My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.

Thank you! That’s too bad.

That’s interesting, I’ll try to learn more about that.

So, in this case, the community I was trying to post to was [email protected]. There is also a user with that name on lemmy.world. If I search “[email protected]” on Mastodon, does that mean both of them should show up? And what would their names be? One would start with ! and the other start with @?

I think that’s just a way of getting a link to the community, but it doesn’t actually tag the community in your post or make it get posted into that community. I just tried it, and the post does not show up in the community that I mentioned with !.

If you close the program, you might lose information. Like information about sailors.

Oh man, I even recognize a few of those! I miss that era of web design.

I found some old websites myself a few months ago and put some links on my blog. These aren’t archive links, they’re still up in their original form.

Pasting a summary below:

Sonic Team, https://www.sonicteam.com/

A bunch of websites for Sonic Team’s games are still up, dating back to the Sega Saturn. Here’s a few highlights:

• Sonic Adventure, for the Dreamcast, released in 1998.
  • A blog from the music team about their trip to a recording studio in New York. Check this one out with Google Translate, it’s amazing.
  • Photos from the trip
• Space Channel 5, also for the Dreamcast, released in 1999.
• Sonic R, for the Saturn, released in 1997.
• Nights into Dreams, also Saturn, relased in 1996. The footer mentions Netscape 3.0.
  • a page about the story with a very 90s era background

The King of Fighters. This fighting game series still has some of the original marketing sites up for its earlier
titles.

• KOF 98 “Unlimited Match”. I’m not sure when this was made. This is for the 2008 re-release of KOF 98. The copyright date says 2007 and there’s a Wordpress logo for the favicon. However, everything else about the website screams <marquee>“1998.”</marquee> It’s using tables for the layout and font tags for text colors. I’m wondering if there was an existing site for KOF 98, and they gave it an update for 2008 without changing the way it was written.
• KOF 2000. A great example of how a site would sometimes have completely different layouts for each page.
• KOF 2002
• A general information site about SNK’s games, last updated in 2009, but looks like it was designed before then.

Honorable Mention: Team Fortress 2, https://www.teamfortress.com/

This one is newer, of course, but still has some hallmarks of mid-2000s web design. I point out some things about it in the blog post.

Thank you! That is good to know.

I have a couple of questions, one about this device and one for anyone just in general:

1. For Android games, does this have the actual Google play store? Or do you need to use the Aurora store? And if so, do you use a throwaway account because Google might decide that they aren’t OK with that someday?
2. This is available with 8 GB or 12 GB of memory. I’ve never played PS2 games on one of these handhelds before – would 8 GB be fine for that?

Great review! And wow, this thing looks fantastic. After using a horizontal retro emulator, I wasn’t sure if I would ever want a vertical one again. Horizontal just immediately felt so much more comfortable for me. But this one definitely looks tempting. Also, the vertical handheld I have, a Miyoo mini, is really small, so maybe that’s part of my ergonomics problem.

It’s amazing just how much better games have been from indie devs and smaller publishers. I don’t see a single game from EA, Ubisoft, or Activision on there.

The only one I’ve tried before is Wekan. I’m not a heavy kanban user, I just basically wanted to put sticky notes in columns, and it worked for that. Looks like it has the features you’re needing, though. There’s read-only demo here: https://boards.wekan.team/b/D2SzJKZDS4Z48yeQH/wekan-open-source-kanban-board-with-mit-license

It looks fairly mobile-friendly, and I think they have Android and iOS apps, too.

Github page: https://github.com/wekan/wekan

Same here. I’m the only user of my services, so if I try visiting the website and it’s down, that’s how I know it’s down.

I prefer phrasing it differently, though. “With my current uptime monitoring strategy, all endpoints serve as an on-demand healthcheck endpoint.”

One legitimate thing I do, though, is have a systemd service that starts each docker compose file. If a container crashes, systemd will notice (I think it keeps an eye on the PIDs automatically) and restart them.

Thanks, this is a great explanation. I’ll try doing &> /dev/null & tomorrow. I’d like to find the simplest version of this for recommending to other people.

Thanks for the suggestion; I tried both of these things and they do hide the output, but it doesn’t make the post-receive script actually exit early. So git push still takes a while to finish.

I think this might have worked, except the ssh key I’m using for git has a password on it. So it does return to the terminal right away, but the git push command in the background is stuck waiting for me to type my password.

Finding cheat codes for Sega Genesis games was my introduction to the internet. It was so fun getting to tell other kids at school about cheat codes that you knew about for their games.

These days I don’t, mainly because they don’t seem to have them anymore, and also because if I’m not enjoying the game with its base mechanics I have plenty of other games in my backlog that I can check out instead.

I was just thinking “Hey, this kind of looks like Dark Messiah.” And then he kicked an enemy off of a ledge and I thought “Oh it’s 100% a sequel to Dark Messiah.”

I’ve always thought it was both. I’m definitely no expert on Metroidvanias, since I’ve only played the one (if Dead Cells counts as one). I actually thought the term “Metroidvania” was about the movement and combat – today I just learned that it’s about the exploration and finding things. You do at least have to do that in the bank level, if I remember right. And the castle level.

The only one I’ve played is Dead Cells, and it’s fantastic. I haven’t even bought any of the DLC, the base game is already endlessly replayable. I also listen to the soundtrack at least once a week.

I definitely want to get around to playing Hollow Knight and Animal Well at some point.

Wait…you can just do that?