Pfsense is a lot more feature rich than openWRT, especially when it comes to firewall features. Personally I just use openwrt to run my access points.

I would replace that eero unit with an old dell optiplex with pfsense, and forego trying to virtualize PFSense.

Not sure what hardware is in that eero, but if you wanted to keep it as just a basic AP, that isn’t a bad plan.

After that get a second optiplex for publicly hosted stuff. Keep that on a separate port on your PFSense machine, completely firewalled off from the rest of your network via pfsense, only allowing traffic from LAN to your server.

Physically separating your internal network, and publicly hosted services, as much as possible is the goal.

If you can only afford one new piece of hardware, I’d get the pfsense box, and set it up as a wireguard VPN server, disabling the direct port forwards to the VM running Minecraft. Though your friends would need to install a VPN client, and youd have to provide config files.

A used optiplex on eBay usually isn’t much more money to get up and running than most Linux SoC’s after all the adapters and kit is purchased, and they’re usually specced out way better.

Actually if you wanted to do physical DMZ separation, and wireguard you’d really be doing good, but that’s probably a little paranoid.

You’re adding attack surface by keeping them separated only by vlan. VLAN hopping exploits exist, especially in older firmware, ESPECIALLY on EoL units.

Pfsense is a proper router/firewall built on one of the most hardened networking stacks on the planet. Plus it catches regular software updates, no matter how old your hardware is. You can run it on an old PC with a cheap quad gigabit nic card from eBay if you’d like.

If I might ask, what do you have handling your inter-vlan routing/firewall? Is it the same box you use to handle the firewall/routing between your WAN and LAN?

Is this machine sitting in your LAN, or on its own firewalled off network with a DMZ? No matter how secure it is, you don’t want it on the same network as the machine you do your taxes on.

A good poor mans option is to get a pfsense box with 3 NIC’s. One for WAN, one for LAN, and one for the machine you publicly host with.

Setup firewall rules so that LAN can reach the MC host on needed ports, but not the other way around.

Yeah that’s why I said I don’t really buy the excuse myself, its just the only thing I could think of that really even starts to make sense.

And even then its far-fetched as shit.

Like I said that’s only what I’ve heard, but I haven’t played the Gamez and I doubt its true even if it did fit.

I’ve heard its because of the games anti-corporate message.

But even as someone who blames their boomer-ass wintel admin coworkers for allowing AD to EEE its way into enterprise IT, I have a hard time buying that. That game was making too much money for that.

Harrison’s Honkers

Dares to make

Since when are remakes daring?

In any other setting if you tell a journalist something without an NDA, and outside of a personal setting, you should expect it to get published.

What the fuck did they think they where doing when they released it to 18,000 players?

That’s true, I forgot about that. Their DRM was obnoxious. We already have to deal with Steam, at least that has features which improve gameplay to make up for it.

Also because they can rush the console port out quicker without having to drop a half-baked PC port.

For what its worth, I remember GTA V looking good, being preformant, and having the same amount of bugs you’d expect to find in any other open world sandbox game. No more, no less. Also the options panel was reasonably detailed.

That being said the ports for GTA III/VC/SA are clunky as shit, and the framerate dependency is a fucking joke that shouldn’t have been considered acceptable even back then. Even GTA IV had a lot of issues, but those are all like 15-20 years old at this point. It’s almost as irrelevant as complaining about Max Payne not working under Win XP, despite being less than a year old when the OS launched.

I had a single parent that worked for 50+ hours a week and my older brother only really played attention as much as he had to, usually fucked off and did something else by the time I was 9/10 or whatever.

When I was younger there wasn’t any money to be made off of games. The best you got was in-game currency to buy hats with or whatever. Roblox made its money off of builders club and ads run on free accounts.

There where some games run by adults, but most where young adults who started developing their game(s) in their teens. The majority where goofy messes filled with random pre-built assets.

There definitely where pedos on the platform. It was an online kids game in the oughts. Online moderation was basically like the fucking wild west back then.

Really sad to see this happen. I remember reading lua docs in the late 00’s when I was like nine or whatever. Shit was the first real exposure I had to programming.

Maybe its just because I was a kid but it seemed purer at first. Like it was really there just to get kids programming.

You could always add it as a non-steam game.

Finally! A new Day of Defeat!

Shit maybe I’ll start up a sub again. Haven’t played since classic launched.

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I was thinking this while playing the new system shock remake.

Any game where you can counter or kill even like 50% of your enemies isn’t going to be horror, just an action game with creepy enemies.

I think weapons can work in horror games, they just have to be last resort. Only useful in certain situations, not a garuntee to get you out. Think stealth games like MGS, but without the option quiet takedowns.

Epic can go kick rocks, but GoG is actually pretty important. Only one outside of humble bundle that gives DRM free downloads as god intended.