cameron

Hi, I run the Lemmy instance over at https://compuverse.uk I seem to be getting spammed with literally thousands of incoming activity requests (primarily coming in from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml). (I measured about 1 new request ever 0.01 -> 0.02 seconds)

The error message in the Lemmy logs is very unhelpful, giving 0 detail about the actual error itself.

The UUIDs in the activities seem to be all unique, rather than duplicates. Does anybody have any idea what's going on and why there is such a large torrent of requests coming in?

This was so bad it essentially caused a DoS attack on my instance, and brought it down. I have had to move the PostgreSQL server onto a more powerful machine in order to keep up with the request rate!

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated :)

Thanks,

Cameron

eTail.market currently have both of the recent Spider-Man games currently on offer, according to IsThereAnyDeal, these are the lowest prices currently available for the games.

Could be a good time to grab them if you haven't already :)

Hi all!

In order to give people automated access to loads of game deals, I've created the CompuVerse Deals Bot!

This bot will automatically post new deals as they come in from https://isthereanydeal.com!

To try to keep the quality of the bot's posts at least moderately good, there are a few limits in place.

The bot will only post deals which follow these rules:

• Offer title is at least 30% off
• Offer title has at least 75% positive reviews on Steam
• Offer title is not a DLC

The bot will automatically post the highest cut it has found in the title of the post, along with Steam review scores for the game.

The main body of each post will consist of basic review information on the game, and then a table listing current best known prices in GBP, USD and EUR (other currencies can be added in future if this is something people are interested in!)

I hope you find the bot useful.

Please let me know any suggestions or improvements you may have regarding this bot :)

Thanks,

Cameron

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/3922

I know many people don't like Ubisoft, but for those of you who do enjoy their games (including myself), they have an event going on here today at:

• 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
• 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
• 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
• 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
• 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
• 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
• 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You will be able to watch the event on:

• YouTube
• Twitch

Peglin is a fantastically entertaining game, combining aspects of Peggle / Pachinko with a deck-building roguelike.

In Peglin, you build a deck of different "orbs", each with their own unique stats and abilities, such as being extra bouncy, chaining to nearby pegs, splitting into more balls when hitting a peg etc.

You combine this with a number of passive boosts, and have to traverse 3 maps, engaging in combat, and dealing damage based on how many pegs you hit!

The game is a great little time waster, and can get some really satisfying synergies with the right items.

I highly recommend people check it out.

YouTuber Aliensrock has a video series on Peglin, following it through early-access to the current day. The most recent video being here

For new subscribers to this community, I plan to write a bot which will automatically find and post deals (likely using the fantastic resource that is https://isthereanydeal.com!)

So hopefully we'll soon have awesome deals being posted here automatically :D

EDIT: The bot is live: /u/gamedealsbot!

At present, this is pulling data from yesthereisadeal.com

I plan to add support for more deal sources in the near future!

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/453

This is the lowest price the collection has ever been! Well worth grabbing if you can :)