If you’re enjoying Project Zomboid, you might want to check out Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA). It’s a fantastic open-world survival game with a similar vibe, but it offers a lot more depth and complexity in its gameplay mechanics. Best part? CDDA is free and open-source.
barring severe mental and or physical disabilities
I have dysgraphia. It’s far from a severe disability, but it impedes my ability to draw and write. My penmanship is nearly illegible. Drawing is right out.
I’m skeptical that you’re giving the full story
No, you’re right. There’s a much bigger story here. I was just trimming out a lot of it since I don’t normally run into people who can follow along easily. Akamai, for example, uses the proprietary AKAMAICDN record to allow the functionality of a CNAME. For example: foo.com AKAMAICDN’s to foo.com.edgekey.net (edgekey.net of course being the Akamai edge server suite). So someone using Akamai can do that to allow them to use the apex (but will still very likely have a www.foo.com CNAME foo.com setup to catch people who did a www anyway) Cloudflare uses CNAME flattening to “cheat” the CNAME rules by doing the CNAME DNS lookup internally and pretending to be authoritative for the request.
You don’t typical have your webpage itself delivered by CDN, you have your static assets delivered by CDN. Why can’t you put your static assets in a subdomain that gets a CNAME?
You can most certainly put static assets in a specific subdomain (and in fact, that’s how most setups are), but the CDN itself often requires handling the entire request at the beginning. You don’t want, for example, an A record at the apex pointing directly at your origin servers (terrible idea for security & performance; kind of defeats the purpose of the CDN), instead you want the user to connect to an edge server and have that edge server immediately serve the static content while the origin is contacted by the edge server for any non-static content that the user needs. This allows the CDN to do their cloud magic while your origin servers can do as little work as possible with as few people as possible. Effectively, you can block all requests to your servers that are not from your CDN. Many CDNs these days are also a major security feature.
There are many many reasons you don’t want to (or can’t) have the apex of your domain (what you’re calling the “default domain”) the primary domain name of your site. I thought you were going to argue in favor of like “home.[domain].com” or something.
The first and foremost issue is that if you wish to use a CDN, many CDN’s require a CNAME to function properly. You can’t have a CNAME share space with any other record (RFC 1912) which completely precludes using an MX record (for email) or TXT records for DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. (You need those for a secure email service). Having the CNAME sit as a subdomain of the apex (such as www) allows you to maintain those records in your domain while also serving people using that CNAME. (Some CDN’s such as Akamai even have special proprietary records that function like a CNAME while returning A records just to make this work)
Why not? (Serious question, I’m a DNS engineer so this is super relevant to me)
Then Paradox was developing it. They own the studio. Who else is going to build the game? An executive?
I am sure that everyone would agree that Paradox owns/developed/published Europa Universalis 4… But that was made by “Paradox Tinto” or Stellaris was “Paradox Development Studio”… The publishing wing of Paradox doesn’t develop games. Obviously. But I don’t understand why thats in any way relevant to the discussion. Paradox (the company, not specifically the publishing wing) was 100% responsible for the development, the testing, and the publishing of Life by You. They built it, they took it down.
So… Paradox tectonic is not related to paradox…? Are you sure?
That’s why I play DotA 😎
(Yes, this is a cry for help)
He didn’t spend half of the meme writing about the hours spent on forums trying to get each game to work.
Would someone really do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
I don’t care how unpopular this opinion is, but all religions are fucking stupid
What a brave and controversial opinion on Lemmy
As a Pathfinder GM, I’d love to be able to have gpt generate spooky/gory/horror themes for me to take inspiration from. Right now I have to battle the filter.
Midwest is always about 4 years behind coastal City trends.
That’s labial velar approximate. We don’t say “bwatermelon” just because the letter is pronounced with a B
That’s wrong! There are only three bilabial letters! P, M, and B. F and V are labiodental
Attn: security team
Hi,
I think someone on Lemmy has hacked into every work environment I’ve ever coded in
DNS engineer here: it’s the bane of my existence. Vanity TLDs were a cash grab for ICANN. They have made defensive domains a nightmare
Steve Harvey: “We asked 100 people, what is the male reproductive organ?”
Contestant: “The penis”
SH: “A WUH… HUH??” audience erupts into laughter Steve Harvey grabs onto podium to support himself laughter gets even louder
SH: O lordy… one man goes into cardiac arrest and many others begin vomiting profusely from laughing too hard
SH: YOU PEOPLE NEED HELP the Earth shatters and Satan rises from the underworld to claim unworthy souls the universe begins rapidly closing in on itself
SH: (putting on a weary voice) Survey says… the board shows 100 for “penis” Harvey is able to get off one more shocked look before existence as we know it comes to an end
I couldn’t roll my eyes hard enough. It instantly reminded me of r/atheism titles going “dae religion bad ?😤” 80,000 up votes
Zomboid was originally inspired by CDDA. Much of the game flow and ideas are 1 to 1 copies. The biggest difference is that CDDA is a turn based game that is played on tiles (think rogue or nethack). From the inventory system to crafting to base construction to reading books, it’s all there.
Oh. Except bites aren’t instant death. There’s no zombie virus. Dead bodies rise up (including yours!). You can still get infections and die from them, but you can also just clean your wounds. 1v1-ing a zombie is suicide though unless you have a decent weapon.
Also, zombies evolve… So they scale well into the late game. Having a zombie hulk throw you through a concrete wall and breaking every bone in your body is usually lethal.