Damn, that’s cool.

❤️

That sounds wicked! I should totally decorate my PC case with an emblem like that too! I’m still using that Corsair C70 that looks like an olive drab ammo box. :D

Awesome (and super spooky) chryssalid figure! I didn’t even know they made those. 😲 It definitely does the creature justice!

Now I wonder what other figures there are, but I realize at this point I’m probably better off making my own fan models to 3D print. XD

I don’t wanna know how old X-COM WoTC is. I always start it, make a bunch of progress, and then have to abandon it for like half a year at a time. One of these daaaays!!!

I gotta go back and try the classics too. There’s open source engines for them now! :D

SO MUCH. I got so hyped for a brief second there a while back, until I realized it was “2042” and they missed the “1”. Then I was like “Aw c’mon for real?”

The aesthetic was really cool, and Titans mode was awesome. Although I’d like if we could solve the problem where every server owner froze titans in place because they’d crash / slow down the server if people moved them! 😂

I even got that preorder version that gave you a flashdrive that looked like one of their dogtags. THAT was cool!

But we need a good smaller studio to basically create a spiritual successor. Definitely wouldn’t trust EA with this anymore! It’d have some rootkit-style windows-only anticheat and a storefront baked in.

It’s right up there on my unlikely wishlist along with “Sims 3 but allow more RAM and multithreading.” 😂

Actually know what tho? Titanfall 2 fills that 2142 niche somewhat closely. That game’s incredible. I’m glad we seem to still have that, at least.

Right on! Just for you…

I’m on overwatch. 😉

Yeah discs are mostly a backup medium for me now, as I’d rather just read things off my server. :)

HOWEVER… I’m not absolutely swimming in terabytes as a lot of self-hosters seem to, which makes storage really suck right now.

…So we still use our blu-rays because I can’t afford to just throw gig after gig on platters like that. :(

This would make for a KILLER Hackaday read if you got a proof of concept working though hahaha.

Windows killed a lot of disc drives around win10. I was convinced my laptop one just died.

Oh but look, running EndeavourOS and what’s this? Works just fine.

CDs and movies no problem. Games probably too, with a little Wine/Bottles magic!

Look out, you’ve got specialized equipment to generate an ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ now! 😎

Yeah I’m increasingly convinced the “Nobody uses discs anymore” thing is a coordinated manipulation campaign by rent-seeking streaming media giants…

Oh yeah, when I see couch co-op games go up, I collect them. I’m so glad this is coming back!

I recently introduced some family to playing Worms: Armageddon hotseat style, and that was ridiculous fun. (And it can run on a potato probably! Lol)

The hardest thing anymore is just getting adults in a room together, and convincing them to try new games and get set up and everything.

(Jackbox tends to be most accessible but I really want to play more involved games with people…)

Haha yeah I actually did a few of these before, and they were awesome.

I remember really enjoying UT2k4, Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars, and a ridiculous number of Warcraft III mods (and DOTA lol).

A lot of my friends really liked CounterStrike 1.6 though and…I honestly wasn’t much of a fan hah. (It was the hitboxes and spread. AK bursts center mass? No dice. Get hit in the foot by a submachinegun? Ded. I know, skill issue prolly lol.)

I remember once we played a few games and then everyone just logged into their individual WoW accounts around the end of the night. Lame lol.

Logistically, I definitely don’t miss having to get the game(s) installed on everybody’s machines, and make sure everybody’s got the same patch version, and that kinda thing. Steam’s actually made that a ton easier! (Especially with things like 4 packs and sales.)

More recently we tried a LAN party, and Warsow saved the day since it was free on GOG. That was a TON of fun! Sad that’s a “dead game.”

In highschool the whole computer lab would be playing Battlefield Modern Combat, or Battlefield 2142, and that was REALLY fun with a full house. (Getting to hear people shout “Alright WHO IS <username>?!?!?!” was great fun.)

Oh crap, how’s KeePass got an LLM involved‽ Time to look into this now…

I did find https://codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass , but it looks like a very new project.

@[email protected]

Yep. Seconding this!

KeePass + Syncthing is the best.

Back up the database(s) regularly. (Syncthing can also retain x number of versions and things like that, but also do your own 3-2-1 backups.)

You can use something as simple as a Pi, or an old laptop, or even an old phone if you get creative, as an always-on syncthing server to keep them synchronized. KeePassXC even has a fancy integration with Firefox, so all you gotta do is unlock your database and click autofill on websites.

Edit: lmao seriously, not like I care but what’s there to downvote about this? 😂

My hat’s a tactical cap with hook-and-loop mounting points, where I change out various morale patches based on what I’m feeling that day. (A lot of times it’s the X-COM “vigilo confido” patch haha.)

So does the hat choose my personality? Or does my personality choose the hat? Who’s to say. It’s flexible and open to change at least. :D

Can’t try college right now, but LAN parties are legit! I hope somewhere they’re still a thing…

Ya caught me bein’ a bit lazy! X_X

Thanks for the formatting help. :)

QGIS sounds really cool! I’ll definitely bring that up so she can practice that Environmental Sciences degree. :)

Insane about the liability angle. I had never considered that! Sounds like far too serious a business for my tastes.

I’m glad there’s a lot of open source libraries, and Linux is heavily employed in scientific and academic circles, at least. :)

These days I’d expect large number of people in college to not even know what a file system is. I’ve read articles where professors complain about this.

No no, not like “NTFS / BTRFS / ReiserFS / TempleFS / EXT4…”

…like…“Folders are how you organize files. And you can rename files. The extension tells you what the file is.”

Haha I’m an aspiring game dev and I know a little bit about a ton of software!

…and I suck at most of it. But I can hold a conversation about it at least! :D

P.S: Haven’t heard of QGIS tho! My partner used ARCGIS though, and would always get annoyed when I pronounced it “Ark-jizz.”

it’s so incredibly easy to highlight some text and click search that it it shows a profound lack of curiosity and a lot of laziness.

100%. People will ‘Google’ celebrities, memes, “Why is my poop green?”, but also just be like “Somebody hand me an answer.” When they risk learning something.

“The Internet is like having access to the Library of Alexandria, and everyone wants to just gossip about each other in the lobby.”

–I think I read this on bash.org at some point

Don’t quote me on that tho.

–Me.

BUT ALSO like the others said…if somebody’s legitimately curious, let’s be nice about it because somebody new learning about our thing is a net positive.

Are we talking about that original one? Where he tried Pop!_OS and tried to install Steam and the package installer gave a big message that something wasn’t right, so he chuckled, TL;DR’d and hit “yes anyway” and was shocked he borked his install?

That LTT?

I’m never gonna fault somebody for unfamiliarity, but we should absolutely fault people, especially ones with any tech experience, for not reading helpful messages right in front of them.