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Diablo 3 logo

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-us/
https://us.diablo3.blizzard.com/en-us/

A fixed-angle-view roguelike.

My general conclusion is that it’s a good game, but doesn’t have enough variety of abilities.

Path of Exile – (2013 game) is better in terms of difficulty, complexity and player-immersion. In fact, Diablo 3 has been copying features straight from Path of Exile. Doing things badly, but, still, obviously copying.

  • Properly titled Diablo III



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Mumble logo

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

A VoIP client.

Particularly awesome not just because of it’s spectacular quality, but because it’s free (client and server), and forces all of its users to fix their fucking microphone settings so everyone else doesn’t have to constantly fiddle with their per-user volume.

You can also run your own server “Murmur”.



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midori-logo.png

Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/midori-browser/core
https://gitlab.com/midori-browser/midori-core
https://astian.org/midori-browser/

A semi-light web browser. It’s been creeping in as many features as possible over the years.

  • 2020-05-23 – Abandoned/migrated into another project.



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EverQuest Landmark logo

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
www.landmarkthegame.com

The Minecraft for EverQuest Next.

I was invited to the closed beta in 2014-06-15. I tried it for maybe 45 minutes before throwing my hands up in complete disgust.

I have no interest in this now that EverQuest Next has been aborted.

  • Abandoned
  • Formerly EverQuest Landmark



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Software > Terminals >

http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php

A light xterm. And it’s actually lighter! Not tabbed.

I got this working with a nice vga font from DOSEmu. See 9×15 versus DOSEMU’s vga font. However, I learned that aterm does not support unicode. It suggested rxvt-unicode, and I got it working with a nice unicode vga font. See Unicode VGA font for that info.

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