players - I only have two regular online pals, so the 3P games are a treat (e.g. Space Marine 2). So, I'm a bit concerned they've upped it to four. That usually means it's scaled to 4P, and we'll play at a penalty, or they'll throw a near-useless bot into your team to pad it out.

It was a great reveal in the trailer though. Very nicely done!

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: LoudTechieTor-browser and if I remember correctly firefox have their own download folder sandboxing.

Regarding Firefox, not to my knowledge. On my systems, Firefox defaults to my Download folder. No sandboxing that I'm aware of -- unless this is a feature I have to enable.

Yeah it should default to your download folder, but can you look beyond it. Can you work in your document folder.
Tor-browser maintains its own seperate folder, but I thought firefox limited itself to only the download folder.
Based on what you said I would assume the answer is no, but I still wanted to clarify what I meant.

Problem here though is that sandboxing will not protect against this. Sandboxing protects against malicious userspace or userspace code with open exploits in them IF and only IF there also are no privilege escalation vulnerability in the running kernel.

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Quoting: NagezahnJust a week ago or so I was thinking "wouldn't it be cool to play in a destroyed world and have the ability to gradually rebuild it and bring it back to life?". So. Yeah. Will check out the demo.

Since the game was originally called 'Project Terra' and is about rebuilding a world and mentions some trials, my guess would be that this game is heavily inspired by the SNES game Terranigma.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: LoudTechieTor-browser and if I remember correctly firefox have their own download folder sandboxing.

Regarding Firefox, not to my knowledge. On my systems, Firefox defaults to my Download folder. No sandboxing that I'm aware of -- unless this is a feature I have to enable.

Yeah it should default to your download folder, but can you look beyond it. Can you work in your document folder.
Tor-browser maintains its own seperate folder, but I thought firefox limited itself to only the download folder.
Based on what you said I would assume the answer is no, but I still wanted to clarify what I meant.

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CrossCode was fantastic, and I say that as someone not generally interested in that sort of fast-paced action-RPG type of game. I will almost certainly pick this up at some point, though between a financial squeeze and Early Access I may hold off until it's more complete.

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Offering a demo AND it's in Early Access. This is doing things right!

Maybe I'll have a look at the demo.

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Quoting: LoudTechieTor-browser and if I remember correctly firefox have their own download folder sandboxing.

Regarding Firefox, not to my knowledge. On my systems, Firefox defaults to my Download folder. No sandboxing that I'm aware of -- unless this is a feature I have to enable.

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Quoting: anokasionAny Debian based Linux affected (I use MX-Linux with Liquorix kernel, it's not bleeding edge like Arch, but it's close):
$ sudo lsmod | grep esp4
okasion@tictac:~
$ sudo lsmod | grep esp6
okasion@tictac:~
$ sudo lsmod | grep rxrpc
okasion@tictac:~
$ echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
3

$ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.18.16-2-liquorix-amd64
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.18.15-3-liquorix-amd64
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.14.2-1-liquorix-amd64

that's it, you're safe and the machine won't "forget" the changes when you reboot. It's practically the same Liam wrote with the generation of the kernels with the "fix".

There's also a namespace vulnerability, but I don't recommend applying the fix for now, it mostly affects servers, and can break some browsers and/or Docker/Kubernetes, etc:
sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=0
THIS vulnerability it's the one a little bothering to me, I have it (as probably many of you) sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1 in my localhost, I use my computer 70% for dev, 30% for gaming, so it's important for me being able to run XFCE, Firefox, Docker, Kubernetes, things like that.

Sorry but what you wrote is no fix at all, you simply checked if the module was currently loaded (and they won't be, the exploit however will dynamically load them in). What Liam wrote in the article was a rule to blacklist those modules so they are never loaded.

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Quoting: benstor214KLAC?

Kernel Level Anti-Cheat, sorry for confusion. Something they don't use and still manage to keep a fair gameplay.

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Quoting: scaineBut it looks so good, I think I'll pull the trigger on it anyway.

If you want to wait, but still want a game that scratches that same itch, you could always try out Crosscode if you haven't already. Gameplaywise, they're very, very similar.

...you know, like it says in the trailer I didn't watch until after I posted this.

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KLAC?

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Quoting: eggroleWhen these things happen (I suspect it is only a matter of time) IMHO the only valid response is to boycott the companies restricting access. Petitions and voting new "leaders" in doesn't seem to work. Violence is always an option, but a terrible one.

Boycotting a few companies into bankrupcy sends a clear message. And given how much hemming and hawing goes on about economics and GDP, I think it is the only language these people understand. Want to restrict the internet, suffer economic losses. All of a sudden the legislature becomes much more receptive and the companies themselves will start actually pushing back because it will now be existential.

people that think voting folks out doesn't work is why we have lazy a$$ people UNWILLING to hold their representatives accountable.. those fools get paid to be in office you threaten their livelihood they will listen when enough people are threatening them

You'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, as I am writing from a Canadian perspective, but there are a lot of countries whose politics are based off the British parliamentary system, just like Canada. At least for Canada, there is no recall option. In other words, the voters can only hold their representative accountable at election time. The politicians know that voters have short memories and tend to gamble quite confidently that the voters' anger will have cooled off by the time the election rolls around. It usually does.

Other issues come up, some politically manufactured, that distract the general voting population from the offense of an individual politician. Generally, the political parties are very careful not to stir up the voters' ire close to election time. So, it is not as simple as "lazy people being unwilling to hold their representatives accountable" -- although it does happen from time to time that a constituency's memory is longer than expected.

There's for most countries no recall option(for obvious stability reasons), but there're several control options, which does affect their ability to function and often even their income.
There're the spread out elections on different levels of government, which all preform checks and balances on each other.(on average 1 par year in Canada)
There's the ability to appeal to the other arms of the trias political.
There's the ability to track how your government has wronged you and remind others when the election does come up(freedom of speech), I'm actually quite surprised how few people do that, since everybody can write and people are quite publicly opiniated.

Your boss can't fire you any moment he likes, yet you still fear his power.
The same is true for politicians.

The accusation here's not laziness, but fatalism. I don't have absolute power, so I have no power, so I should take all the abuse.

It's a continuum, of course. Somewhere on one end would be full direct democracy or at least some kind of perfect representation of what people really want, based on excellent information, somewhere on the other end would be an illusion of choice that is completely ephemeral, with the fix in before anyone got close to a polling station, and the question is how close we are to the bad end. Not close enough to make the political process completely pointless, but certainly close enough to be uncomfortable.

A lot of European countries have proportional representation, which is nice; we should have that in Canada, but don't. The US of course has a less democratic system than most places that call themselves democracies, with just two parties holding a stranglehold on the political process. With only two political parties, and until the loonies took over the Republicans almost no daylight between them on economic issues, it becomes very hard to say that meaningful political choice is on offer. Add in all the money, and, well.

One thing we direly need in Canada is media reform--there is very little choice, most of the newspapers are owned by one company which in turn is owned by a US hedge fund, there's like, what, two private TV stations, and then you've got social media which is the same billionaire-algorithm-skewed doomscape as everywhere else, except on top of that Zuckerberg has explicitly dumped Canadian news sources from the algorithm. Such a media landscape puts a lot of "soft" constraints on what kind of policy can be offered.

Improvement is indeed always nice.

My wishlist contains in descending order:
Journalistic reform we have many independent news media, but only a few places for journalists to sell their discoveries, which has been weaponized in the past. There's some competition and the truth leaks through the cracks, but I would love some stronger discovery marketplace competition.
Amendment and proposal power for the EU parliament.
More transparency in the national or european juridical branch.

About the social media doomscape.
This is for a large part, why I'm partly happy with the DSA(digital services act).
It's protecting our media landscape without being protectionist or trifling protected speech.
I must clarify here that I agree with the ECJ that cooperate speech isn't protected by Article 10(freedom of expression).

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