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I feel like we have pretty good concepts and tools for world gen. If games are going to use AI I’d expect the best results to be in quest systems. Most games struggle to procedurally generate good quests. They end up feeling formulaic in almost every aspect.

I imagine even if the quest structure stays the same simple “go to X and do Y” but you let AI generate a good reason to go on the quest it instantly improves the quality of procedural quests.

But that assumes AI can generate a good reason and I have my doubts about that, and a lot of other things AI supposedly can do.

Maybe I’m not old enough but I don’t remember a time where shareware and freeware were part of a physical distribution channels. Most of my shareware I found on the internet and my knowledge of the Amiga public domain comes from Aminet, which started as a FTP site. I still had to get physical discs for full games, but shareware and abandonware I could easily find on the web.

As for for many big companies starting as indies. I’m not arguing “indie” didn’t exist back then, my point was that it was too expensive for most people to be indie. The fact that we had 10-20 “indie” studios (kinda hard to call them indie when most of the time they also ended up being publishers for other studios) back in the day and now we have thousands of indie studios supports my point that it is easier to be indie today than it was when physical media was dominant. Part of it is because of easier development tools, part of it is easier publishing.

Take off your rose-tinted glasses. We would be having this issue with physical goods as well because every game would still be competing for the attention of the customer with every other game ever released. The only thing physical goods would do is chop off the legs of the indie scene because it would simply be too costly to put their random ideas on a disc. Vampire survivors wouldn’t exist without digital releases, Balatro also probably wouldn’t exist. A lot of even weirder indie games wouldn’t exist because the cost of physically releasing them would be too much to take these random chances of releasing something weird.

And why can’t university IT set up the server? No offense but you’re a nobody asking us, also nobodies, how to set up some sort of a funky server on the university network, meanwhile the university pays people to do this for a living.

Where will the server actually be? Will it be in a secure location where only authorized personnel can physically access the machine or will it be behind the trash can in the cafeteria where anyone can access it?

Since you will lose access to it once it’s set up who will monitor the system? Who turns it on in case it somehow gets shut down? Who sets up backups and does rollbacks if something breaks?

What happens to the hardware when research project is over?

To me it all smells like something the IT department should set up. They already know the best practices. They also know whatever security guidelines they need to follow. They will have monitoring systems in place so they could admin the system instead of leaving it without an actual administrator. And they’re probably the ones decommissioning the hardware when the research project is over.

My suggestion is to leave it to the people who are getting paid to do this. It’s one thing to know how to set up a home server on your home network, it’s a different thing to set up a server on an enterprise network.

It’s hard to say what is best. It comes down to what you’re trying to achieve. For example Tailscale and Wireguard are both VPN-s, but the purpose of those two is to set up your own personal VPN so that you could securely access devices and services that are available only in your personal VPN. The difference between Tailscale and Wireguard is basically the monetary cost of having an easy setup vs the complexity of setting it up yourself. Wireguard is an open source protocol and software that allows you to set up your own VPN if you have the technical know-how how to set it up. Tailscale is built ontop of Wireguard so at its core it does what Wireguard does, but it offers easier setup at the cost of asking for money if your network starts expanding beyond the free tier.

And then there’s “VPN” which are actually VPN service providers. Some of them allow setting up your own personal VPN but more often than not they offer VPN tunneling where you securely connect your device to their VPN server to route your traffic through their servers. The purpose of that is to hide your online activity. For example if your country really cracks down on illegal torrents you pretty much have to torrent through a VPN. And another purpose is to circumvent regional laws or trademarks. For example VPN usage in the UK went up in response to the Online Safety Act because a VPN lets you circumvent those laws. And another example is if a streaming service doesn’t offer a show in your country but offers it in another country and your VPN provider has a server there you can tunnel yourself into that server and you get to see your show because technically you’re in that country.

Depending on what you’re planning on doing with your home server you might need both kind of “VPN”.

Exposing services to the web is a huge topic with a lot to consider. I could probably write an essay on this topic, but the short answer is that Wireguard is sufficient, however the setup can be pretty complex. If you have a low amount of users you can try Tailscale. It’s built ontop of Wireguard but it is much easier to set up and is free up to 3 users, but you can probably attach more users if you add all their devices under one user, which is probably fine if you trust those people and you’re going to use it only for Immich.

I would recommend starting with something simple you can understand and then look into alternatives when you get a better understanding of what your actual needs are and where your current solution starts lacking.

You’re viewing from the perspective of what would be best for the playerbase. These decisions are made based on what’s the cheapest possible solution to have the playerbase shut up about cheaters so they wouldn’t drive away potential customers.

“Into the kernel” is largely fear mongering.

Until it actually gets exploited.

And it’s such a weird argument to make that just because some other app uploads your entire documents directory (which to be clear is also not okay) you shouldn’t care about being forced into an potential attack vector that can take over your entire computer. Do you also leave your home server unsecured because Google is tracking you through your phone?

I think that’s a bit farfetched. I don’t think any AAA dinosaur feels threatened by Balatro, and if we talk specifically about sports games Balatro is not a threat because that genre has formed its own thick bubble that Balatro could never penetrate.

The more obvious reason is probably true, lawmakers are simply too stupid to tell the difference between using gambling motiffs and actual gambling.

Since you seem to be testing a lot of different things I’m going to throw out a lot of different ideas and maybe something helps. Worst case you have to start rummaging through logs.

The most basic idea is that if its your home server it should be available on your home network. That means, unless you have some custom configurations, the IP has to be something starting with 192.168. If it’s not starting with that you’re probably way off. Someone assumed your IP starts with a 5 so it’s definitely worth checking out. And a small sidenote, in case you plan on exposing Immich to the web definitely follow their suggestions.

What else you mentioned was that you had installed Proxmox. If you’re still using Proxmox VE there are helper scripts to make your life easier. There’s a script for Immich that sets up an LXC with Immich services. It works without issues right out the box, but assigning a different upload location takes a bit tinkering. And just as a security advice, always open up the scripts and understand what they do because you should never run scripts you got from the web that you do not 100% understand.

You also mentioned docker (compose) which the recommended way to set it up according to Immich documentation. The official docker compose doesn’t seem to have anything special in it, so it should start a container on port 2283 on whatever your servers IP is. Also check if the container is running without issues when you start it up. I don’t know what you use to manage containers but a simple “docker ps” in terminal should be enough to check that the container is running and the port is properly mapped.

I don’t know what you’re running the docker container in as you mentioned different operating systems, but just in case its worth going through ufw (or whatever Firewall your system might be using) to check if there aren’t any rules that are shutting traffic down by default. There shouldn’t be any rules but if you’re stumped it’s one of those things to cross off the list.

And it’s also worthwhile to check your router, that there aren’t any firewall rules in the router that are blocking LAN traffic for whatever reason. Again shouldn’t be any in the first place, but should be crossed off just in case. And if you’re already checking the router you can also check what IP your the router has assigned to your home server to make sure you’re trying the correct IP (and you might want to consider giving it a static IP if you plan on using IP address to connect).

And final note, I’m not sure if its relevant or not but maybe try accessing it through a web browser before trying to access through the app? I remember there being some sort of a first time admin setup, but I don’t know if that was also available through the app.

Maybe something from this list of random suggestions helps you.

And now you’re growing initiative into a full blown socialist movement. You can’t add worker rights into this movement without grossly changing scale of the movement.

I’m sure everyone is for better treatment of developers but in the context of the movement they’re not important. The movement is concerned with preservation not with who will do the preservation. The movement in general has positioned itself to not care how preservation happens as long as it happens. If a game company wants to fire everyone and then hire a completely new team to do the preservation then as far as the movement is concerned as long as games get preserved that’s just fine.

The second point is that the movement has focused primarily on the EU market (because initiatives elsewhere have failed). EU already has pretty good labor laws and most of the things mentioned in the article are already enforced to some extent in the EU. Furthermore most layoffs happen outside the EU so there’s also very little argument to be made that EU should step in on the mistreatment of labor. And if it should why just game developers, why not broaden it to other industries where people also get mistreated?

The inclusion of labor rights is just going to derail what the movement wants to achieve in the EU. Instead of trying to fix the entire world all at once lets start by fixing what is realistic to fix and fix the rest when Americans stop being corporate cucks. After all the vast majority of labor mistreatment happens in the US.

Which would contradict their statement:

Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.

A store named “use these toys on fake dolls of children” is horribly distasteful but not illegal.

I can agree that maybe that type of content shouldn’t be sold, but I also understand that’s my personal opinion and not necessarily the law. Me, you or Visa or Mastercard should not be in a position to dictate whether it’s acceptable to sell such content.

Then as long as you’re fine with the poor performance Oblivion remaster is excellent. It’s Oblivion (almost) as you remember it, the main difference being the ability to sprint (which doesn’t actually change) and fixed attribute points leveling (which I welcome because the original levelling system was stupid where you needed to level minor skills to get +5 bonuses for attributes).

Shamelessly plugging https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/ because if you’re going to set up an Ubuntu home server you might a well know how to use it.

In online stores Visa and MC are the big ones. If we exclude China, Visa and MC make up 90% of all online purchases worldwide. For online stores they are the two players who matter. Losing one is a significant loss of revenue, losing both will kill the store.

Obviously Hamas is supplying Canada with fentanyl and Canada is sending it across the border with those filthy American immigrants who then sell fentanyl to real Americans, you know the white kind of American. You don’t need to be a conservative crackhead to see that, you just need to be a conservative.

I would like to be excited for a revival of an series that hasn’t seen a game in 20? years, but the trailer and the article just comes across as a bog-standard open world action game with RPG elements. They need to give something more because this doesn’t excite me at all.

You do realize that was not the end of the sentence?

But just for you I added the word games and then moved the structure around.

I was expecting something where the Chinese IP courts rule in favor of breaking IP laws or at the very least turn a blind eye. This current article doesn’t count because there’s no resolution here. As for AliExpress, they have an entire process in place to handle IP infringement and they actually ban sellers off the platform if they continue infringing.