Occasionally I’ll watch video reviews to gauge a purchase or check channels like Worth A Buy etc.

But ultimately I only do that for some games.

I typically watch reviews on certain channels just because I like that channel’s content, not to actually use the review as part of my decision

Still play it regularly, it’s a really nice ‘zen’ game. Works on W11 too with some tweaking and you can grab the files from abandonware (which I had to after the retail CD version just won’t work whatever I do)

Urgh I think I’m obsessed now

What a wonderful game

Bit of Sellotape and that tapes going to have Melrose Place, Cell Block H & the first 6 minutes of a Coronation Street episode on it

Thats a decent secret santa gift mate! Very good

Is that the one from TikTok shop?

I used to host it on my Gaming PC & have players connect to my external IP, but now its just really nice having set it up as a VM, Cloudflare Tunnel and a dedicated subdomain

Highly recommend, enjoy!

I also plan on grabbing another Mini PC then I’ll be able to spin up a DMZ Server and segregate the internal Network. Just to make things neater.

Honestly best hobby I’ve had in a long time

Followed by getting some addressable LED strips and an ESP so I can whip up some cool status lights, maybe slap a RAG status scheme so if the lights are Green, all metrics are good, Amber if they’re low & Red if they’re critical

Next step is to find a decent Enclosure & I can move 2x 3.5” 3TB HDD from the Gaming PC to the Homelab, then I’ll switch from Plex streaming to a nice low wattage JellyFin VM

Also looking at getting a couple cheap high capacity SSDs to fit into the HPs for extra scalability

This is really cool to see/read, thank you for sharing