That’s Hoodwink: https://www.dota2.com/hero/hoodwink

The title seems to be missing important context: this is specifically for NVK.

Anyway, pretty cool to see the progress on this!

On the other hand, each game progressively drops more RPG features and adds more action features.

For me it is Automobilista 2. I like a lot of things about it, but the way I usually spend my time in it is casually racing with some friends and a bunch of bots.

I’ve been really enjoying racing in Automobilista 2 with several friends recently. A bunch of us went from using a controller to having a wheel and often a wheel stand in a short period of time, because we all got so into it.

I think there is a lot going for AMS2 (as it is commonly abbreviated): lots of variety in the cars and tracks, it is easy to set up casual races with friends, it is very dynamic (like in varying track and weather conditions), works well with a controller or a wheel, looks good and performs well, etc.

I’m surprised that Chipzel (of Super Hexagon soundtrack fame) has yet to be mentioned: https://chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/

For me it was Brotato.

Having globally routable IPv6 addresses for each device doesn’t prevent you from running firewalls.

I wrote a Matrix bot that can be used for my community to schedule gaming events. I just pick a time to play a particular game, and play with whoever shows up.

I am 90% certain it was never meant to refer to the generation that played it, but to the over the top action.

But they did mention that community servers would be able to pick which Anti Cheat they wanted to use?

As I understand, there are three tiers to this:

• Official servers will use FaceIt exclusively.
• Servers rented from official partners will have the choice of FaceIt or EAC.
• Community-run servers will only be able to use EAC, and won’t be hooked into the global progression system.

One of the many problems with FaceIt is that the server-side component is not allowed to be freely distributed, which is why community-run servers won’t have the option to use it.

Personally, there is no way I am buying this unless if they reverse their plans to use FaceIt.

Yeah, if you just want to use it personally, you should click Sign In in the menu, then Open Element Web, which brings you to https://app.element.io/.

Alternately Get Started then Download the app.

Either gets you to a client where you can easily create a Matrix account (on matrix.org).

On the tech side of things, the environmental impact of running traditional, centralized services is inherently lower than running any cryptocurrency off of a blockchain. To overcome the technical limitations would be to create another centralized service.

But yeah, there are almost certainly ways that traditional currency can reduce their environmental impact, too.

I feel like there are too many to list, but an obvious one that I don’t see mentioned is Halo. The Master Chief Collection is pretty great, and has a ton of content that can all be consumed in short sessions (except for certain levels on legendary difficulty).

It is also still on sale on Steam for a little longer, if you don’t have it already.