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What niche RPGs are you particularly fond of? Can be a newer game or an older RPG that never became a cult classic.

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  • The fondest memory I naturally have for the first RPG that I ever played.
    And, well, it probably is the very definition of "niche".

    I present you HASCS, the Hack And Slay Construction Set, a German project on Atari ST back in the 80s to provide an easy to use environment for the development of an early kind of RPGs.
    Games looked like that:

    My very first RPG was "HASCS - Allein in Eritra", distributed via Shareware-3.5''-disk.
    I still fondly remember being killed by my first encounter with a random snake during the first 20s dozens of times in a row until I finally figured out what to do :-)

    • Supreme Court to decide if ICE can arrest based on "apparent ethnicity"

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  • Guys, that is a reeaaaallly slippery slope. Don't. Just don't.

    -A concerned German-

    • Smoking teenager in Liverpool, 1964

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  • Interesting connection I just made:
    I was wondering about the Hamburg reference and if there was a connection to the Beatles (from Liverpool) mania of the 60s that started in Hamburg...
    Turns out I have been right, the linked page basically says that the pic was part of a Beatles photo report of the Stern (famous German magazine from Hamburg) depicting the English youth culture of that time.
    The other pics in the series are also worth a look!

    • Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026

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  • Interesting...
    I had the conflict with f-droid in my mind, where the Signal developers were very specific about not wanting any Signal builds distributed outside of the Playstore.
    That seems to have changed...?
    But still no build distributed via f-droid, I just checked. But that may still be because the f-droid maintainers really where pissed off at the time...

    • Gottesanbeterinnen auf dem Vormarsch: Skurrile Insekten breiten sich auch in Sachsen aus

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  • Brauche Rat: Habe mit dem Männchen geschlafen und habe nun das eifersüchtige Weibchen am Hals...

    • Gottesanbeterinnen auf dem Vormarsch: Skurrile Insekten breiten sich auch in Sachsen aus

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  • Ah, war anscheinend bloß der Default-Vorschau-Browser auf dem Handy mit überambitioniertem Script-Blocking...
    Danke!

    • First time I've seen the pedestrian crossing button pointing downward

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  • Curious as our pedestrian crossings don't have arrows at all:
    Where is it supposed to point and how does it work?

    • Gottesanbeterinnen auf dem Vormarsch: Skurrile Insekten breiten sich auch in Sachsen aus

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  • Paywall... :-(
    Wie muss ich denn jetzt reagieren, wenn ich einer begegne? Totstellen? GottesanbeterinnenKostüm ausziehen? Nicht in Gespräch verwickeln lassen und den Wachturm dankend ablehnen?

    • After 2 years on Lemmy, I finally installed it this weekend.

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  • Well, my KDE-based distro on my 10-year-old cheapo (350€) laptop feels snappier than Win11 on my brand new 1500€ work-laptop.
    Admittedly, there are some company specific things like security scanner apps (and the mandatory MS-Office behemoth...) that are not present on the Linux-machine, but it is still a 20-core/64GByte high end machine behaving more sluggish than a 2-core/8GByte totally outdated potato...
    So, I am not really surprised about OP's snappiness observation.

    • Smoking teenager in Liverpool, 1964

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  • Don't know about that. The pullover screams "Inherited from bigger brothers and just still good enough for another round".

    • Smoking teenager in Liverpool, 1964

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  • Correct. Assumed main reason for the typical 30-but-looks-like-50 phenomenon of the 70s and 80s.
    That and no sunscreen.

    • Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026

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  • Has its shortcomings unfortunately...

    E.g. even though most of my important contacts don't exclusively rely on Whatsapp any more, the alternative that has established itself as a kind of consensus is Signal, which is only available via Playstore, if I'm not mistaken.
    Same is true for my banking app that is needed for my day-to-day bank account.
    Same is also true for governmental service apps or the ID app to authenticate once before e.g. being able to use a new SIM card.

    List goes probably on, these are just the things that have come spontaneously to my mind.

    This complete reliance on OS's from a private companies (Apple not being better) with their own agenda sucks.
    And LineageOS isn't the solution it has been a few years back any more, I am afraid... :-(

    • If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases?

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  • I'm using openrouter.ai which is a service that allows the use of a wide range of models and you can easily switch between them on the fly.

    Besides the major players I can also use cloud hosted instances of open models. These are often incredibly cheap and and you can select the ones that don't use your data for training.

    Typical use cases include language learning and copilot stuff for programming.