I’m kind of surprised that it’s only 51 GB. They’re all FLAC files ripped from CDs – I was expecting like 300 GB at least.

So apparently this 1TB SSD is going to last me a while. :P

This is such a great writeup, thank you! I always can’t believe the actual photos I see of Group B races, lol.

Sometimes I hear about other people’s storage setups and I think, “that is overkill, no one really needs that.” According to this thread, I am quite mistaken about that. 😳

I have 2,057 songs, taking up a measly 51 GB, on a Funkwhale server. No movies or TV shows.

That should get a little larger soon. I have about 100 vinyl records that I want to make digital rips of.

Having a game out there on any platform is super cool. I love the art style, too!

First time I’m hearing about this; looks great!

I didn’t have the patience for RPGs like that when they were originally out (and I was a little kid), but I’ve also been enjoying them on my Anbernic device. For me it’s been Phantasy Star IV.

Total War: Shogun 2. No idea why I decided to reinstall it out of the blue; just wanted to pick it up again after not playing for a long-ass time. I played it a bit when it first came out, but just didn’t really get into it. I’m seeing if it’s playable on the couch with a Steam controller now. Verdict so far: maaaaybe.

Nice! How do you like the quiet cherry switches? I have some quiet Zeal switches (“Zilent”) and I really like them, but I’m curious about others, too.

One hand pretty much exclusively. I almost always use my right; I might occasionally use my left if I’m needing to hold a key with my right hand, but I that doesn’t come up often. It really just fit on the desk better to put it in the middle. At first I thought it might be more ergonomic that way, but I don’t think it really makes a difference.

(This is OP, by the way, for some reason your comment didn’t get forwarded to my Mastodon account that I originally posted from.)

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I agree with what Kolanaki said – it should be available simply because it existed, not just because people will want to play some version of Crysis. My preference is that each patch-level version of a game should be made available somewhere for people to check out. It’s not simply about a product being available that satisfies some need or desire (in this case, the desire to play Crysis). Works that people have made should be available for others to explore.

Also:

If there was no alternative, and debatably superior

is that true? I’m genuinely asking. I think I actually own the remastered version of Crysis, but I haven’t actually played it, as I also have the original on Steam. I thought the remastered version was a graphically improved version of the console port of Crysis, which made some changes to the way that your powers activate. And I remember everyone disliking that when the console ports first came out.

Metal Gear Solid. Only had a few minutes to play it – I mainly just wanted to see how it looked, so I only got through the very first introductory room. Looks just like how I remembered it. I bought the collection with MGS 1, 2, and 3. I’ve already played a fair amount of the first game (although like…15 years ago), but never beat it. I only ever played MGS 2 on a friends Playstation 2 occasionally, and have never played the third game. So I’m really looking forward to those.

Anyone know what “European IP” means? They announced a while ago that they working on new titles for Virtua Fighter, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi, and a few others, so I’m assuming those are the “Legacy IPs.” What is their European IP? The Total War franchise? The developer, Creative Assembly is from the UK. That just seems like a weird way to phrase it, if that’s what they’re talking about.

I use Funkwhale, which I have liked, but my use case is just streaming music through my laptop and listening with headphones. I don’t think there is a client available that will run on your Autonomic streamer.

Funkwhale does have a subsonic API, so you could use a subsonic client, but you mentioned that didn’t quite work before. (Is that what you mean by __sonic? I haven’t actually heard that term.)

Funkwhale is nice, but I think for most people it doesn’t (yet) offer any useful features beyond what Navidrome has, and probably even lacks a few things that Navidrome has. Funkwhale’s main appeal is that you can follow someone’s music library via the fediverse, although there hasn’t really been a lot of use for that so far. Version 2 is coming soon, though, and adds a whole bunch of new fediverse features.

It definitely had a lot in common with Onslaught mode. There was some overlap with the types of vehicles, too.

I was using the GAMESPOT weighted numbering scale:

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It’s a very different game, although it does have vehicles, so it has something in common with UT2004 in that way.

Unreal 2’s multiplayer only has one game mode. It’s kind of like capture the flag with some resource management. There are power generators that you need to take for your team in order to use vehicles. You can also capture respawn points which give your team more choices of where to respawn from.

You choose one of three classes when you spawn, with each class having specific weapons. You don’t pick up weapons as you go.

There is a release of the multiplayer that’s available for free here: https://xmpcommunity.com/. After Epic tool all Unreal titles off of digital stores a while ago, they specifically mentioned xmpcommunity.com in a blog post as a way of still playing the game. So it has their blessing.

Unreal 2, at launch, was the most absolutely 7/10 game I’ve ever played. Just a very generic singleplayer FPS, and not the sequel to Unreal that everyone was hoping for.

I say “at launch,” though, because almost a year after the game’s release, they added multiplayer, and that is still my favorite multiplayer game.

Yeah, it definitely seems like it was to just make it take longer.

Same here, I always liked SA1 more than SA2. I remember being so amazed that you could pick any character to play next and then you’d find out, in any order you chose, how their stories would intersect with one another. SA2 felt like a downgrade without that. I also liked the art style of the first game over the second one.