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[–] cnk@kbin.dk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Type O Negative's Summer Breeze is originally a song by Seals and Crofts

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good idea! But I suppose that's a bit of a grey area in terms of rights?

 

New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable

 

I wanted to introduce the kids to Heroes of Might and Magic III so we could play some hot seat when it's raining over the holiday.

I use Mac, but found that there's an open source implementation of the engine called VCMI (https://vcmi.eu) that runs on Mac.

I bought the game for 9 euro on GOG (https://www.gog.com/en/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_3_complete_edition).
Downloaded the offline back version and extracted the files using innoextract (installed with brew install innoextract) and followed the guide here: https://wiki.vcmi.eu/Installation_on_macOS

It worked! There's also a bunch of mods that's installable through VCMI. For instance one with orchestral music scores by the Heroes Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/c/HeroesOrchestra?app=desktop

 

MyHouse.wad is the perfect scary story and the perfect game according to its cult following

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 7 points 1 year ago

Perhaps a time zone thing? I posted it from CET / UTC + 1

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Found its way to a kbin instance too

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi from another part of the Internet hosted in a basement somewhere in Northern Europe running a different piece of software :-)

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 8 points 1 year ago

cronjobs with rsync to a Synology NAS and then to Synology's cloud backup.

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 1 points 1 year ago

MF! Danish black metal 🤘 On of my most epic concert experiences was King Diamond (lead singer of MF) at a smallish rock club in Aarhus.

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, yes. And none on the monsters will aggro on you 😅 Glad that you figures it out.

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NPCs giving away their inventory for free? That sounds strange, are you sure you are not using stealing on them? There's a red ruby in the bottom of the trade window that you can drag to extend it vertically.

In general, you can learn a lot by going to Help->Library on your paperdoll. New lore books you find and read will be added to this library as well.

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 2 points 1 year ago

This overlap is surprisingly well and subtly done. Ruins & Riches mixes and matches lore and inspiration from a lot of places. It's very much in the spirit of the early Ultimas that also mixed sci-fi with fantasy.

[–] cnk@kbin.dk 1 points 1 year ago

My main character on the multiverset.net server is an archmage called Roselil 🙂

 

Over the last years I been thoroughly enjoying playing a mod of Ultima Online called Ruins & Riches. Ruins & Riches (formerly called UO Odyssey) is designed to provide a rewarding single-player RPG experience. Players of old Ultima games will find the world familiar, and a lot of the quests and lore draw upon the old games. The main land of Ruins & Riches is a Sosaria based on the map of Ultima III: Exodus, but the whole world consists of multiple lands to be discovered and a dizzying amount of dungeons.

Ruins & Riches provides an open world experience that can be enjoyed alone or together with friends. You can embark on quests ranging from small artifact pickup quests in a particular dungeon, to massive quest lines that can take days or weeks to complete.

The world and its lore is discovered through books you find on your adventures, and most often they require close reading to comprehend what the next step on your journey is. Collecting clues and finally figuring out how to progress is very rewarding.

Parts of the game will feel familiar to UO players, but a lot of the systems have been changed and whole new skills and mechanisms have been introduced. You can become a priest first by proving yourself by finding a mallet and stake and slaying hordes of vampires, or find the path of the jedi (or the syth!), and a lot more.

The developer of Ruins & Riches, Djeryv, has been building on the game for a decade, and the current version is quite stable and complete. I played Ultima Online from when it launched in 1997 and on and off for the next 10 years both on unofficial and official servers. I've often wanted to return, and Ruins & Riches has given me the opportunity to reexperience the excitement like when I first played Ultima Online almost 25 years ago.

Late 2022, the website for Ruins & Riches went offline. Reasons for this are unknown. However, the developer still updates the files at the end of the two google drive links they used for distributing the mod. A fan has made a page with links to them as well as to the manual here: https://ruinsandriches.neocities.org/

While Ruins & Riches can be experienced fully by yourself by hosting it on your own machine, I missed company and set up a small server where we now are a handful of players or two exploring Sosaria. Here's the link for that: https://www.multiverset.net/ruinsandriches/ You are more than welcome to join us there.

 

Or, how I cookie-clicked my way to a doctorate in interaction design. It’s been 5 years since I finished my Ph.D. on user interfaces for machine learning. To celebrate/commiserate, I’m sharing an u…

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