ProdigalFrog

[email protected] might interest you. It's an experimental community that employs a really interesting bot that scans users all across the lemmyverse, and prevents the most toxic people from participating. It seems to work fairly well, so far.

The old 2003 game 'Vietcong' is still, IMHO, the most realistic depiction of jungle combat conditions in the Vietnam war (at least, in a singleplayer game). It can oftentimes be a janky, overly hard game, but there's still nothing else quite like it all these years later.

The jungle is dense for that period, the AI is surprisingly tactically aware (at least from memory. They would ambush you, flank the player, and I think even run away if they were losing an engagement), there's deadly, well camouflaged traps everywhere, making slowly walking the safest way to move around, the fights are short and deadly, and most impressive of all, it licensed a lot of famous 60's songs from that era.

It can be a difficult game to get running on modern windows, but there might be some community patches for that. It would probably run better under Linux with wine.

If you're looking for a hardcore singleplayer experience to explore that conflict from a historical context, I'd recommend giving it a shot.

Apparently the games that did use that technique, like idtech games and splinter cell, generally all had small environments that were within the limitations of the hardware, where as halo 2 had massive environments that stressed it too far with the lighting active.

The video details how all of Halo 2's assets were made with stencil shadows in mind after the bungie devs saw it in Doom 3. However, the OG Xbox ended up not having the processing power to do those critical, deep shadows, so they returned to the flat lighting of the first Halo, which resulted in a much less stylized game. The video creator shows how the game was meant to be experienced by showing all of the different character models in one of the few places in the game that retained a small section of dynamic shadows, which really drives his point home of how much better it would've looked overall.

Also @[email protected]

Have you tried any other video playing application to see if the problem persists?

Heyo, would you be interested in co-modding the Buy It For Life community with me? It's a low-activity community, would be a good option for getting your feet wet with modding! :D

That's quite strange. Your post is not showing up from the lemmy.world instance for me as well, but it does show up from our instance. As far as I can see in the modlogs over there, you haven't been banned from that community or lemmy.world, and your post wasn't removed either.

I tried posting to a Lemmy.world community just now to test it, and it showed up on the 'new' view there after about 50 seconds, so federation appears to be working.

Could you try posting another article in that world news community to see if the issue persists?

Thought this would be about Oolite, the open-source remake of the space trading game Elite.

Interesting little things, these oolites.

I like that idea! I've been procrastinating with filling out the buy it for life wiki as well, but I'll try to get around to this as well when I'm able.

Absolutely love to see that industry finally unionize. Unions in general really seem to be having a renaissance, and I am so here for it.

The community is rightfully distrustful and dismissive toward a technology that is mostly used for scams and grifting.

The Folding Ideas video on crypto has yet to be adequately refuted.

If someone was earnestly looking for a way to privately transact, the best option I've seen is GNU taler, which doesn't require any crypto or blockchains to accomplish its goal extremely well, it just needs wider adoption.

LBRY also uses a crypto back end, and LBRY coin (their crypto) is what odysee used before being bought out by Arweave. I wouldn't recommend either, personally.