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[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 61 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

I used my Mastercard to donate to the dev. Eat shit credit card companies.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago

Good job paying Mastercard with your rebellion dollars.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

Me too fuck them. Maybe we can make this a trend start selling games direct and stop using Steam and Epic etc platforms. Do it how they did back during the old days as shareware.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 18 hours ago

MasterCard would allow this!?! Wow, this reflects so badly upon them!

[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 48 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Link to the game is kinda hidden in the article: https://dreadxp.com/vile-is-banned/.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 19 hours ago

I mean, the article embeds a video plastered with "VILEISBANNED.COM" in warning tape–style text.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

(Linux)

In case anyone is wondering, you can add the .exe to steam via games -> add non steam game.

Then once added go to game properties -> compatibility-> force compatibility -> proton

Idk if you need to force it or not but that's what i did and it's working

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How do you like the game so far?

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I poked around it enough to make sure it worked but it says to play it in one sitting so I've got to find a chunk of spare time maybe this weekend. I think I'll like it from what I've seen though. Some puzzles to solve and the premise intrigues me

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh cool, I wasnt sure about how much space and stuff it'll take, I'll book mark this and check this weekend maybe. Thanks for the info .

Id be running on integrated graphics, so games that don't require much are always nice haha

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago

Download was 600mb so hopefully that is reasonable enough

[–] weremacaque@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I goofed around with it but realized I didn't actually want to do it in one sitting. I'm going to use a notepad and make notes as if I'm actually investigating this guy's computer. The fact it doesn't save progress does make it seem more like an investigation.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 35 points 18 hours ago

The dev's name is Cara Cadaver. Can't get any better of a name for a horror game dev.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Well guess better go get this game. How can I support them financially?

[–] MoreZombies@aussie.zone 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It says on the article and the website they accept donations :)

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

Yeah found it downloading game now, also made a donation.

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We need another Steam Alternative & this time it needs to be FOSS

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's called github and gitlab

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Codeberg

Fuck github - since Microsoft bought it

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Since we are talking about VCS, here's Fossil

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain

[–] weremacaque@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Is it similar to Her Story?

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev -2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Not sure how I feel about the dev using the internet archive to distribute the game.

By the way, who put it in the "Community software" collection? The game is not open source.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

What's wrong with using the internet archive?

[–] Scio@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Noting wrong with the IA whatsoever. But given how harshly they've been treated by basically every government and corporate interest groups they've been forced to contend with foot the last few years, and the regular DDOSes, I personally always feel guilty downloading things from them and spending more of their resources on "relatively frivolous" things.

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca -5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

It paints a target on IA as a piracy distro while it’s plainly not. IA is not in the piracy game but using it to distribute questionable content can raise flags elsewhere.

[–] tux@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How could this be confused as piracy. It’s uploaded by the developers of the game?

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 hour ago

I’m not saying THIS particular instance does but generally using IA for that reason has fed into its detractor’s lame arguments against the site.