xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Rewrote (or had AI rewrite) the ending text to better fit the situation and the background.

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Title screen now has music.

Title music is "RPG Lost In Time" by Hitctrl. (Released under CC-BY 3.0)

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Eric S Raymond, one of the co-founders of the open-source movement, made a tweet a few days ago saying that you can still be a right-libertarian (including a full-blown ancap) while also being against the mass hiring of H1B immigrants. He noticed how bad it was getting back when he was in his 20s and 30s, and it is even worse today. He actually emphasizes with the young tech graduates, despite being a boomer. He also states that there is more to right-libertarianism than just the monetary aspect.

I generally agree with him on this. Honestly, I would argue that conservatives (especially neocons) are bigger corporate boot-lickers than right-libertarians ever claim to be. They are the ones who defend companies that benefit from the state (especially the military industrial complex), don't care that their politicians have been bought out by billionaires, and defend policies that hurt smaller businesses like "intellectual property" laws. I also hear them worship the GDP more than right-libertarians (including ancaps) who really just care more about personal and economic freedom more than anything.

Of course, the argument comes, "how do you deal with the problem without state intervention?" And I wish ESR would elaborate on this. I think the important thing to note is that even if a company decided that they would probably get more respect (and by proxy, customers) by advertising that they don't hire H1Bs or immigrants in general, they can't. They CAN refuse to hire H1Bs, but they legally cannot make discriminatory claims in job postings like saying "US Citizens Only". This is what makes boycotts and finding companies that don't prefer 80% H1B workers difficult in this situation. So yeah, the state makes it hard to support companies that actually want to hire (White) American workers.

I never thought I would ever see a libertarian party parody the fourteen words.

There is finally boss music. It was hard to find a good track because I don't want anything too epic as I might use that for a better game.

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Ending and credits now have a background too. I was inspired by early fantasy RPGs like Final Fantasy 1-7 and the first two Ys games which featured a space background, despite none of those games (except FF4) taking place in space.

Space backgrounds are often associated with deep philosophical thought or the meaning of existence. Or maybe the protagonist is transferred to another world after starring into the mirror. I don't know. I just felt like the ending and credits screen needs a background too.

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Boss now only appears after the player is out of the doorway and the trap-door closes. This prevents the player from leaving before the shutting of the trap-door.

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In the eyes of an extreme freetard, playing an old DOS or NES game is no different than using Windows 11, Discord, or Google Chrome.

I can't tell what's worse, people still insisting on using Windows or macOS despite them becoming even more locked-down than ever or the freetards who insist on using only FSF-approved GNU+Linux distros that can only run on 2011 Thinkpads.

Don't listen to these idiots. Even using a shitty distro with SystemD such as Linux Mint or Pop_OS is 1000x better than putting up with the bullshit that Microsoft and Apple are giving you and will give you in the future. Despite most GNU+Linux distros coming with some proprietary software, I have yet to encounter a single distro that requires you to link your installation with some online account, unless you count ChromeOS, Android (which is only Linux, not GNU), and SteamOS. I would say that you should stay away from those distros and maybe stay away from anything RedHat or vanilla Ubuntu, and that you should install Librewolf after installing your distro as most distros still bundle vanilla Firefox as the default browser, but other than that, you should be fine.

And look, I would love to see the day where nobody has to rely on proprietary software anymore, but we are just not there yet. I still like to remain optimistic, despite all the blackpills, but you need to be pragmatic about this. Sometimes, you do have to work within the system before you can fully replace it.

Main menu now has a background. It honestly looks like the most professional thing I have ever made.

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Octorok-like enemies now shoot after walking a certain distance instead of being timer-based. SFML's built-in timers run with no way to pause which is why you often see them shooting when the player enters a room. This is honestly a better approach to this.

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Something to think about:

So it looks like the woke FOSS crowd has taken notice of OpenMandriva and is boycotting a FOSDEM event that the OpenMandriva co-founder is holding. I'm not familiar with FOSDEM so I don't know if they could get them kicked out of the convention entirely, but I expect these parasites to try to kick them out of as many FOSS spaces as possible.

You can now purchase bombs which will increase your maximum bomb count.

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>Avoid capitalists spaces. You have no right to free speech on private spaces
<"Capitalist" space suddenly claims to be pro-freespeech
>DEFEDERATE FROM THREADS!!! Instances that allow anti-LGBT rhetoric have no place in our "public space"

Imagine this being the reason to finally block Threads, instead of concerns about EEE. Not like Cuckerberg is actually going to allow freezepeach anyway.

Bomb count now appears in the HUD.

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The blue sword can now be purchased in the dungeon shops.

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