You really don’t take disagreements during a discussion well, huh?

You’re putting a lot of words in my mouth. All I ever said was that Discord is a poor replacement and I’m reasonably content to stick with Reddit until something substantial forms here or somewhere besides Discord. I’m not obligated to form a community and just because you call me lazy and sling insults at me for that choice doesn’t really change my mind on the matter, it just makes you look childish.

You’re the one getting worked up, and simply for my refuting Discord as a good replacement.

Grow up.

I addressed that directly in my last paragraph. It seems you are the one doing the selective reading here…

What did I apparently selectively read? I’m fairly sure I addressed most of what you said in the previous comment, but I’m on mobile so feel free to point out what I missed.

Because “slightly less shitty” isn’t as attractive of a moniker to me as it seems to be to you when it comes to deciding which platform to switch off to.

And a subreddit having a Discord doesn’t really guarantee much aside from having the same mods in charge. The userbase is invariably going to be different and may not have the same “vibe” as the subreddit. It’s not really as simple as you’re trying to make it out, which makes the idea of jumping off one shitty corporatized platform to another extremely unappealing.

I also don’t use social media enough or have enough free time to bother attempting to form and moderate my own community, so as much as I dislike Reddit I’m content just waiting it out for something that isn’t just another lame Discord server to pop-up here or elsewhere.

E: correcting autocorrect

Discord is now run by the former vice chairman of Blizzard. That, combined with it being only “not as far along” in the enshittification process actually makes the idea of putting time and energy into finding a niche community that I can jive with on Discord less appealing than simply sticking it out with Reddit and it’s known variables until something substantial forms on Lemmy or some other platform that hasn’t begun severely degrading due to corporate ownership.

That’s my personal opinion anyway.

Discord is already prepping for an IPO so why bother putting any energy into moving off Reddit, finding, and getting involved with communities on there when it’s going to be yet another shit show in fairly short order?

“Better for who?” is the question you need to ask yourself, because it’s absolutely not the users anymore.

I’ve always had a good experience with whatbox.ca

Woe is the day that I decide to take computer advice from a twitch streamer…

You might be able to see where a connection is going using the resource monitor in task manager when attempting the check

Could you not use a keygen or grab a serial from somewhere to get a “valid” key and block the app from the internet via firewall to prevent the check from calling home?

Sorry I’m not familiar with how this specific game checks validity.

Edit: Google pulled up this workaround at https://www.barik.net/posts/multiplayer-neverwinter-nights-on-local-lan/

Simply edit the file:

%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

and add the following lines to remap the Neverwinter Nights official servers to localhost:

127.0.0.1 nwmaster.bioware.com

127.0.0.1 nwnauth.kr.infogrames.com

Users are probably reporting less too since mods are useless now after the API debacle resulted in many of the ones who gave a shit getting ousted or neutered.

I certainly stopped bothering since they fully committed to becoming a (n even bigger) cesspit.

So… chivalry?

Because the article is likely just more GenAI vomit, and an LLM doesn’t have any degree of deductive reasoning ability to begin with.

Lol, OK Plex, cya.

They’re honestly lucky I was willing to pay the $2.99 or whatever it was to be able to access MY server, using MY internet and cell data, to access MY media files from MY phone. Plenty fair a price for a nice app, might’ve paid a few bucks more but they can screw off trying to charge a monthly fee for… nothing in particular in my usage case.

Literally just set up Jellyfin w/ Tailscale which took all of 10 minutes and works just as well. GG no re 🖕

Same, I was under the impression that this was fairly common knowledge, but it’s good to have it openly announced by some authority on the matter.

Giving The Walking Dead a rewatch. Haven’t watched since its original run and I dropped off around s4 or 5 back then so I’ve been binging it a bit to get back to where I was.

Nah, I loved Korra. Possibly more than the original series.

Pretty hype to get another story regardless, it’s just that the verbiage in the article description, to me, read like it it might be a side story or set in the past, so I was quite pleased to see them state it was a continuation in the actual article.

I wasn’t stating otherwise.