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@pettanko @beardalaxy I used to enjoy him back when he was the HVGN. I learned about a lot of underrated classics (like StarTropics) from him. I even enjoyed some of his SSFF videos as it got me to appreciate the development efforts of even the worst games and consoles.

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man i sure do love watching videos that have really cool information in them told in an exciting and engaging manner only for the dude talking in it to feel the need to morally grandstand about how elon musk and john carmack are pricks at the end after reading off a sponsor for a fucking nft gambling game.
youtube.com/watch?v=JHqohS2YX_

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the type of person that will complain about games just not being the same as they used to while all the people who made those games so fuckin great get pushed out of the industry because they aren't in absolute lockstep with the progressive hivemind.

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Using proprietary "AI" tools is one thing.

But allowing them run shell commands on your system without explicit manual approval for each command is a whole different can of worms.

@beardalaxy Can you summarize what he said about Carmack? I know Carmack is friends with Elon Musk, but what did Derrick say about him exactly?

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@crunklord420 Isn't Torvalds infamously a complete idiot when it comes to IT stuff?

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I want you guys to know that I almost bought an m5 macbook to raffle off for christmas but I found out that in Canada (and the US) you need a license to hold a raffle or lottery and it needs to be overseen by people trained by the government and shit. I literally had it in my cart and I was buying it and we were on VC and one of my friends encouraged me to look into the law. Almost ended up in prison fr
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Here's what it currently looks like! I would let you guys mess around with it right now but unfortunately, saves aren't saved between versions at the moment. I'd hate for you guys to lose progress just for updating.

As you can see, the Android UI is also currently visible with no way to remove it. I'm kind of relying on the person who made the program to build an android version to fix these things, and I'm hoping they do!

Since touch input doesn't work everywhere, I've added these overlay buttons. You can turn them off with the C button, but that one will always stay there. As of right now, that's the best place for it. There's also a bit of a bug with it not letting you hide the controls during messages, so I submitted a report to the creator of this plug-in too.

There are definitely some issues here lol, but hopefully they can be smoothed out so we can get some legitimate testing in! I want to see if the game can be completed from beginning to end on my phone, that would be awesome.

While I'm waiting for updates on those, I'll probably start looking into an embedded web version to put on Newgrounds next.

@beardalaxy Can you get gamepad support on Android? It would go great for one of those Android handhelds.

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I'll fix some of the glaring issues with God's Disdain for the android port and then just drop an apk here if any of you guys want to test it out to see if there are any other weird quirks. It'll be like super early alpha so it will be using the default touch controls and everything. I'll need to add some buttons to menus and I'll still need to resize everything to fit the screen better, but it'll be more of a proof of concept.

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Schools should be places where kids feel safe to explore, ask questions and grow into who they want to be— without being watched.

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@kroner Literally the Python community has been suffering the same problem long before Rust.

Though most of the hate from Rust seems to stem from a theory that it was made to undermine the GPL by rewriting GPLd programs in it.

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@xianc78 tinfoil theory: installing unstable people who only have their cultist in-group (which will destroy them for dissent, like cults do) is perfect to get backdoors into things.

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@xianc78 yeah I get it, it's better to actually promote sane people engaging with the hobby than to abandon it, declare it untouchable and say anyone who likes it is a troon. In the end there wouldn't be any hobbies left if we did that with everything.

I really hate how liking a hobby that has been overrun by a certain demographic or people of a certain ideology means that you are probably of said demographic or ideology.

Like it gets really annoying that people will call you a tranny for being in to something like ROM hacking or installing Arch Linux on microwave ovens. Let me enjoy what I fucking enjoy. I'm in to that stuff and cutting my dick off has never crossed my mind.

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