That is what their marketing wants you to think, the reality is going to be its just another soulless shallow designed-by-committee AAA rpg. Nothing ive seen so much has led me to believe otherwise and they have quite a streak of bad games to break.

That’s a shame, it’s a really fun movie and great to watch in cinemas. Doesn’t reach the highs of fury road but it was still a really good time for me personally.

I remember trying it quite a few years ago but it was too much work to learn to play it at the time, I knew how long it usually takes for games like DF, kenshi or rimworld to click and wasn’t sure if star sector is worth it when I had x3, factorio, m&b to occupy me.

I am always tempted to give it a try but the number of new complex games keeps increasing while the number of my brain cells keeps dropping xd

Lemmy is a public forum, discord servers are usually for invite-only, more closed-off communities, and we’re not talking about a lemmy replacement but rather how this is inadequate as a discord replacement.

I don’t know about discord issues, the hype behind is it mostly that it’s free, very convenient, feature rich and can easily integrate bots. Its the go-to place to build communities nowadays.

Matrix issues that I read about can be seen here https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07 . I haven’t done my own research tho so I don’t know if all of this is (still) true

Hope we get some comparable options yet, I only know of matrix and that one allegedly has tons of security and performance issues.

IIRC the web app had some intrusive ads(hard to remove and taking a bug chunk of screen space), is the offline version any better?

I use jerboa so I’m not affected afaik but I’m curious why the uncertainty about update, they are (generally) a good thing for performance and security. Have there been issues before?

I’ve started to tinker with home server and self hosting recently, I was just wondering if the feeling of ‘everything is held together by a thin wire that could snap at any point’ ever goes away? Thanks 😁

Feels like there’s alway some issue that requires a special unique workaround that could stop working at any point

It is, I’m just saying that even games that worked fine on steam deck had issues on my nvidia laptop so I doubt its the game’s fault.

Well, valheim now works straight out of the box on Pop_OS so that’s an improvement! Haven’t downloaded other games so not sure about that just yet though, still setting up my usual programs now.

On the other hand I kinda hate its GUI, I installed that gnome extension to make the toolbars customizeable and now it just crashes every once in a while, for example just few minutes ago alt-tab stopped working and everything minimalized and became unresponsive so I had to force shut it off. An hour ago I closed the laptop lid and when I reopened it later, the OS woke up to the login screen but everything was frozen and I couldn’t do anything. It’s a bit of a cursed OS, you can’t even click the folder path to copy the path, I miss mint lol.

Check out against the storm for a fun and difficult game

Yeah, that’s always good advice, I don’t mind missing out on hype since I’d be playing single player anyway. Enshrouded is also out and it might turn out to be the better option too, who knows. Seems like a good start of the year for survival games enjoyers either way.

Id hope they use the popularity to improve it further but I really don’t wanna get invested in the same way I have with valheim, they have been mostly resting on their laurels so far and these developers will probably do the same. I hope I’m wrong tho, seems like a game I’d enjoy if it had more depth.

I’d suggest valheim but I’m not sure how is the performance nowadays, our rented servers struggled a lot with only 3-4 people and I think 10 is the max. Sailing was especially very laggy and glitchy because if it unfortunately.

Sounds like you want forums, basically :D

I’m pretty nostalgic for forums myself but while they are great for smaller communities centered around a specific topic, they were really difficult to navigate when it comes to larger general communities IMHO. Fediverse with its reddit-like structure has an advantage here, and I personally like the idea of AP and multiple smaller communities interacting. We just need better tech and UI.

The genie is out of the bottle and discord is unfortunately here to stay for the foreseeable future. What we need are good reliable tools to export all this data to an external service / knowledge base. At least that way they could be picked up by web search and be accessible without a discord account one day down the line when discord goes to shit.

But… they are literally the mods of r/antiwork, a community based around calling out unfair treatment by bosses and gathering strength to quit and find better employment.

You can’t make this shit up, it’s so stupid - it’d be unbelievable if it weren’t for the fact that it actually happened.

That was my experience too, following widely used hashtags just results in a mess of people tagging everything personal with them, in foreign languages, or sometimes even irrelevant things just to get clicks. And all this content is treated equally when it comes to populating my home page. I’ve had some luck following individuals but that’s also just random chance who you find. It really needs the bigger content creators and personalities there in order to take off as twitter replacement so there’s some consistency and quality.

That is true on one hand, but on the other the good subreddits on reddit were the ones managed by good mods. They kept the discussions at a quality level, not letting the subreddit devolve to memes, circlejerks or overall low-effort content.

Like of course we can make an m/c/askhistorians here, but it wont be the same without mods from r/askhistorians, and that’s even more of a case with smaller niche communities.