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Because it annoys me deeply when people nerd out over difficult-to-search-for acronyms without ever bothering to explain it for people not in the know:

The web comic’s called “the Parking Lot is Full”.

It ran from 1993 to 2002, and while the original site has been down for years, you can still browse parts of it via archive.org.

It has a little something for everyone.

As a player who’s played 4U, GU, World, and Rise; I’m kind of okay with that loss. The hunting side of things was always very weak and unintuitive (to me).

I think putting more emphasis on interactions with the world kind of help justify the existence of the open world - but more emphasis on finding and tracking monsters just seems like a step in a direction the teams - historically - haven’t been the best at.

This is just my opinion, though - shame to see a part you liked about the games being reduced.

Mine is in 6 days, oh boy.

Well, that just looks incredible. 2025 can’t come soon enough.

Other than the slightly similar camera angle - and emphasis on slight: those games have very different styles of camera - those are completely distinct games.

I get the idea that you’re not a fan of those titles for their design choices which led to mainstream success, but holy crap give them an iota of credit.

That was Sony’s site. Super shitty what they did there.

But on the Steam Store page it was always “a PS account is required”.

I’m totally with you on that latter point - Sony needs to do something about that.

Well, to be fair, they did write - in bold letters - on the Steam page that a Playstation network account is required to play.

They simply didn’t enforce that rule up until now.

A game where you pay up front for access, as opposed to a free-to-play/freemium title where the initial download is free.

Ooh, I’ll tell them to try it out - looks cool, cheers!

Conduit sounds very exciting - but my synapse installation (and its concomitant database) is too old and big for me to make a switch to anything else just yet.

But I’m hoping Dendrite will one day allow me to migrate over - I don’t like how one of my most mission critical programs is a Python program running out of a packaged venv. 😅

This is the correct answer, IMO.

I loved using XMPP back in the day, but I struggled talking with people who weren’t on the same server as me because of spec and client variations.

While Synapse is a resource hog, it (and Element) - to a certain degree - does the job. Can’t wait until sync v3 lands in the main server.

The only issue I have is with one friend who insists on deploying his own version of Synapse, but can’t figure out coturn and - as a result - we can’t voice chat properly.

Goddammit. Two steps forward, one step backward. 😅

Oh god my heart… Please, please stop…

This section of the tutorial you followed shows how you enable registration.

This section shows how you add a user.

The official Prosody documentation for adding users and opening registration can be found here.

I use Fantastical; pretty decent for an iOS App - if not a bit pricey.

Edit: As an important note, while I’ve used Fantastical for years, it’s really only for the Mac ecosystem so I’m looking to move away from it.

Nowadays Morgen is my Calendar app of choice, but its iOS app isn’t feature complete yep. It’s fantastic on desktop, though.

Well, that looks great. Hopefully it’s as good as the last DLC.

“Coming to mobile exclusively on Netflix”

Weird, but okay - guess Netflix is really starting to push their “we’re a games platform” aspect.

You could purchase its initial battle pass on launch, but that’s what you were buying - not the game.

Note that the flashback portion ~is actually the game’s DLC, and~ can be tackled at any point.

Its difficulty is higher than the area you’re at in the main game, when you first unlock it.

Edit: See below comments, I was wrong: it isn’t DLC.