xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

I know that the governments pushing these age verification laws are just using the well-being of children as a smokescreen, but for anyone who does think that the need to government to protect their children from porn, let me have a word with you:

Yes, it's your responsibility what your children do on the Internet. I don't buy this counterargument that your children will always be more tech savvy than you. Just look at Gen Alpha and how most of them can't even navigate a file system. Do you really think they can bypass firewalls if they can't understand how directories work?

You may think that children will find a way, but there are plenty of tutorials online on how to keep up with the latest security trends. Also, your kids won't be able to hack whatever security you have if you block the sites that give tutorials on bypassing such security measures.

If you are truly paranoid about what your kids do on the Internet or on the computer in general, either don't let them use a computer or electronic devices at all or set up their devices for them. There are custom USB-bootable Linux distros out there with parental controls in mind. You can even buy them from some websites so you don't need to know how to make bootable drives yourself. They only allow kids to use whitelisted sites and programs. Don't give your kids accounts on your computers and then they will have no choice but to use those flash drives. Whitelisting (i.e blacklisting everything except for a few approved sites) is the only guaranteed way to keep your kids safe online (outside prohibiting them from using the Internet at all, of course).

@Dude This is literally what the WEF was proposing just a few years ago, only rebranded to make it appeal more to conservatives.

@Beefki @rlier23 @All_bonesJones Civil disobedience has been shown to work. For example, there was a UK poll tax back in 1989 that ended because enough people refused to pay it. A lot of people did end up in jail, but they couldn't arrest everyone so they had to end it by 1990.

@kerosene They can ban Tor as well. All they need to do is force ISPs to monitor evidence of Tor traffic via DSP and shut off anyone whose traffic shows patterns of Tor (or any other anonymity network) usage.

@Beefki @rlier23 @All_bonesJones
>the implicit threat of violence
Not necessarily that, but the threat to not comply with whatever law they're passing.

I noticed now that I made the game too easy by having the player heal between levels. To somewhat compensate, I increase the prices of the white and blue swords. Maybe they should be even more expensive.

I also realized that while the bosses take a while with the wooden sword, they are easily cheesed with the blue sword so I think it should be pretty expensive.

Balancing difficulty is basically the only thing I have left to do. I could release this game unbalanced, but since permadeath is a key feature, I want to make it so that you can lose and probably will on your first playthrough, but not have it so that winning is impossible. Though there was a Japanese PC game known as Xanadu which was infamous for being popular, but having very few people actually beat it, so maybe I could do that.

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

@Hephaestic
>who obviously has some kind of seething hatred towards straight people.
Ironic, given that the Earthbound ROM hack he made back in high school is infamous for Dr. Andonuts' "eat shit, faggots" line.

@hachi @zeroraining107 @LukeAlmighty Most community gardens require you to pitch in in order to be able to take some of their food. Otherwise, you would have greedy, fat leaches who just take everything.

So it seems like most people agree with me that $5 is a reasonable price. I'm going to go with that, then. I just need to balance the difficulty and compile a Windows binary along with Linux and I'm done.

Though I wonder if the recent situation on itch will affect any potential sales, even though my game doesn't contain porn and the current situation isn't itch.io's fault because I bet some people are boycotting itch anyway.