I play this game on my steam deck/pc, but I have played with xbox players quite a bit in the cross platform multiplayer. I would imagine this would be a great multiplayer vehicle big map shooter to play with friends or by yourself against bots with a PS4 too since Easy Red 2 has very reasonable graphics requirements.

There is more than meets the eye to this game, one thing that I particularly love is that you can easily give simple commands to ai squads, so you can drive a halftrack up to a capture point and give them the order to dismount and attack the objective after you have driven next to a wall for some cover. Nothing complicated, but it is quick, direct and effective!

Easy Red 2 is already released for Xbox too! It plays wonderfully on steam deck as well! (use gyro aim!), flying the fighter bomber planes is a blast with the steam deck controls! (or a gamepad).

Shanghai - Nanking Campaign trailer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8VjKBlBBvKI

I know I am sharing a post for dlc for a game... and I also know I recommend Easy Red 2 a lot but it is because the game deserves so much more attention.

Let me try to convince you:

1. The base game is cheap, under $10 for a multiplayer battlefield-like game with no bullshit microtransactions, no liveservice nonsense, no required account creation and login and necessary anti-cheat creepy access to your computer... it is just a game you buy for ~$9 and play either online or offline.

2. The gunplay is good, like.. maybe not the best game ever but it is satisfying, guns feel realistic, machine guns behave like big bulky machine guns, this is a fun fps just on the merits of its core fps mechanics.

3. This game has big maps with TONS of different historically accurate!!!! vehicles. Tanks, half tracks, trucks, jeeps, tanks with rocket artillery strapped to the top, oddball tanks that went obsolete quickly into the war.... the list goes on.

4. The AI gunners are good enough (not amazing by any means) that if you just want to chill and drive a tank around and let your crew blast away infantry/bots you can. Or you can take control of the driving and firing and handle everything yourself.

5. Want to botbash ravenfield style? You can. You can do it with friends in a private multiplayer game or in a multiplayer game, pvp or pve.

6. The game runs well on potatoes, I have zero issues running Easy Red 2 on my steam deck, which also means relatively good battery life!

7. There is quite a bit of DLC, but it is interesting DLC that attempts to explore the full historical span of WW2 battles rather than just hyperfocus on the pop culture touchstones that usually get retold in movies and games. This is fun both from just the plain variety to scenarios, landscapes, equipment and vehicles that the DLC offers, but also from a WW2 history nerd who doesn't just want to see another D-Day level it is much more interesting.

https://easyred2.com/

https://www.corvostudio.it/

It seems like this isn't an easy problem to solve without lots of money to pay for hosting.. but I had the thought recently, what if a video heavy fediverse platform was designed from the ground up with the intention that people were going to remix video content and that those remixes/tweaks could be saved and transferred across the network as modifications of a pre-existing large video file instead of needing to copy the entire video file onto to some valuable and scarce storage again just to slightllllyyy tweak it?

For some content you might not even need to create a new copy of the video file at all, not even a clip, the "new video" could just be specific instructions for how to playback portions of the original video file with certain additions/tweaks.

I know this is abstract, but I think there might be something to treating the way certain videos and concepts become "meme-ified" as a logical and natural way to structure intelligent minimization of unnecessary data use. A "montage" from a livestream or long video could just be a series of playback instructions for a pre-existing video file or video files with some tweaks and additions like text overlays or different audio.

It would have lots of practical benefits too, say a professor uploaded a video and needed to make a correction to a small part of the video where she stated something incorrect in her lecture. If the edit to the video involved her creating a "new video" that just had instructions to this hypothetical video player to play the original lecture video and then insert a brief new video segment with the correction (or just several frames of a textbox with the correction), or to just simply cut that section of the video from the playback with a simple fade... might that be a much quicker process than creating an entire new video file and re-uploading it and better than just settling for a comment in the video overlay/in the video description?

shrugs I know it is just a vague idea but has anybody tried something like this? (in practice maybe it would look something like a really simple video editor built into a youtube-like interface?).

A very simple example of this for picture memes would be a meme creation and sharing fediverse software where each meme format was only ever represented by one picture on the server, and every meme created of that type was just vector graphics style instructions for how to overlay text on that image. You could store a massssive amount of memes with a tiny tiny tiny amount of storage space right?

Throw this python plugin into your GIMP 3.0.0 installation's plugin folder (if you already have gimp installed, uninstall it and make a fresh install, at least that is my advice).

When you open GIMP under "File" is the "Batch Convert" option, which brings up a really nice GUI for doing conversion of image files, but also basic edits.

I know there are command line utilities for this kind of thing, I know there are paid commercial programs that do this kind of thing.. but having an open source optional-GUI utility that does this that also happens to be attached to an extremely mature and fully featured open source image editor is pretty awesome.

https://kamilburda.github.io/batcher/

https://www.gimp.org/

as a USian lemme say, hell yes