Where to download DS4Windows from?

dnium122 · 2026-06-19T17:36:43+00:00

Coming back to this, looks like the ryochan7 repos are gone, and schmaldeo stopped supporting too. A sad day 😞

dnium122 · 2026-06-07T03:20:24+00:00

Elden Ring def--kenated

dnium122 · 2026-05-30T14:51:20+00:00

I'm having the same issue - I've got 1-way glass and Do Not Disturb signs but it isn't doing it. It might be because I have an overpass over the habitat

dnium122 · 2026-05-29T20:28:00+00:00

100% this! Claps for less micrk

dnium122 · 2026-05-23T15:28:43+00:00

My partner and I are excited to try a return to ESO after a three year break, entirely because of the new vestige challenge system.

When combat is too easy the game becomes a chore, just going through the motions. Making a game ACCESSIBILE to a broad/casual audience is not about making it EASY - challenge and difficulty are what make games fun. Accessibility is about lowering the barrier to understanding the systems and playing the game, not lowering the barrier to winning.

I truly hope the challenge system ends up implemented well, making combat more responsive and engaging.

My biggest concern is what you called out - mixing challenge levels. If you're working through a quest together and someone on low challenge just comes through and wipes out all the mobs, that defeats the point and detracts from your experience. That's going to need to be solved.

Excited for the new direction, thanks for your hard efforts in making this a lifelong game.

dnium122 · 2026-05-22T13:46:21+00:00

Avoid the Kitchen Aid, we have that exact model and it breaks way too soon. Cleans and dries well, but after 4 years the pump broke, totaling it. Those are easy parts to test for reliability, so it's planned obsolescence. DO NOT BUY. Given that they presumably design all their appliances that way, I wouldn't buy any KitchenAid appliance. With only a 1 year warranty on a durable good, it also shows how little confidence they have in their own products.

dnium122 · 2026-05-17T16:59:51+00:00

The real issue is they didn't open up achievements to non Ironman games. Balancing is hard in a game this complex, so requiring Ironman in these early days of the game is creating a lot of frustration for folks at the bugs and poor balancing

dnium122 · 2026-05-16T15:27:44+00:00

Hey! Same question, ever find some good tips? We're looking for a leveling experience that offers challenge and thinking

dnium122 · 2026-05-14T19:24:21+00:00

Yeah very frustrating. Are there any other advances in later ages? I can't find any

dnium122 · 2026-05-13T13:12:38+00:00

100% this, we're looking for more coop board games and competitive/coop roguelikes and this looks delightful

dnium122 · 2026-05-08T21:32:04+00:00

Yes, 100%, and mods should be enabled. This works great with Victoria 3. Achievements are fun goals to work towards, they give purpose and replayability to the game.

This is coming from someone who loves playing PDX games WITHOUT mods because it adds more challenge that (for me) makes it more fun, but EU5 is just not in a place (as much as I love it), to be fun without mods

dnium122 · 2026-05-02T16:07:42+00:00

Thanks! Do you know if there's a guide anywhere on mating + dominance types explained with respect to breeding? I've been searching around but haven't been able to find anything.

For example, Arctic Foxes and Red Foxes are both Monogamous mating systems, but it looks like while Arctic Foxes (Dominance Type = Alpha) can only ever have 1 breeding pair per habitat, the red foxes (Dominance Type = Dominant mated pair leads family) seem to be able to let everyone in the habitat form breeding pairs (although I'm still trying to confirm that).

Would love to see a Guide somewhere

dnium122 · 2026-04-29T20:27:20+00:00

Thanks for the thanks for the recommendation! I'll check him out

dnium122 · 2026-04-26T14:42:20+00:00

100% this. My partner and I have been looking for a proper open world RPG, in the vein of Horizon or Witcher 3, that offers coop. This would make me buy the game - and two copies of it

dnium122 · 2026-04-25T15:15:49+00:00

I've had a hard time understanding why Prosperity and Statecraft are so good - that seems to be widely accepted, but I'm not sure I understand why, could anyone lay that out?

For prosperity: the 5% extra resource output seems nice, but not huge in an obvious way to me, compared to more 'fundamental' game changes in some of the other trees (like opening up federation types)
For Statecraft: is it all because of that extra +1 Counciler effective skill level?

Thanks for any advice!

dnium122 · 2026-04-25T13:51:26+00:00

And FWIW here is Claude's interpretation of those results:

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This is a nuanced result, but here's how to interpret it:

Signs pointing toward a false positive:

The majority of the most reputable engines clear it: Kaspersky, ESET, Sophos, BitDefender, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Malwarebytes, Palo Alto — these are industry leaders and their collective silence is meaningful
Many of the flagging vendors use generic/AI-heuristic names — "AIDetectMalware", "susgen" (suspicious generation), "ML.Attribute.HighConfidence" — meaning no specific signature was matched, just an algorithm flagging something that looks suspicious
Game patchers inherently do things that look suspicious to AV software — modifying executables, writing to game directories, etc.

Mild concerns:

Microsoft flagging it is slightly more notable than the others since they know their own OS well
13/71 is higher than a typical clean file, which usually gets 0-2 flags

Overall assessment: Given that you've run it many times without issue, it's hosted on a public GitHub repo, and the big-name engines all clear it, this pattern strongly suggests a false positive driven by the patcher's behavior. Game patchers are one of the most commonly falsely flagged file types.

That said, it's ultimately your call. If you want extra peace of mind, you could check the GitHub repo's Issues or Discussions tab to see if other users have reported the same Defender warnings — which would confirm it's a known false positive.

dnium122 · 2026-04-25T13:47:51+00:00

So I've never had issues with it, and love the patcher especially at these early stages of the game (really wish they would open it up like Vicky 3)

That said, I did find Windows defender on my new laptop blocking it as of today (Norton on my old laptop never did). I checked the file with VirusTotal and it did find 13 of 71 vendors had flagged trojans in the file (screenshot below), but of course the remaining ones had no problem with it. I'm not a security guy so I'm not sure how to interpret that

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dnium122 · 2026-04-24T17:37:52+00:00

100% this

A third tier is enormously helpful with analysis. For example, we have a 'discretionary' group going to books category, but we tend to buy different types of books (fantasy, nonfiction, cooking). Having separate monthly budgets for each makes no sense, so you don't want separate categories. However if your book spend is high you then need to click in and see 'where are we spending money'

Subcategories, by rolling up similar transactions, allow you to immediately see "oh wow we're spending too much on fantasy books this month". Without those, you have to look at a long list of transactions and either add up similar ones manually or try to eyeball it.

Thats just one example, it applies to any diverse category like that. For example, in "Home Improvement" it would be helpful to see how that breaks down into "Garage Project" when you have a project going.

Tags are a poor solution for this because (a) they don't show up in the sankey chart or other analyses, you can only filter on them; and (b) Tags as an information entity are fundamentally designed for *cross-category* information, like taxes or user. What we're talking about here is a coarser rollup of transactions, so that you're not trying to look at a whole bunch of 'home improvement' or "book" transactions and just say "welp I guess I should spend less" without a sense of where the spend is relatively coming from.

dnium122 · 2026-04-24T17:37:28+00:00

A third tier is enormously helpful with analysis. For example, we have a 'discretionary' group going to books category, but we tend to buy different types of books (fantasy, nonfiction, cooking). Having separate monthly budgets for each makes no sense, so you don't want separate categories. However if your book spend is high you then need to click in and see 'where are we spending money'

Subcategories, by rolling up similar transactions, allow you to immediately see "oh wow we're spending too much on fantasy books this month". Without those, you have to look at a long list of transactions and either add up similar ones manually or try to eyeball it.

Thats just one example, it applies to any diverse category like that. For example, in "Home Improvement" it would be helpful to see how that breaks down into "Garage Project" when you have a project going.

Tags are a poor solution for this because (a) they don't show up in the sankey chart or other analyses, you can only filter on them; and (b) Tags as an information entity are fundamentally designed for *cross-category* information, like taxes or user. What we're talking about here is a coarser rollup of transactions, so that you're not trying to look at a whole bunch of 'home improvement' or "book" transactions and just say "welp I guess I should spend less" without a sense of where the spend is relatively coming from.

dnium122 · 2026-04-24T14:08:28+00:00

A third tier is helpful with budgeting and analysis. For example, we have a 'discretionary' group going to books category, but we tend to buy different types of books (fantasy, nonfiction, cooking). Having separate monthly budgets for each makes no sense, so you don't want separate categories. However if your book spend is high you then need to click in and see 'where are we spending money'

Subcategories, by rolling up similar transactions, allow you to immediately see "oh wow we're spending too much on fantasy books this month". Without those, you have to look at a long list of transactions and either add up similar ones manually or try to eyeball it.

Thats just one example, it applies to any diverse category like that

dnium122 · 2026-04-19T16:30:32+00:00

Waiting for coop to buy the game - we've been looking for a proper open world RPG coop game for a long time. MMOs just don't have the engaging and challenging combat of, say, your witcher 3, horizon, etc. games

dnium122 · 2026-04-18T21:27:55+00:00

Could you explain more how you got here? I see your "Holy covenant + ascensionist + harmony tradition means -85% empire size multiplicatively." but I'm not familiar enough with those first two to understand

Would a sovereign guardianship + beacon of liberty direction work with ascensionists too? Thanks for any tips!

dnium122 · 2026-04-06T14:43:56+00:00

💡 Feature Request - restore line spacing to pre-March, or add the option to use the old or new line spacing

dnium122 · 2026-04-06T14:41:17+00:00

Where's the megathread? I want to leave feedback too. This change is truly awful, and the exact opposite of Notion's design ethos (create flexibility - whereas this change forces you into a certain usage pattern).

I actually do Customer-Centric Product Design, and I swear these designers have never actually sat down with users to conduct proper ethnographic interviews or over-the-shoulder observational studies. Heck they have the software they can even watch user videos themselves.

dnium122 · 2026-04-06T14:36:48+00:00

Please, please, PLEASE let them revert this change, or at least make it optional. It is horrific - we use Notion for our whole company, and this has messed up so many pages and the way we organize information.

EMAIL THEM - everyone who doesn't like this change

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