xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

With the recent news of ProtonMail, I would like to remind you that ProtonMail has been a honeypot for a while. Just look at their transparency report on their website. They also don't allow you to generate private GPG/PGP keys client-side (the only person who should have access to your private GPG key is you).

Anyway here are some alternatives I recommend (not sponsored by any of them):

* Fedora Mail (https://fedora.email/) (Registrations are currently disabled) - An email service run by @j who also runs bae.st. It's funded by donations, supports mail clients, and even the ability to encrypt clear-text emails in your inbox using your public GPG key.
* Disroot (https://disroot.org/en) - Run by @muppeth, along with other volunteers. Provides a bunch of services including email. Supports custom domains if you donate. Free to use for non-commercial purposes.
* Posteo (https://posteo.de/en) - Paid service (1 EUR/month). Hosted in Germany. Accepts payments in cash via mail. Offers the ability to encrypt your inbox, contacts, and spam folder using your password.
* Self-hosted - Do your own research. Only recommended for those with the technical knowledge.

Granted, you should never trust any provider because you never know what they are doing unless you have physical access to their servers, but these services seem to be a lot more trustworthy than ProtonMail, Tutanota, and other honeypots.

#Email #Privacy #ProtonMail #FOSS

@djsumdog @ArdainianRight @hachi Oh. So it's like that Two-Spirit thing in Native American cultures.

@djsumdog @ArdainianRight @hachi Third-gender is legally recognized there as of 2014.

https://prsindia.org/billtrack/the-transgender-persons-protection-of-rights-bill-2019

@ArdainianRight @hachi @djsumdog "Westernized India" gives me an uncanny feeling. Westernization in modern times means "just give them Apple products, Starbucks, and LGBT terminology and keep everything else about their culture".

@wzqtparor @ArdainianRight @djsumdog Yet they still use chopsticks instead of the superior silverwear. (Chopsticks are only a thing because Confucius hated knives)

@djsumdog @ArdainianRight @hachi Hachi likes to ask minority users to "call out" people for posting things that he finds "offensive". He likes to ask me and ArdainianRight to call out posts that he thinks is offensive to autistic people. It's some lame bait tactic he likes to pull on people.

Replaced the sprite for the blue octorok-like enemy with one of my own.

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

Replaced the BS Zelda slime sprites with my own.

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

@beardalaxy Well after looking at Wikipedia, it seems like those games do at least let you move your character around somewhat. I was under the impression that it was nothing but quicktime events, but that just means it's half walking sim and half choose your own adventure book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Rain#Gameplay

Omikron was the only one that seemed mildly interesting to me, but at the same time it gave me uncanny vibes for whatever reason. It seemed like a cool Deus Ex-like open-world, cyberpunk adventure with some fantasy elements sprinkled in (I love science-fantasy), but at the same time, the facial animations, along with the voice acting looks uncanny to me, even for a game from 1999, and it's buggy as fuck from what I've heard. It also delves into that Undertale-like metafiction shit where the game's characters know they are in a video game and it's actually a huge part of the plot. After watching this video essay on it, I don't think I will ever play it.

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Vkz9xj0JpZo

But yeah, if you look into David Cage's background, it's clear that he is a talentless hack. He only joined the games industry because he was fed up with the music industry and his lack of game design knowledge pretty much limits him to adventure games. His first pitch for Omikron was rejected by multiple studios because it was deemed technically impossible, so he took matters into his own hands. It's impressive that he was able to assemble a team to build a game engine comparable to iD Tech, GoldScr, and Unreal from scratch, but it's clear that Cage himself only has talent in script-writing.

I'm now in the process of replacing the copyrighted assets with free-to-use assets or my own. So far, I only replaced the graphics for one enemy.

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

@beardalaxy And now I just learned that the game was involved in a COVID-related conspiracy theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nomad_Soul#Legacy