Okay, bye.

Also, I'm utterly shocked that an ai generated header is even a minor issue in comparison to the rest if your fallback instance of choice is Hexbear.

You don't need to be wired in order to self host things? It's better, ofc, but far from required. You can just do it via wifi.

My experience with self hosting begins and ends with video game servers and jellyfin, though, so maybe I'm wrong here.

Tbf, they've been doing that with a reasonable amount of success with Rainbow Six Siege.

yes. It's a thing. https://mcsus.com/products/68-water-balls-tube-of-10 No clue if they're good or not, but they exist.

There's also paintballs with clear paint, or reballs which are basically just rubber balls meant to be fired out of a paintball gun.

Honestly, if we're talking modern games I think games that don't utilize multithreading to at least some degree would be a significantly shorter list.

I too despise the obsession with making videogames look like they were filmed for some inexplicable reason lol.

Okay I wasn't particularly interested until I read this comment. What a combo lmao

GAMMA has faction questlines. I'm not sure how good of an experience they are because that is very much not why I play GAMMA, but they definitely exist.

Also: if you install GAMMA and are initially utterly disgusted by the depth of field, don't panic you can turn it off lol.

TIL. I didn't realize it started in the browser originally.

Warframe can be super overwhelming, though. There's a billion things to do and it's hard to know where to start. I had issues with that when I was getting back into the game awhile back, and I'd already completed a ton of the content. If you actually want tips on how to manage it: set short term goals and long term goals, and just go for those. Shut out anything that isn't relevant and focus on specifically on whatever you decided was your goals. My long term goal, for example, was to complete all the story quests. My short term goals were basically a checklist of things I needed to do to start the next quest lol.

Plus, the game being almost entirely PVE means that in my experience the community is great. If you have questions or need help just ask, and someone will probably be willing to help. There's an excellent Warframe community over on the dormi.zone instance. It's reasonably active and they're helpful over there. Plus Q&A chat is just in the game.

Fair enough- I find leveling stuff is fine if I either do it passively via either just equipping a weapon I don't intend to use or just specifically focus farming leveling. But Warframe is very firmly not for everyone.

Web Fishing is just outright paid, is it not? The game is $5 on steam.

There's a few examples of F2P games with good monetization. Warframe comes to mind immediately. I've heard Path Of Exile is also a solid example of F2P done right, but don't have personal experience with that one.

I think 'premium' in this case is synonymous with 'not free to play'.

A (rumored) $40 live service battle-royale.. outlook bad for this game.

Yeah, okay. Without the context I see how you arrived to internet drama. I wasn't connecting the dots properly.

Nobody is mad about being banned from Club Penguin, it's expected- because they would insta-ban you based off a rudimentary chat filter- and these were popular memes for awhile.

Uh, okay. I didn't realize the existence of Club Penguin was 'internet drama'. That's the part that confused me lol.

ngl I stopped listening to A7X shortly after Nightmare, seemed like after Hail To The King they dropped off the face of the earth for me. Might have to get back into them.

'Retro' in a gaming sense is often used interchangeably with 'Vintage', as far as I can tell.

The subreddit r/Retrogaming even has this gem on their sidebar:

Retro Gaming: Reddit's home of vintage gaming

...what internet drama are you talking about rn?

.. yeah, I'm aware AI isn't a person. I'm not sure why that's a question? Maybe I phrased things badly, but I'm not- nor have I ever- been really mad about AI usage. It's mostly just disappointment.

It's just a technology. I largely dislike the way it's being used, partly because I feel like it has a lot of potential.

Why? AI doing one good thing doesn't erase the dozens of bad ways it's utilized.

I'm interested to see AI used on a larger scale in really specific ways, but the industry seems more interested in using it to take giant shortcuts and replace staff. That is going to piss people off, and it's going to really piss people off when it also delivers a shit product.

I'm fine with DLSS, because I want to see AI enhance games. I want it to make them better. So far, all I can see is that it's making them worse with one single upside that I can just.. toggle off on my end if I don't like it.