It does matter in terms of ease of use. Some have apps, some don’t. A non-linux-native might have difficulties with the latter.

Sir, what are you looking at? Are you even listening?

I would go this route as well. As a developer this sounds easy enough. It you don’t get vertical sequences of images, but instead a grid of images, then I would apply traditional image stitching techniques. There are tons of libraries for that on github.

Arr, me heart be green with envy, it be!

I think I was 11 or 12 when I started plaxing Tibia (a very early MMORPG). I really enjoyed it. At some point I found out that somebody has leaked the source code. You could host your own Tibia server. You could create new map segments or introduce new quests by Lua scripting. There was a huge community for “Open Tibia”, hundreds of servers with thousands of players. First, I got into mapping, then I got into scripting and loved it.

This needs more visibility

Sadly not a video, but here is a pic in daylight.

And a pic of my setup.

Ah, and apparently one I made along the way.

Yes, but once code becomes too spaghetti such that a “refactor while you write it” becomes too time intensive and error prone, it’s already too late.

So, it seems I’m really out of the loop. Is this some AI thing generating a video from my comment? Or does this scroll through all comments while “recording” the screen?

Thanks a bunch :)

Haha, no the wall is just barely lit. I had to roll down the shutters to take the picture.

I used to like going out in summer mid-day. Now I usually prefer to stay indoors. It’s only the few morning hours when I can stand the temperature. But 30°C at 65% air moisture und no shade or water to bathe to be found… No thank you.

Thanks 🙏

Thanks for your reply :) This grew quite detailed and more thorough than I had expected. But I’m thankful to now have something to read up on. It will take me a while though.

There are two follow-ups:

1. I’d be surprised if there weren’t libraries for the networking parts already. You briefly mentioned there would be for at least data types for the interfacing and wrote that I should instead use my own solution instead for said reasons. Well, are there libraries I can use for networking? What you mentioned sounds very low level.

2. What do you mean with point (3), where the client “should do more” than the server? The server would be authoritative and the client predicting. But, do you mean that the server shouldn’t do so much heavy lifting like working with game physics?

Thanks!

Thanks, didn’t know this

Thanks!

So I think it’s time for me to try join private trackers. What is MAM, if I may ask?

Yes, I totally agree with what you said.

They currently try to buy out the digital gaming space of the internet, sell it for cheap and later on up the price. That’s what big corporations usually do nowadays. Same with X, Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc. It’s a big issues that we as consumers and later on citizens of our planet face.

However, currently it is a sweet deal for me. And the argument that I’d own the game otherwise doesn’t count for me as I would most probably never replay it. So what’s the use of owning it if it’s just collecting dust in the shelf?

The argument of whose property the item is is different for me for movies, series, and audiobooks. I’m surprised that this scheme was not yet applied for books / e-books. Or am I wrong?

I can totally relate. Paying 30-100€ per game is something for rich people or something I’d do once or max twice a year on very carefully selected games, hoping these games are worth it. With Game Pass I spend 120€ a year to access a wide range of games.

Once I played through or once version 2 of a game comes out, I’m not likely to play it ever again.

Also I have phases where I play a lot and phases where I do not play at all. I can simply discontinue Game Pass in these cases.

Those are Hatagane, japanese bar clamps. I use them for such small things where regular clamps would be too bulky and too heavy.