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Effective Game Interfaces for Happier Players
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what kinds of things are you guys gonna pick up?
I feel you. I have written browser automation scripts to press "I am not interested in this ad" buttons for me it gets so bad ๐
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What is your favorite way to spend money?
(lemmy.world)
Over my life, I've noticed that my expenses for living fall into one of three buckets:
- Exciting buys
- Wise purchases
- Necessary costs
But I'm mostly curious about that first one...
What is your favorite kind of exciting buy?
My exciting buy might be a new musical instrument even though I have plenty, a new video game, purchasing art, a vacation, a luxurious meal, etc.
And less on the fun side of things, my other categories would shake out like:
- A wise buy might be investing in a house or business, putting money away for savings, or spending a premium on a BuyItForLife kind of purchase to avoid buying a new one every year.
- A necessary buy is probably the same as most others: housing costs, utilities, clothing, household goods, food, transportation, etc.
I'm using Gitea and it's been wonderful.
- I run it as a Windows service - I know I know, I should containerize it ๐
- Using SQLite as the DB; I've always been a fan of filesystem DBs
- Not exposed outside my LAN since I just Parsec home when abroad
Absolutely no way Star Citizen isn't a massive scam. I mean, people can be incompetent, but
over $580 million
...seems like it has to be some kind of upper limit of incompetence?
Can't wait to try this during tax season next year
Jazz fusion subsidiary simulator deluxe
For me, I enjoyed D4 as a nice campaign. Played through a few times, once with my partner and another solo.
D4 pros: Impeccable game feel, moment to moment combat, graphics and even some nice storytelling. Enjoy the QoL features for alts and the myriad of endgame loops; Helltides are a lot of fun.
D4 cons: Dungeons are boring to me. Builds that feel fun and powerful are limited to 0-2 per class; a big letdown. Weird network / instance lag which stands out among the otherwise polished aesthetic. Middling open world re: exploration to reward ratio.
PoE pros: Deeeeeep. Hardcore. Aspirational? Still haven't cleared the campaign despite getting closer each league. Lots of builds and skill variety.
PoE cons: Feels like the oldest baguette ever to exist. Wildly stiff gameplay. Ugh its such shit compared to D4. Like DMC vs Skyrim level of difference. Disparate, cheap feeling UI and tacked on storytelling. Exudes HardXCore__Statzz.xls energy and feels practically impossible to navigate a viable build without a guide.
In the end I think Grim Dawn outplays both D4 and PoE. Check it out if you love ARPGs
A few LAN Minecraft instances for my wife and I, a personal Git server, Plex, SMB file share, and a few Docker containers on a MINISFORUM UM690 Mini PC. Been very happy with that little machine!
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My shortlist so far (includes stuff I already own but would totally pick up if I didn't)