DaGeek247

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[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Just be aware that it's a lot less 'first person shooter' and more 'strategy game from a first person perspective' these days. I'm still so mad about their infantry combat overhaul.

Also, more importantly, squad is only sort-of compatible with linux. They've got DRM that does break things on the linux side on occasion since it's not directly supported.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 1 points 15 hours ago

There was a pivot from milsim to cod style gameplay after or around their first beta testing started. Apparently not enough people liked the milsim gameplay, so they switched to more arcade stuff instead. It was touted as a win for actually properly done user experience testing, and small development teams combining to allow for more agile direction adjustments. This where the 'remastered' title came in, despite being the first release they did.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

For me personally, it had some of the features of a milsim, like quicker deaths, squad chat, medics, etc, but lacked a lot of the team-oriented objectives that bring a team together, like larger maps, even quicker deaths, stamina management, resource management and spawns.

Essentially, it was a bit of a rough combination of arcade and milsim and didn't quite fit the bill of either. If nearly every single gun takes 1-2 hits to kill someone, but spawns are setup so that they're all within 100 yards of the other team, it really can get overwhelming incredibly quickly.

At least, that's how it felt to me. If nobody is required to make spawn points since they just show up for the main objectives, nobody is going to bother to drive around and set it up better without being friends IRL, or actually just into that part of a milsim fps.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 20 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

Battlebit is kinda dead after the devs started work on a sound update, failed to separate their prod and Dev source branches, and then realized they couldn't make small changes without finishing the actually really big audio and everything else update first.

Also, battlebit is in a bit of a weird spot; it was made by the dev team as an arma/squad replacement for people without high tier setups, but was first published with more arcade elements than that initial start would have you expect it to have. There's been a couple rumors that the devs aren't happy with how arcadey the gameplay for it is.

It's fun for what it is, but there's not a whole lot of players on it lately, and future gameplay elements aren't guaranteed.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 22 hours ago

Oh don't worry. She'll get the other spider out for her other eye in just a moment.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago

I'm with you on this, and English is my first language. This feels like a foreign-to-australia sort of issue rather than a foreign-to-english one.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pornhub had a shitload of other issues that weren't payment processor related.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

With the slideshow fps that only Tumblr can produce, too.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dammit those are the people I get my coffee from. Who'd you switch to, and why?

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can do this with Charles Proxy. https://www.donnywals.com/throttle-network-speeds-for-a-specific-host-in-charles/

I would strongly suggest this as your first choice. Bad website experiences are like alarm clocks that use your favorite song. You may love it at first, but you'll hate the website within a couple months, every time.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol so you do not have a security clearance.

If you'd paid attention, you'd notice that I never said I had a security clearance. Hell, I even outright said "My agency doesn't use clearance level to determine security requirements".

The fact that you put so much effort into proving me wrong that you lost sight of what I was actually saying says more about you than it says about me.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

From the article;

I think that this debacle could've been avoided if Plex had just taken a more careful approach with its app overhaul.

So, they separated out their photo app from the rest of it, and people got mad because they did a bad job of it. I don't see the problem. There's a lot of reasons to be mad at Plex, but them taking their photos service and putting it into a different app isn't plex trying to make things shittier for money. It's just the regular development required to keep things running well. Except for how badly they did it, apparently.

I don't use Plex. Never did. But I just don't see separating photos from the main app as anything worse than a side-grade. The article mentions how they didn't have a photo app for the TV users, which okay, that's worth complaining about, but if they had done that part right it would actually be less effort if all you wanted to do was display photos on your TV.

 

I switched to windscribe last month because the proton CEO starting spewing politcal BS, and I wanted port forwarding that wasn't locked behind a shitty GUI.

As far as I was concerned setup was super easy, the VPN speeds were great, and port forwarding worked really nicely. The whole price for a fixed server and port forward, + unlimited data was a bit much (at $95/year) but for the ease of use and speeds I was getting, I was happy to stick with them.

My setup is a always-on server with a 1gbps connection, where yes, I fucking seed my shit, all of it. I have about 30TB of linux ISOs and counting, and it's rare that my combined upload speed is less than 1MBps, ever.

Which lead me to getting banned from windscribe with no notice or warning in the middle of last week. This lead to me having to spend tracker points to avoid HnR, and i'm also unable to grab any new ISOs until I find a new VPN provider that won't ban me for actually using the service full time.

I did shoot them an email (after talking' with their AI bot first), and they were actually helpful enough. The offered to restore support, so long as I promised to not torrent with them again (which, I honestly did promise not to. I'm not sticking with a VPN service that can't handle me actually using it for what it's advertised for) and they did unban the account. Whole email chain took about three days to get resolved.

My sticking point is that they still have instructions on setting up torrents on their own website, and that they specifically allow for unlimited data (with the plan i paid for) so long as it's just one user. I did not break those rules. After clarifying that in the support email, they still said that I was using too much data (despite the unlimited data advertisement) and that torrenting was not allowed on their service.

TL:DR: Windscribe bans you if you use a lot of data, and support says torrents aren't allowed, despite their website advertising such. Proof in the attached images.

If y'all have any other suggestions for a VPN that allow port forwarding i'd really appreciate it.

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