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Google says it's killing 17 Assistant features to improve the user experience in c/technology

[–] donio 5 points 10 months ago

When this happens it's often because a backend component gets rewritten and somebody decides that it's too much work to re-implement some features for the new backend. It's much easier to come up with a PR spiel for why removing the features is actually a good thing.

YouTube Premium says the price party is over for grandfathered accounts in c/technology

[–] donio 14 points 11 months ago

TIL. The wikipedia article with some more detail.

What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness? in c/gaming

[–] donio 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

(early 8-bit era)

Bought my first Steam Deck after seeing the deep discounts on refurbs...what should i know as a first time Steam Deck/PC gamer? in c/gaming

[–] donio 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For Steam in general: If you are not in a major hurry to get a game wait for sales. There are major sales a few times a year and smaller ones all the time. Add games to your Steam wishlist to get notified when it's on sale. Check steamdb for price trends.

Embark Studios' The Finals uses text-to-speech AI for in-game voices in c/gaming

[–] donio 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The speech in Impossible Mission was sampled from a human actor not synthesized.

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 29th in c/gaming

[–] donio 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So what are you playing this week?

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 29th in c/gaming

[–] donio 1 points 1 year ago

I started playing Ring of Pain. It's a deckbuilder-ish roguelite. There isn't really a deck, it's more of a loadout-builder (or tableau builder in boardgame terms). Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale is the closest thing I've played before. RoP is sort of like a 1d version of that. Fun and fairly unique mechanics, smooth implementation. Runs great on the steamdeck too, good controller support.

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[–] donio 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OCRmyPDF is what I use as well, had good luck with it on boardgame rulebooks that sometimes come with missing or partial embedded text. Combined with recoll and the Emacs pdf-tools mode I have it all indexed and at my fingertips.

Why do you use firefox? in c/technology

[–] donio 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On Android it's the only reasonable choice so no question there.

On desktop I used Netscape/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/Conkeror for many years but switched to Chromium when I had to start over after the XUL-apocalypse. But lately I've been maintaining my Firefox setup more or less in parallel with Chromium and this week as it happens I am trying to make the switch back again. Mostly just to wean off the Google stuff. Will see how it goes.

Another (less-critical) motivation is that Chromium takes over 10 hours to build on my machine. Firefox is under 1 and it gets done way faster even if an LLVM or Rust build is involved too.

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 27th in c/gaming

[–] donio 2 points 1 year ago

It's been mostly comfort foods: Slay the Spire and Binding of Isaac.

Need some local coop recommendations in c/gaming

[–] donio 2 points 1 year ago

In Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime you have to save the Space Bunnies!

[Rumor] Youtube is A/B testing disabling "Do not recommend this channel" on me in c/technology

[–] donio 9 points 1 year ago

I've give up on the Youtube homepage long time ago. Only the Subscriptions view (with shorts filtered using a userscript) and search results are usable for me.

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[Amazon] The Taverns of Tiefenthal - $29.99 (www.amazon.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by donio to c/boardgamedeals@lemmy.ml

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I believe this matches the all time low except for a brief Amazon one-off deal quite a while ago by a third party seller.

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Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: July 2 2023 | 20 ending soon (incl. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Board Game, Firefly: The Game – 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition) & 21 new this week (incl. Cyclades: Legendary (docs.google.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by donio to c/tabletop

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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/boardgames/t/127668

Cross-poster's note: this is not my work, all credit for this excellent stuff go to Perry@kbin.social

What is this?

This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

This is a continuation of the same lists that were originally started over at the /r/boardgames subreddit.

Google Docs

As an alternative format, the lists are now also available as a Google Docs found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BC9nQ7xVUs3rwVpSl_K9V5unJeMIqrtBPmch1lYo7tQ/edit?usp=sharing

Updates

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST on the following platforms:

Mastodon: @danielpervan@mastodon.social

Discord: https://discord.gg/T9MCxgHj

Reddit: /r/boardgames

Selection criteria

The criteria for the lists are as follows:##What is this?
This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST

The criteria for the lists are as follows:

Ending soon

Sorted by number of backers
Kickstarter projects ending in the next 7 days, that have at least 100 backers (or marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter), will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the filters:
- No DnD books
- No zines
- No 3D printing
- No dice sets
- No magazines
- No shirts
- No playmats
- No furniture
- No events
Gamefound projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the above filters.
(beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and have a matching BGG page.

Newly launched

Sorted by number of backers
Kickstarter projects launched in the last 7 days, that have had at least average 15 backers per day, have at least 100 backers or is marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter and passed the filters (see above).
Gamefound projects launched in the last 7 days and passed the filters (see above).
(beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects launched in the last 7 days and have a matching BGG page.

Notable filtered projects

Filtered projects from above lists that have more than 1000 backers.

Ending soon (20)

Name	Description	Backers	Pledged	Ends	Information	Tags	BGG
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Board Game	1-4 player solo/co-op survival adventure set in Chornobyl. Become a stalker and explore the Zone!	12375	$2,983,334.15 (5967%) in 19 days	2023-07-04	Gamefound 1‑4 players age 14+ 120-180 min. Cooperative	💰🔥🌳	BGG
Firefly: The Game - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition	Find a crew. Find a job. Keep flying. Cross the 'verse to complete jobs and get paid in this special Collector's Edition of Firefly: The Game. Containing every expansion ever made, the brand new "Still Flying" expansion and deluxe components. This is the ultimate edition for true Browncoats.	8297	$2,082,351.42 (2082%) in 19 days	2023-07-06	Gamefound 1‑10 players age 13+ 120-240 min. Card Game	💰🔥🌱	BGG
💡 Inventions: Evolution of Ideas by Vital Lacerda	Use the power of humanity's most noteworthy innovations to evolve society in this innovative strategy game with artwork by Ian O'Toole	6194	$662,998.00 (663%) in 17 days	2023-07-09	Kickstarter 2‑4 players 120-150 min.	🎉💰🔥🌳	BGG
Waypoints	Hike your own trail in this print at home game from Postmark Games.	5960	£24,083.90 (2408%) in 13 days	⚠️ 2023-07-02	Kickstarter 1‑100 players age 8+ 20-40 min.	💰🔥	BGG
Dog Park: New Tricks Expansion	Return to the world of Dog Park with multi-breed pups, trick training, and enough room in the park for up to 5 players!	3129	£129,978.27 (1300%) in 12 days	2023-07-06	Kickstarter 1‑5 players age 10+ 50-90 min.	💰🔥	BGG
Witchcraft!	A midnight bell tolls on the streets of Wildegrens as the villagers shutter their windows against the darkness. The isolated village is in danger. Crops are failing, animals are dying, and villagers are disappearing. Townsfolk are scared. From behind the old school a shadow crosses to the town well.…	2671	€56,504.00 (471%) in 24 days	2023-07-05	Gamefound 1 player 20-40 min. Card Game Deck Building	💰	BGG
Faeries & Magical Creatures	A magical game where you collect faeries, plant gardens, build fairy homes, and be the first mortal to join the fairy realm.	972	$77,023.00 (308%) in 19 days	2023-07-08	Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 10+ 30-60 min.	🎉💰🌳	BGG
[MINI PLAKKS	Flicking board game to challenge everyone](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plakks/mini-plakks-flicking-board-game-to-challenge-everyone)	Score goals with your fingers and make epic saves! Use your skills and strategy to compete against your family and friends⚽️👌	911	€26,439.00 (264%) in 47 days	2023-07-04	Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 5+ 5-15 min.	🎉💰🌳
Escape from Projekt Riese	Battling the zombie apocalypse of WWII in the secret underground complex of Projekt Riese.	663	CA$81,936.29 (234%) in 14 days	2023-07-07	Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 14+ 30-60 min.	💰🌳	BGG
The Halls of Montezuma	Travel back to 1846-1848 to refight the military and political battles of the Mexican-American War!	594	$43,196.00 (288%) in 21 days	2023-07-07	Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 12+ 60-75 min.	💰	BGG
The Hunters A. D. 1492 (edycja polska)	The Hunters AD 1492 to gra kooperacyjna przeznaczona dla 1 do 4 graczy. Wciel się w łowcę i stań oko w oko z wrogami w alternatywnym, postapokaliptycznym świecie przełomu średniowiecza i renesansu.	498	PLN 460,280.00 (1534%) in 9 days	2023-07-03	Gamefound 1‑4 players 90 min. Cooperative	💰🌳
Railway Rush	The pocket sized card game for every journey! Don't miss your train!	368	£5,960.00 (99%) in 28 days	2023-07-05	Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 8+ 15-45 min.	🌱	BGG
HacKClaD	HacKClaD is a competitive deck-building arena battler for 1-4 players in a stunning, sci-fi anime game from Japan!	314	$30,977.00 (310%) in 12 days	2023-07-07	Kickstarter	🎉💰🌳
Beverage is back!: Worker placement at its thirstiest	An economic worker placement game with a bit of push-your-luck and a lot of cutthroat strategy. Bigger and thirstier than ever!	268	¥2,597,452 (173%) in 15 days	2023-07-09	Kickstarter 3‑5 players age 13+ 60-90 min.	🎉💰	BGG
Ocean Pods - Dice Game	Draft resources to complete research goals whilst working together to stop pollution. One can win, but all could lose.	241	£6,529.00 (1088%) in 25 days	2023-07-08	Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 11+ 30-45 min.	💰	BGG
Rise of the Gummies	A hybrid card game that brings your deck to life!	231	$20,739.00 (104%) in 24 days	2023-07-07	Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 8+ 10-20 min.	🎉💰🌱	BGG
Potions & Spells	A recipe-building card game for 2-6 players. Cast spells to attack or gain advantages and collect ingredients to brew magical potions.	186	$7,853.00 (105%) in 26 days	2023-07-06	Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 14+ 20-45 min.	💰🌱	BGG
VAULT	A competitive game for 1 to 4 players. Crack the combination before the other hackers do!	157	£6,647.00 (1329%) in 31 days	2023-07-03	Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 10+ 30-60 min.	💰🌳	BGG
Overlords: In Training	Survive, outlast, and outwit your enemies long enough to take on the Boss and become the next Overlord!	95	$6,999.00 (140%) in 10 days	2023-07-06	Kickstarter	🎉💰
JumPico	Combine Two Players, Two Track Styles and Two ways to play as you challenge you friends in head to head races to the finish line.	71	¥546,909 (547%) in 12 days	2023-07-07	Kickstarter	🎉💰🌳

New this week (21)

Name	Description	Backers	Pledged	Ends	Information	Tags	BGG
Tanares Adventures - Ultimate Edition	Dive into 110+ epic quests with this massive dungeon crawler! Stunning miniatures, cinematic stories and deep strategic gameplay await.	6322	$1,037,474.00 (2075%) in 5 days	2023-07-20	Kickstarter 1‑8 players age 14+ 45-90 min.	🎉💰🔥	BGG
🔱Cyclades Legendary Edition	Join the Ultimate evolution of this famous development, territory control and auction board game by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc.	3684	€405,921.00 (271%) in 4 days	2023-08-08	Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 13+ 60-90 min.	🎉💰🔥	BGG
Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux	Return to the North Sea in this reimagined 1-5 player version of the original game that started it all!	2250	NZ$318,912.42 (1387%) in 6 days	2023-07-13	Kickstarter 1‑5 players age 13+ 60-80 min.	🎉💰🔥🌳	BGG
DC Deck-Building Game: Justice League Dark	Get ready for something magical! The second DC DBG Kickstarter features Justice League Dark, the next Rivals game, & lots of surprises!	1983	$347,648.00 (348%) in 5 days	2023-07-27	Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 15+ 60-90 min.	💰🔥🌳	BGG
Mystery of the Abbey - Mojito Studios.	Three to six monks investigate inside a medieval abbey to discover the culprit behind a grisly murder in this classic board game!	567	$28,248.00 (188%) in 6 days	2023-07-19	Kickstarter	💰
Fighting Fantasy Adventures: Campaign One	Co-op adventure game based on the iconic books.	540	A$29,597.32 (30%) in 2 days	2023-07-22	Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 14+ 60-180 min.	🔥🌱	BGG
Book It! Tag Teams & Title Belts	The third expansion for The Pro Wrestling Promoter Card Game is our biggest yet! Two new mechanics and 100 new wrestlers!	208	$8,558.66 (114%) in 2 days	2023-07-30	Kickstarter	💰🌳
DVG - Field Commander Lee	The American Civil War Solitaire Strategy Game	195	$31,687.00 (158%) in 1 days	2023-07-23	Kickstarter	💰🌳
Border Ridings	A collaborative history-building game, played by drawing evolving town maps on scraps of paper. Rules printed on a massive foldout map!	192	£5,185.00 (148%) in 2 days	2023-07-21	Kickstarter	💰🌳
Cursed Manor	A thrilling escape game in which you help a team of ghost hunters in unraveling the mysteries of an haunted mansion	114	€708.00 (708%) in 5 days	2023-07-17	Kickstarter	💰
FridgeChess: A Vertical Chess Board for your fridge!	Play Chess on any vertical surface	109	$4,725.00 (95%) in 5 days	2023-07-27	Kickstarter	🌱
カワサキネオンギャングスタ / KAWASAKI NEON GANGSTA	マフィアの抗争に勝利し、カワサキの街を支配せよ！金と暴力が渦巻くサイバーパンクな世界「KAWASAKI NEON GANGSTA」のボードゲーム製作プロジェクトです。This project is only available in Japan.	106	¥1,262,219 (180%) in 2 days	2023-07-30	Kickstarter	💰🌱
Neon Wizard & House of Shadows: Pinball by PinBox 3000	Cardboard pinball system with amazing art and die-cut paper craft assembly	94	$10,236.00 (16%) in 4 days	2023-08-13	Kickstarter
Classic Rally	The thrills of classic car rallying, from preparing the car and logistics, to the days on the road competing and assisting the car, in order to try to get it to the finish quicker than the others.Manage your team and race your classic car in a road map created by all the players.	81	€3,340.00 (34%) in 5 days	2023-07-27	Gamefound 1‑4 players 60 min. Area Control Deck Building	🌱
Undermined! Pairadice City: A Gold Rush Era Mining Card Game	Race to unearth as many treasures as possible while avoiding terrible perils and your opponents' shenanigans!	72	£4,949.69 (165%) in 3 days	2023-07-11	Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 8+ 30-60 min.	💰🌱	BGG
Dino Gardens	The board game you've been waiting 65,000,000 years to play!	50	$2,197.00 (27%) in 1 days	2023-08-01	Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 10+ 45-90 min.	🌱	BGG
Scars of Baladorne	Unleash your strategic might in an epic two-player skirmish game and seize control of the fantasy land of Baladorne.	32	£1,955.00 (23%) in 1 days	2023-07-31	Kickstarter 2 players age 11+ 30-60 min.	🌱	BGG
AnARKey Trading Card Game	A whole new Trading card game experience that YOU can be a part of! Join Danny Trejo and other Awesome people in the Wasteland today!	26	$4,872.00 (17%) in 1 days	2023-08-15	Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 14+ 50-120 min.		BGG
Tales are Real: Legacy	An expandable fantasy duel card game with easy to learn rules, intuitive game mechanics and strategic depth - for beginners and experts.	24	€1,101.00 (37%) in 2 days	2023-08-05	Gamefound 2 players age 14+ 15-60 min. Card Game Dice Game Deck Building	🌱	BGG
Mermaids Vs Kraken	A roll and write of oceanic depth battling a tentacled terror with the help of Mermaids	23	$105.00 (105%) in 1 days	2023-07-21	Kickstarter 1‑100 players age 8+ 20-50 min.	💰🌳	BGG
King of the Casinos	You think you're slick enough to run a Las Vegas casino? Find out in this all new board game.	18	$924.00 (4%) in 1 days	2023-07-31	Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 12+ 60-90 min.	🌱	BGG

Notable filtered projects (7)

Name	Description	Backers	Pledged	Ends	Information	Tags
Geologist's Primer by Double Proficiency	An illustrated guide to real-world crystals, minerals, and metals by the creators of the Herbalist’s Primer	5683	$324,362.00 (3244%) in 5 days	2023-07-27	Kickstarter	🎉💰🔥🌳
Triangle Agency, Paranormal Investigation TTRPG	Clock in to work and protect the world in this game of paranormal abilities, corporate horror, and dangerous Anomalies.	3147	$252,002.99 (2520%) in 26 days	2023-07-07	Kickstarter	🎉💰🌱
SEASON 2: NRB Plays Blood On The Clocktower LIVE!!	We're making a follow-up series of In-Person Games!!	2244	£126,160.72 (121%) in 57 days	2023-07-05	Kickstarter	🎉💰
Loot The Body! 1000 Intriguing Items for D&D or any TTRPG	Unique & Evolving Project: Expand your loot collection with intriguing items for DnD or any TTRPG. Join the fun from just £2!	2165	£11,202.00 (24893%) in 19 days	2023-07-08	Kickstarter	💰🌱
Omni Dice: World's First 15-in-1 D6 Dice in Your Pocket	A Revolutionary 15-in-1 function dice just in a single D6 cube. For your games and your daily life.	1545	$131,711.00 (2634%) in 26 days	2023-07-06	Kickstarter	🎉💰
2024 Quest Calendar 📆 An Adventure-a-Day RPG	A desktop tear-away calendar with a year full of adventure in 2024.	1324	$71,591.00 (651%) in 1 days	2023-07-22	Kickstarter	💰🔥🌳
Savage Worlds 20th Anniversary Celebration	Updated 5th printing of the best-selling Savage Worlds game system! NEW softcover Player's Book, Accessory Box, and stretch goals!	1020	$97,314.00 (1622%) in 5 days	2023-07-28	Kickstarter	🎉💰🔥🌳

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Getting it running (self.tafkars)

submitted 1 year ago by donio to c/tafkars@feddit.de

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I've just spent a few minutes building the project and getting it to run, I thought I'd mention some tidbits:

The instance URL should not include a trailing /. Example invocation that worked for me: RUST_LOG=info ./target/release/tafkars-lemmy https://myinstance
Once running I was able to access the API using curl -v http://localhost:8000/top.json or curl -v http://localhost:8000/r/mycommunity/top.json

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Cult of the new! What are your favorites from the past couple of years? (self.boardgames)

submitted 1 year ago by donio to c/boardgames@feddit.de

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Favorite lightweight solos (self.soloboardgaming)

submitted 1 year ago by donio to c/soloboardgaming@lemmy.ml

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It's been a long day, setting up Nemo's War or Mage Knight feels like way too much hassle. What do you reach for?

Some of my picks:

For Northwood was a really pleasant surprise. I love tricktaking and it's amazing how well this game make that work for solo. The hand-evaluation part before each "conversation" is a really cool mechanic too.
Orchard is so easy to get on the table. And you get two plays for a single shuffle. I like the laser-focus on the single goal, great when my mind is not up for something more complicated
After the Virus is a cool little solo deckbuilder. Only getting started with this one but really enjoying it so far
Buttonshy stuff is always good. Rove, Ragemore, Food Chain Island, Skulls of Sedlec, Spaceshipped are some of my favorites. Oh and Sprawlopolis of course.

donio