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Any chance you’re looking for a free jellyfin with a surplus of weird movies and music? It’s not fast, but it’s free!

That’s true. Honestly I think it’s fine this way, I just wish I could send out little updates, take requests and stuff. Day to day operations is my love language and not having a valid reason to make an RSS feed or newsletter is just a reminder that I don’t have a community anymore.

I’ve been a media hoarder for decades, my partner is an avid dvd collector. I used to have lofty goals with friends about setting up our own server and media centers so we didn’t have to afford the world we live in. The friends fell off along the way, but I finally managed to make the dream happen. It’s bittersweet that I don’t really have anyone to celebrate it with.

That sounds like an absolute blast!

My brother and I used to set all bots on n64 smash and bet candy or chores on the winners.

That said, I don’t know why I’d need an industrial data center to do what an n64 already did.

Well fuck, this gave me a rollercoaster of feelings lol. I love this, but it doesn’t work with flatpack so I have to do a full reinstall of steam. This may be my weekend project lol

I’ll be up front, steam is still a corpo and I’ll gladly drop it like a hot rock the second it looks at me funny. That said, decade plus that I’ve been using it, it’s treated me good. Steam runs on Linux without complaints, it doesn’t dick with my very specific file organization, and it doesn’t ask questions when I use it to run cracked software that I aquired dubiously. I don’t even own 100 games on it, I only buy things I’m willing to play and can’t pirate.

The only concievable thing another company could do to get me to pick them over steam is to give me an exact copy of steam but with the option to change the color to anything but blue.

Same! For me it was the outposts and buildings. By the time we stopped playing I’d paved half our discovered area with roads, built way stations so you could sleep while traveling, and had a base and dock on every important island or biome.

My crowning achievement was called The Sky Vault. I’d lifted 4 pillars to the maximum terrain hight on a tiny plains island, then built a building supported by them that could only be accessed via portal. There I had a long table and thrones for each of us and a collection of all the treasures, cool trophies, and artifacts from out time in play. Covered the room in piles of gold, little chests, cool weapons that we didn’t end up using. The finishing touch was that the gate to our settlement stood between two of the pillars, so you got to walk under it get into the town.

I got Valheim before they added the mistlands and it was still a more complete and full game than anything a AAA studio has made this decade. Grab it on sale, get your friends, your family, your pets a copy. Frankly, comming from someone who will pirate everything, I will gladly pay full price a second time for the quality of work they’ve put in.

Totally not the answer you were here for, but you could likely upgrade your setup by reaching out to your local school district and asking if you can loot their e-waste. They’ll want to keep any storage because it may contain sensitive data, but all the rest of the hardware is free for the pickings. My son’s pc, my server, and my two projectors all came from an e-waste crate at the local school district office.

And a culture with a a very accepting view of pedophilia.

I can’t wait to introduce my kid to this, he’s about the same age I was when I first played it.

This was my childhood and I’m actually excited to get this

Honestly, they could sell at a loss and still profit. Steam has the biggest selection of games bar none, they’ve built a culture of buying games too collect them with no intention of playing them, and they get a decent cut of every sale. If they thought of it as a 10 year plan they could sell this thing for $400, and undercut the entire rest of the condole scene, land this in the living room of every kid who wants to game world wide, and literally crush the big 3 in sales.

I found a planet the other day that was tiny and dangerous but had like 4 gold dig sites in every direction. I maxed out my ship limit there so if you can find that I’d you’ll make both the money and the parts

So you can buy a handful of the parts at any of the stations for big numbers, but I managed to make my ship by hunting down the golden buried tech. You get o one part for each module you have to break to mine them so you get a minimum of 3 and the loot it normally has which you can then flip for more parts.

Just to specify, that’s the yellow wifi signal when you’re using your visor. The ordinary and silver ones just give you the usual.

I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky lately. They just put out an update that let’s you build a spaceship that also functions as a base. I’m only just now getting into the game and it came at a perfect time for me because I’m just now getting the point that I need a house to store stuff and I haven’t found a planet that I love. Now I don’t have to because I can live in a ship built just for me!

Just me and my antlered ewok exploring the black.

And this is where the it comes full circle. To have a team I need to pay the team. To not have a team, I need to do every position provided by a team. Which means if you can’t do it or pay for it, you don’t deserve it and no matter how well thought out the idea may be it will never happen.

Tell me where the line falls.

So I’ve got a few points on this. The smallest is that welding is very much an art. Any dingus can stick two pieces of metal together. A consistent bead, a steady hand, it’s all on par with painting but no one considers that because it’s used practically instead of aesthetically.

That segways to my next point, art isn’t just the pictures. I don’t have 4 years to learn how to make the art because I’m not passionate about that. I love the mechanics of the game, my creativity is in balancing and abilities, loot tables and incremental growth rates. You wouldn’t say the people who decide the spray pattern of digital guns or the appropriate damage for level 12 don’t deserve to be in video games because they didn’t paint the skyboxes.

I love a story about a single guy making a game from scratch over twenty years as much as the next guy, but it’s unreasonable to say that everyone has to do it that way or it doesn’t count. Just as unreasonable as saying someone’s idea for a game doesn’t deserve to exist because they can’t pay a team to make it.

To be clear, I’m not defending the slop. There’s probably plenty of games on steam that are AI garbage to grab a quick buck. That’s fine to hate. But all the people out there that put their hear into the work and wrapped it in the wallpaper of AI, they deserve to be seen. We can’t all be good at everything and that doesn’t make what we do any less valid.