I miss xfire too.

So that’s what happened to them

I think at this point maybe Embracer should try replacing Lars Wingefors with ChatGPT instead

It is very doable.

Take a look at https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun - it’s what I use for this.

They’ll find ways around it. There was a bit of a scandal here recently after it came to light that public servants were instructed to be as vague as possible when answering questions

Ahh, woah, I never thought about the huge address space would affect network scans and such.

With NAT on IPv4 I set up port forwarding at my router. Where would I set up the IPv6 equivalent?

I guess assumptions I have at the moment are that my router is a designated appliance for networking concerns and doing all the config there makes sense, and secondly any client device to be possibly misconfigured. Or worse, it was properly configured by me but then the OS vendor pushed an update and now it’s misconfigured again.

Getting flip flopped around like that on a timescale of weeks fucking sucks (I’ve been in that situation but not in game dev).

Just… being totally used and owned by an executive team that simultaneously wants to harness/abuse your passion, while also callously making snap judgements like this without any regard for respecting their people… it’s like “how to destroy morale 101”

Maybe I have Stockholm Syndrome, but I like NAT. It’s like, due to the flaws of IPv4 we basically accidentally get subnets segmented off, no listening ports, have to explicitly configure port forwarding to be able to listen for connections, which kinda implies you know what you’re doing (ssshh don’t talk about UPnP). Accidental security of a default deny policy even without any firewalls configured. Haha. I’m still getting into this stuff though, please feel free to enlighten me

Hnggg crenellations

This is hilariously silly, putting that on my Steam Wishlist hahaha

And it’s your fault if it happens to you, because we sent you EMAILS telling you it was going to happen!

Yeah, I figured as much.

What a big brain move from their support team, lol

It’s bad enough when these companies are monopolistic and malicious. But monopolistic, malicious AND incompetent - argh, it’s just too much.

I lost my Minecraft account to this, but that’s because the email address I bought the game with was with Lavabit, and thus never was able to receive any of the emails. Couldn’t verify I owned it either because again, no access to the email address.

I was just a kid when I signed up for that Lavabit address sometime in the 2000s, a kid who was vaguely interested in the idea of privacy and software freedom (I used PPC Ubuntu on a G3 iBook btw). Bought Minecraft Alpha in 2010 for €10. Now because of time passing and some bullshit happening I don’t have access to any of it.

But tbh I never opened a support ticket or anything, because fuck Microsoft. Its the principle of the whole thing

Microsoft and Apple are both privacy-disregarding monopolistic megacorporations. The difference is Microsoft is slowly degrading in competence and their PR machine is no longer able to compensate

That was a good game, I used to destroy everyone at local split screen

Hopefully one day they remaster it in high refresh rate, 4K, on PC… but I’m dreaming, that’ll never happen

Tremendous lag!

Mass media kinda already does this. Paging Edward Bernays!

Laptop form factor is very ambitious! Huge respect. I would love to give one a spin

That would be cool.

I guess my AMD Bulldozer TV PC is gonna have to go in the ewaste bin though. Its already stretched to its limit running Linux Mint, Firefox, uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock as it is

wholesome 100

Much flatter in the northwest (Amazon Basin?) than I thought