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Why are 3rd party apps still working?

I can't say about all of them, but the RiF developer clarified it for the verge, taken from this link :

If RIF is still working for you when you’re logged out, here’s why.

“When users are logged out, the app is still working because it does not use the OAuth client credentials while logged out,” developer Andrew Shu tells The Verge in an email. However, he expects that the app will stop working in this way soon.

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Day 611 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

If you want a different experience for this game that gives you more replayability, I suggest checking out archipelago: https://archipelago.gg/

Archipelago is a multi world randomizer that connects games and shuffles everything between them, for example someone can be playing zelda ocarina of time, open a chest, and find in it Mario's ability to jump in someone elses game of super mario world.

Stardew valley is randomizable in AP as well, which can give you different goals, like completing a randomized community center, marrying and having kids, perfect evaluation, among others you can choose. You can connect it with other games your friends are playing, but if they also want to play stardew, you are able to send each other gifts to help each others progression. Everyone can have different goals, you all choose what you want to randomize, like randomizing entrances, having to unlock seasons, randomizing recipes, and more.

I very much recommend it, AP is a lot of fun, and I bring stardew to it often, depending on the settings you make you can have it be a single gaming session thing or a multi day affair, and always more fun when you have friends also playing stardew and you help each other finish the goals.

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It's because the hand joker card there allows straights and flushes to be made with 4 cards, so the 4 black suited cards make a flush, and the gapped sequence makes a straight, since both hands are made together it counts as straight flush. You can ignore the ace. It can get weirder because you can make a 4 card straight and toss another card unrelated but with the same suit as 3 of the straight cards and it still counts as straight flush.

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Protection from Threads using ActivityPub.

From what I understand about the fediverse, everything that Meta already knows about you and your content is going to remain the same. Federated or not, they will only have access to info you make public, and how much that is is entirely up to your instance. Even if Meta never wanted to join and federate with others, they could still scrape the same info and use as they see fit for training AI, duplicating posts or whatever.

So basically you don't have to do anything, Meta cannot demand any extra data from you that your instance owner does not want to share. If you are worried your instance owner might do some deal with Meta for your data, then you can better control that with self hosting.

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Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?

I completely and utterly loved both of those games, but if I had to choose I'd go with Baldurs Gate 3, simply because it gave me many many more hours of gameplay while keeping things fresh enough for multiple playthroughs and is very fun multiplayer with up to 4 people, though also fun single player. Expedition 33 is a lot of fun but strictly single player and for 1 playthrough, replays are just the same but a little harder.

Highly recommend both when you can, each will consume a nice part of your life

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How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

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I saw this exact popup yesterday, I remember seeing something similar to it before but it has been quite a while. The thing is, this single popup broke my computer entirely, I was playing a game and it jumped in front of the game, immediately stole the games inputs and I couldn't even pause it. Then clicking don't switch did absolutely nothing and the popup remained there, and any attempt to forcefully close the popup failed. Also, I was streaming at the time to my tv, and attempting to use any system related screen is blocked (and this popup counts as a system settings screen!), So it just crashed the entire thing while I was trying to dismiss or close it. I was stuck and couldn't even reboot, had to hold the button and lose any progress I had in the game.

So yeah, I would be very interested in not letting this happen again as well.

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What is your preferred API error response and why?

Message straight on the body is the worst possible response for an error here, it is bad design to straight up show the error from the back end to the user, usually it needs translation and/or adaptation due to message size on the front-end to show properly, and applying those on top of a message will make it stop working as soon as anyone in the backend decide to change a dot or comma anywhere. It is a bad idea to let the backend make direct impact in the front when you can because backend devs won't even know what impact they are causing until later in testing and it will be harder to trace back and fix.

IMO you need at least a json with code and message, the front will ignore the message for everything but testing and use the code to match a translation file that will get the proper message, making it easy to translate and change as needed without having to rebuild the whole backend along with front changes. You may also have an extra parameter there in some cases when you want to return where more specifically the error occurred or an array of errors. Status usually not needed as you can get those from the http code itself.

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Food Processing Simulator, a food processing factory management game, with automation mechanics and a first person view, released in early access on steam

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It is weird, they released 3 games, on the same day, different simulators, this one on early access... They all seem a bit interesting, like basically dealing with the entire food processing from farming, processing, restaurant, but the fact they all released December 18, 2025 is messing with me.

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What are some single-player card video games like Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering Arena without microtransactions?

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If you liked shandalar, you should check out forge like someone suggested in another comment on this thread: https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge

It's a free, fan made, FOSS game that implements even the newest cards coming out, and it has a shandalar inspired adventure mode for you to play, where you can defeat all color wizards, collect cards, play drafts against AI and such, it is a great time.

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[SOLVED]Stuck in The Depths with no teleport?

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As far as I know you should not be able to leave the sky island without doing it, so I would just recommend to save, close and reopen the game, just in case it's bugged. But if you actually do need to teleport to that temple to unlock something, you can still change your map to the sky by pressing up and then select it.

Also you are never stuck, worst case if you want to walk out of the depths for whatever reason, you can find some stone pillars that go all the way down and you can ascend up those to get back on the surface.

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What Pokemon game should I play next?

About SuMo and USUM, I played both as they came out and thought it was really fun seeing the differences in story, from the middle on it becomes like two entirely different games, if you are a fan I would recommend both. If I had to choose, I would say USUM is the more complete game, has more content and side content, more story and even an interesting post game story that is definitely worth playing for any fan of the older games, and I am legit surprised seeing people talk about SuMo being preferred because my experience with everyone I talked about this has always been people preferring USUM.

About BDSP, biggest complaint is how they remade the old games but did not do almost anything new to it, didn't even add the extra story from platinum which makes platinum be a more complete experience than even these remakes. They're fine but underwhelming.

So if you only want one, I'd say USUM. If you are considering all and deciding on the order, I'd say SuMo, then BDSP to take a little break, and then back to USUM.

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What to play after experiencing Chrono Trigger?

There are a lot of good jrpg recommendations in this thread, but more focused on the jrpgs of that time. If you are looking for something more recent, I can't recommend Persona 5 enough, you don't need to have played the earlier ones as the stories are independent from each other, it is as good as Chrono Trigger for me, and now quite accessible since persona 5 royal came to pc and all consoles. The recent dragons quest games are also pretty good.

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Does anyone even play factorio?

I had played 200 hours before space age and got most achievs. Playing space age, after I launched a rocket, I got achiev for using red science popping out. My current guess is just achievs are broken, sort of reset or maybe new, and for now everything is at 0.1%

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[Discussion] Which Pokémon game keeps younger players engaged the longest in 2025?

Depends on how young and what kind of post game content you are looking for. Either way the more modern games have more post game content though, some even with dlc.

If very young, the let's go games are probably a better choice as they are more kid friendly. Story follows red/blue but has modern elements added to it and post game is basically catch em all.

Normal like games I'd say sword and shield or scarlet and violet would be better since they are in the switch, swsh I remember spending a lot of time in the post game for dlc 2 (crown tundra) because it had a cave you could take with interesting raids you can do with randos on the internet and collect legendaries, SV had less interesting post game but is still active and can keep someone entertained for longer if they follow the events and releases. I'd be more likely to recommend SV if they have a switch 2 though, as it runs kind of bad on switch 1.

If a bit older, Legends Arceus is a lot of fun but requires a bit more skill and movement, has some fun new takes on the pokemon series and the catch em all has a different variety than usual games. Also Legends ZA will come out soon and will follow some of the same gameplay style as Legends Arceus.