NAT is not a firewall (as you mention) but the premise that it should be trivial to run an internet connected service isn’t realistic when there are so many bad actors on the network

Call of Duty: UO runs fine on Linux if you use an older version of Proton. It’s the best CoD game anyway

MaxxMAXXING

People who cared about physical games haven’t been PC gamers for 20 years. You could still care about physical games on consoles until about last week.

Valve is also good to gamers with consumer friendly pricing and their client extends the gaming experience rather than running in the background, mostly useless like the console features and the other store fronts.

I also don’t care for steam but I’m not upset about it because I just stopped playing on PC for years. The games I do play, still came out on disc. I remember that CoD MW2 was the game that broke the camels back, even though you installed it off the disc, it still wouldn’t launch without steam. (Same with HL2 but I knew that going into it and didn’t buy it)

It’s not your preference. It’s Sony’s preference for good little consumers that buy digital and pay monthly for ps+

I almost can’t use Reddit from search anymore because the app nag completely locks up the web page but if you can’t be bothered to write the post pitching your software, makes me wary trusting the software itself

You don’t have to go closed source to monetize your software (although it does make it easier)

Coalition building is required in any free society, and guess what, non-participation isn’t absolution.

Lemmy.ml “Don’t hate the west while looking past Uyghurs in China” Challenge (Impossible)

How is this more useful than just posting to an rss feed? Not trying to be snarky, just curious about the design

Damn I guess I’m going back to keepass again since I am not really interested in hosting a vault

We hate cloud here too, what’s your point?

I’m a Microsoft MVP.

I don’t reboot my computer I just reformat and reinstall every time I start it.

Bro you just need to run sfc /scannow one more time. Just trust me bro

I’m not trying to yuck anyone’s yum but I absolutely hate that turn of phrase and think less of someone who uses it ^(not really but it is super millennial cringe coded)^

You are free to switch distros

No one is forcing you to use a distro that uses systemd

Threats against a developer, no matter whether he’s a chud or not; is unacceptable, unhinged behavior. You have a remedy that isn’t harassment. Just don’t use his software

The premise of this article is wrong. It should say “Live Service” gaming. In the article itself it admits that Arc Raiders was a hit and it’s because it’s a “live service” game that isn’t ran as a live service game. It’s just a fun multiplayer game just like Halo 3 or old Call of Duty. If games were still made to be fun instead of over engineered money extractors then there would still be plenty of room for hits.

But capital doesn’t want a decent return on a hit. They want a money printer like Fortnite and so they’d rather take bigger risks to hook and abuse players into gambling addictions and forever recurring revenue machines than just make the good games that players are asking for that make their budget back and then some

Yes, pretty much every active server on UO has one. This one is ours if you feel the fancy to hop on sometime (I go by VE_AG_RA on UO [long story])

I remember the good old days of the 300 pingers either being people on dial up or Aussies getting a morning game in. Yeah it’s be hard to scrim with that ping for sure. Thanks for sharing the game date URL. It’s a nice little site, we’ve used it a few times