I wouldn’t advise using those services, myself. Lots of sketchy stuff. Legit copies of digital games go on sale often enough.

Nginx Proxy Manager was easy to learn as a beginner. I’d recommend it as a learning tool, if nothing else, and if you want to switch to other solutions later you can.

Could be auto complete from the phone’s keyboard, but also we do not have enough information in this screenshot to assert they know the difference. They only use one.

I use cron schedules to run scripts that backup my important stuff to s dedicated backup drive, then copies the backups to a different external drive, then upload the backups to a dedicated backup cloud storage account. Then it deletes any backups older than a month.

Stealing this for when I get around to playing Triangle Agency.

Fun idea. Seems like a lot of people are asking questions that have nothing to do with making a binary choice. I got a fair few “have you ever…?” questions that were about my personal life.

Speak for yourself! Larping for a living is some people’s dream job.

They want this person to be sexually attracted to their computer.

The true Windows experience.

This site refers to “local repair cafés” more than once. Is that a regional thing? I’ve never seen those three words in that order ever before.

I understood what it was saying. I don’t think it’s a bad headline.

Inscryption, Midnight Suns, Dungeon Drafters come to mind.

I mean, depends on the system. PF2e has a great XP system and even encourages the GM to hand out XP during the session for things the system calls accomplishments.

But quite frankly, waiting until the end of a session is just good from a pacing perspective the majority of the time.

I’m so tired of deckbuilder roguelikes.

I ditched Plex for Jellyfin a while ago and am not a fan of Plex, but this is the silliest thing to complain about. First of all, just because they work for Plex doesn’t automatically make it a fake review. Certainly wouldn’t call it an unbiased one, but that doesn’t mean the review is fake.

As I said, I do plan to play it! I might be metroidvania’d out at the moment, my partner and I have played a crap ton of Blasphemous 1 & 2 over the past few months. (highly recommend!)

I think there’s a lot more that goes into a games success or failure than just reviews. I’m not entirely convinced that a wave of good reviews would financially save their studio. I also find it funny that he acknowledges that he doesn’t write reviews for things.

For my case, it’s been on my wish list for a while. I enjoyed Ori, but didn’t love it, and plan on getting around to the second Ori game eventually. But I have a zillion games to play, and right now they’re not that high on my list. But my moods change, and next month I may well be in the mood for something like No Rest for the Wicked, see it on my wish list, and finally pick it up.

But quite frankly, no review is going to sway me. I’ve enjoyed Mixed review games, I’ve loved Mostly Negative games, and I’ve disliked Overwhelmingly Positive games. Fact of the matter is I’m much more likely to look at actual gameplay videos and make a decision rather than read a written review.

But, that’s just my anecdotal experience. I personally find it hard to believe the reviews play that big of a role here. I think that success or failure comes down to a hundred different factors, and the unfortunate reality is that some really awesome gems aren’t successful for no real fair reasons, sometimes.

The thing for me is that it’s a game about a guild of explorers, and the game is all fast travel. The bits you do “explore” were soulless.

To those who care:

AI generated voices are used for some player units from the barracks.

Wonder if any of this is the reason why.

Anubis also relies on modern web browser features:

ES6 modules to load the client-side code and the proof-of-work challenge code.
Web Workers to run the proof-of-work challenge in a separate thread to avoid blocking the UI thread.
Fetch API to communicate with the Anubis server.
Web Cryptography API to generate the proof-of-work challenge.
This ensures that browsers are decently modern in order to combat most known scrapers. It’s not perfect, but it’s a good start.

This will also lock out users who have JavaScript disabled, prevent your server from being indexed in search engines, require users to have HTTP cookies enabled, and require users to spend time solving the proof-of-work challenge.

This does mean that users using text-only browsers or older machines where they are unable to update their browser will be locked out of services protected by Anubis. This is a tradeoff that I am not happy about, but it is the world we live in now.