I like the explosive barrel. Really ties the room together.

Encryption and offsite backups. If someone nicks it then they don’t get any private information. And with backups it’s easy enough to just push the data onto a new device.

Looking at how much of a reach some of the disruptive + proprietary stuff is… Yeah, there isn’t a lot of recent innovative proprietary stuff, is there?

Although I would put Chrome under “disruptive”. It absolutely was when it released decades ago, and even now it’s still changing the browser landscape.

Public domain or stock images combined with an afternoon of Gimp/Krita.

Had a friend who started with no experience and they managed to make some damn professional looking art for their playbook.

If someone doesn’t care enough about their product to actually do work on it, why should I care about looking at it? If I wanted to see AI generated slop, I’d go to one of the many megacorps that’ll generate it for me rather than paying some guy on Itch.io.

Ban GenAI.

As RPG enjoyers, we have an obligation to support smaller creators that ensure the hobby isn’t just DnD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOUUS6JIRQ0

Have a very nostalgic theme for a very specific group of people. :P

So, to address the elephant in the room… Why does commenting on a blog post need any kind of account? Why not have fields for “name” and “comment body” and use capcha and/or manual approval to guard against spam?

Like, why does everything need to be tied to an account nowadays?

I’ve always done things bare metal since starting the selfhosting stuff before containers were common. I’ve recently switched to NixOS on my server, which also solves the dependency hell issue that containers are supposed to solve.

I think at a certain point we need to accept that this isn’t sustainable.

And by “this” I mean money flowing directly into the pockets of the rich. People would very much hedge £30 on a game if they didn’t need to budget so much of that money to pay off megacorps. And devs could easily live of £20 per sale if they didn’t need to pay part of their profits to those megacorps.

Sorry for going all Redditlemmy “grr capitalism”, but that’s the issue here and all this Silksong “drama” is just a smokescreen.

Syncing software is not a backup. I’ve had cases where they get confused and end up deleting data. They’ll also blindly copy over corrupted or randomwared files.

Imagine falling into lava and hearing “It’s-a okay Kühlschrank, we-a all make-a mistakes”.

Luckily, as far as I know, they still accept card payments for spicy games in the UK, so a VPN still works. And if you’re a brit into porn, you’ve probably got access to a vpn nowadays anyway.

Fuck the Tories and fuck Labour.

Oh is that what it is…

* awkwardly zips up pants *

The problem is checking for malware: It’s very hard to do that and a lot of malware has evolved attempts to avoid detection.

Crazy how realistic AI is becoming.

I’ve been using NixOS on my server. Having all the server’s config in one place gives me peace of mind that the server is running exactly what I tell it to and I can rebuild it from scratch in an afternoon.

I don’t use it on my personal machine because the lack of fhs feels like it’d be a problem, but when selfhosting most things are popular enough to have a module already.

“Hey kid, hold still while we throw some fake money on you and take a photo. It’s for marketing.”

Got curious about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Clashes_between_web_and_X11_colors_in_the_CSS_color_scheme :

One notable difference between X11 and W3C is the case of “Gray” and its variants. In HTML, “Gray” is specifically reserved for the 128 triplet (50% gray)  . However, in X11, “gray” was assigned to the 190 triplet (74.5%)  , which is close to W3C “Silver” at 192 (75.3%)  , and had “Light Gray” at 211 (83%)   and “Dark Gray” at 169 (66%)   counterparts. As a result, the combined CSS 3.0 color list that prevails on the web today produces “Dark Gray”   as a significantly lighter tone than plain “Gray”  , because “Dark Gray” was descended from X11 – for it did not exist in HTML nor CSS level 1[8] – while “Gray” was descended from HTML.

… I’m not blind, right? She has her panties on display? That absolutely falls under “suggestive” imo.

Comparing being asked to tone down your marketing materials for an all ages game to censorship of explicitly nsfw games is also kinda scummy. You aren’t having your livelihood threatened by this.