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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

any game with a story

Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio, Satisfactory, Rimworld, Starbound...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Super Mario Galaxy (1+2). Orchestrated music should be a must for main Nintendo games at this point, outside of Zelda (and the Pokémon anime, although that one's not strictly Nintendo or used in actual games, sadly).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The Prevue channel definitely wow'd me with using an SQL database for the data and SDL to render that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Exactly my thoughts. I was looking to see if he had any possible contact options to ask him to consider that, but haven't been able to find any to this date.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Thanks for letting us know! Here's the code repository, for those wanting to self host it: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

I showed this to my friend (an instance owner) and he immediately went "Let's self host this". Really looks great. If someone could make it work somehow with RES, then it would be a total replacement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any specific recommendations, by any chance?

Also out of curiosity, how did you grab all the foreign pricing from Fanatical?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Quick Note: Outer Worlds is the Space Choice's edition, aka the remastered version of this year. It used to have big performance issues, but has been seemingly fixed with recent patches? It at least does not include the original game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could see both ads and subscriptions work (although, the former might be "useless" for those using adblockers, after all, so I'd see persistent/static sponsorship ads similar to how some FOSS projects do it to be more likely).

Especially the latter, for certain services that focus on providing value. A friend of mine mentioned Misskey for example, apparently being used by some Japanese artists. Considering Twitter's on its way out by being harmful to commission artists, I could see someone spin up such instance and ask X amount for providing a marketplace for commissioned goods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

To add to the folks owning both a Switch and a Deck:

Keep in mind that the Steam Deck might be more "unstable" than a regular console like a Switch. Not just games or controller config tweaks, but also general system stability - I'm speaking of experience with the beta software of the Deck.

Despite that, if you're tech-savvy enough or are happy to stick with only Verfiied/Playable rated games without tinkering, the Steam Deck's highly recommendable. Even for party games, as you can just use any vendor's controller on the Deck basically. Don't need to get 4 of one vendor or the like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

From what I read - there's a remastered version that includes the DLC which is prominently advertised since March this year (which is also the version coming to Humble Choice). The remaster apparently had huge performance issues, but those have been (recently) resolved after few patches. Seems like typical AAA "We'll fix it" behaviour, sadly.

Remarkably is that buying that remastered version doesn't provide a copy to the original (probably due to IP ownership lying with Obsidian/Microsoft than Private Division themselves).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's definitely part of the charm that got me to wishlist it so long ago in the first place!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm doubtful - only because I don't get sucked in that easily anymore with games. My backlog continues to grow, and I still haven't even beaten Tears of the Kingdom yet lol. But I got high expectations for Persona 5. I love me some flashy turn-based RPGs.

I got Dragon Quest 11 before as I prefer the turn-based combat in RPG, but that's no where as flashy and catchy as Persona 5. So P5R definitely would get beaten before DQ11 haha.

 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/1791

Xbox Games Showcase and the Extended Showcase will air at the following time zones:

  • 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
  • 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
  • 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
  • 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
  • 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
  • 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
  • 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You can watch the streams at:

  • Twitch (with and without American, British Sign Language and English Descriptors)
  • YouTube (It is confirmed YouTube will have its broadcast available in 4K)
  • Facebook
 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/1791

Xbox Games Showcase will air at the following time zones:

  • 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
  • 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
  • 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
  • 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
  • 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
  • 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
  • 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You can watch the streams at:

  • Twitch (with and without American, British Sign Language and English Descriptors)
  • YouTube (It is confirmed YouTube will have its broadcast available in 4K)
  • Facebook
 

Xbox Games Showcase and the Extended Showcase will air at the following time zones:

  • 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
  • 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
  • 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
  • 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
  • 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
  • 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
  • 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You can watch the streams at:

  • Twitch (with and without American, British Sign Language and English Descriptors)
  • YouTube (It is confirmed YouTube will have its broadcast available in 4K)
  • Facebook
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Starting today, I noticed some of my comments and posts aren't being visible to me when I am logged in. According to the RSS feed, logging out and checking it through an incognito tab, the posts are successfully posted on the instance and others', however.

Take this post for example: https://compuverse.uk/post/822

Here you can see I am able to view my post:

But when looking at my profile, said post is not visible:

Same applies to several recent comments I have made. Am I missing something, or is there something wrong with the instance at the moment? When logging off, I can see the post just fine on my own profile:

This is also the case when using the Android client (Jerboa), and when trying to hard-refresh pages etc.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/484144

I recently started buying movies on Vudu. I was struggling for a long time with whether or not I wanted to collect media on physical disks or digitally.

Right now that’s what I’m doing but there’s always the looming fear of anything I buy being taken away if the service gets shut down.

I’m curious how others keep their media collections. Are you a Blu-ray or 4k UHD collector? Do you use a digital service like Vudu or something similar?

Tell me your thoughts!

 

You're free to talk about Blu-ray entertainment releases, using the discs for making back-ups or any other discussions about Blu-ray media in general.

If you got more information to add to this thread, feel free to DM me or reply to this thread to have it added.

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Blu-ray discs are the successor to DVD discs and the competitor of the former HD DVD format. The main variants of the Blu-ray discs are capable of storing 25 GB (single layered), 50-66GB (dual layered), or 100-128GB (BDXL). They are commonly used for home releases of films and shows (along with the still popular DVD format), or used for long-term archival through the use of M-DISCs. Blu-ray players are required to play these discs, although video game consoles (the PlayStation 3, the Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, the Xbox Series X|S and the PlayStation 5) nowadays have Blu-ray player functionality built-in. Discs are still capable of region-locking like DVDs but with simplified regions (A, B, C). Although most discs (especially 4K Ultra HD variants) have relaxed on region-locking the content.

M-DISCs are discs (both DVD and Blu-ray) capable of being written once and kept in storage for a longer period of time, making them ideal for long-term data storage for back-ups of important data.

Blu-ray films are currently released in two main formats: regular Blu-ray films with usually a transparent light or deep blue case, or 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs with a usually black case. A handy resource to get to know more about technical information of films, is https://www.blu-ray.com/

4K Ultra HD discs tend to contain video material with a resolution of 3840x2160 (either native, or upscaled to said format from a lower resolution master) and can contain a higher colour bit depth compared to regular 720p or 1080p standard Blu-ray discs. The Ultra HD Premium standard has specific requirements regarding the actual disc consumers do receive, along with the master (the original source) of the material prior to putting it onto a Blu-ray disc.

Colour depth as described before, is classified in SDR (Standard Dynamic Range), and HDR (High Dynamic Range). Common standards of HDR are HDR10 (the most common variant), HDR10+ (using dynamic metadata for adjusting), Dolby Vision (using dynamic metadata for adusting; although licensed as some Blu-ray players or TV sets can not display them such as Samsung TVs) and HLG (backward compatble with SDR).

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