wizardbeard

I've been using a mix of nature sounds to help fall asleep for years. If I'm having a particularly rough night, I'll play some repetitive calm music I'm super familiar with as well, EQ'd to just be barely audible through the nature sounds. ADHD brain uses all the extra energy that would be keeping me up spinning ideas around to tune one or the other of the "two" audios out and I'm out pretty quick.

I use a version 1.3.3 of an app from F-Droid, Noice, for the nature sounds. Later versions added premium features and load the audio from a remote server. That's the last version with everything local.

PowerAmp for the music. Took the "Soft" EQ preset to keep any "sharp" sounds from coming through and lowered the overall volume of it, then applied it to a specific "chill/sleep" playlist I made.

Both apps have sleep timers so they can shut off automatically after a set time.

I think there's a lot of space with fantasy and magic to handwave away a lot of the the ethical ickyness of colonization.

Completely off the top of my head:

You could have some part of the world protected by a magic shield. Many thousands of years ago some major player country in the world just magically closed their doors to the world. No one has been in or out since, and a lot of details have been lost to time.

Scholars have studied "the wall" for ages, and it's clear that something is changing. Many believe that whatever force has maintained it is running out.

Various world powers have begun stationing military camps outside of it, no one knowing what lurks inside or what might come out. Fear of the unknown. Tensions are high.

Some more enterprising folks are making plans to try and exploit what will be sudden access to unknown land, resources, and perhaps riches.

The players could have been hired by some research organization to discover what happened to this ancient civilization. Are they still around as a society isolated for millenia? Are they gone? How was "the wall" made and how was it maintained? Any information will pay, and having it first pays more.

Or they could be hired by a group intending to settle the new area, as a greed thing or because some group of people are being displaced by a large military force and need somewhere else to settle. Could have some plot about keeping traditions in unknown and different environs, and trying to mesh ancient technology with their lives.

Small holes start appearing temporarily in "the wall", but too high up to access and they close too fast to get in or out. Whoever hired the players believes they've identified where the first (or one of the first) ground level one(s) will appear, and that they can hold it for long enough to send the players through.

Could go in a lot of different directions with that, and you could have some distinct "phases" to the plot.

Maybe the players are the first in, maybe they aren't. As time progresses others may get in with differing goals. Other researchers with different focuses, settlers, people running into this new space to escape outside things, smugglers trying to make/find new routes, thieves and plunderers trying to score, greedy land barons trying to take over by being one of the first to make a settled foothold.

Options for how you handle the civilization inside too. Are they gone due to some magic shenanigans like Elder Scrolls Dwemer? Did they pass away in isolation? Are they strong and ready to rejoin the world? Looking to do conquest? Scattered survivors of a fallen isolated empire?

As a big change, the wall can fall completely a certain amount of time in and now there's all of that plus militaries and other larger forces scrambling around.

But I think the colonizer ick can be sidestepped with having the players supporting displaced peoples seeking refuge in a space that was previously inaccessible due to magic bullshittery.

Firefox.

Librewolf (desktop) and Ironfox (mobile) if you want the more privacy focused fork of it.

The woman looks passably human too. No extra fingers and her features stay consistent between panels.

That's the neat part, they won't highlight the ad content. The entire plan, from the start, was to weave ads in seamlessly.

I would think the issue would be for obviously non-lego pieces. Not knockoff stuff, but like, K'Nex or something clearly not interoperable.

I wouldn't clock any of the pieces in that picture as non-standard, personally.

There's clearly a language barrier here. You still haven't answered why that difference is important for you, and I've laid out why it isn't in 99.9% of cases.

Please go read some guides, like the stuff on fmhy, or the main piracy community !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com megathread/wiki.

You're not going to get much help if you can't do any research yourself. Also if you can't communicate in a way that doesn't make us all wonder if you're in need of medical assistance.

Parallel Killers would make a sick band name.

Found the bard :)

The cause is important because that's literally what we're talking about: People from outside the US insisting the cause of these problems is something it is not.

I'm not defending anything about the situation here. I'm telling you that you undermine your own point. Enjoy watching us fall if that's what you're into, but don't delude yourself into thinking you have some level of insight into things that the people living through it are somehow too stupid to understand. That's just not how the world works in regards to longstanding and complex issues wrapped up in political mess.

Eh, didn't have better things to do at the time, and wanted to shout out MPMB's PDFs. Amazing tool.

There's no real nice way to say this, so I'll be direct. This is one of the most basic questions you could ask in a piracy community, reveals a lack of effectively any attempt to read up on things and understand them on your own, and it is written like you don't have a good grasp on English.

Of course cracked games aren't original. Why are you specifying that as though it's important?

There is no way to play a game protected by DRM without either buying it properly to allow you through the DRM legitimately, or using a cracked copy to remove/bypass that DRM.

You can see if there is a version sold on GoG, as all releases through GoG are DRM free. On that case you can just download the unmodified GoG installer from a third party and install the unmodified/original DRM free version.

Beyond that, you will have to deal with the DRM. We could get in the weeds about some of the specifics of how different DRM can be bypassed in different ways, but it will always involve at minimum an addition to the game's files, and usually further changes to the executable to remove DRM related code. That's not something you'd do yourself, you'd just get an already cracked copy from a safe source.

Ultimately, this whole "original, non cracked copy" is kind of a nonsense concern. There's only a few mods on Nexus that do any sort of checking for if the game is a legitimate copy. Likewise for mods that claim to truly, absolutely require an unmodified copy of the game. Usually that just means that you shouldn't use that mod on top of another mod. As long as you are downloading your pirated copy from a safe source, overwhelmingly you'll be able to mod it with stuff from Nexus.

If you start having issues, just do your research before you report the issue to the developer of the mod to make sure it's not a crack related problem. Most mods with that will be specific about it somewhere easily found. And don't openly tell people you're using a cracked version when asking for help.

Additionally, since you're asking such a simple question, I'll give some extra info: In general, you will not have access to multiplayer features with a pirated/cracked game. You absolutely won't have access to Steam based features like achievements or mods from the Steam Workshop (if the game supports that).