I tried playing league of legends for the first time a few months ago. I haven’t done any gaming in easily a decade or two and figured why not.
Like many (most, all?) games are now it was so damn complicated. There’s hundreds of characters, infinite matchups, all these different potions and powerups etc. I thought I had the basics down but the other players told me very clearly how much room for improvement there is in my game. I feel like every game I’ve seen and heard of lately is like that.
Back in the day we’d get the guy from the left side of the screen to the right, and sometimes you had to jump over something to get there. Where are those games now? I’m busy and don’t have time to get a phd in your game’s lore, I just want something simple and mindless to unwind.
LoL is a esport competitive game, so it definitely breads a competitive player base. Not every game is made for every single person to enjoy. Which is fine.
Plenty of games are released daily that you could instead play that match your wants. If you give more insight outside of “just wanting an easy game”, I could sort out list of reccomdations and send them your way.
I think the last new game I played was Mario Wii in 2012. It was challenging and engaging but easy to learn with a good walkthrough easing you in with the basics.
I still play C&C Red Alert now and then. Just dusted off my joystick and installedX-Wing alliance (upgrade at least, not the OG version from 1999). That’s pretty much it. All the other games I’ve seen recently are either way too complicated (LoL) or just not engaging enough (Mario Kart for Switch for example, it’s fine for a bit with friends but I just don’t see myself playing it a lot.)
Oh, and I’ve been playing a lot of chess lately, currently rated around 1600 ELO.
Would love an up-to-date tutorial on how to do this without a domain name. I don’t own one but would still much prefer to use jellyfin.myserver.home than 192.168.1.200:8096.
The machine didn’t learn anything, just executed your orders.
Imagine that you sit with your grandma in front of a PC (and let’s assume she’s not a SE). You fire up a terminal, give her the keyboard and dictate every keystroke necessary to write and execute a program (or do any other task for that matter). Does that mean that your grandma just learned programming? I think not. Learning implies being able to find and apply some rules which where not explicitly given.
I think the core fault with most PvP games is that you can only really play for fun in the first month or so. Everyone is kind of new, so there’s not really a lot of getting stomped, and there’s enough actual really bad players (like some of them must be five year olds and people who’ve never held a controller before) that even people of very mediocre skill like me can win.
After that it’s just sweats left, and people who want to be sweats. Anybody else making the mistake of joining in will find very little enjoyment to be had.
I just stick to single player games most of the time.
Subdomains with traffic routed through a reverse proxy listening on 80 and 443 (HTTPS everything with certbot SSLs) with a dynamic DNS client updating your DNS provider whenever your IP address changes.
IIRC you can use DNS challenge behind a CGNAT, but you still wouldn’t be able to access the system remotely. But you could use Tailscale for that, or Headscale on your VPS. You could also put a wireguard server on your VPS.
I mean, pretty spot on. I’m beginning to see games having cooperative instead of competitive multiplayer as a plus. But we still need to thank the wort of the lot for attracting all the toxic overcompetitive players from the rest of the games that have a mix of both.
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