Encrypt-Keeper

Yearly? Thats frankly nuts lol

It’s only subjective in that it’s not entirely impossible for at least one person out there to enjoy the mechanic. However at the same time there has been a general consensus made that it’s not a good mechanic. Your opinion may be the equal of any one other persons opinion, but what I think you’re not understanding is that is that it’s not the equal of the many opinions of the majority of people. If you expect your one opinion to hold the same value as the collective opinions of everyone else, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.

as a sort of olive branch of understanding that opinions are opinions.

That’s not a great example to your point because the weapon degradation mechanic of BOTW is also widely regarded as a bad mechanic. It’s the most disliked mechanic in that game.

I think he’s being upvoted and you’re being downvoted because boss runbacks have been around for a long time and both the industry and community have since come to a consensus that they’re just objectively bad game design. They don’t add anything of value to a game and their existence is a detriment to the experience. I don’t think you’ll find a single person who holds the opinion that they’re fun. People like yourself may tolerate them, but a tolerable inconvenience is not the same thing as fun. You’ve actually gone exceptionally out of your way to avoid calling them fun.

Like with anything, not all personal opinions are going to be held in equal regard. And your take here is going to be an outlier so I wouldn’t be surprised if you continue to get this reception.

Revolt can’t be considered viable in my mind until the mobile app stops hardcoding the official instance and lets users connect it to selfhosted instances.

Well they removed the ability to play as “A civilization” in the game called “Civilization” so yeah everyone I know has swore off it.

Since Nextcloud stores your actually data on the disk, it doesn’t actually matter all that much tbh

What I would also note is that the story in BG3 is still very linear. The branching paths are small deviations along the main path and can affect the ending, but the story doesn’t really change a whole lot so it’s not as daunting as it sounds.

The differences in choices in BG3 are more like flavor so that the story doesn’t railroad you into a certain character archetype. Replaying BG3 and making different choices mainly just rewards you with different companions and cutscenes, new paths through the 3 main areas, and more or less different side quests or even parallel main quests.

I don’t think we’re individually responsible for anything anybody else does unless you influenced somebody intentionally into doing it.

If you want to model your idea of good behavior then you set up your sites with https. That does not mean OP is obligated to do the same. Not for a static HTML page with a couple paragraphs of text on it.

Of course it does, could you imagine the alternative? Imagine spontaneously taking responsibility for the safety of the entire internet. That would be just nuts.

I can heartily recommend taking responsibility for yourself, and not trying to foist it on others. Especially some dude with a rinky dink little personal blog.

Luckily this website contains no sensitive information and is not a personal cloud.

Lmao as the operator of a website your personal responsibility ends with your website. It is not OPs responsibility to protect other websites he does not operate, nor is it to take on the end user’s responsibility, or education. Don’t be silly.

There’s no password entry on this site, and what people do on other websites is not OPs responsibility.

Let’s be real, this guy has no knowledge. He’s just yet another security parrot who doesn’t even understand the why behind the things they’re regurgitating.

There’s no security risk viewing this bit of html via http lmao

In the endless exploration, yes. In the myriad of other slapped together mechanics that don’t really tie into the exploration at all, no.

The exploration of new planets is well implemented, but that’s existed since the game launched. If you were happy with that then, you’ll be happy with it now. But the game was panned due to there not really being anything else to it. And after all these years and added mechanics there still sort of isn’t.

I don’t play the game, I prefer games that are fun on their own without me having to create my own.

I don’t agree with that at all. Giving your players a rewarding reason to interact with the games systems is a foundational pillar of game design.

This game has added so many systems over the years, but it still just hasn’t really grown into anything of substance. It’s a game where the only real “thing to do” is mindless busywork. 200 new systems, all created to a standard of absolute minimum viability, none of them are very rewarding on their own, and none of them really create interesting interactions with each other. It’s like they every system was added with the idea that they’re optional, which makes them all feel unnecessary.

You can build bases now, but there’s no real reason to other than to do so. There are settlements you can become the leader of? But what that entails is essentially nothing. The game is designed from the ground up for you to move from planet to planet without lingering too long on any particular one, and yet they added a bunch of mechanics based around specific planets.

It’s a really bizarre product.

That’s a really bold assumption lol.

It’ll never really be a perfect drop in replacement because Docker relies on its daemon for a lot of functionality and Podman is daemonless, so you have to work around that. But like you said it’s just a matter of learning how things work with Portman.