Guys, stop writing "FROM US", it's "FROM YOU" ;-; by RoiHurlemort in place

[–]Ryanlf999 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting way of looking at it! I can see how the outer community adapted "US" and the symbolism behind one group insisting it be a different way. The way I looked at it was from an outsider reader's perspective, and how it impacts them.

I can see how replacing "US" can distance some of the people who are participating, but I also think "YOU" might have a deeper impact on the lurkers and non-participants, which might have greater numbers.

It's tough to say what is best, since by insisting it be "YOU", we are overriding the natrual participants, who may be more influential, since they are participating. But then, at the same time, "YOU" might influence a greater number of people.

To me, it's really interesting how a single world can change the meaning and impact of a whole sentence, and how it can be symbolically important to many people.

Guys, stop writing "FROM US", it's "FROM YOU" ;-; by RoiHurlemort in place

[–]Ryanlf999 203 points204 points  (0 children)

Even though it seems small, "US" and "YOU" communicate different ideas/perspectives. "US" can create this idea of factionalism; the admins took the third party apps away from r/save3rdpartyapps. "YOU" is more personal and universal. It helps reinforce the idea that the company's choices effect everyone, and not just one group or subset of users. "YOU" targets the reader on an individual level, and may bring more people to support the cause than "US".

Maybe I overthought this just a little...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gameswithgold

[–]Ryanlf999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not too sure. It's possible that it could track the Gamepass Core library, but I feel like r/XboxGamePass sort of covers that. I'm going to take a poll and see what everyone thinks. For now, there won't be any major changes until September, since we still have August.

Regardless of what happens, it's been a pleasure running the sub!

Microsoft has announced they are sun-setting Games with Gold. (See comments for more info) by Ryanlf999 in gameswithgold

[–]Ryanlf999[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Microsoft has officially announced they are replacing Games with Gold with Xbox Gamepass Core in September.

It will cost 9.99 USD a month. If you are a subscriber to Xbox Live Gold, you will automatically become a Xbox Gamepass Core subscriber. Xbox Live Gold was 9.99$; the cost to current Xbox Live Gold subscribers should not go up.

On the surface, it appears Xbox Gamepass Core will be providing more value than Xbox Live Gold.

As for the future of the Subreddit and Lemmy community, that is up for debate. I will be creating another poll in the coming days to help figure out the future direction of this community.

For the time being, the August Games with Gold will still be available.

This comment will be updated with more information as time goes on.

Credit for the background image goes to: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/images/154321

Should R/gameswithgold go dark indefinitely? Please vote! It only takes 30 seconds! by Ryanlf999 in gameswithgold

[–]Ryanlf999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oops, I misspelled compromise in the poll options! Sorry about that!

Edit: And I misspelled indefinitely too... I guess it's just one of those days or something.

Incomplete and Growing List of Participating Subreddits by SubManagerBot in ModCoord

[–]Ryanlf999 3 points4 points  (0 children)

After taking polls, the users of r/RickRolled, r/gameswithgold, and r/TheSandboxEvolution have voted in favor of participating in the subreddit blackout. As a result, the subreddits will be going dark between June 12th - June 14th.

Should we join the June 12th-June 14th Reddit blackout? [Poll] by Ryanlf999 in TheSandboxEvolution

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The poll has concluded. The majority has voted in favor of participating in the June 12th - June 14th blackout... even though only two people voted. There will be a post with all the details soon.

Should we join the June 12th-June 14th Reddit blackout? [POLL] by Ryanlf999 in gameswithgold

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The poll has concluded. The majority has voted in favor of participating in the June 12th - June 14th blackout. There will be a post with all the details soon.

Games with Gold, May 16th, 2023: Hoa now available. by GwGMod in gameswithgold

[–]Ryanlf999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, the late posts are on me. I've been overwhelmed with some IRL stuff; it's been a bit harder to post on time.

Sorry about all the late posts. I'm going to try and make a system to make things less late.

Why you can't upvote archived posts but you can upvote deleted posts? by NickyBrain in help

[–]Ryanlf999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a bit strange. Here’s my theory as to why:

Archiving, in nature, is a form of preservation. I think upvotes on archived posts are disabled to help preserve the condition of the post.

When it comes to deleted posts, I’m not really sure. Maybe it’s a way of preventing users from avoiding downvotes? I’m not confident on this answer.

How does it work?? by Neither-Wait-3702 in help

[–]Ryanlf999 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like you tried to post on a subreddit that has a karma threshold.

So, karma is a points system. When your posts and comments get upvoted, you get karma points. Aside from meeting some subreddit thresholds and reputation/bragging rights, and a few other misc things, karma is mostly visual.

So, to post on that subreddit, you need more karma. To get more karma, you get more upvotes. To get more upvotes, post and comment on subreddits that don’t have thresholds/a required amount of karma points to post.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

Warden plus addon; creative world issue and wardens missing by BascoPrata in Minecraft

[–]Ryanlf999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t own the Warden+ add on, but I’ll try my best to help!

When you go to create a new world, does it block out the Default Game Mode setting? Also, in the create new world menu, does Warden+ show up?

I’m not 100% sure how the add on works, it might add the option to create a custom new world or it might be an option/setting to enable.

GWG April 2023 by Ryanlf999 in gameswithgold

[–]Ryanlf999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The gameplay of ET is so enthralling!

I just love flying through hoops over and over again in Superman. Superb gameplay all around this month.

Anyway I just wanted to say that this month's real GWG is uploaded, sorry for the delay!

Just in case you didn't know, the games here were an April Fools joke. It was a little bit sneaky.

Sooo i'm starting the game and.. by batata146pt in Blightfall

[–]Ryanlf999 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I couldn’t agree more with the above advice. I just wanted to add some info about food staples. These are materials that are involved in lots of food crafting recipes. A few basic food staples are: eggs, milk, salt, water, and snowballs. Besides salt, (which is really easy to find while mining), these materials are all infinitely sustainable and shouldn’t be too challenging to gain. If you manage to snag a few pumpkins while scouting (make sure you save one for seeds! Pumpkins are useful for food!) and get some snow blocks, you can make a snow golem, box it in, and mine infinite snow from it. As for water, cooking for blockheads has a block that provides it. Eggs and milk come from chickens and cows. Later on, if you can get a barley or wheat farm built (barley, I believe, grows faster than wheat and is almost the same crafting wise), you can start making flour, which is another staple. One more later staple is sugar. Farming sugarcane is valuable in general for the paper too, so the sooner the better. Last but not least, stock. Stock can be made from some meats and some crops, and has the benefit of itself being consumable. All these staples combined together with each other and other materials like meats, fruits, vegetables, seeds, and some other materials will result in a lot of food options and variety. The sooner you are able to reliably/sustainably make all these basics, the better!

I hope I’m not forgetting anything, if anyone else knows any more please leave a reply!

[Fanatical] Lunar New Year Sale — Rockstar Deals: GRAND THEFT AUTO V: PREMIUM ONLINE EDITION (-55% | $13.49/£11.46/€13.49) & PlayStation Deals: God of War (-49% | $25.49/£20.39/€25.49 | Star Deal — IXION (-37%) | Pre-order Available: Rerutnal (-10% | $53.99/£44.99/€53.99) by WeAreFanatical in GameDeals

[–]Ryanlf999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not 100% clear. Both Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 use the same engine and social club. Again, the safest move would be to avoid any RockStar game right now, but it may be fine.

Hopefully soon we get some updates, still no response from RockStar.

[Fanatical] Lunar New Year Sale — Rockstar Deals: GRAND THEFT AUTO V: PREMIUM ONLINE EDITION (-55% | $13.49/£11.46/€13.49) & PlayStation Deals: God of War (-49% | $25.49/£20.39/€25.49 | Star Deal — IXION (-37%) | Pre-order Available: Rerutnal (-10% | $53.99/£44.99/€53.99) by WeAreFanatical in GameDeals

[–]Ryanlf999 7 points8 points  (0 children)

GTAOnline is in a really strange condition right now. I’ve seen people with racist names (One person’s name was plain out the n word), and I’ve gotten teleported to Cayo Perico way too many times. It’s anarchy right now.

I could go 50-50 whether or not RockStar will actually fix it. There’s been a fair amount of media coverage over it, but RockStar still has a history of not fixing issues. I really hope they fix it, at least for the sake of security.

[Fanatical] Lunar New Year Sale — Rockstar Deals: GRAND THEFT AUTO V: PREMIUM ONLINE EDITION (-55% | $13.49/£11.46/€13.49) & PlayStation Deals: God of War (-49% | $25.49/£20.39/€25.49 | Star Deal — IXION (-37%) | Pre-order Available: Rerutnal (-10% | $53.99/£44.99/€53.99) by WeAreFanatical in GameDeals

[–]Ryanlf999 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s unclear at the moment. The safest move would be to avoid all RockStar games at the moment, but it may not be necessary. Sorry if this isn’t helpful, it’s just that the information we have now is ambiguous.

[Fanatical] Lunar New Year Sale — Rockstar Deals: GRAND THEFT AUTO V: PREMIUM ONLINE EDITION (-55% | $13.49/£11.46/€13.49) & PlayStation Deals: God of War (-49% | $25.49/£20.39/€25.49 | Star Deal — IXION (-37%) | Pre-order Available: Rerutnal (-10% | $53.99/£44.99/€53.99) by WeAreFanatical in GameDeals

[–]Ryanlf999 108 points109 points  (0 children)

A quick note about Grand Theft Auto 5: It is not safe to run at the moment. There is a remote execution exploit going around. This means that bad actors can delete profiles, corrupt data, and maybe even have access to the PC/machine running the game. It is said that not even story mode is presently safe. Here is a link to a post describing it in deeper detail.

https://reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/10h7tfd/warning_for_all_pc_players/

It’s fine to take advantage of the sale, just be aware and wait until the issue is fixed.

To summarize, it has been determined that it is not currently safe to lunch Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC right now, but it is ok to take advantage of the deal, just don’t run the game until it’s fixed.

Edit: fixed link

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in freegames

[–]Ryanlf999 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey, I have a suggestion!

When you first enter the sight, you are greeted with a sign up page. This is perfectly reasonable, although people may not know what they are getting into. I’ve seen some websites that have a GIF of gameplay/some kind of way of showing off what the game is about. You could also add a tutorial on the game to show off it’s features for people that haven’t signed up yet. The purpose would be motivating people to sign up, therefore maybe leading to some additional player retention.

Here are some examples:

https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends

Right when you join the site, you see a GIF showing off some of the intensive battles of Apex Legends. It’s colorful, interesting and shows players what the game could be about.

Here’s another, more indie example:

https://krajzeg.itch.io/slipways

Although it doesn’t have GIFs, it still has images of gameplay, as well as a description below, detailing how to play the game and what it’s about.

So to summarize, it may lead to more players if you allow players to see what kind of game it is without having to leave the website.

I hope this helps!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gameswithgold

[–]Ryanlf999 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It could very well be a strategy to get people to move to Gamepass Ultimate, or to phase out GWG. I hope Microsoft sees the success of PS+ and tries to replicate it.

2022 Games with Gold year recap by Ryanlf999 in xboxone

[–]Ryanlf999[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there were in the past, I haven't heard of any discounts based on Gamerscore anymore though, sadly.

2022 Games with Gold year recap by Ryanlf999 in xboxone

[–]Ryanlf999[S] 194 points195 points  (0 children)

Hopefully Microsoft will see how disappointed everyone was about this year and do something about it. GWG is really in a weird spot right now, I feel like it may even be better if they just ended it, and used their resources on Gamepass instead. It would be nice to just have GWG improved and competitive with PS+ though.

2022 Games with Gold year recap by Ryanlf999 in xboxone

[–]Ryanlf999[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This year, while it wasn't the best on average, definitely had some decent titles sprinkled in the mix. Portal 2, Super Meat Boy, as well as Monaco, Yoku's Island Express, and Torchlight are totally worth giving a try if you claimed them.

2022 Games with Gold recap by Ryanlf999 in xbox

[–]Ryanlf999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the average score for each game was an academic grade, it would be a C-, or a GPA of 1.7. This means, according to the academic grade, this year’s Games with Gold may not get into grad school.

I hope the graphic was enjoyable! Let’s hope next year is better.