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The PS5 hacking scene just took a big leap forward

Impossibility Proof for Instant 8-tuple Piston Extenders https://lobste.rs/s/r07fdn #video #formalmethods #games #math #reversing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-MMyRzmqFI

Day 804 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Pokemon Platinum. I have done it. I have assembled a complete Living Dex. Right in time too because my Wi-Fi came back online today. In a way it feels like my work has been rewarded. Anyways. I have just finished collecting the legendaries a few minutes ago. A few highlights here, with my favorite being cheddar carrying the team in catching Palkia. Rest of my team got sweeped and cheddar saved us. Cresselia was an absolute headache to catch. Even with mean look it was a headache because she could flee after knocking out my mean looker. It took me almost 3 hours to catch her. Also, I didn’t realize she had a gender. I assumed she was gender less like the others. It’s kind of interesting to see an exclusion. Another interesting thing, remember last night how I said I was looking for an Absol last night? Literally the first Pokemon I found was an Absol when I loaded back in. I thought that was funny. Anyways. I just wanted to share this update. I’ll start HGSS soon, but I think I’ll wait a bit. Now that my Wi-Fi is back I want some much needed Halo with my Friends.

Day 801 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is Fallout 3. I finished gathering up the Radar dish today and climbed the Washington Monument to hang it up there. Honestly, seeing something like that, that I recognize from real life is just a “wow” moment. Like. You see it and approach it and there’s just this factor of “I recognize that!” Regardless of current state of things, it was cool to see in game and get to climb. I went bumped into willow and found out about the colony of Ghouls. I didn’t know that was a thing so I’ll have to check it out on my way back. I’m curious to see what all they have going on. I made it to Rivet City today before ending off. I had heard about it but had no idea it was a big aircraft carrier. It’s kind of cool to get to it up close. I had some trouble finding my way in though. My first attempt I tried to swim. Second I found the bridge. That was maybe 10 minutes of looking. I went ahead and continued the main quest, along with talking to this dork who’s apparently from the institute from everything I’ve heard about him online. I love when games do this kind of stuff. Lay out little inconsequential details that end up becoming relevant later. It’s really cool to see. It does make me want to play Fallout 4 again though so maybe I’ll have to do that.

Enjoyable VN Thriller about programming Seeing as this visual novel never got much interest in the years after it came out, I figured I should bright light to a hidden gem. The premise is this: You play as a dude who works for a cybersecurity firm. Someone leaked the code of one of the MC’s clients, and the boss wants the MC to figure out whodunnit. The premise comes off as a mystery, but I find it’s more of a thriller. There’s a lot of action, gunfights, and hostage taking. There are also a good number of real programming concepts mentioned, which are used to perform hacks and make viruses. The 9ish hours I spent on it were quite enjoyable. The game is set in the early summer of 2016, before certain…events happened in our timeline. Of particular note is that the game is set before the mass proliferation of AI and LLMs in the present day. There’s one character who is determined to make this proliferation happen even sooner than our reality. You’re given the option to support or oppose this character; I naturally chose to oppose. The likes of Claude and Stable Diffusion from our time appearing in the summer of 2016 would be disastrous, at least in my opinion. I advise at least giving it a look if that interests you. I had fun with it.

How In-Game Overlays Work (2022) https://lobste.rs/s/jz4r8s #games #graphics https://fredemmott.com/blog/2022/05/31/in-game-overlays.html

Explaining the Magelight XP glitch in Skyrim https://lobste.rs/s/biwe7d #games #reversing https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/explaining-the-magelight-xp-glitch-in-skyrim

Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years

Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names Top of mind for me after reading this article is that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet should just be called The Heretic Prophet, and Horizon: Zero Dawn should have just been called Zero Dawn.

Day 803 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing Today’s game is some more Pokemon Platinum. I’ve been working on the Pokédex all day, and consequently the Living Dex. The major headaches so far have been the eggs. A whole bunch of walking to hatch them. I’ve started doing them in batches. I have a media server set up, and I’ve been watching Supernatural while I do it (always wanted to watch it, never got a chance). Normally I don’t try to “multitask” like that. But by step 10,000? I was needing something else to do. This whole thing though made me think, crazy respect to people who do Shiny Living Dexes. I don’t think I could ever. Like. The number of Shinies I’ve found in my life is maybe <10. Maybe 5 if you exclude scripted ones like in ZA. Hell. I did a Living Dex for Gen 3 and the entire time I only found 1 Shiny. It’s crazy man. I saw one of my friends was naming every Pokemon they caught. I thought it’d be a fun challenge so I did the same thing. I need to go back and name some. But around 150~ Pokemon in I stopped giving them names and started naming them after the first noun I saw online. After that I just started making them up or naming them after the first word I came up with. I even started getting creative by swapping vowels and noises. I ended off on Mt. Coronet, hunting for a Absol. im thinking I’ll named this one Ande. Like the Andes Mountains. Or Andesite. Or maybe I’ll name it something Mundane. Like Dave or something. First I need to find the damn thing though.

Bandai Namco’s Synduality: Echo of Ada is shutting down online services, but players are oddly happy about it thanks to promised “PvP-free” offline mode

I made some interesting mods cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/49719896 I love this game and since its not updating very offten i decided to learn programming and start making things that i want myself. So i made some first mods. One is lode stone, i changed recepy to use metal ingot instead of netherite ingot. Small change but wery important one, because player can use it much earlier in the game, and can make as much of them as it needs. Its wery usefull item in the game and it never should have been expencive. Second mode is furnice, blast furnice should simply be better version of regular furnice. And thats exactly what i made. It can smelt all the items same as regular one but it smelts items twice as fast. I want to learn everything, so if you have some place where i can find all informacions about how game works and how to make mods, please share it with me.

Reverse Engineering Comanche Terrain Maps https://lobste.rs/s/qcafwq #games #programming #retrocomputing https://pikuma.com/blog/comanche-maps-reverse-engineering

We ported the original Doom to SQL https://lobste.rs/s/qf2mtz #databases #games https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/

How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century

LEGO Racers returns and is playable for free on PC now

Dragon Quest Builders 2 & the Art of Directed Creativity Let’s take a look at Dragon Quest Builders 2 and the way that it uses direction and guidance to help the player develop and enhance their creativity, whilst also still offering enough freedom for the player to make whatever they build still something uniquely their own. Whilst the article is focused upon the gameplay rather than the story, there may be one or two minor spoilers, yet nothing that should ruin the experience for you. Still, please keep that in mind if you have not played this game.

The WipEout Game You Had to Buy a Movie to Play I stumbled across this while looking through old PSP physical releases and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole. In 2005, Sony released a version of the movie Stealth on UMD that also had a playable, exclusive version of WipEout Pure on the same disc, complete with a Stealth-themed track and a craft based on the film’s fighter jet. I ended up writing a little piece about what was on the UMD, why Sony was experimenting with movie/game hybrids at the time, and what survives of this very strange release today. It is a super light little read, but when it comes to PSP’s these days, there’s woefully few of those! Hopefully some in here find it amusing :)

This ‘World of Warcraft: Forever’ Mod Blocks All Interactions With Asmongold Fans The beta for the hotly anticipated World of Warcraft: Forever has been marred by fans of the streamer Asmongold who have filled the game’s public spaces with spam and slurs. To fix the issue, a player named Solastro created a mod called OlympusMute that hides any chats from players associated with Asmongold’s multiple associated guilds and fandom. Funnily enough, Solastro told 404 Media he used to be a big Asmongold fan too. OlympusMute, named after the main Asmongold guild Olympus, is a client side mod that creates a mute list designed to prevent players from seeing anything from players associated with Asmongold. It works simply by hiding chat messages from players with Olympus in their name. It also auto-declines group and guild invites from the muted players. Solastro is a longtime WoW player who told 404 Media he found the Asmongold related spam in WoW: Forever intolerable. He said it’s worse when Asmongold himself logs in. “The trade chat is spammed with people wanting to get near him, on his layer, etc. The guild invite spam is prevalent, as he’s encouraged his followers to invite as many people as possible to Olympus,” he said. The mod, essentially, is an attempt at a nuclear block. It “hides all player chat from muted players: Say, Yell, Emote, Whisper, General/Trade/custom channels, Guild, Party, Raid, Raid Warning, and Instance chat” and “hides their chat bubbles in the open world,” according to its description. There are good reasons players may want to never hear from Asmongold or his guild. “Turned on @Asmongold stream for 3 minutes and just instantly see them harassing some random player and spamming shit like this in stormwind,” X user @mrfishpsirit said in a post on X. The account shared screenshots of chat bubbles calling to “deport all greenskins” and sexually assault Palestine. Asmongold himself replied to the post with a list of slurs he’d invented for the game’s fictional races. “When the army of followers is in a single location, the chat is filled with /yell messages that often include slurs (with special characters to not get flagged), racist chants, misogynistic terms, etc. It’s something I heavily dislike, but it was too pervasive to be able to /ignore each player, so I found another solution just to filter chat,” Solastro added.

What’s everyone top 5 games of all time I am just curious about people’s taste here, since this community looks sane compared to other “loony-toons” gaming subs or forums online. You don’t need to explain yourself just name them. Thanks