xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Sometimes, when you are coming up with scenarios for fiction, you have to think if the plot will go well in our current climate.

For example, I have a Strangereal (Ace Combat)-like fictional universe. In it, I have an idea for a 3-way war that happens in said universe. Basically, an island territory is allowed to secede from its host nation, and becomes a quasi-libertarian nation, but this creates opposition from both far-left and far-right factions. In total, there are 3 factions:

* The newly created nation
* A far-left, post-colonial anarchist liberation front comprised of some of the indigenous population along with allies.
* Some far-right, imperial Japan-like country who takes it as an opportunity to conquer the newly independent territory.

All three factions are at war with each other. In the game you are able to pick which faction you are on. The only problem is that I feel like such a scenario would be controversial. I just thought a 3-way conflict would be interesting and this is the first scenario that came to my mind.

Do you think this is fine? I have other stories for this setting, including an American-like country going to war with a country that is like a Modernized Roman Empire.

@Mr_NutterButter @beardalaxy It's "refractored".

@Mr_NutterButter @beardalaxy I didn't even notice until now.

@PurpCat @djsumdog @cjd It's just going to get worse. All ideologies suffer from the issue of in-fighting and purity spiraling, so you are just going to have people form more break-away communities that are even smaller and shorter lived.

Title screen finally has a logo.

Shoutout to @Mr_NutterButter for designing it.

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indie #SFML #cplusplus

@StockliRacer @cjd @djsumdog @80caa3337d33760ee355697260af0a038ae6a82e6d0b195c7db3c7d02eb394ee It was probably better during the pre-GamerGate days because people told me that the nice thing about it was that you could just check on it, make a few Tweets, and walk away for as long as you want instead of obsessively checking on it.

@cjd @djsumdog @80caa3337d33760ee355697260af0a038ae6a82e6d0b195c7db3c7d02eb394ee I don't. I considered getting one back in the early 2010s because unlike Facebook, it wasn't filled with shitty distractions like games and quizzes, but I'm glad I never did because I would've gone to even bigger drama than what goes on here.

@cjd @djsumdog @80caa3337d33760ee355697260af0a038ae6a82e6d0b195c7db3c7d02eb394ee Businesses and public figures aren't most people.

@KuteboiCoder @djsumdog @cjd @80caa3337d33760ee355697260af0a038ae6a82e6d0b195c7db3c7d02eb394ee There already is a GamerGate2. It's the scandal of game studios working with DEI consultants like Sweet Baby Inc and gamers exposing their connections.

https://deidetected.com/

@80caa3337d33760ee355697260af0a038ae6a82e6d0b195c7db3c7d02eb394ee @djsumdog @cjd I see it as this:

* Apoliticals still on Twitter
* Musk fans also on Twitter
* MAGA boomers on Gab, Minds, and Truth Social
* Right-libertarians on Nostr
* Ethnonationalists and ethnosupremacists on fedi instances like Poast and NCD
* Leftists on BlueSky
* Extreme Leftists on most Mastodon servers

There will be exceptions, of course, but this is where we are heading towards.

@djsumdog @cjd
>This thing is just a text-book psychological operation. You divide conservatives in half along the lines of those who truly hate Indian people versus those who don't and just want basic citizen first policies.

I think it's going to lead to those on the ethnonat right to leave Twitter and join some other platform. The plan is to put everyone into their own echo-chambers where their ideas can never be challenged.