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@ cnk @kbin.dk

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Computer scientist. Among many things, I am enthusiastic about music, arcade games, and the fediverse.

  • Which web server software do you recommend?

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  • 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation

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  • Good idea! But I suppose that's a bit of a grey area in terms of rights?

  • federation test

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  • Perhaps a time zone thing? I posted it from CET / UTC + 1

  • federation test

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  • Found its way to a kbin instance too

  • Thanks!

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  • Hi from another part of the Internet hosted in a basement somewhere in Northern Europe running a different piece of software :-)

  • How do you guys back up your server?

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  • cronjobs with rsync to a Synology NAS and then to Synology's cloud backup.

  • Music of the Week - June 26, 2023

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  • MF! Danish black metal 🤘 On of my most epic concert experiences was King Diamond (lead singer of MF) at a smallish rock club in Aarhus.

  • Ruins & Riches - a single-player Ultima Online experience.

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  • Haha, yes. And none on the monsters will aggro on you 😅 Glad that you figures it out.

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  • NPCs giving away their inventory for free? That sounds strange, are you sure you are not using stealing on them? There's a red ruby in the bottom of the trade window that you can drag to extend it vertically.

    In general, you can learn a lot by going to Help->Library on your paperdoll. New lore books you find and read will be added to this library as well.

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  • This overlap is surprisingly well and subtly done. Ruins & Riches mixes and matches lore and inspiration from a lot of places. It's very much in the spirit of the early Ultimas that also mixed sci-fi with fantasy.

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  • My main character on the multiverset.net server is an archmage called Roselil 🙂

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  • Do that 🙂

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  • Thanks! Are the orig links better now?

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  • Nice idea. I know a certain "MyHouse.wad" that would qualify for that magazine

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  • AFAIK there is a thriving community around unofficial WoW servers. The official Ultima Online servers are still running. It's free to play to a certain point now, and the developers (Broadsword) are apparently working on some sort of new seasonal experience.

    UO server emulators goes all the way back to the late nineties. This gives a nice overview: https://www.uox3.org/history/timeline.shtmlRuins and Riches is based off RunUO and scripted in C#.

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  • To become a priest you have to find a mallet and a stake and slay a bunch of vampires.

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  • This book here is hinting at how to find your way to the elven world of Lodor.

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  • Here, I am about to enter an abandoned mage tower where a crystal ball will trap me on an island in another dimension. It took me a week or two to get out.

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  • Do let me know what you think when you do!

  • Gaming @kbin.social
    cnk @kbin.dk

    Ruins & Riches - a single-player Ultima Online experience.

  • Programming @kbin.social
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    How my online gaming addiction saved my Ph.D.

    advaitsarkar.wordpress.com /2021/12/17/how-my-online-gaming-addiction-saved-my-phd/