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If by "well maintained" you mean keeping a whitelist of instances, then yeah. But I doubt anyone is doing that because it's actually counterproductive to the concept of fediverse. By keeping a whitelist you are creating an in group and an out group and instances can live or die based on that grouping.

As for why you'd need a whitelist, you can't defend against a malicious attack if they keep spinning up new instances with bots designed to spread misinformation. The moment you ban once instance another one gets spun up. The only solution is a whitelist so all new instances are automatically blocked. Of course that works if all "normal" instances also have proper registration policies and can't become attack vectors.

If the fediverse becomes wildly popular defending the instance can become a full-time job as the open nature gives more attack vectors. Also most instances are ran by volunteers so it's probably not going to be a good time for anyone.

I used Truby9 but I just noticed that there's a compatibility fix. Maybe that's what I'm missing.

Well, you can check the scripts of the tool yourself. They’re all in the zip file you download from nexus. It just sends the credentials to the Steam API and uses the auth token for the rest. That’s exactly what the Steam app on Android does. And it’s also not some tool from a random dude, it’s the official downgrader tool from the FOLON team. They even link it on their homepage. I get being paranoid with credentials, but in this case i saw no problem. Sorry for my rambling, but this “issue” is blown way out of proportion imo.

Ah, I didn't think about who made it. I just saw two options, either I go through the code to make sure it's nothing sus or I do it manually and because I didn't feel like going through code I did it manually. Should've paid more attention I guess.

As for the guide, I haven't tried the Heroic launcher. I generally use Lutris but I will try that when the big patch comes out. Hopefully they also upgrade to a newer version of Fo4 because the ultrawidescreen mod is having some issues.

Not the guy toy responded but I can give my experience.

The first annoyance was downgrading Fallout 4. Now I know there's a mod that can do it for you but I'm not going to stick my Steam credentials in some random piece of code. So I did it manually which wasn't hard but it was annoying.

The second burden was getting F4se to run because for whatever reason I couldn't launch FO4 without downgrading to wine 8.0.x. Luckily I found out glorious eggroll version of wine works with FO4 and actually starts F4se automatically.

But by far the biggest hurdle was the actual installation of Folon. I couldn't get the installer to install the mod. I ended up unpacking the installer and manually copying the files into the FO4 folder.

Then I got the train bug and manually installed buffout. Then I got an XDI error so I had to manually reinstall XDI as well.

What's the easier way?

There's no clear "best execution" as each game has its flaws or quirks. I think Escape from Tarkov is currently still the overall best as it has more or less defined the genre, but it's not without it's obvious flaws.

The biggest obvious flaw that will kick in the nuts of new players is the wall of game knowledge they need just to survive a raid, and the game explains nothing. The first timer experience is one where you're thrown into a map and told "at these points you can extract" and then you're not told where you spawned nor where the extractions are. Good luck figuring out where to go. Oh and if you didn't take the right healing items with you better enjoy limping around the map. There are a lot of other issues with game as well that I'm not going to get into because I could write a term paper on everything wrong with Tarkov.

As for the future. I have my hopes on Delta Force Hawk Ops. It's currently in closed playtest so I can't play it myself but from what I've seen on the web it seems to get the Tarkov formula and is making it more accessible to the casual player so my guess it that's the one to keep an eye out.

There's also Dark and Darker but I'm not into swords and sorcery so I can't comment how good that game is.

Absolutely. It's a really difficult genre to create games for because you need to balance PvP and PvE so that one doesn't overpower the other. Then you need to balance gear progression so the equipment you find is a meaningful upgrade over the starting great, but it can't be too meaningful so starting gear still has a chance against someone who is kitted out.

I don't think extraction shooter crowd would consider Helldivers an extraction shooter.

Helldivers is a PvE game while extraction shooter genre is primarily PvEvP. I know games like gray zone zero have PvE servers and even Tarkov has added a PvE mode, but a lot of the purists would say you have to have PvP as well. I personally don't view it that way but IMO that's not the only thing preventing Helldivers from being an extraction shooter.

Another aspect that extraction shooters have that Helldivers doesn't is the loot. Whatever equipment you bring into the match is at risk of being lost forever. If someone kills you and takes your gun, you need a new gun because the previous one is gone. Similarly whatever loot you pick up during the raid is also lost when you die. Helldivers doesn't work that way. You never lose your gear during missions and while you can lose samples you can't lose credits or super credits. Overall in Helldivers there's not really much loot to pick up or lose, which is not really true for the extraction shooters that are still alive.

And finally is the "why go into a raid". In extraction shooters the player generally sets their own goals, either to complete a quest, collect some loot or just do PvP. In Helldivers the reason for going in is predetermined, you do the mission and then you extract. Your "mission" can't change mid raid like it can in extraction shooters.

At a high level helldivers can look like an extraction shooter, but as I pointed out there are objective reasons that separate helldivers from extraction shooters.

There has definitely been a trend towards extraction shooters and I think there absolutely is market for a more mainstream extraction shooter. I can understand that it's not everyone's cup of tea because it can be a very stressful experience. But I think the lack of a genre giant is what drove Bungie to make an extraction shooter because in terms of mainstream that genre is very much in its infancy and there's no de facto king (Tarkov doesn't count because that's not mainstream and never will be). You nail it and you've got a golden goose that's also really easy to turn into a live-service game.

The issue is that it's an extremely difficult genre to get right and making it mainstream might end up needing to walk a very fine line. I guess that's why Marathon essentially in development hell because from what they teased to the public some time ago felt like they didn't really understand the core of the genre and if you don't understand the core you're going to have a very bad time making it mainstream.

I'm also not sure about the pivot to "hero extraction shooter". Seems like Delta Force Hawk Ops also has gone down that route and it doesn't look all that horrible, but adding heroes does nothing for the core concepts of an extraction shooter. That is not going to save Marathon.

Yeah, that's why I said it's neither because people can be unpredictable. It might not filter out irrelevant content because people love to upvote memes and it might filter out criticism because sometimes people downvote criticism.

Overall like with some other Steam features the value of the feature is dependent on the community, and generally that value has been a net positive.

It probably works based on whether users marking reviews as helpful or unhelpful and then uses some formula to remove the unhelpful ones. So it can be neither, but the key takeaway is that the users decide what ends up filtered out.

How does the brain worm guy have 6%? There are some serious low information voters out there that think he's anywhere near presidential material.

I'm not sure how you're surprised about that when an openly fascist criminal with a couch fucking VP has 42% of votes.

But it's broken and unplayable because the developer/publisher renders it unplayable and that's where the initiative comes in. The initiative wants to make it so that if the developer/publisher wants to turn off their official services they don't render the game unplayable.

You're stating it like it's somehow objective, but it's not. Battlefield 3 and 4 have been delisted and it's a matter of time until EA turns off services and those games are left for dead. Battlefield 4 still averages above 1k players a month. It's clear that EA won't see value in keeping the light on and will turn off the services in the near future, but do you think the players will go overnight from "I want to play this game" to "This game is worthless". Don't you think the people playing BF4 wouldn't want to continue playing after EA shuts down the services keeping the game running?

I think it's pretty obvious that there are two groups who decide if a game has value or not, the company and the customers. Right now after purchasing the game the customers no longer have a say whether a game has value or not. Only the company has a say and if the company says it's not worth it then the people who bought it just have to suck it up. And that's the idea behind the initiative, to make it so that the company isn't the only one who gets to decide how long you get to use the product you've purchased.

I think if we expanded the idea of bricking software beyond gaming, if companies could destroy any piece of software they made, you'd also be in favor of this initiative. Imagine if Microsoft could brick Windows 10 when they've officially stopped supporting it. Or Nvidia effectively bricking their older cards by stopping official driver support. Would you then also argue that the software has lost value and it's acceptable behavior?

The Al Jazeera and Fox News comparison is why I don't trust that site. I don't think Al Jazeera isn't a biased organization, but I do consider them somewhat factual. I also think I'm not the only one because you often see people linking to Al Jazeera. However when it comes to Fox News I think most people would agree that Fox news is far from accurate. It's not exactly Newsmax, but if someone linked Fox News I think most people would definitely question the facts of the article.

And then we get to mediabiasfactcheck where Al Jazeera is considered just as factual as Fox News. It's one of those situations where you have to question who exactly is in the wrong? Is Al Jazeera really that factually incorrect? Is Fox news more factual than people believe? Or is mediabiasfactcheck wrong? I'm not against being wrong but from my years of being on the web I'd say it's the last option.

I usually agree with Thor but on this one I probably couldn't disagree more. Based on what he says I'd say his mindset is completely opposite to what his initiative wants to do. He essentially said he doesn't see any value in (live service) games after they've reached their end of service and from that perspective I can understand how this movement is pointless or even potentially damaging. But that assumes that the (live service) game loses value after the company stops supporting it and I just don't think that's the case.

A lot of games continue live despite the company ending official support for them. If anyone remembers there's a gem called Wildstar that was shut down in 2018. Despite the game being shut down and even trademark has expiring people are still running the game on private servers. People are putting in sweat and tears to make sure a game is preserved. Imagine how much easier it would be if Carbine or NcSoft had released proper tools for it. Even Vanilla WoW exists because private server did it first and Blizzard wanted to get some of that money.

And another point that Thor made how it's not about preservation because you can't preserve a moment in time. I think that's a completely disingenuous argument because it feeds into FOMO. If you join WoW today you will never experience "the golden age of WoW". Maybe another game you might be interested in is having a golden age right now, better buy into the hype. You can't argue against preservation like this because it's literally impossible to preserve a moment in time except in your memory so you have be at that exact place at that exact time to really experience that thing, that is FOMO at it's purest form. That argument against preservation is an argument in favor of FOMO.

Thors points come for a belief that live service games don't need to be preserved after official support has ended, and he views this initiative through that lens. Of course he will have issues with the initiative because he's opposing the idea at a fundamental level. It's like asking a racist how to be more tolerant with other races, the answer obviously is that you shouldn't want to tolerate other races. And just like you would ignore a racist I think you should ignore what Thor has to say on this matter because anything he says is against the idea of preservation.

That's really uncharacteristic for RBR. Both Gasly and Albon were let go despite scoring better than Perez is scoring right now. Either RBR don't want to win the constructors or they're no longer the team they once were or there's something else going on. I don't think the first two are true which means it's the last option.

I'm genuinely curious what game needs a different version of Steam.

Different versions of Steam? What the fuck are you on about? You must be making your Linux gaming harder than it has to be. I've done all sorts of weird shit to install games and mods on Linux but I have never even seen an installation guide that requires somehow creating a different version of Steam.

Even with launch scripts and wine versions Lutris usually covers almost every game I've wanted to install. Lutris makes setting up right scripts and wine versions as easy as it is to install runtimes on Windows.

I think it's the opposite, I think Musk had immense influence on her. Not connecting with your child is also influencing the child. She knows firsthand what a horrible person he is and has probably reflected on that to not be like him.

He didn't lose a son because she is transgender. He lost a child because he's a shitty father. And he thinks he lost a son because he is also a transphobe who refuses to accept her daughter. The why isn't her gender, the why is Musks transphobia and shitty parenting.

IMO if you want to normalize trans people you should treat them like people and not stick a huge "transgender" sign above them.