Based on the rest of the story…it kind of seems like he was driving his Ferrari way too fast.

As anti-AI as I am, this is way less sensational than the headline makes it sound. They’re adding an AI mode that’s basically a built-in extension. Sounds easy to disable. I hate this shit, but you have to grant that Mozilla is a small company fighting for survival. They are probably just doing this to stay relevant (maybe they can get more money from google by being the default AI provider as well), and they may just as quickly drop this when the AI bubble finally pops. I am willing to forgive Mozilla for a little more than I forgive Microsoft, who has no real reason to push this AI hype other than trying to get more rich.

ehhhh get back to me in 14B years, i only believe REAL-WORLD metrics

fuck yeahhhhhh!!! This is huge, id may have relative independence but they exist under the Microsoft regime.

They should probably add Harada as a DLC final boss

it’s infuriating and honestly kind of scary. They’re making gaming a luxury hobby, one auxiliary industry at a time. Every component that goes up in price is another reason for consoles to go up in price. More and more cool hobbies are slowly growing out of reach for the average person. Soon the only thing left to fill your free time will be alcohol and the sound of silence.

it barely resembles the original. It’s an extraction shooter, a la Hunt: Showdown or Escape from Tarkov.

it’s usually just cosmetics though, right?

google should experiment with sucking my ass

MP4? yeah, it’s out on the 4th

So this game is landing with a solid Metacritic, but it seems like this is coming from all the blogspam AI-gen sites being overly generous with their scores. Some of the more reliable sites (VGC, Eurogamer) are landing more in a 3-star range. Seems like critics are very split over how to receive this game.

I posted this below in reply to a similar comment. If you don’t like the way the devs have handled the raising of concerns, then fine, that’s kind of a judgment call and I can’t tell you what you should feel comfortable with. In my limited experience with the Jellyfin devs (including reading through the responses on that thread you linked), I do not personally get the impression that they are downplaying or refusing to correct issues. To me, it seems more like they are prioritizing some issues over others, and the outstanding security issues seem pretty minor for most use cases.

Setting up a reverse proxy and dynamic domain is not one click

Maybe not for the server administrator, but for users, it’s mega easy. Download Jellyfin app on TV. Enter URL for server. Login like a normal streaming service. Done. As far as I know, Plex requires these same steps, so if Plex works for your 89 year old grandparents, Jellyfin would as well.

Jellyfin has also yet to resolve the unsecured api

In what way is the API insecure? What types of attacks are you concerned about?

Until jellyfin can be 1 click accessed from anywhere securely over clear net it’s not a replacement.

It can be, speaking from extensive personal experience. I followed their Reverse Proxy guides, now my tech-illiterate friends access my server over https via a duckdns url.

Well, neither of us have played it, so neither of us is really in a position to say whether the game is great or not. But that trailer seemed pretty damn spooky and unsettling to me, seems like the dev knows what they are doing. But again, I’m just going off that trailer in the article. Totally fine if this brand of horror is not your cup of tea, though.

as all great horror is.

to me it feels more like the other shoe has dropped on the censorship stuff that was hitting Steam a few months ago. I understand how that scene is controversial, and even in a film context I think that one might be too much for most studios. But if this was November 2024, I think Steam would have greenlit this game without a second thought.

it is insane out there for indies. The Steam issue is only part of the picture. Your big indie names like Supergiant and Landfall will keep trucking along because they have enough momentum and cache to ink deals with investors. But the smaller studios that are just getting off the ground? Investors have become very averse to signing with those teams, because they only see things in terms of ROI. It’s such a risky bet, and even if everything works out, the tiny payday is not worth it to these types. It is more lucrative to just invest that money in index funds.

Everyone says “it’s okay if AAA gaming collapses, we’ll still have indies to save us”, but we won’t have indies to save us for much longer if there is no funding out there for new studios.

Sure, “it doesn’t have a main quest” is a splashy way of saying “we’re doing a BOTW-style game structure”. But I’m totally down for a dark and gritty BOTW, that sounds like a fresh take to me.

most of my Skannerz memories are of scraping the thing back and forth on the back of tissue boxes until the barcode rubbed off, bc the things were not great at actually scanning barcodes.