Not the best of the series, but humorous and adventurous as it's brethren. Developed by Black Isle Studios and released by Interplay in Both this and the original Fallout are isometric RPGs with tons of choices regarding character development and general gameplay. Like its predecessor, it features turn-based combat, but it's bigger and has a lot more content. Final Fantasy VII was a hit because of its state-of-the-art graphics for the time and FMV scenes, great soundtrack, exciting fantasy-steampunk setting and story, which featured massive corporations draining the planet of its life force.
Its cast and important scenes are ingrained in JRPG fans' memory. It has aged quite decently, and while not the be-all end-all of its genre, it's still a really good game. Excellent 3d space shooter boasting epic battles with enormous capital ships, a decent plot and great dogfighting gameplay.
Quite possibly the best game of its genre. The story places the player in the role of a human pilot in the Galactic Terran Alliance, as it engages in war with the alien Parliamentary Vasudan Empire.
This war is interrupted by the appearance of the enigmatic and militant Shivans, who begin slaughtering Terrans and Vasudans alike. Putting aside their differences, the Terrans and Vasudans form an alliance, and the player is assigned to missions to stop the Shivans' genocidal advance. The player pilots a starfighter, and alongside competent AI wingmen, completes these missions to determine the fate of two races.
Important battles in the story feature capital ships, which dwarf the fighters piloted by the player, and explode spectacularly on destruction. Good blend of the genres, lots of humour one damn fine game! Get this unofficial update to make it run properly on Win Set in a day of the dead themed afterlife, Grim Fandango involves a Film-Noir style plot revolving around a salesman and a conspiracy in the Department of Death, an organization that helps guide souls from death to their eternal rest.
Well known for its excellent in story, art style, music, characters, and dialog, this 3D adventure game is considered one of the finest in the genre. RTS based only in combat and tactics, forget about building a base and gathering resources, the only thing that counts here is your ability to command your units.
Now free to download. Fileplanet GOG. Excellent Sci-fi shooter that's aged decently. Interesting story and combat featuring a variety of military, scientific, and box opening weapons. Varied maps make for a must-play multiplayer experience.
A metric fuckton of mods exist for this. There's also the two expansion pack: Opposing Force and Blue Shift. If you want more, there's also Uplink, a demo of the game that uses cut content not in the original. Check out Black Mesa if you want a different, more modern take of the game. The game is set in a colony called "Misplaced Optimism" on Saturn's moon Titan. The people of Misplaced Optimism have been abandoned on Titan so trading valuable resources is a huge part of the game.
Very cool game, shame it never took off in the States like it could have. A brilliant platformer from the maker of Another World. You play as a boy who enters a land where darkness rules over all to save his captured dog, Whiskey. Even if it is a bit hard and sometimes unforgiving, it's a classic to have if you love late 90s platformers. Also on PS1. Set in a alternative world where two opposing factions fight for control using mechs, they now have to unite to fight a common enemy eh.
Awesome customization, good quantity of mechs and weapons for you to use, and pretty fun side missions. Nearly impossible to run on anything this side of the year Like, seriously. Probably the first strategy game of its kind. Homeworld places you in control of a space armada in three-dimensional space, which makes for more strategic opportunities like attacking your enemy's Mothership from two separate points on the z-axis.
Gather resources from nearby asteroids, dust clouds, and nebulae, develop awesome technologies ranging from fast-tracking turrets to gravity well generators, and build space craft ranging from the fast but weak Scout, to the lumbering Heavy Cruiser. The game's single-player campaign places you in the control of a race of Exiles from the desert world of Kharak as they journey through the galaxy to find their once and future Homeworld, Hiigara, and reveal the past they have long forgotten.
Not sure why this game isn't here yet, because it is awesome. Despite not being made by Relic I do think it's one of the stronger entries in the series. You play a mining sect of the heroes from the first game who encounter a malevolent space virus that can infect both organisms and machinery! Uh oh, spaghettios! Familiar to the first with lots of new ships and upgrades not found in either part 1 or 2. Stuff like multibeam frigates, hive frigates, siege cannons, shields actual FUCKING shields and infected cruise missiles will make you jizz rainbows.
None of this stuff makes it into part 2 for some stupid reason. While this makes for a fun combat group, it takes away the unique character personalities that are present in other Black Isle games. The Icewind Dale series are purely combat oriented, forget about a memorable story or great dialogs, what counts here is to clean the dungeons of hundreds of beasts.
A turn-based, squad-level strategy game with a roleplaying aspect, excellent mechanics, and good storyline. High initial learning curve, but very solid gameplay once you're familiar with it. Its prequel, Jagged Alliance 2 has also an active community and a very popular unofficial Jagged Alliance 2 v1.
It's the best in this genre. A unique jewel. The sequel to the classic DOS game. One of the highlights of PC platforming. Still maintains an active community today thanks to its adrenaline-packed multiplayer and flexible level editor.
Play as Anne, a plane crash survivor who finds herself on the shores of Isla Sorna, also known as Site B, two years after the events of The Lost World, and desperately needs to find a way off the island. You've got the responsibility of your own village in Dragon Pass and your goal is to become the king of it. To your disposal you have a council that give you advice and a large quantity of options of how to control your village.
It's all done using a text-based interface. Every time time passes it will occur an event which you will have to deal with. This can go from dealing with a duel-dispute to having your male villagers being kidnapped by females, then them being released after being raped, then the females coming back with the children.
Sierra goodness. Build a city in ancient Greece, protect the inhabitants from diseases, enemy armies and obtain the favour of the gods.
Call in heroes to kill mythical creatures that estabilished on your land, and stuff like that. Expansion adds a couple of tweaks. Fun 3rd Person Shooter with huge environments and 3 different player characters. Humour and satire all throughout. Fans of Earthworm Jim may appreciate this.
Yet another game based in the BattleTech universe. Can't say if the campaign was inspiring or not, but what beautiful luscious designs! If your mechs walk over trees, the trees tumble over. There are detailed tiny cities with cars that your mechs can wreak havoc upon. And the mulitplayer in this game was fantastic. In it's heyday, you could play on GameSpy or Microsoft's own online servers for control over each team's base.
All this with non 3d-accelerated graphics that could run on your grandma's Pentium ! In Mech Commander, you assume the role of a strategian who guides his predeployed mechs to victory. If you lose a mech, you hope that its pilot has ejected safely. Some mechs are better at sensing enemies in undiscovered territory versus other mechs.
Some mechs can carry more weapons. You've got scouting mechs that are weak but fast, like the raven. A more defensive mech that's slow but packs a punch would be something like the Masakari, the Awesome, or the Atlas. Then you've got the always versatile Mad Cats that are obligatory in every Battletech game.
There is quite a lot of variety to the weapons too: short range, mid range, long range, cannons, missiles, lasers, and more. Some have ammo limits, others have cooldown times. Mechs equipped with jump jets can climb over terrain that other mechs could not, much like reapers can in Starcraft 2. It is a very painstakingly detailed game with much depth. And it sure is a captivating foray into the Battletech world.
TL:DR -- watch the intro and be mesmerized. Find out. This game emanates some pretty weird vibrations. You play as a little cherub sent by God to clean up the corruption and sin on Earth. You are absolutely harmless and cannot harm a fly. You can easily be killed. Even flying is a bit of a problem, your tiny weak wings can't hold you for a long periods of time.
Everything changes when you find a stronger and more dangerous body to possess. And you can invade and control the body of almost every NPC in the game. And that's where the fun part begins. First person RPG, party based. The mechanics are a bit outdated and teh graphcis are really ugly, but if you're a fan of the genre it offers a huge world to explore and gigantic dungeons filled with all kind of beasts.
Like previous the installment, Myth II is a real-time tactics where players are given a pre-determined selection of units with their own strengths and weakness, without the option to recruit any further units later in battle, emphasizing the strategy aspect of the gameplay.
Great atmosphere and genuine chills. Controls are a bit clunky but work well enough once you get used to them. The first Blair Witch game is a psudo-sequel to this if you want more. Play as a Cate Archer, a petty thief turned secret agent, and fight an evil organization attempting to take over the world. Game is known for its humor, very wide array of gadgets, and setting. Very good Diablo clone, character class making a large difference to the game experience.
Multiplayer is spiced up with customisable magic traps and co-op scenario levels. Quirky art and story that will stick with you. Go around a futuristic city possessing people to stop a serial killer. No more endlessly tapping on your phone screen when playing King of Avalon: Dominion. Switch to a better gaming experience with 'Repeated Tap' on BlueStacks. Either press and hold an assigned key to tap continuously or just tap once to execute the tap specific number of times. Complete Google sign-in to access the Play Store, or do it later.
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BlueStacks is up to 6 times more powerful than the most advanced Android devices on the market today — even the latest flagship phones! Get a leg up on the competition with Advanced Keymapping. This incredible feature lets you play Android games with your mouse, keyboard, or gamepad.
Tired of having to memorize complex skill combinations or carefully input long sequences of pixel-perfect button presses? BlueStacks comes with a Macro Recorder so you can create your own input sequences. Just assign your sequence to a keypress or button tap and execute all of your intricate input combinations perfectly, every time. Share the highs and lows of your adventure with family and friends with the Recording feature.
Store every intense moment, the soaring highs and heart-shattering falls, to video that you can edit to make highlights and high-quality YouTube content. Multiple Instances brings true multitasking to Android. You can even log into and manage multiple King of Avalon accounts at the same time! Now supports simultaneous and bit apps. Also why I use Firefox and Comodo Firewall. I would remove all privs on the file in Windows to stop it.
Deleting will only be temporary. I have noticed there are DNS calls often resolving from my machine via pihole , but my local firewall is oblivious to those connections and never alerts me to local application making those calls. OmahaBoy69 43 days ago root parent prev next [—]. I experienced this too. Thank god for having a noisy HDD or I never would have noticed. Chrome Cleanup operates in the background, without visibility or interruptions to the user. It deletes the unwanted software and notifies the user once the cleanup has been successfully completed.
I have Someone might post a binary build there soon with 94 until yesterday they only had the ancient 89 , but you can build it yourself as well on my core x with 64Gb RAM it took 2. Nvidia is another culprit, Geforce Experience scans all your drives constantly to look for new games or something like that.
I can't find anything like that on my machine and am running the latest Chrome; where is that executable located on disk? Thank you, found it. It looks like it's not a new thing, it's been around for at least 6 years; it's possible they recently expanded its scope to scan more of one's disk which would be unfortunate.
U8dcN7vx 43 days ago root parent prev next [—]. The gracious guess would be an attempt to detect malware by sending or fetching hashes to match.
I want similar, although I don't want oneDrive - the level of spying that's used for is unacceptable imho. Very nice that I turn off everything I want one time, but what about the next update that will randomly toggle some settings back?
How about new settings for new features that are added? I think it's foolish to go use software like this, and expect some privacy to happen. Windows and its user are just not on the same page. Where software is passively uncaring about me, the user, instead of working actively against me, which is the case in most of proprietary stuff nowadays.
Historically tools like these were broken by windows updates and could not keep up with Microsoft's violent efforts in breaking them.
You can't even turn off windows defender in the registry anymore, which is the sole reason windows performs terribly on low end devices. Windows is a threat to national security and Microsoft must be sanctioned. I agree. Windows is malware. Its good or bad bits are irrelevant, it's perfectly usable as an OS, but in the meantime it's loaded with malicious intent and its business advantage is ruthlessly exploited at every turn. So I don't think that the tool itself is that much useful either.
It's good popularity for their creators, that's for sure, who very successfully jumped on the Win10 telemetry paranoia bandwagon. How they enable an auto-updating system of another superpower is beyond me. He said he was considering putting Linux on it, but he isn't feeling the need to now.
To be sure, that's not a rpm desk, though, yeah, I haven't had to suffer through one of those in over a decade! It will be slow in the coming months. Windows has very fast UI response on fresh installs and degrades over time. It's really not an achievement to have responsive UI in , Microsoft just hires the bottom of the barrel and bases everything on group studies, which yields the worst outcomes.
I have to use Windows once in a while circumstances. Best way to forget about the existence of spyware aka telemetry that I found is to not connect a Windows box directly to internet.
Eat that, Microsoft. And I can still connect to internet by manually setting a SOCKSv5a proxy to the router in Firefox and other software that I trust make sure there is no automatic proxy discovery mechanism in the router.
Jenk 43 days ago root parent next [—]. Since the 21H1 update you might start noticing connection drops since a new wlan autoconfig feature has been added: if windows can't ping home reliably, it will restart your nic.
I don't think the reason for this is malicious. Back in many Windows laptops belonging to friends and relatives had frequent WiFi issues.
The only reliable way to fix the issue was to restart the NIC. RedHat's NetworkManager already does something pretty similar [1]. Link please? I run Windows for work, which includes connecting to industrial networks with no Internet connectivity. If this happens, it's going to be a nightmare.
Jenk 40 days ago root parent next [—]. Sorry for the delay.. And it appears it may be part of 20h2, not 21h1 update. Damn, that's hostility on another level.
Do you have a link to more reading on this? Thanks for the link! I'm searching for 'reboot' and 'restart' but I don't see anything mentioned about rebooting -- only a restart of the network service. Are you sure it actually reboots the PC? Jenk 39 days ago root parent next [—]. No, it restarts the wlan interface, not the entire pc. Whoops, I somehow read nic as pc! Thank you for that tip. It never occurred to me that I can use this same technique but without OpenVPN in order to disallow that machine to connect to the internet but still have a working browser Make sure to manually download the Windows patches every Tuesday, since Windows Update won't work by itself.
Well, you run the tool again. It even tells you to do that after making changes. I acted like this for a long time, and my trust remained broken. Great, this is the most constructive answer.
Eternal useless pessimism instead of at least trying simple steps to solve the issue. Great credit to the authors of the tool. I used it many times when I was stuck with windows - and I'm grateful that they did all the work to make it.
I'm quite a pessimist otherwise, but I don't think my comment really reflects that. I just reported that as a human being, I'm tired of, and fed up with fighting a system that disrespects me, belittles me, overrides my decisions. For the longest time I felt that I have the upper hand. That I could install a software for my every need, limit this, change that, bend the whole system to my will.
But the realization grew on me, that me and the system are wanting two very different things. And whatever I do, I won't win. At most, we can be engaged in a cat-and-mouse game, as long as I'm up for fighting for it.
If I'm not, then my cause is lost. With this realization, I felt betrayed by the entity I otherwise liked very much. And this is the feeling I wanted to convey with my previous comment. I did not take the comment in the same light. I think it is great that people are creating such software. Seems useful for many users.
But looking at the broader context npteljes has a point. Why fight an insecure tool let's say Windows is insecure for the sake of the argument, I do not have a strong opinion about it then patch the security on top. Surely the obvious choice is to stop using the insecure tool.
Sometimes people want a technical answer, when the answer is to do the obvious. I don't think that is pessimism. Forbo 43 days ago root parent prev next [—]. Rather than people trying to remove the same warts over and over, progress could be made on a more permanent solution; namely, identifying gaps in the open source ecosystem where the only current solutions are proprietary.
I read it like GP lost faith because the settings were turned on so frequently. KronisLV 43 days ago root parent prev next [—]. I think it's a pretty good idea to automate this sort of software and schedule it to run whenever the OS restarts, or at the same time every day or multiple times, depending on usage patterns.
I don't think it's possible to easily figure out when to run something right after the updates change any settings, but it's a good idea to automate away manual work as much as possible! The person that you're replying to certainly has a point about having to run the tool manually being a hassle. Sadly, at the moment there are also no ways to automate running the tool that i know of , since it's GUI only, as opposed to offering CLI functionality or silent launch options.
But I have already solved the issue: I stopped using Windows. Assuming you mean trust in MS in general and not in what the OS does: broken trust isn't easy to fix, and this tool indeed doesn't do much in that regard, but it does fix some of the things which lead to the broken trust i.
Then perhaps this tool and this operating system are not for you Windows is good for some things, privacy ain't one of them, and you need to either live with it, work hard to protect your privacy within it, or leave it. For some of us me , tools like this are the difference between no privacy oversight and some oversight. I aspire to be a privacy-aware person rocking Linux, but in the meantime I appreciate this aspect of the ShutUp By its existence and popularity, it spreads the message that there is such a thing as privacy, and that it's important.
Installed manjaro Linux as a dual boot. Loving it. Krasnol 43 days ago parent next [—]. Fedora is my preferred solution to this problem. The winning move is not to play. To fiddle with Windows' privacy settings, and expecting them to respect the users privacy, is like asking an abusive partner nicely to not be abusive. Promises will always be broken, and in new and unexpected situations, the partner will act on their character, not on their promises.
And Microsoft has a documented history of this behavior. With Windows Update removed, and no way to patch the system without a full reinstall, I would not use ameliorated. The complete unability to patch zero-days makes it very unattractive.
They recommend to just take admin privs from the default user. If you're this serious about privacy, use Linux. The ONLY update you can apply is simply to just reinstall the operating system. I do appreciate this kind of stripped-down build procedure, but fail to see a good-enough use case. It's a very fine line, but they're mitigated by not running stuff as admin , not just removing admin rights from the main user's account.
With Ameliorated, people will still want to set up software as admin and install to Program Files, so if they take the advice from the FAQ, they might think they're fine just having a separate Admin account they use for UAC pop-ups to install the programs, while leaving their main as a standard user, which is indeed not going to solve any zero-days compared to users just being able to click 'yes' at UAC.
Generally, even the idea of using an OS downloaded from a random site big Linux distributions excepted is a security nightmare: you're trusting random, anonymous people not to put malware deep enough into the OS image where it won't easily be found. See XcodeGhost that got caught way after the fact. Same exact reason people should strongly consider staying away from LineageOS builds and other such things, where the dev team of half a dozen non-vetted anonymous forum users is responsible for everything running on your phone.
The "open-source means security because code gets vetted" argument only applies to big projects like Chromium, where hundreds of major corporations with world-class software engineers review, and contribute to the source code. Not to Lineage, where every phone model has its own build and dev team, and each build gets used by maybe a few hundred or thousand people, and reviewed by practically nobody. If there was one single Lineage build for all phones, I'd feel much more comfortable with it.
Though I have zero reason to distrust the Ameliorated folks, you generally never want to mess with software especially OSes downloaded from anyone other than the official vendor.
The risk of using this is much higher than running proprietary ShutUp10, which is already non-zero since it's proprietary. What a bunch corporate-authoritarian fearmongering BS. The community is NOT stupid. All it takes is one person to find out someone is trying to be malicious, and mass ostracisation will take place.
For most of civilization we didn't need corporate overlords to tell us who to trust that's a very very recent development.
How do you ostracise someone on the Internet if they're hiding behind pseudonyms? It makes no sense to compare how we live and behave in real life with the Internet. People can get doxxed and ruined in real life.
News spreads quickly. If you try to deceive a whole community of intelligent humans you'll get found out sooner rather than later, and unlike the slap-on-the-wrist lawsuit that at best companies get from trying the same, it is much worse for an individual. But of course, that doesn't fit the narrative I had hoped the risk for malicious actors would be a bit more serious than ostracisation.
Like, criminal persecution? That's illegal IIRC. It's not illegal, it's against the ToS of Microsoft that's something else, Microsoft is not a Lawmaker. How does this compare to TronScript?
Can someone explain these two decisions for me? If you download the self-extracting. Even if it has to be distributed in a container, why not a simple ZIP?
And the subreddit literally has a thread with a table that contains download links and a torrent, why would you not include that in the readme? Smells fishy. The reason is present the software as open-source while in reality it's closed source with unimportant data files being published on GitHub.
Lovely how on mobile, the reddit page is blocked: you need the app to access it. Once they don't allow these workarounds I am leaving reddit for good.
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