#EEE strikes back

Ignore the bottom one. Forgot to move it further down.

But there are also a few communities dedicated to India, since it seems more of an event from there.

There could be communities also dedicated to culture, holidays/festivities, and so on. I didn’t look as deeply, but if me in a small instance already found a few contenders for the previous ones, you likely can too.

To the OP, could fit those possibly:

Haven’t seen if it got posted, long months and I am going through saved links, but if it didn’t get posted, maybe here since the humorous connotation, !wallpapers@lemmy.ca, !wallpapersbr@lemmy.eco.br if you speak Portuguese, or !photoshop_nonsense@suppo.fi?

From experience with older games with the function, computer autoplaying becomes boring fast.

Besides, MMOs 99% of the time can’t be self-hosted, meaning it’d be a fleeting experiment, your character not really being yours.

Apparently these Namco systems are arcades based on PS2 hardware.

Now, just gotta figure out how to get ROMs legitimately. Don’t even know if these machines are CD/DVD-based so even guesses are out of the window.

That last jackdaw gives me a fox vibe, putting as much as it can’t in its mouth before running/flying back to its den. 🤭

DLsite allows users to translate their manga, paying a commission to the translators when people get the translated version. If availability, or lack thereof, is the problem, it could work too.

Might I suggest game shows for indie games? Usually those don’t have the budget to hide contents behind cinematic trailers, and usually they seem of a better quality than AAA games.

Also if you watch on browsers, there’s @birb@rss-parrot.net (not compatible with Lemmy specifically though)

Grayjay mainly. PipePipe which still works for me (check if yours is updated) to get individual RSS or channel links.

I’d try keeping requests to a minimum, like with putting everything to download and watching those instead (e.g. with yt-dlp or Grayjay’s Watch Later playlist set to auto-download), using RSS on another device/IP (e.g. with a VPS, @birb@rss-parrot.net on Mastodon or a phone/Raspberry Pi on another connection) then forwarding over to your main device, avoiding requesting all subscriptions in a row (e.g. Grayjay’s Subscription tab or having a too aggressive refresh/fetch setting on an RSS reader), rebooting your phone when issues start (if it’s a cache/memory leak issue), and/or using a VPN and changing servers as needed.

I’d need to check how long the validation lasts, since it may be well be like emulated PS1 games from the PSN (“PSOne Classics”) and Steam’s offline mode, both that take a few years to reset, but neither permanent.

But about people complaining, they usually do so only for problems that are obvious to them. And the obvious is usually immediate.

And if it takes a few months/years to expire, I’d say it is not ethical, but pretty vile, as then people will not notice the problem at first, and when they do, they may no longer access their contents.

And considering people that forgot to upgrade their original Mojang accounts, or didn’t have access to the needed tools while the change to Microsoft accounts happened, there is a precedent for Minecraft validation methods to not become available any longer.

Also, from my experience with Windows Vista, where even though I have an actually original key for it, if I try to install Vista nowadays and try to connect it to the internet, it will lock the whole system from my access on the next start-up, I’d imagine because it can’t reach the validation servers. So I’ve seen first hand how Microsoft’s preservation goes over several years. And since Minecraft may also be used online due to multiplayer, checks may still happen, and being nowadays also a Microsoft product, it may suffer from the same vices of origin.

Login to access the contents afaik is still DRM, even if it takes more steps.

There’s a saying in my mother language that goes like “if you lower yourself too much, your underwear starts appearing”.

Afaik, the Java version is only accessible with an account, 3rd party launchers potentially being considered cracking means. Bedrock version is tied to its platforms’ DRMs, like Win10’s Microsoft Store validation and a hard-to-access folder which changing permissions is a nightmare, and Google Play Services’ validation on Android.

As for console versions, major consoles have DRM to their games by default, with a case like PS Vita games even requiring the user to create a dummy validation file by launching the game once to be able to use backups (also iirc all Vita cartridges have a self-explanatory gro0:/DRM/ folder). And as for cartridge overall, be them Nintendo’s, Sony’s, etc., being hard to access their contents due to using non-standard could be considered DRM, and some cases formally considering as in the DMCA.

So sounds to me like it has DRM in most versions, yeah.

Starbound and Terraria come to mind. Also Planet Centauri and maybe Stardew Valley.

Also Minecraft if a DRM-free version other than the Pi Edition (which is abandoned) ever comes.

Ah, another game that comes to mind: Persona 3 FES

Dunno how not liked it is, but I always see people getting scared away because of the difficulty, and that trying to convince people to play that version for the good part of a decade now.

But just saying, learning the ins and outs of the game makes it far more manageable, and even gets mechanics of P4G and Persona 5 to make sense.

Also, pinning a god-like being to the ground for ~50 turns thanks to Thunder Reign and making another god-like being slap itself to death thanks to Marakarn and Tetrakarn, both due to exploiting mechanics to my benefit, were certainly high points of the game. =D

Even Mitsuru was useful for a single battle in my whole 170h save because of having to exploit the game’s mechanics

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(“burn by bread” reference)

Arcane Labyrinth is fantastic. Adds much to the game, both in lore (which the base game barely has so it needed) and in challenge. 👌

NES FFII.