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HELP WANTED: I'm looking to test http://monero.jobs as a viable option for art commissions. I need an artist willing to help me with this test.

If you a) can draw/create and b) can or want to accept :xmr: XMR as payment, let me know and I'll send instructions your way

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I feel it's understated how hobbyist gamedevs *must* be targeting WASM. The current off the shelf game engines like Godot, Unity and Unreal all focus on more modern graphics APIs. They offer GLES option, but they call it "legacy". WebGL2 is not legacy. It is a current and supported standard in all browsers. WebGPU does not formally replace WebGL2 and WebGPU is still poorly supported.

The primary graphics API target for a hobbyist gamedev should be WebGL2/OpenGL ES3. What's the point of Vulkan when no one is going to bother to download your sketchy binary?

There's a gap in the market for a WASM-first game engine.
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Do we really have free speech? It sure doesn't seem like it when courts allow this sort of thing:

"The music publishers’ inducement theory partly relies on a handful of public statements by Elon Musk, which they argue demonstrate that X encouraged its users to infringe."

What was that ''inducement"?

Apparently at some point Elon Tweeted:

“[Truncated] DMCA Is a Plague On Humanity”

Yes- his disgust for a law is being called an act of encouragement rather than a set of words actually encouraging infringement.

BUT even if he encouraged it that should (whether or not it is or will be, and it probably won't be) be protected.

It's the right if not duty of every person to advocate against unjust laws and to disobey. You don't get to write off wrongs just because there is a law.

@SuperDicq @graf I knew a lot of people who left fedi because they thought that Poast killed the comfy and open-mindness aspect of it. Though I personally thought that an instance like Poast was inevitable given that the original 8chan died (and the drama going on with 8kun and the bunkers) and Gab pandering to boomers instead of standing on the principles of free speech. It was only a matter of time before they find the fedi.

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@graf@poa.st I think most people honestly wanted to start shit because the Poast userbase were especially annoying chuds to deal with early on back when you were advertising on places like imageboards and shit. Those people have either left or mellowed out by now.

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Thanks for @graf for, since the first day they came onto the Fediverse, reaching out and offering friendship and material support to me and SPC/SPW
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@s8n @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @_gigabyte_ The only person I knew who was using it heavily was Dave from Computing Forever. Everyone else seemed to have used it as an overglorified RSS feed and barely used it after promoting it. I bet most were being paid to promote it. It always seemed to me like "that other Gab". Really no reason to use it when Gab (before Torba's downward spiral) already existed and was way more popular.

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Prediction Reminder: Game engines will become deeply integrated with AI to the point where the game engine becomes the sandbox to create your own interactive experiences. We will essentially get the The Matrix where you say "I need guns, lots of guns" and then the guns fly at you.

I've bought Unity stock because of this prediction. I wish I could invest in Unreal (you could buy Tencent I guess).
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Download literally everything you enjoy, it will be deleted otherwise

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@Kerosene But the A and B buttons are probably the best feeling buttons I have ever pressed on a handheld. Every other handheld's buttons feel like cheap junk in comparison.

@Kerosene It feels good, but it's too noisy for my liking. It's also unnecessary because the system is clearly designed for 2D games.

After watching DYKGaming's recent video on the NeoGeo Pocket (Color). I'll take back what I said about it because I regarded it as a disappointment and something only for SNK fans, but I was not aware of some of the unique features like having wireless multiplayer with up to 64 other players, which I think nobody has ever done.

inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ojxn1uc

I've also just bought one other game for it today: Fatal Fury Contact and I enjoyed it for what it was. Though the sub battery on my system needs to be replaced. This system requires two separate types of batteries. The sub battery is just a watch battery and it is required for some game's clock functionality. I've ordered a new one and I even plan on using this system as my alarm clock because why not.

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Too many IRL happenings made me forget where I was in terms of game development. I also lost even more track with the game itself because I was mostly focused on the level editor.

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