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Neverwinter

2013-09-29

dead, entertainment, games, liked, multiplayer games, online software, payware, projects, proprietary software, reviews, software, sword and sorcery entertainment, sword and sorcery games, Windows 8 software, Windows games, Windows software, wine

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter

While a really great game, it somehow didn’t do it for me.

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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.pathofexile.com/

A free-to-play 2.5D action semi-rpg game. Get gear, assign your abilities, explore and kill. Procedurally-generated areas and special “maps” give end-game replayability.

While straightforward to get into, it becomes atonishingly complex and unashamedly hard. They are also committed to keeping the game “hardcore” and not stooping to the level of appeasing the filthy casuals who ruin other games. This includes not avoiding pay to win.

Its developers care about their game more than any other developer for any other game I’ve played or have even heard of. Other than the little things, the game gets major updates every three months. Major as in expansion-quality new stuff.

Their community participation is strong.

NOTE – It has been bought out by China.
Replaced by Path of Exile 2 – (2024 game)

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Software > BitTorrent >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/transmission/transmission
https://transmissionbt.com/

A BitTorrent client.

I use this because it’s cross-platform, not just Windows and Linux, but also Linux/ARM, for my CubieTruck and Raspberry Pi.

Windows support is not officially released.

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Simple Range Indicator

2012-09-02

abandoned, combat AddOns, dead, freeware, GUI software, liked, Lua software, open-source software, reviews, software, World of Warcraft AddOns

World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.wowace.com/projects/simple-range-indicator

Shows the range from your target.

/sri

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Christine

2011-10-27

audio playing software, audio software, dead, freeware, glances, GUI software, liked, Linux software, media software, open-source software, software

https://web.archive.org/web/20190126010616/http://www.christine-project.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090530072502/http://www.christine-project.org:80/html/index.php

A small and very fast Media Player, it suports the widespread media files that Gstreamer do support. Christine allows you to search trough your media files and play them quickly. You can create playlists to keep your files organized, use a queue and organize radio stations.

Complete garbage when I tried it

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Simple Threat Meter

2011-10-09

abandoned, combat AddOns, freeware, GUI software, liked, live, Lua software, open-source software, reviews, software, World of Warcraft 3.3.5 (Ascension), World of Warcraft AddOns

World of Warcraft > AddOns >

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/project-7738 (probably)

A threat meter.

Abandoned; the author stated it.

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ZFS

2011-07-23

abandoned, commandline software, disliked, file systems, freeware, FUSE, glances, liked, Linux software, open-source software, software

This page is about ZFS-fuse, the ZFS attempt for Linux

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20121229103643/http://zfs-fuse.net/

ZFS is a filesystem.

I have abandoned this filesystem because it is about as closed as it can get without being officially closed. It’s hampered by awkward licensing and patents making it intentionally incompatible with the GPL.

Even if it was made to work perfectly, running under FUSE is sub-optimal.

It also seems horrifyingly complex to use. Seriously.

Its checksumming is important for The Chain of Trust.

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