The great thing is, now you’re 100% empowered to move forward and host the responsibility yourself. Demanding volunteers shoulder potential liability (when you yourself admit you can’t understand how there’s any in the first place) is juvenile.

The moment a volunteer is hit with a DMCA notice or any threat of legal action, you think they have any interest in going through the court system? You can do it first.

The steam deck is hands down the most interesting piece of tech (outside of modern smart phones). It’s wild I’ve been able to get Fallout 3 mods working in the crazy windows proton boot shells that just magically worked.

Steam Decking fallout 3 atm, with D4 occasionally spaced in. Next is n ew Vegas and fo4.

Waving a Nazi flag should be a flight to Dachau and experiencing a full 12 months the --exact-- same way it used to be.

Arbeit macht frei.

I’m gonna hold that is was immensely more fun around A10-12, but to be fair I haven’t tried the latest release.

I remember when I was hanging out with some of the gays (I keep them as friends to keep up appearances). Before, I was always the alpha. I could swing by any bar and leave with the hottest lib in my F150. By the end of the night she’d be screaming for her daddy and fully supportive of Trump. I loved converting libs to MAGA-wearing breeders.

But then I hung around the gays, and something inside of me just fundamentally flipped: I love penis inexplicably and wearing the latest Hillary 2024 fair-trade organic cotton shirts I got for volunteering. I’ve never seen such a marvelous transformation!

History became legend.

Legend became myth.

And for two and a half thousand years, Foul Bachelor Frog passed out of all knowledge.

To be fair, 2 of those games are legit some of the GOATs. I’ve been gaming since my mom played Mario with me in the early 90s, and those two games are something else.

I remember buying the Minecraft alpha for $10, and there wasn’t that much to do, but it was strangely addicting.

I think it’s because when it is illegal it’s ultra illegal and ultra terrible. Even then I question how much of it is already pretty sus.

I’ve been hearing this since 2010. Nothing is going to change.

EA Sports 2024 is going to come out, it’s going to have 40,000 mixed reviews.

To be fair, platforms like this will originate in that shape for the significant future. Reddit did as well. I’m not white, but work as a software engineer.

We might have to accept we’re on the “losing” side, e.g. Lemmy will never have the numbers our subreddits had. We’ll have smaller communities and less content, but hopefully better conversation.

Thinking about a steam deck just for Diablo 4. I’d pick up fallout 4 and borderlands 3 / Tina and possibly elden ring / sekiro too. Any thoughts?

OoT, considered one of the greatest games of all time, is literally Link to the Past 3d. Majora’s mask is like a mod of OoT. WW was a huge deviation, but same dungeon structure. Twilight Princess is OoT, but edgier and with a weird platformer mix that was common in the latter stages of N64 and early Wii.

I’m general, Nintendo iterates on Zelda. I’d love for a Wind Waker 2 a la totk.

To be honest, other than theming, the old Zelda dungeons are overrated. Every dungeon from LttP and on – you’re going to get an item, and that item is critical to unlocking the 2nd half of the dungeon. It’s exceedingly linear. I don’t consider boomerang lock-on for 5 targets or using fire arrows to light torches amazing gameplay.

I do love totks crazy spinning fan torch puzzles.

I’m convinced lately the fan praise of Twilight Princess is due to youth having this as their first game. It doesn’t hold a candle to what OoT or Majora’s Mask was. Even then, OoT is LttP in 3d (for the first time, and it was phenomenal).

Tbh, it’s probably good for multiple devs to go different ways. We don’t know which, if any, reddit replacement can take hold. I love rif and the developer behind it, I hope their journey goes well.

WE made the content. The community. No doubt the majority of level-headed folk would have accepted ad requirements in 3rd party apps. Hosting isn’t free, something needs to be monetized.

But that’s not what it’s about. It’s about locking down content from the new wave of AI models and charging for it. Charging for content we created freely to be shared.

The flux of users is probably more than what the servers can handle. It will take time to smooth it out.