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Cool i guess but i still don't get why you should care about achievements. I care about having fun playing a game, not having achievement.

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Quoting: CaldathrasSadly, Bazzite is not for me. They have very poor Nvidia legacy hardware support. CachyOS, on the other hand ...

How legacy are we talking? Nouveau is getting quite nice these days :)

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the game is technically over 20 years old

Steam says release date was Nov 22, 2011; maybe it was available outside of Steam earlier?

One of my extensions (Augmented Steam?) says it was last updated Oct 29, 2012 - so clearly the new update still hasn't been applied to the release branch yet.

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Quoting: Dana SoulyWhat are keyboard AI keys? Is this one button where AI takes over the PC? 🤣

New laptops have copilot key if they have copilot certification thing, I also see galaxy ai button on new samsung keyboards for tablets

Apparently it has expanded beyond that:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-New-AI-Agent-Keys

Dunno what jackasses buy that nonsense, but at least you'll be able to map them to something useful.

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Quoting: Eocene84It will be interesting to see if they try to sell Twitch when that happens...

It needs to be owned by a not-for-profit or non-profit collective or co-operative.

All the "guilds" need to get better organized and take themselves more seriously. They need to double down on branding, set up homepages and better structures and by-laws.

They also need to set up microblogs like GNUsocial, host their own IRC and bridge to twitch's (if possible -- I think it is?), and their own PeerTubes. Among others.

Start emphesizing people donate directly to the hosts and their respective Guilds then use that money to support themselves and one another equally.

Right now, amazon gets 60% of subscription money. Frankly, with all the money that company has, they would be fine for a long time making far less. I would be livid and disgusted if I streamed on such a platform.

People need to think bigger and learn their lessons already.
Stop relying on closed source software.
Stop relying on centralized platforms.
Stop relying on big corporations for anything.
Get together. Get organized. Reclaim soverignty.

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That new kernel is definitely awesome!
💧🐟🐟🐧🐟🐧🐟🐧🗿🐟🐧🐟🐧🐟🐧💽🐟🐟🐧🎆

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This page took forever to fully load. lol

But anyways, even if they're not the main devs on it, Konami and Castlevania aren't indie.

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Quoting: tuubipb might want to take a look at the Cookie Preferences page though.

Thanks, I prefer things the funny way. ;-)

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Dana SoulyWhat are keyboard AI keys? Is this one button where AI takes over the PC? 🤣

New laptops have copilot key if they have copilot certification thing, I also see galaxy ai button on new samsung keyboards for tablets

I have mine mapped to Konsole - works better for me :)

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Wish Fallout76 did this, give the user more control in who and how they want to play. But nope, you want self-hosted, then pay a subscription... pfft.

Hope someone hacks FO76 in time to give us at-home-self-hosted options and let friends join via TCP/UDP. The dream. Because then you could run some real wild mods provided friends also have the mods.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scratchi

Quoting: pbAll I can see is they announced a bunch of YouTube logos. 😝

Happy to know it's not just me :)

As an extra privacy step, we don't auto-show youtube videos.

And that's great if you ask me.

I second that!

This is the only website that I know of that does this and I'm very grateful to Liam.

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Quoting: Dana SoulyWhat are keyboard AI keys? Is this one button where AI takes over the PC? 🤣

The Skynet button? 🤔

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The corpo dream of having people adhere to the idea of "you will own nothing and you will love it", beyond its sarcastic tone, is failing and I cannot be happier.

MP3 players are having a resurgence. Vynil is king and wired headphones are increasingly popular with gen z as is the whole 2000s aesthetic. AI is also being slowly rejected. The world is learning.

Stream nothing. Own what you consume. Do not let monthly subscriptions consume your financial independence.

I've digressed a bit here but I do think the future is that of less big business and more small businesses working with each other simply because there will be little to no jobs to be had after corporations outsource everything under the veil of "AI efficiency".

When big tech and every other "big whatever" gets forever contracts with governments around the world they will no longer need regular small consumers like us to rely on for profits and so all of their services will be created to serve none of our needs.

We will learn to provide for ourselves again and trade with each other for products and services since corporations already only exist to generate profit for stakeholders as per their fiduciary duty.

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"A-la-carte game purchases are no longer available."
i searched for in on the dictionary, and the word for it is pretty clear:
steal

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Good to hear all the options they've added for base preservation. But then, none of these band-aids would be required if there was no degradation in the first place.

I get why degradation was useful in this case - it's a shared server, and you build a geographically quite large base over the landscape, so if you're not ever coming back to play the game, it's a pain for the people who are. Hell, on the server I was on, there was one base that was so large, it cut off two fairly vital routes to/from the third area (I forget its name), forcing you to do a run over the worm-sands to get in. They knew what they were doing with that too - total dick move, and a perfect reminder of why I generally can't stand playing any kind of game with the wider internet (get offa ma lawn!).

But in self-hosted instances, they'd better offer the option to simply remove degradation, because it's pointless in a self-hosted instance.

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Just amazing how many four-player co-op games and sequels/DLC there is this year though.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scratchi

Quoting: pbAll I can see is they announced a bunch of YouTube logos. 😝

Happy to know it's not just me :)

As an extra privacy step, we don't auto-show youtube videos.

And that's great if you ask me. I suppose scratchi and pb might want to take a look at the Cookie Preferences page though.

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Quoting: scratchi

Quoting: pbAll I can see is they announced a bunch of YouTube logos. 😝

Happy to know it's not just me :)

As an extra privacy step, we don't auto-show youtube videos.

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Quoting: pbAll I can see is they announced a bunch of YouTube logos. 😝

Happy to know it's not just me :)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThese weird graphics terms are always getting me confused. What the heck is "puppy stacking"? ;)

Iirc, there's a section that the character needs to collect and carry puppies one by one. This probably allows stacking them into the inventory.

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To me it is more exciting to see other source mods ported to Strata Source, especially ones that hit 32 bit limits of the original engine.

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Quoting: Dana SoulyWhat are keyboard AI keys? Is this one button where AI takes over the PC? 🤣

New laptops have copilot key if they have copilot certification thing, I also see galaxy ai button on new samsung keyboards for tablets

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Quoting: EhvisThe question is how much control will you have over the game in a self hosted server? And more importantly, will you be able to disable the EAC requirement on a self hosted server? If so, it would be a major step forward in this game's future preservation and my interest in actually trying it out. Because if I look at the reviews and see multiple instances of people losing all their work because they didn't play for a week removes any interest I might have in the game.

People never lost a base in a week on the main map (Hagga Basin), but there was time when they degraded faster when unpowered (player's mistake or exploit). Weekly wipe is for the Deep Desert (totally separate map), which PvE vs PvP ratio was 10%/90%, then got changed 50%/50% and now will have 2 separate instances, 100% PvE and 10%/90% PvE/PvP. Official ones will probably keep wiping every week.
The post mentions base decay options, but I doubt self-hosting changes preservation because the EAC is on the client, not on the server, which is just a self-hosting of your own Dune world (server cluster). I doubt you'll going to get a separate client for self-hosted server, server discovery will be still hosted by them. You can rent "self-hosted server" from some service provider too, now they just let you run that.

Quoting: ZlopezI originally wanted to try this game, but got discouraged by reading that you need to maintain your buildings otherwise they will just decay over time. So imagine that you go away for 2 weeks and all your work in game is gone. This doesn't sound like a game to me, but like a second job you need to take care of.

That was never the case, on the main map (Hagga Basin), you just needed to keep your base powered, so you had to log in once in 20 or 27 days (depending on which power source you used) and refill the generator with fuel cells. If you turned off all the machines in your base and only kept the shields on, you never needed to go mine more fuel cells because you could fill a storage box with them and just refill the generators manually from there. So, just couple of button presses every 20 or 27 days.
Originally, there was also taxes for larger bases, but these got removed a while back too. Basically, if you used a larger base, you needed to travel to Arrakeen or Harko Village map every 2 or 3 weeks (maybe even 4 weeks, never pushed it that far myself). But nobody forced you to build such big base, so it wasn't really an issue. Nowadays, if you haven't played for 4 weeks, you get generous welcome back packages with free items based on your player level. Also, they added base backup tool a while back for those who wanted to take the time off on the main map (Hagga Basin) or wanted to move to a different Dune world (server cluster).

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Last time I've played, I got stuck at the end of Chapter 1 of the Campaign, cleared whole map and it still didn't count as my victory. Maybe this time it will work?

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Sounds like it might be time for a replay of the first game I bought on Steam. 🙂 (The second video on the store page has a lot of cool shots showing off the new visual effects.)

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Quoting: shimmyI bought Madden on Stadia. Then it closed and I couldn't play it anymore because it closed.

I bought Madden on Luna in January. And now it's either gone or will be available still but with a premium subscription. I guess me and Madden are not going to happen.

How Maddening!

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Quoting: Andy GneissHave I been living under a rock or is this the first time anyone else has heard Amazon Luna even existed?
Apparently it's about 3 years old and it's already being chopped up. That's not encouraging.

I find it encouraging to hear something connected with Amazon is doing badly! 😁

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Quoting: scaineI despise cloud gaming, but I can see that I'm doing my hating from a position of privilege -

I do my hating from a very different position of privilege. My rig is pretty old and was middle of the road when I bought it. But, I don't actually like playing any of the kinds of games that are very demanding on hardware, so it's fine. I'd say the closest I play to pushing the hardware would be . . . Stellaris?

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I played this for several months and thought Dune Awakening was a really fun game! That said, I did not get into the PvP stuff and I finally needed to take a break so, most of my stuff has probably succumb to degradation by now. Looking forward to seeing what they plan for self hosting options! If it's easy enough, I may roll a server for myself and maybe some friends (if I can find any, lol)

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Otp's get phished just as easily as passwords nowadays. Their only advantage is that they can protect against a simple "(educated) guess the password" attack.

Phishing refers to an attacker contacting the victim to trick them into clicking a dodgy link or opening a malware attachment inside a message. Presuming that a victim is successfully phished, i.e. malware is installed, and password credentials are exfiltrated - There is still a massive gap between successful phishing and circumventing the OTP.

To circumvent OTP, you'd also need to steal the OTP key. Often people use OTP from their smartphone, and they scan their computer screens (once) to retrieve the key. The attacker would need access to the phone (to get that key).

As such, the attacker would instead need to implement a man-in-the-middle website masquerading as the victim's Epic store, e.g. by poisoning their DNS. The attacker would have to get the victim to login to the fake site, and during login, steal the OTP values in real time as the victim types it in. That is a lot more work and difficult to succeed than merely stealing email and password, and then scripting automated bulk logins of thousands of user accounts.

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