If you like AC’s museum mode, you might be into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and 2. The first game is a bit janky at times, and some of the characters are fictional, but there will be a pop-up video-esque prompt to let you know what the real history is, what they changed, and why.

Also, I haven’t gotten around to playing it yet myself, but I’ve seen people learn a lot about space missions second hand via Kerbal Space Program.

There’s about as much game in Witcher 3 as in all three Mass Effects combined, so it’s still a very good deal.

the creator is notorious for making games that take forever and succumbing to development hell before the studio steps in and finishes it for him

Including this one, it happened like twice. Prior to that, Irrational put out 5 games in 6 years, which was maybe a little faster than the industry cadence at the time.

What they’re doing is ambitious, but they could spend twenty more years trying to make it perfect (which it will never be) even though it was “good enough” a long time ago.

My friends list has a ton of people in it who put the game down at about the same spot, including me.

Most of what we’ve called indie has had publishers, which is how we’ve heard of those games in the first place.

One of the best lines from that entire series.

Thanks. I’ve been doing a lot of research, and the beginning of it took a while to stick, so it’s good to hear I’m not a complete idiot. What “multiple purposes” are you referring to that would make the VLAN setup less effective? Because I’ll acknowledge that this could lead to two devices being completely compromised if I’m breached, but that will only cost me time to get set back up, as opposed to compromising personal devices on the main VLAN.

I’ve got a firewall. I also have two managed switches to route the VLANs that I’ll be setting up in the coming days. I’ve got a handful of guides I’ve visited and will be revisiting in order to do it the way I want, which I believe will be a reasonable level of security. Acknowledging that you were just trying to be a friendly neighbor, does this plan still hold up to your wisdom thus far?

I expect it’s the same way game companies have gotten by with “licensing” games to us for so long and remotely disabling them with no recourse. And that’s only just now being fought legally. It’ll be another 15 years before we can expect the average politician to be a gamer the way that the average person watches TV and movies or listens to music.

When time is money, you’ll likely be “lazy” with some of your development decisions, too.

Again, still learning, but my understanding is that that’s what VLAN rules can protect against.

There is no personal information on anything in that proposed VLAN currently, and in the future, the most personal stuff it will include is a chat program to replace Discord. In all, I’m assuming I can run the reverse proxy and most services (not even a dozen) on a mini PC, and then somewhere between 1-4 on a NAS. Two devices total on this VLAN, unless I learn of something that would change this plan.

I’m learning a lot of this as I go and have not exposed any services to the internet yet, but would VLANs not contain the damage to a limited portion of the network? Because that’s the plan I’m working toward. Not just for Jellyfin but a handful of other services.

A lot of people would consider the period just after 2005 to be a lot of the best TV ever made.

Gotcha. I hear you can run a utility outside of Plex to do the conversion, but I do have the luxury in this case of starting from scratch, myself.

I meant in the use case of ripping my entire Blu Ray library for a new Jellyfin install, the only thing that’s been difficult for me to match has been the special features. So I guess the friction you’re running into is that you’ve already got these files named for Plex, and the migration is the hard part?

The metadata matching on jellyfin is complete ass, so I have to manually match up like a third of my library

Does Plex somehow do a better job of figuring out special features metadata? Because other than that, you follow the naming schemes, and Jellyfin has had a 100% hit rate for me.

If the other two cost money, and I’m happy on Jellyfin, maybe ignorance is bliss.

Got a source on them paying publishers for that?