If you’d like to stop Steam from automatically updating a game, select “Only update this game when I launch it” from the game’s Library page > Properties > Updates.

So I think in addition to disabling auto-updates you have to play in offline mode once an update happens, or launch outside of Steam. at least, with Skyrim the script extender directly launched the exe so Steam’s “update on launch” wouldn’t happen, and I’m not quite sure what the correct way to do that for Cyberpunk is. 🤔

First off, don’t be like me - either use a mod manager (Vortex with the cyberpunk extension), or be sure to disable automatic game updating - otherwise you’ll come back to your game after steam auto-updates it and wonder where all your mods went. 😅

Anyway, back to the list of mods I was running - no guarantee that they’re all 100% compatible with the latest update, but the vast majority of them should be. You also can’t go wrong checking out the Top of All Time list on Nexus - I’m sure there’s some larger overhauls there that are great, but not something I used.

• Vehicle Customizer
  • lets you swap skins on player owned vehicles, so you can finally own those not-purchasable cool car colors that you find in the world.
• Pocket Radio
  • lets you listen to the radio while on foot!!
• Sensible Stamina and Athletics
  • I was playing a melee character and even so, didn’t get super high in athletics with this mod. I’d be scared to see how rough it is to level up athletics vanilla
• Immersive First Person
• Enhanced Weather
• Ragdoll Physics Overhaul
• Subdermal Armor Scaled Up
• Black Durable Synthetic Biker Coat

UI / Quality of Life mods:

• Limited HUD
  • this gives you much more granular control over what appears, and also lets you configure UI elements based on game state (ie, show during combat or not during combat); combine with Muted Markers for even more customization.
• Minimal Markers
• Quest Untracker
  • for untracking that “meet hanako at embers” quest without going into the menus
• No Camera Auto-Centering
  • the camera re-centering after like 2 seconds when driving always bugged me, and this mod fixes it.
• Filter Saves by Lifepath and Type
• Smaller Item Arrows

Performance-increasing / bug fix / visual mods:

• Optimized Crowd & Traffic Density
• Optical Camo Bug Fixes
• Vanilla Billboard LODs Improved
• Misty Appearance Mod
  • b/c honestly she should look way more goth than the vanilla game

Mods around increasing immersion, depending on your taste:

• Restrict Crafting/Upgrading to Inside Apartments
  • what it says on the tin! I was trying to go back to my apartments pretty frequently to shower / sleep / etc so this was another way of nudging me back
• Street Vendors
  • most of the street vendors will now trade with you!

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is one of my favorite indie games of all time. The city design really captures the feeling of wandering around an unfamiliar, large, bustling place. The diary mechanic at the end of the day is a great way to get in character, and I like that you can decorate the apartment. I did some light data-mining (mostly item info and dialogue strings), and I even have fridge magnets of some of the pixel art!

Depanneur Nocturne is also a great evening’s worth of exploration and vibes, but I mention it because I has a reference to Spaceport Janitor and it made me SO happy when I realized that. :)

Yeah, this is the distinction I usually make - beating the game is rolling the credits, finishing the story, what have you. Completing the game is doing all the side quests / koroks / enemy camps / content in the game.

In my household beating the game has the same meaning as “rolling credits” - largely based on Backloggery’s distinction between beaten and completed games. I’ve started focusing on actually beating games/rolling credits in the past ~3 years and while there’s still a few games I’ve started and put down unfinished for various reasons, I beat 25 games in 2022 and 14 so far in 2023.

I’d be interested to know what the difference in language means for you - would “beat” apply only to games that don’t have post-credits gameplay?

So it’s not the same as a fully featured wiki application, but I host a docker instance of VS Code on my NAS pointed at my obsidian vault volume, then SSH tunnel into it when I’m on devices away from home. Foam (VS Code extension) helps add some missing Obsidian features (backlinks pane, syntax highlighting, some autocomplete, cmd-click to navigate wiki links).

I can share more implementation details if anyone’s interested; caveat is that unfortunately it doesn’t work on mobile.

Other options I looked into:

1. GitHub - gollum/gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
   • this requires you to use git in your vault, which didn’t work with my personal set-up, but might not bother you?
2. Raneto - Markdown Knowledgebase for Node.js
   • I couldn’t get this container to load anything in the browser; possibly less an issue with my vault content and more of an issue with my container set-up so maybe it’d work better for you.
3. GitHub - Zavy86/WikiDocs: 📗 Just a databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine…
   • this version looks like it supports PUID and GUID assignment for volume read/write, if that matters. I didn’t try it though.
4. Filestash — Self-hosted client for your data
   • Taking a look in the docker installation instructions, I couldn’t find anywhere to put a local volume mounted to the docker container. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t actually interface with local files, so I didn’t test further.

Hah, if where I work is any indication, I’d guess the interview was filmed ~3 days before the event, there was a late night push to get this edit completed, it didn’t get fine-tooth-combed before release, and was handed off hours before the event. Shit happens when creative teams don’t get enough time to do their job!

Again, I think there’s a certain crowd of internet users who are familiar with fun domain names and enjoy playing in that space. My example is particularly innocuous (a club of people who love stone megaliths in the UK). I also think the fun and playful names aren’t difficult to tell from phishing sites, but maybe I have a gut instinct developed from exposure to the folks who do use playful domains.

My point is that thinking these quirky links look dangerous is specific to a certain social or generational group, and it wouldn’t hurt for them to keep an open mind about URLs/TLDs.

(Adding an icon to remote fediverse instance links is a nice idea too.)

I went back yesterday night to check out the Starfield sub and was surprised at how little interest I felt in even skimming the comments in case there were interesting theories. I grabbed the Imgur albums for screenshots I wanted to look at and left. the fediverse is my place now. :)

Sweet, just installed! I’m a very opinionated user so could come up with a very long list of feature requests and feedback, but I’ll hold off since it’s early days. 😅

The story felt much more impactful to me than BotW. I was so glad they did give us a bit of linear story at the beginning, rather than starting us in the sky with none of the lead-up. I also made sure to watch the memory cutscenes in order, and basically binged the last 3 in a row because I was too excited to space them out more. And, the final battle + ending was exciting and cinematic.

There’s definitely critiques that can be made after the fact, but in the moment I was emotionally invested in a way that BotW never reached for me.

It’s funny; I know the usual advice is to stick to com/net/org, but I think there’s a certain crowd online that’s all about the wacky TLDs. I’ve definitely seen devs and artists with TLDs like .pizza and .rocks (not a portfolio, but https://stoneclub.rocks as example). I’ve seen enough of these sites that something like https://sh.itjust.works doesn’t make me blink and I trust I’d be able to tell a phishing site from folks playing with TLDs, but I can totally understand how that could be off-putting without that sort of background.

@[email protected] is working on an iOS app as well; sounds like it’ll be on TestFlight relatively soon. It targets iOS 15 vs. Mlem’s 16, so a bit more compatible with older devices.

Ahhh, I see. I had read that they were rolling the change out based on account age but must have missed the bit about the username auto-reservation. thanks!

I haven’t played it yet, but A Hand With Many Fingers is one I’ve heard good things about. It lets you build that board of red strings, dig through evidence boxes, and piece things together. Also based on a true story!

Oh for sure, on tumblr I interact pretty rarely - just like and reblog things. though I think I was on tumblr before there was fuss around changes to the reply system and I’d reply to posts occasionally (on smaller more personal chatty blogs) – but when I went back recently the reply system seems exactly like I remember so maybe they listened to their users whenever that kerfuffle happened!

The note at the end about the new system working as a URL system for user profiles is interesting, because around the time the change was announced I saw some people theorizing that the change is rolling out because Discord wants to implement some kind of profile page. pure speculation, but it’ll be interesting to see what they do when the rollout is complete.

on that note, someone I know got the pop-up to change their username about a day before I did, and they weren’t able to choose my username – and when I got the pop-up, it auto-suggested my previous username. so it seems there is a pre-reservation system that does a reasonable job of letting people with already-unique usernames keep those.

I like the threadiverse well enough for general scrolling and chatting, but given the smaller user group right now, I think tumblr will be my replacement for fandom things like Dragon Age, TES, Zelda, and probably Starfield (haven’t checked the tags over there to see if people are posting fan stuff about it yet or not).

Honestly we put way more effort into marinating our chicken than the actual sauce (caveat: we’re very white, and this is all picked up from reading). Meat’s expensive and Aldi’s chicken quality is… not great, but marinating it helps out a lot.

For 6 pounds of chopped chicken breast, we do the following:

• first marinade: 5 tbsp lemon juice, 1 tbsp salt, 1 tbsp chili powder, 1 tbsp paprika
• smoosh all around, let sit in the fridge for ~30 min
• second marinade: 1.5 cups plain Greek yogurt (this could probably be reduced to ~1 cup too), 6 tbsp ginger garlic paste (we load up on big jugs from our local Indian market, so much easier than making from scratch), 5 tbsp oil, 3/4 tsp turmeric, 2 tbsp garam masala, and 1 tbsp fenugreek (also from our Indian market, bought whole then ground in batches)
• smoosh all around, keep chicken in the marinade the rest of the week while using it up.

It’s a decent amount of effort, but only doing it once a week helps. And whenever we get lazy and have to eat our chicken without marinating it because we forgot… it’s SO much drier and less flavorful.

(For the sauce we just use Aldi’s jarred butter chicken / korma / tikka masala. Korma is the best, the others are mediocre. They super rarely have jarred madras curry in the limited time section and that is amazing, imo actually spicy. Tragic they don’t sell it as regular stock.)

Very cool! Going to look into this while I’m messing with my NAS this weekend.