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lmao. I don't know when or how but V Rising is in my Library already. I guess I should play it some time. 🫠

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Just to add another voice here...

I'm happy to see responsiveness to the community and what seems to be a measured middle ground. I've been a happy Firefox user for a long time and will continue to do so.

Syncing my browser data across devices and powerful extensions on Linux + Android, love it.

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Great. Previous bad port is delisted, and this port... is much worse. Some Steam quotes:

The game works broken, the FPS limit has been increased from 15 to 30 doubling the speed of fights and actions but without adapting the animations so the actions desyncs with the audio. Roulettes must be extreme hardcore; it plays generally like a ATB hard-type mod.

- Bilinear filtering making the game a lot blurrier, especially pre-rendered backgrounds
- Absolutely horrendous filter applied on sprites and text
- Sounds problems, notably with sound effects that usually repeat in quick succession (i.e. navigating the menus, exp and gil, etc.)
- Can't disable boosters
- Double the file size
- FMVs lagging for some people
- Currently battles are at 3x the speed (confirmed patch to being worked on)

Called the blurriness and filtering. Somehow still underestimated Square.

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Its "great" that this won't affect 90% of users, but some people can and do care about that other 10%. Because some people are capabke of giving a crap about smaller marginalized groups.

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Firefox is constantly pretending to care while everyone pleas in their face to stop andding AI, and they ignore because money is tastey ig.

i stopped using firefox when they another new thing i never asked for. it was the weather widget.

they will keep adding stuff so i have to turn it off, turn it off, turn it off.

i am sick of it, i am using ungoogled-chromium. firefox does not care to ask what i want, they just do.

and now they can eat me. i bet the AI is on per default. another thing to turn off, to turn off, to turn off.

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I am moving out to Fluxer!! Liam is testing it, we have an experimental server there.

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Quoting: JarmerIn the future Servo / Ladybird might be great alternatives as well, just not there yet as of today.

Have you heard about [this](https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/)? They just used AI to port Ladybird's JavaScript engine to Rust.

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I thought at first that it doesn't have much meaningful choices, but at least card order does matter. Tutorial didn't hint though that you can drag the cards into order you want and then just press g to play them all.

Still, maybe like in original Vampire Survivors, it requires few unlocks to get truly interesting. Though at least it's slightly intriguing to see how certain things are implemented in Vampire Crawlers. Plenty of the basic things from Vampire Survivors are there to be unlocked.

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🏰🛞

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I should just copy paste my reply from the firefox post earlier today lol:

too little too late.

Same as with mozilla: I won't ever be using discord for anything ever again. I already deleted my account, goodbye and good riddance.

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Going to test this!

I've been keeping an eye on [castle come](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/Castle_Come/) which has a somewhat similar concept, unfortunately no demo yet though.

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I would rather it was not part of the browser, altogether. Rather give an AI option as an addon/extension for those that want it. And why opt-out and not opt-in.
I already moved on. Installed Waterfox a few months ago, to test, and I'm actually enjoying it.

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Quoting: walther von stolzing

Quoting: Linas

Quoting: Ehvis...but what then?

Microsoft had a chance to keep the web somewhat independent by keeping the original Edge browser alive, or maybe even partnering up with Mozilla. But instead they made Edge into a reskin of Chrome, and gave Google full control of the web on a silver platter.

MS stalled the development of web standards for years, with Internet Explorer. It's a good thing that they aren't an independent meddler nowadays.

For fucks sake, this. Microsoft isn't the Bonapartist false alternative that we need for web "freedom."

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A little bit of Municipal Darwinism never hurts.

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🚂🃏

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Loved it too till completion. Only did not tried 2/5 characters though.

For the dungeon crawling part of it, you get to see the full layout and all the enemies on the map. While that does let you decide how to approach it, the excitement of discovery is completely taken away by it I think.

I actually liked the visible map approach. And the later updates where the candles get seen on it too.

Anyway, the music, progression is spot on, and those old school visuals reusing some of the previous game sprites are spot on.

 
Couldn't think of a better place to put the settings on the cemetery

Oh and the puns! 😆
(EDIT: 2/5 not 3/5)

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I'm gonna stick with the PSX original. Don't care about the remake on PS5 either. lol

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Slay the Spire co-op is so much fun. I've played a ton of it with mods in the original, and I have the board game version where it's the main focus. Glad to see they went with it in the sequel as the natural development from the original game.

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"failed at our most basic job: clearly explaining what we're doing and why".

Really? That's their most basic job? I might have thought making the software good would be their most basic job, but apparently that's just me.

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Wishlisted. Even though, for a moment I thought it said "Frogpiercer" which would have been icky.

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I presume that those AI chatbots all run locally on my PC without needing any connection to a company I don't trust? Would be quite unfortunate if I had some spyware running while I was, as a completely random example, doing some online banking.

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Quoting: CaldathrasYou'd think that GOG, in the interests of game preservation, would want the original version too, not just the "slightly upgraded" version.

I'm sure they do want it, but if Squeenix says 'nah', there's not much they can do.

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We already have ID verification sorted out digitally in Sweden without ever giving the service our ID, we rely on a thing called "BankID" that is like a 2 step verification with an app on our phone
First we have our identity verified at the bank with a valid ID like a drivers license, passport etc, get a BankID token connected to our person verified by the bank and the state, this has been a thing for many years now

Using this for discord would sort of work like this: Discord could ask for you to verify your age using the BankID api, I scan the QR code with my phone, use my secret code on the app to verify that I am who I say I am, the BankID system verifies my the token on my phone and identity in their system in conjunction with the code I typed in, and then tells Discord that yes, this person is an adult and who they say they are through a trusted system
Discord never needs to see my ID, they never get any more info than needed, only that yes, I am of adult age, let me use the system

At least that is how I think it would work

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150gb for a single player game is insane, otherwise recommended specs look about as I expected. I'm curious if the average performance takes upscaling into account or not.

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Thank goodness, I thought it was an odd exclusion when they released those other FF games a few weeks back.

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Ardenfall looks so interesting. A "first-person RPG inspired by Morrowind" which, according to the Steam forums can be played in third-person as well -- just not always in combat. I'm old school -- I absolutely do not need nor desire complete voice dialogue.

I am just under the graphics card requirement. I might see if it will still run regardless. The GeForce MX150 is supposed to be the equivalent of the GeForce GT 1030 ...

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I can't help it, it makes me think of Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle -- except on wheels instead of feet.

I don't like deckbuilders, but I might check it out.

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Let's be real: AI in some form or another is there to stay. And honestly: I like those small additions! Because they aren't "slop" and might be useful for some browsing the web. Also I can easily toggle tools on/off and if I use them, they run on locally my machine. Using AI to increase the accessibility of PDFs is also a nice addition. Looking forward to what's coming next.

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While every platform may eventually need to confront age verification laws, Discord is an untrustworthy company. They will abuse the opportunity.

This announcement should be taken the same as "Google backed away from locking down Android!"
Because, according to F-Droid, that never actually happened.

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This is good but I'll be sticking with LibreWolf and Vivaldi.

Quoting: EhvisLibrewolf is a Firefox version, so still lives or dies by what happens to Mozilla. So I don't see that as much of a difference.

LibreWolf is a Firefox fork not a version. To me, that's a big difference. They are not part of the Firefox organization and they have a very different philosophy and approach to the browser compared to Mozilla. With LibreWolf, I get everything I like about Firefox without Mozilla's negatives. That LibreWolf depends on Mozilla's future is not the issue here.

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