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The PS2 Ace Combat games (4/5/Zero) are still best-in-genre as far as I’m concerned, and have held up exceedingly well in general. Aerial dogfighting with good controls, good mission design and interesting story.
Sky Odyssey is a more “relaxed” little flight game that I also like, still got game-like controls but no combat, just missions where you fly through hard situations.
I’ve also been playing this, even though it’s well out of what I normally play. I’d describe it as being closer to an ARPG than a MOBA, and for both better and for worse, it feels like a roguelike version of mid-seasonal gameplay in ARPGs. Couple of buttons on relatively short cooldowns backed up by buildcrafting meant to make those buttons utterly broken with lots of good opportunities available. There’s okay variance between runs. Buildcrafting is super flexible in general, you can move all of your ability upgrades around to other abilities at any time with no cost, you can even give almost everything to friends in co-op.
Not all is good. The game was review-bombed at launch due to the metaprogression and cooldown changes from the demo, and honestly, that was probably correct. The balancing work and the per-character XP requirements ruined some of the fun that the demo had. The worst was hotfixed within a day, even adding a compensation system for demo players, and progress is like 3X faster now, but it still feels like it’s too slow and not fluid enough. I sorta settled on having a “main” in a genre that’s more fun if you swap between characters to keep things fresh. The devs will probably find a solution sooner than later.
There’s some other problems like the performance absolutely tanking in lategame regardless of what you’re playing on (my trusty RX 580 performs about as well as my friend’s RTX 4080, and that’s a pretty universal complaint), there’s some multiplayer bugs like a boss attack that only the host can survive, some questionable balancing here and there, one of the 8 characters feels unfinished (Shell), but overall it’s been pretty good, fills a pretty unique role and the problems don’t really detract from what I’m getting out of it.
I’ve seen the claim around but I’m highly skeptical of it. DDR5 is far too slow for anything where memory bandwidth really matters, any newly produced chip that’s gonna be used for AI is on HBM3 or HBM3e, or possibly GDDR6/GDDR7 if it’s a GPU pulled from the consumer segment. HBM5 is still a very, very early research project and is certainly not being produced yet.
The idea is interesting, but $13/month for one ‘mystery’ album from an artist you (most likely) don’t know feels rather up there.
root= isn’t correct for booting a live image like this. You need to use some specific parameters to guide the initramfs to where it can find the /boot/x86_64/airootfs.sfs file, and in general, something like that will be the case for most distros but there are lots of unique mechanisms. Looking at the grub.cfg, /loader/entries or similar files will usually get you some things you can put into your favorite search engine to hopefully find some documentation. For Arch it’s part of mkinitcpio-archiso: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio-archiso/-/blob/master/docs/README.bootparams?ref_type=heads
I don’t have a setup to test it but if If I’m not mistaken something like this should work:
options "archisosearchuuid=2025-08-01-13-39-26-00"
These containers are/were for self-hosting. VMWare previously owned Bitnami, it was their attempt to make it easier to self-host rather than paying a cloud provider, which should directly benefit them because VMWare got its money from businesses that self-host + self-host people growing up learning free homelab ESXi and wanting to apply that at work. It helps a lot if there’s well-maintained solutions for deploying popular stuff.
Then Broadcom bought VMWare for a ridiculous price and is doing none of that.
Even with the current thumbs up/down people get it wrong. Give it a thumbs up but write a scathing review.
I’ve done that and it’s a result of not having more options than good/bad. Always the same cause: I really wanted to write a 3* review for a game that has a lot to praise but its core is fundamentally flawed, but Steam doesn’t let me give a 3*, so I try to correct for the review score bracket I think the game should be in.
For the benefit of people that can’t watch this horrible video:
This is really about them being able to change the already extremely vague terms of service and you having no recourse other than voiding your purchase if you don’t like it. There is some focus on a gun thing early on, but it’s just an example where they flip-flopped multiple times over the years based on vague wording in the ToS that was changed after the fact. Commercial modded server owners were the main ones that had to make changes because of that rule, often taking guns away from players that had them, but it’s generally enforced very inconsistently.
But the main thing they’re focusing on in the lawsuit is the mass deletion of legitimately bought Minecraft copies when they stopped Mojang account migration in 2023 (everyone that didn’t migrate then no longer owns Minecraft according to Microsoft; no refunds). That, too, was effectively a one-sided ToS change. And to make matters worse, the old ToS had an explicit clause that you could keep playing the game in singleplayer even without agreeing to any new ToS.
This lawsuit is being done in Sweden. I don’t know if this kind of ToS/contract validity has actually been tested there before.
I think this is the first time I ever watched a video at 0.5 speed. “this was done due to retention purposes for the video to maximize spread potential”. Yeeeaaaah. No. Checked reddit, it’s downvoted to the negatives over form. Checked a different place that would be all over this, entire topic is discussing the form and there’s not one mention of what it’s about because nobody got that far. The exact kind of person that might take time out of their day to join a class action is not going to watch this garbage. I think it’s good to have this tested, but I straight up don’t trust this guy. Supposedly maximizing views while getting zero information through to anyone is not going to help the cause.
They already implement instant bank payments in a lot of countries where there’s a reasonable consumer-to-business solution for it. I know at least Sofort/iDEAL/Bancontact are supported just fine in their respective countries.
Yep. It would be incredibly bad if they did automatic bans for any key they don’t recognize, but it’s technically possible.
Edit: from what I’m reading it apparently just refuses to let you in with unrecognized/non-MS keys. Yeah that makes a lot more sense.
You can, but most everything that would let you run your own boot-time code is supposed to end up in the TPM event log, which the TPM is happy to attest to with its unique/uniquely bannable attestation key. Not too difficult to set it up so that no attestation = no access.
This type of attestation is far from perfect for a lot of different reasons, and it would be really impractical to automate bans with it, but I guess it’s a tool they see value in.
Another World/Out of This World. Short game, but also a 1991 game made by one dev and one composer in two years, and artistically it still holds up fairly well even today.
The modern breed of CAPTCHAs is mostly only trying to verify that it’s a full-fat browser. undetected-chromedriver, camoufox, pydoll, patchright and a million other libraries/tools exist. Nothing’s perfect and it’s a cat & mouse game, but this single incident is a sample size of one as well.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1339
Everything regarding enforcement is early stages but what they’re aiming for is much more specific than chat control and is based on existing wording in the Digital Services Act.
Then it can’t be booted with new media. Microsoft has been very, very slow with the automatic rollout of their own key updates, and made just about no progress over the past two years. It’s been manual updates + newly produced systems only.
The trick here is that they have a key-exchange-key that can be used to update the other keys. That doesn’t expire (or rather, not in a meaningful way). But, a Windows image is still only going to boot on a system that trusts the key that was used for it. If you make a Windows image on a 2011 system now, it’s going to be signed with the 2011 key, and it won’t boot on a system that distrusts that key. The same is true in reverse.
Their key update documentation is all available and some enterprises have been on the new key for a while, but it’s a lot of manual work and a lot of problems have popped up, most documented in there. How they’re going to roll this out automatically to normal users isn’t obvious to me. There’s technically nothing stopping a system from trusting both the 2011 and 2023 keys, and I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if they end up never pushing the 2011 revocation.
The keys they use for their own OS don’t truly expire until late 2026, and I expect they’ll do their best to delay it until then, but the next time they have to update their boot manager is going to be painful and introduce all kinds of new problems.
The new owners are so trustworthy that they weren’t even transparent about who they are. In the comments of the original announcement they defend that with:
This post wasn’t about Chosen — it was about Robin and the legacy he built over 24 years. We’re the new owners and ultimate decision-makers at Nexus Mods. We’ll share more about ourselves when we’ve earned that right. For now, we’re focused on listening, learning, and making modding even easier, and yes, you’ll see us around in the community being active.
I can’t say I find that statement to be particularly trustworthy given it’s coming from an NFT bro.
Dual nominations for Paper Mario: Sticker Star & Paper Mario: Color Splash. The only thing I really remember about them is that I played them and they left me without any feelings about them whatsoever.
I haven’t seen proper reporting but the Play Integrity install source thing is accurate. There’s a reasonably good overview straight from the devil himself.
Lots of things that have very valid reasons on paper that also just happen to give Google a stupid amount of control and will backfire for a somewhat small percentage of people in very bad ways. We’ve been at “you can’t use pretty much any bank unless you agree to either Google or Apple terms” for quite some years now, now we’re giving those same app developers ways to detect if their device has accessibility APIs enabled (useful to protect against bot farms, but also a functional check for “you’re able-bodied”) or is in security support (also a functional check for “not reliant on hand-me-downs”).
The store page is kinda confusing. I don’t think the line “Join forces with other players to take on the creeping night and the dangers within featuring 3-player co-op.” along with both singleplayer and co-op listed as valid playing styles is something most reasonable people would interpret the way that it really is: be exactly 3 players with external voice chat available because all other ways of playing the game will suck hard.
They’ve been sorta honest about that in interviews and such but those don’t have the same reach as their huge marketing campaign.
Not sure, but I can reproduce it on my end. The actual download pages on
get.videolan.orghave ads, the main site does not.