xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@PurpCat He is a real person. He has a podcast on JoshWhoTV where he even sometimes shows his face. I even think Charlie Brown is his real name.

https://www.joshwhotv.com/channel/Charliebrownau

@wrongthink Can't anymore. He blocked me.

>Make a post that mentions space
>Aussie schizo butts in bringing up his flat-earth, mudflood, copypasta garbage
>Links me a flat earth video, which I debunk WITHOUT citing any space agency and instead using simple logic and observation that anyone can do
>Tells me to look up certain topics many of which have nothing to do with flat earth
>I debunk them or at least explain that they don't prove the shape of the Earth
>Tells me I'm beyond saving and blocks me

At least I don't have to deal with this guy's lunacy ever again (unless he switches instances again). Seriously, this guy makes Terry Davis look sane and rational in comparison. It's unbelievable.

https://poa.st/objects/5ba82714-b9b2-4f4f-a78f-e729783a7c50

@lanodan @errante You should get rid of it soon. It can cause problems.

@lanodan @errante Water bill, unless you are talking about frost.

@PurpCat @RustyCrab @gabriel @GrungeQueef Just seeing what they tried to do to the Ion Fury devs a few years back makes me feel uneasy. But I'm afraid that the alphabet people is an Internet wide phenomenon at this point. Even if you decide to cater to the freetards and host your community on IRC, you still have to deal with the "programming sock" types who are sometimes even worse.

This two way interaction between viewers and "content-creators" (I hate this term but I can't think of a better one) and the toxicity that it brings really makes me wish that RSS took of instead of social media, where these cancel-culture types are instead on some remote blogs on obscure corners of the Internet. Seriously, interacting with fans outside of fan-letters and fan-emails has brought only the worst in people.

@PurpCat @RustyCrab @gabriel @GrungeQueef
>But most importantly IMO, I think the #1 thing killing imageboards is simply people online use different communities now in 2023, be it Discord/TG/Matrix groups or social media in some form. When you're trying to find friends and communities online, why post on a dying imageboard when you can go to Discord. Like it or not, you're dragged kicking and screaming because that's where the people are at and you're not.

I really hate this as a gamedev. I really don't want to use shit like Twitter or Discord, but I'm afraid I have to if I want a decently sized audience, especially given that the hobbyist gamedev community is now full of zoomers who have probably never heard of an Internet forum. Even the anons at /agdg/ realize that using sites like Twitter and Discord are necessary if you want a player-base.

Literally, my only other option is to pay someone to do my social media for me.

@gabriel @GrungeQueef @RustyCrab Except if you give it a bad enough reputation, you will see people trying their best to kill it (maybe not completely) like what so many people tried to do with imageboards after the 8chan linked mass shootings. Now, imageboards are considered dead or dying at this point because nobody wants to risk hosting them anymore.

Added a sound effect when the player car spins out.

#gamedev #SFML