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Day 805 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Breath of The Wild, on the 3DS. I saw someone post a link online somewhere, and despite years of experience handling cyber security on a personal level, there was a little voice in my head that was saying “Just a peak. You’ll know it’s probably safe it’s a .CIA file”. Turns out. It was safe. And it’s beautiful in a “This looks like shit but is genuinely impressive” kind of way. I ended up breaking out of the Great Plateu which you can’t do in the og I think. I took a stroll on down towards Zora’s domain to see if there’s anything there. As I went on things got trippy fast. The most interesting part was that Water? It was gone. It was actually kind of cool to see what I assume is the land under the water since I think it was a import of the official map. It was cool to run around down there. As I was walking I noticed this tower in the distance looming over me. I didn’t think there would be one. All the map is visible so why would I need a tower? If I wasn’t short on time I would have gone over there to see what’s up with it. Eventually though, after nearly 40 Minutes of walking and climbing and dramatically sliding down empty rivers, I reached Zora’s Domain. Or, what’s left of it. It was genuinely unsettling in a way to be in a place that normally feels so populated but has vanished off the map. It’s like the rapture came and took not just the people but the building and water too. I explored around for a bit to see if maybe it just needed a bit too load in but couldn’t seem to get it to load in. So i left it. I want to go see that tower next but 40 minutes was all the time I could spare on this. I’m hoping whoever is developing this updates it because it’s genuinely very cool.

Bevy 0.20 via @bd103@hachyderm.io https://lobste.rs/s/3gikyb #games #release #rust https://bevy.org/news/bevy-0-20/

Chronicon - A super fun indie diablo-like just received a new DLC The previous two DLCs the game received were really fun and both got 86% positive rating so my hopes are high for this one

Thrive: free, open-source game about the evolution of life via @confusedalex@indieweb.social https://lobste.rs/s/33k7ln #show #games https://www.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/index

EU citizens on here, Ross Scott is warning about a draconian law in the European Union. Please look a the video it will explain the problem whole lot better than I ever could. But if you think it is important please sign the petition. The EU Commision is rolling out a law that will severly impede our rights when it comes to digital products.

The PS5 hacking scene just took a big leap forward

Impossibility Proof for Instant 8-tuple Piston Extenders https://lobste.rs/s/r07fdn #video #formalmethods #games #math #reversing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-MMyRzmqFI

Day 804 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Pokemon Platinum. I have done it. I have assembled a complete Living Dex. Right in time too because my Wi-Fi came back online today. In a way it feels like my work has been rewarded. Anyways. I have just finished collecting the legendaries a few minutes ago. A few highlights here, with my favorite being cheddar carrying the team in catching Palkia. Rest of my team got sweeped and cheddar saved us. Cresselia was an absolute headache to catch. Even with mean look it was a headache because she could flee after knocking out my mean looker. It took me almost 3 hours to catch her. Also, I didn’t realize she had a gender. I assumed she was gender less like the others. It’s kind of interesting to see an exclusion. Another interesting thing, remember last night how I said I was looking for an Absol last night? Literally the first Pokemon I found was an Absol when I loaded back in. I thought that was funny. Anyways. I just wanted to share this update. I’ll start HGSS soon, but I think I’ll wait a bit. Now that my Wi-Fi is back I want some much needed Halo with my Friends.

Day 801 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Fallout 3. I finished gathering up the Radar dish today and climbed the Washington Monument to hang it up there. Honestly, seeing something like that, that I recognize from real life is just a “wow” moment. Like. You see it and approach it and there’s just this factor of “I recognize that!” Regardless of current state of things, it was cool to see in game and get to climb. I went bumped into willow and found out about the colony of Ghouls. I didn’t know that was a thing so I’ll have to check it out on my way back. I’m curious to see what all they have going on. I made it to Rivet City today before ending off. I had heard about it but had no idea it was a big aircraft carrier. It’s kind of cool to get to it up close. I had some trouble finding my way in though. My first attempt I tried to swim. Second I found the bridge. That was maybe 10 minutes of looking. I went ahead and continued the main quest, along with talking to this dork who’s apparently from the institute from everything I’ve heard about him online. I love when games do this kind of stuff. Lay out little inconsequential details that end up becoming relevant later. It’s really cool to see. It does make me want to play Fallout 4 again though so maybe I’ll have to do that.

Enjoyable VN Thriller about programming Seeing as this visual novel never got much interest in the years after it came out, I figured I should bright light to a hidden gem. The premise is this: You play as a dude who works for a cybersecurity firm. Someone leaked the code of one of the MC’s clients, and the boss wants the MC to figure out whodunnit. The premise comes off as a mystery, but I find it’s more of a thriller. There’s a lot of action, gunfights, and hostage taking. There are also a good number of real programming concepts mentioned, which are used to perform hacks and make viruses. The 9ish hours I spent on it were quite enjoyable. The game is set in the early summer of 2016, before certain…events happened in our timeline. Of particular note is that the game is set before the mass proliferation of AI and LLMs in the present day. There’s one character who is determined to make this proliferation happen even sooner than our reality. You’re given the option to support or oppose this character; I naturally chose to oppose. The likes of Claude and Stable Diffusion from our time appearing in the summer of 2016 would be disastrous, at least in my opinion. I advise at least giving it a look if that interests you. I had fun with it.

How In-Game Overlays Work (2022) https://lobste.rs/s/jz4r8s #games #graphics https://fredemmott.com/blog/2022/05/31/in-game-overlays.html

Explaining the Magelight XP glitch in Skyrim https://lobste.rs/s/biwe7d #games #reversing https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/explaining-the-magelight-xp-glitch-in-skyrim

Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years

Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names Top of mind for me after reading this article is that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet should just be called The Heretic Prophet, and Horizon: Zero Dawn should have just been called Zero Dawn.

Day 803 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I’ve been working on the Pokédex all day, and consequently the Living Dex. The major headaches so far have been the eggs. A whole bunch of walking to hatch them. I’ve started doing them in batches. I have a media server set up, and I’ve been watching Supernatural while I do it (always wanted to watch it, never got a chance). Normally I don’t try to “multitask” like that. But by step 10,000? I was needing something else to do. This whole thing though made me think, crazy respect to people who do Shiny Living Dexes. I don’t think I could ever. Like. The number of Shinies I’ve found in my life is maybe <10. Maybe 5 if you exclude scripted ones like in ZA. Hell. I did a Living Dex for Gen 3 and the entire time I only found 1 Shiny. It’s crazy man. I saw one of my friends was naming every Pokemon they caught. I thought it’d be a fun challenge so I did the same thing. I need to go back and name some. But around 150~ Pokemon in I stopped giving them names and started naming them after the first noun I saw online. After that I just started making them up or naming them after the first word I came up with. I even started getting creative by swapping vowels and noises. I ended off on Mt. Coronet, hunting for a Absol. im thinking I’ll named this one Ande. Like the Andes Mountains. Or Andesite. Or maybe I’ll name it something Mundane. Like Dave or something. First I need to find the damn thing though.

Bandai Namco’s Synduality: Echo of Ada is shutting down online services, but players are oddly happy about it thanks to promised “PvP-free” offline mode

I made some interesting mods cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/49719896 I love this game and since its not updating very offten i decided to learn programming and start making things that i want myself. So i made some first mods. One is lode stone, i changed recepy to use metal ingot instead of netherite ingot. Small change but wery important one, because player can use it much earlier in the game, and can make as much of them as it needs. Its wery usefull item in the game and it never should have been expencive. Second mode is furnice, blast furnice should simply be better version of regular furnice. And thats exactly what i made. It can smelt all the items same as regular one but it smelts items twice as fast. I want to learn everything, so if you have some place where i can find all informacions about how game works and how to make mods, please share it with me.

Reverse Engineering Comanche Terrain Maps https://lobste.rs/s/qcafwq #games #programming #retrocomputing https://pikuma.com/blog/comanche-maps-reverse-engineering

We ported the original Doom to SQL https://lobste.rs/s/qf2mtz #databases #games https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/

How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century