xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@Corfiot @PurpCat People don't realize that part of the reason why forums declined was that a lot of forums had the worse moderation while sites like Reddit, Digg, or the comment section of YouTube were much more lax at the time. Seriously, forums would immediately ban you just for using words that you can't say on American Daytime TV while sites like YouTube at the time could have you get away with words like "faggot". It was especially pointless as most forums required users to be at least 13 years old anyway.

There were also other bullshit policies like policies against necrobumping, which were pointless as topics do eventually become relevant again with new information. Or admins banning discussions that they *think* are illegal but are not. I remember a lot of gaming forums banning people for merely mentioning the existence of emulators (which aren't even illegal in of itself), not even asking or distributing ROMs. They didn't even mentioned downloading ROMs. They could've even dumped the ROMs themselves for all we know, but they still got banned.

Forums were able to get away with their abusive moderation because they are much smaller with the largest forums having around 10,000 or maybe even 100,000 active users at best. It's basically the same reason why Mastodon instances are able to enforce rules that are more strict than Jack Dorsey's Twitter.

I don't get why people are complaining about the influx of Twitter users when Poast is literally a bunch of Twitter refugees and have turned this place into a cringier version of /pol/.

@PurpCat Dwarf Fortress still holds their discussions on their own forums to this very day.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/

@DaVibri @Penrose3
>couldn't make a main menu.

And I thought GameMaker Lite was bad (I think they didn't even let you have rotating sprites).

>These days the official devs give you an universal key to bypass the activation if i remember correctly.

That's nice of them, but I'd rather have them open-source it. There are much superior free (both in freedom and price) options out there now. The only reason people still use things like this is for nostalgia.

Retribution Engine seems like an open source alternative, but it seems like they haven't updated it in years (you could probably tell as they are still on SourceForge), and it's still Windows only for whatever reason.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/retribengine/

Really if you want to make a FPS and target older platforms, just look into old-school FPS engines. iD Tech 1-4, Build, Doom are all open-source and/or have open-source replacements that are compatible with it.

@DaVibri @Penrose3
>FPS Creator

I think I saw that before, over a decade ago, and never heard from it since. It was only a kid at the time, and that thing was paid, and my parents refused to pay for anything over the Internet. I was stuck messing around with the Lite version of GameMaker (before GameMaker: Studio was a thing).

@Penrose3 Be a real man and write your own engine using SDL or SFML like what I did.

@seanking Librem Social users have to pay though.

@Jim @Some_German_Guy Probably the latter. In fact, I have a gut feeling that the riots were instigated by the state itself. There have been dozens of documented events where this actually happened. Look up "black propaganda".

@allison Are shumps the only games you're into?

As I keep on saying time and time again, whatever news is trending like the France riots are intentional distractions to things that actually matter. Case in point, the white house is considering blocking out the sun to stop or slow down non-existent climate change.

You may disregard me as some crazy conspiracy theorist but you are only hurting yourself.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230702235210/https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-cautiously-opens-door-134206748.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall