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They released “fortnite OG” which returns the game back to how it was on release. Same maps, weapons, and mechanics.

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Take a detour to Castle Morne in the south and beat the boss there to get the Grafted Blade Greatsword. It’s a great strength weapon all around and fantastic for the early game, especially since it’s easy to get.

I’d level up vigor and strength, though if you’re impatient you should level up strength first. The grafted greatsword has a STR requirement of 40, but you can two-hand it at 30 I think.

I’ve done two strength runs and each one I started the same way. Rush to get that sword, get 30 strength, dump everything else into vigor.

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Realme phones are pretty good for the price. You may need to remove a couple of bloat applications and tune some settings after getting it though.

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Did they seriously review their own product on their own website?

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Shame, me and my friends were looking forward to this but I guess we’ll wait a couple of weeks.

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I’ve honestly reached a point where I would gladly take PS2 graphics over the terrible performance and constant stuttering of most modern games.

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Not really possible when modern games have a 2060/2070 as the minimum requirement. Even with minimal settings you need a decently modern pc.

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Nothing. I’ve read enough Monkey’s Paw stories to know this is a bad idea.

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This is the most aggressive public statement I’ve read in a while. Google really isn’t amused.

But they’re right though, Epic’s lawsuit against Apple made some sense, but not against Android. Google Play isn’t the only platform and Google isn’t stopping new stores from cropping up. Many OEMs have their own stores shipped with the device.

The claim that Google is making options too restrictive while they have Fortnite up on the Samsung store and directly through their website makes 0 sense. If they lost against Apple twice which actually does force people to use their app store, then they have no case here.

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What is the monetary cost associated with an individual hosting an instance? Can these costs be covered sufficiently through donations, or do the individuals have to look for other sources of funding?

Right now everything is funded through donations though it’s not clear how feasible that is in the long term. I wouldn’t be surprised if some instances run ads in the future.

Has anyone thought about how we can bring more people over to the Fediverse?

Maturation. It’s just that most Fediverse sites outside of Mastodon aren’t ready for prime time. Lemmy just recently started getting great apps and stabilization updates. Other projects like Kbin aren’t there yet. I think it’ll take time before the Fediverse has an easy onboarding process.

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If we do have some instances running ads, wouldn’t that run counter to the goals of the Fediverse?

Not really. You can always switch to another instance, and there’s a big difference between running few ads to stay afloat and being a for-profit company like other social media. The Fediverse would still be by the community, for the community even if some instances run ads.

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I wish we can all move to MB/s and get rid of the endless confusion on names

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The video pretty much describes why Fandom is so bad and why many games are moving their wikis to alternative services, and why you should stop using it in general. Some examples include:

  • Ads everywhere, including autoplaying video ads that play another ad when they’re done. There are also ads sneakily inserted in the middle of articles that are related to the wiki, like a Gamespot review (Gamespot is owned by Fandom)
  • A sidebar you can’t remove that promotes their content
  • Fandom hijacked the community’s Mcdonald’s wiki to turn it into a giant advertisement
  • Accounts that are 4 days old can bypass restrictions and easily vandalize pages
  • Fandom sometimes introduces things nobody wants, such as AI generated answers that are usually wrong, take up the top half of the page, and with no way for wiki admins to remove it. They removed it after a lot of backlash but still…
  • When people fork their wikis to other sites, fandom refuses to let admins delete their old wikis. This makes new wikis difficult to start because Fandom usually ends up as the top result on search engines, even if they’re old abandoned wikis.
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God, I hate constantly seeing their channel with 50k+ views on Twitch. It’s insane that embedding the player throughout their entire website isn’t against TOS.

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Aside from self-hosting your own wiki, wiki.gg seems to be the popular option. Terraria’s official wiki is now terraria.wiki.gg and it’s great.

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Great updates all around. I wonder if the DLC will release before Elden Ring’s DLC at this point.

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If you’re going to do light work on it you don’t need a gaming laptop. The ideapad gaming is an alright gaming laptop but keep in mind gaming laptops get hot, have loud fans, and generally have a poor battery compared to normal laptops.

If you’re going to do a lot of video editing I’d say it’s worth it, but if you’re going to edit a video every now and then I’d say eehhh.

Worth keeping in mind that ARM windows laptops will happen in 2024, so if you don’t need it now it may be worth waiting half a year or so if you want a laptop that’s light and decently powerful and can last a long time.

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This is Hi-Fi Rush and Lies of P erasure

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Paid article. Anyone have the text?

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Thanks!

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The article talks more about being able to legally play old games without downloading roms or anything, but that’s a different topic from video game preservation. Video game preservation itself is doing just fine though. The vast majority of games are archived online and emulators provide super easy ways to play games that are impossible to find now.

Sure, companies should allow people to play older titles in easier ways, but to say “efforts to preserve gaming’s rich history are failing” is just wrong.

Are phone notification LEDs still a thing?

Looking at all the features that older phones uses to have compared to newer ones, I never hear anyone talk about the removal of the notification LED. I personally really liked that feature, being able to see if I got an email, a text or missed a call without turning on my phone was awesome. My Samsung note 8 had this feature,...

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I think very few people cared. The Nothing Phone has a feature similar to that though, where the back of the phone lights up depending on what’s happening (notification, call, etc).

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Pretty awesome that Sony is embracing DRM-free. Now if only they would port Demon’s Souls and God of War Ragnarok…

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Low gravity + strong winds sounds like it would wreck everything and everyone. Hurricanes would turn into a disaster situation rather than a mild annoyance. Imagine cars flying around and ramming buildings.

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...

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I hate that. Nothing is more enraging than dying and having the loading screen say something like “hey, it looks like you suck, do you want to go back to normal difficulty?” No, no I don’t. Difficulty is part of the enjoyment fot me, having a feature that takes it out of my control would be a turnoff.

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As someone who almost 100% it with all shrines… Nah. Totk honestly didn’t take enough risks as botw and the new additions were disappointing. The sky islands were copy pasted many times with the same layout, the dungeons were arguably not much better than botw, and the depths all looked the same.

The game is also piss easy once you have enough hearts to tank hits. Still so disappointed I first-tried the final boss.

Still a good game, but 8/10 at best. In a year where much better games came out I wouldn’t even nominate it for Goty

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Dark Souls II

I can already hear the dark souls fans shrieking in the distance

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There are probably worse ways but the Brazen Bull is the scariest for me. You’re throwin in a bronze bull and slow-cooked to death while being cramped and not able to see anything. Just terrible.

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I assume lots of trial and error and following guides from magazines and such. Games like Dragon’s Lair aren’t really meant to be that winnable, they’re just designed to get you to buy as many coins as possible to keep trying.

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On a centralized platform like Reddit, if you get banned from a subreddit, you can make your own.

There have been plenty of cases where entire subreddits get removed and many people get banned from the website itself. Subreddits to instances aren’t comparable because Reddit has its own rules you can’t break, but each instance here has its own rules with no overarching “Lemmy” admins.

And on a centralized but open source platform, you can take the software and run it on your own server too.

Yes, but you’ll be cut off from everyone in other servers. Think old school forums, if you got banned from one big forum you’re not likely to ever get people to sign up to your own platform. Federation yields major benefits and people can just jump around from instance to instance without being afraid they won’t be able to access content.

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How does subverting a community/server ban on Lemmy change the way moderators censor things?

The idea is that every instance can only moderate content in their instance. For example if I got banned from lemmy.world, I can make an account and post on lemm.ee communities and lemmy.world users will still be able to see my posts but the lemmy.world admins won’t be able to remove my content or ban me. That makes censoring content much more difficult on Lemmy, which is also a problem because there’s a few hate speech instances.

Now yes, you can defederate (i.e completely hide another instance’s content from your own) you will be able to censor to some extent, but only for the users in your instance. So if Lemmy.world defederates from lemm.ee for example, everyone other than Lemmy.world users will still be able to see lemm.ee content

Compare that to Reddit. If you get banned from Reddit, that’s that. They can remove your content from anywhere on the website and can control all content. On Lemmy, nobody controls all content.

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