Today on NovaLandia, I’m talking about the 2011 MMO Rift, and the sad state it’s been left in by its MTX focused owners, Gamigo.

https://mkultra.monster/gaming/2025/07/14/rift-mmo/ #blogging #rift #gaming

In my continued MMO journey, I remembered another MMO I played pretty religiously for a while in 2011

Rift

And my character is still there

what it’s like interacting with anyone in public

https://youtu.be/gzPz2cnAPzo?si=1fN6OskvWdd-Vw66 #vldl

Continuing my exploration of MMOs I haven’t checked out yet, and Throne and Liberty sounds awesome?

The 90 gig download looks intimidating, but I might give this a shot

The slop enjoyers are out in full force tonight lol

Saw a dude on the Bluesky timeline posting an article about how JavaScript broke the web, while the article itself is plastered with slop he generated for the headline image and his website avatar #you-can’t-say-some-scripts-broke-the-we[…] https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/0eb577cb-12bf-4e65-b743-928af56045f1

Going on the Diablo 4 forums to ask if the guy who lent me his sword in Diablo 1 that I never gave back wants a new sword 30 years later

So I got NCSoft’s “Purple” launcher working on Linux

Use the latest Wine staging > Install via Lutris > Turn off Wifi (VERY IMPORTANT, must be wired connection???) > install Aion or Lineage > Launch game > and then …

I hate you NCSoft

Approved like 8 new people to join wafrn in the past hour or so, that’s wild

Bitcraft Online is pretty cool, am looking forward to further updates

Got another itch to see if Lineage 2 is still online, and boy oh boy, is it a pain in the ass to get NCSoft’s “Purple” launcher to run and be stable on Linux #lineage2 #ncsoft

It drives me nuts that creators on Youtube, and even indie game devs, or small dev studios are still like, “Follow me on Twitter!” and it’s like

I know you all aren’t living in a vacuum where news and discourse doesn’t reach you. Corporations, big studios, they have an excuse: They’re alr[…] https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/5c82fd0e-7525-4caf-8551-43f286c8182c