What is the hardest offline PC video game, regardless of whether it was officially ported to PC, released within the last five years—in its official version or as a mod combination—among fully 3D video games with real-time combat focused on melee and close-range attacks, that is either the latest entry in its saga, the latest installment in a group of games set in the same universe, or the latest standalone video game not belonging to any saga or shared universe?

One game must be suitable for children up to age 11 according to the rating system of some country, while another must share the same characteristics but be rated suitable for people of all ages according to the rating system of some country.

Both games must be able to run on a PC with the following specifications: an Intel Core i7-8700 CPU, an RTX 3050 graphics card with 6 GB of VRAM, 24 GB of DDR4 RAM, an AeroCool Cylon 700 W power supply, and a 1 TB internal SATA III (6 Gb/s) HDD.

Would the answer remain the same for an otherwise identical PC equipped with a 256 GB internal SATA III (6 Gb/s) SSD?

Additionally, if one or both answers require mods, how do I install and configure them so that the games remain fully playable while maximizing their difficulty without making them unbeatable? If there are games that answer all or part of my questions and involve mod combinations, please tell me which video game each mod combination is for.

I want people to mention only commercial games or console games playable on PC—that is my final requirement. If the answer includes console games playable on PC, whether through a mod combination or in their original form, please explain how to play them on PC, along with the rest of the information I requested above.

I want people to mention the four AAAA games that best fit the answer to my question. If there are not four AAAA games that fit the answer, then provide a combination of AAAA and AAA games—four in total—that best fits my question.

If you saw my previous post, please take it into account. I will translate all my text uploads to the forum, as I did with this thread’s text uploads. If I do not do so, please ignore me in that case—I have not done anything unforgivable.

I have two RAM modules: one GeIL CL16-16-16 DDR4-2400 1200 MHz 8 GB RAM module and one Samsung M378A2K43DB1-CTD 1333 MHz 16 GB RAM module.

Even if it’s not your cup of tea, perhaps this and the video that just went up on Netflix (and will come to a YouTube near you in 5 hours) will squash those fears about this game not having a proper GTA campaign.

The games will vary in obscurity, but I promise each would have had a North American release.

Please refrain from using reverse image search.

Provide the full title if you would like credit !

I’ll provide an answer if unsolved in 8 hours.

Can you guess the game ?

Better archive this one boys because I have a feeling this stuff will age like fine wine that Henry the VII had in his private reserve.

“”" An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

If you want more information before donating, consider the comparison with Reddit. It began as startup funded by rich investors. The site is managed by corporate executives who over time have become more and more disconnected from normal users. Their main goal is to make investors happy and to make a profit. This leads to user-hostile decisions like firing the employee responsible for AMAs, blocking third-party apps and more. As Reddit is a single website under a single authority, it means all users need to follow the same rules, including ridiculous ones like censoring the name “Luigi”.

Lemmy represents a new type of social media which is the complete opposite of Reddit. It is split across many different websites, each with its own rules, and managed by normal people who actually care about the users. There is no company and no profit motive. Much of the work is carried out by volunteer admins, mods and posters, who contribute out of enthusiasm and not for money. For users this is great as there is no advertising nor tracking, and no chance of takeover by a billionaire. Additionally there are no builtin political or ideological restrictions. You can use the software for any purpose you like, add your own restrictions or scrutinize its inner workings. Lemmy truly belongs to everyone.

Note: Donations via OpenCollective also finance the hosting of lemmy.ml, which is used to test new versions before release.

Nutomic and Dessalines, Lemmy Developers “”“”

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/50320770

Temporarily closing residential streets to allow kids to play and socialise safely outside has proved beneficial for both children and adults.

cross-posted from: ani.social/post/35731509

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/41596092

The measure came into force on 10 July 2026

[…] the annual financial requirement is likely to be between €20 million and €25 million.

[…]

The policy is intended to encourage more people to leave their cars at home and use public transport for journeys within Porto and the surrounding urban region.

[Mayor] Duarte has cautioned that abolishing fares will not, by itself, resolve Porto’s congestion problems. He described the programme as part of a broader mobility strategy that must also include faster services, better connections, increased capacity and more reliable journey times.

Porto currently has about 16 kilometres of dedicated bus lanes. The municipality plans to increase this to approximately 22 kilometres by the end of 2026, giving buses greater priority over private vehicles on some of the city’s busiest routes.

The mayor said public transport would need to become more convenient and dependable than travelling by car before a substantial change in daily habits could be expected. The municipality’s objective is for public transport to become the main means of travelling around Porto, with private cars taking a secondary role.

The scheme is unusual because Porto is paying for its residents to travel across the entire metropolitan network rather than offering free journeys only inside the municipality.

The Porto Metropolitan Area comprises 17 municipalities, each of which remains responsible for its own spending decisions. […]

Couple days ago. Hanging out with a few friends, burgers and beers at a sit down place. Not high end, but not McDs either. Normal place.

I notice a girl one table over is clearly doing a whole ass livestream or sth. Not just a quick selfie. Clearly streaming. Wagging her phone all around, for like 10+ minutes.

My friends didn’t even notice. I’m mad tho, b/c I don’t wanna be on whatever shit some influencer is gonna u/l the stream to. Prob youtube or her IG or w/e.

But nothing I can do. Getting up to ask her to cut it TF out would only have made it worse. That just makes me content fodder!

That is all. Thank you for coming to my rant, and I hope you are all having a good day.

I wrote an article by simply explaining DNS.

Crossposted from lemmy.world/post/51191277

If you’re so tired of expensive housing prices in your major city, then why don’t you stop complaining and move to this random town I found with some cheap houses for sale and exactly zero other amenities?

No place is perfect. Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire.

You can’t complain about the price of housing if you refuse to move hundreds of miles away to a city I just learned about for the purposes of this bad-faith argument.

For the same amount as a down payment in New York City, you could buy an entire house in this town in upstate wherever or whatever it’s called. You could also buy absolutely nothing else in the town because any industry was decimated in a post-industrial economic order that bled regional metros dry for the benefit of a handful of global conglomerates.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1363176/openai-a-rogue-ai-swarm-spent-months-plotting-to-escape-openai-then-they-did

One of my favorite software companies of all time. Well, hardware too, these days.

Tsuihou Sareta Tensei Juukishi wa Game Chishiki de Musou Suru, episode 9

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In commemoration of the release of “Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-” in Japan today (28th Augest, 2026).

Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari, episode 8

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Diskutera gärna om initiativet och skriv under om ni känner för det. Det är långt kvar men öppnade för bara två dagar sedan.

Full title: EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic ‘data center chemicals’ — exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in ‘sudden death,’ also appear to be long-lasting PFAS

Full title: EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic ‘data center chemicals’ — exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in ‘sudden death,’ also appear to be long-lasting PFAS

I think by default the option is disabled, but it’s just excellent that it offers such a feature at all. You can’t even do this in Google Maps, Google Play, Walmart, Amazon, or Target, or almost any other platform. But on Steam, unlike GOG, Itch, or other platforms of which I know, you can have an entire conversation with the reviewer about the validity or details concerning their review, where you can flesh out, “Hey, this person actually has no idea of what they’re talking about,” or, “Hmm, this is actually a valid point that I hadn’t considered before,” and even defend the reviewer from other critics in the comments.

I still get concerned about Steam’s incredible dominion over digital games today, but it also blows my mind why other platforms don’t try to copy even just some of its elements more.

BanG Dream! Yume∞Mita, episode 11

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i like secure and only you can access your footage and not the camera maker or hackers

what do you like

Icelanders will vote in a referendum on Saturday whether to resume entry talks with the European Union amid growing global insecurity. Voters are not being asked to decide just yet if they want to join the 27-member bloc – only whether they want their government to negotiate possible terms.

CIA chief John Ratcliffe held ​talks with Russian intelligence officials during his visit to ​Moscow, ‌but did not ‌meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin ⁠said Wednesday. President Donald Trump described Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow as a “semi-routine” mission, while implying that the intelligence chief was in the Russian capital to discuss the Ukraine war.

Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide in the 1992-95 ​war ‌in Bosnia, has died in ​the United Nations detention centre in ​The ​Hague after suffering several strokes, according to local media.

Ganso! Bandori-chan, episode 47

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cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/69994726

The “enhanced Easy mode” of uBlock Origin consists of the “Easy mode” together with blocking all 3rd-party iframes, and blocking a list of 3rd-party resources from “ubiquitous sites”.

The docs above give the example of Facebook, with these dynamic rules:

* facebook.net * block
* facebook.com * block
* fbcdn.net * block
facebook.com facebook.com * noop
facebook.com facebook.net * noop
facebook.com fbcdn.net * noop

and also mention “Twitter, Google, Disqus, etc.”.

I have two questions about this; can anyone here kindly help me?:

1. Is there a list of URLs for other “ubiquitous sites”? Any that you suggest?

2. Are any of these already blocked by the static rules? For example, I’d think of blocking google-analytics with

* google-analytics.com * block

but I wonder if this is redundant; I suspect such block already takes place in one of the default blocklists. Or?