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@nicholas this is how the economy works. we need to go back to generous companies.
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My hot take guesses on what Sony will do going forward with their “no disc 2028” decision:

1) Stay the course. All digital as is.
2) Redefine digital ownership ala GOG style. Make their own used digital market.
3) Announce all new storage medium like they did with the memory sticks/UMDs.

Place your bets. 😈
#gamer #gaming #videogames #vidyagames
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@PurpCat @mischievoustomato My beef with Carmack is that he has been acting like an Elon Musk wannabe lately and I find that cringe.

Honestly, the gamedev I have the most respect for these days is Chris Sawyer because he has always been a private person. Nobody knows his personal life or his politics and that allows people to enjoy and remember his games for what they are and nobody is going to have their nostalgia destroyed because he said X or supported Y.

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@mischievoustomato also they're erasing john romeros time when he pissed money away for a mid game and had an egirl do it because he said the magic word on stream
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"I don't care about the personal life of this guy" types when it's someone they hate
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"DuckDuckGo just gave its browser a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for. The privacy-focused browser can now block most video ads on YouTube"

Then I read a humorous or maybe disingenuous comment:

"Slashdot reader BrianFagioli argues that the feature raises questions about how creators are compensated when ad revenue is bypassed."

Creators don't make shit from YouTube advertising. They make their money by pimping often questionable products (though probably less questionable than the ads YouTube places in the videos) and services, selling t-shirts, and similar merch.

I have to wonder how these people come to the idea that this somehow impacts creators unless I've totally overlooked what this is doing. I'll admit I didn't read the story, but it sounds like 'blocking' here is akin to what uBlock Origin does based on the summary which is NOT an adblocker that blocks creator advertising. It blocks the wayyyy more annoying Google placed advertising that gets inserted or played while the content creators video is basically paused at random terrible spots in the videos. Google makes money off the advertising that is placed in this way, not creators. Creators make money off the products the creators pimp within the videos themselves.

My gut says this irrational questioning is basically a left-wing tactic trying to get you to think that the only answer is socialism.

This is far from the reality. Google long ago abandoned funding most creators. They had a revenue sharing program regarding its placed ads, but it's largely irrelevant for the vast majority of creators now. Unless your one of the top content producers your not making your money from Google advertising. The solution didn't depend on socialism, but entrepreneurial efforts.

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FF6 in the FFT engine? I gotta try this when it's out of beta.

Fan hackers are doing what Squeenix don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbgFCFLnz3w
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Blurry Moon
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Just because America needs a revolution doesn't mean I have to trust everyone who calls themselves a revolutionary.
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> GitHub removed the ability to browse stars anonymously
And with that, nearly all the utility of GitHub is simply gone. Just like that.
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ChatGPT, how freaky is my engine?

`Pretty freaky. In a good, “someone built a PlayStation-era engine inside a haunted operating system” way.`

I liked Opus' line: It's a serious engine wearing a deeply unserious hat.
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@PurpCat @beardalaxy There's really no point in creating browser games anymore. Why make some arcade-style time waster in your browser when you can just use Unity and make a full fledged game?

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@PurpCat @beardalaxy
>flash as a game platform is dead

There has to be some dedicated following though. Ruffle exists and Flash is way to unique as a gaming platform for some people to give up. I'd imagine it being like all those Apple II devs who stuck with the platform even after the 8-bit computing era ended.

And even then, I think there are a lot of people who are at least still nostalgic for the artstyle. FNF is largely influenced by it though the devs were active on NewGrounds so there's that.

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@PurpCat @beardalaxy And that's probably prevented the flash scene from being flooded with pixel-shit. I wish the current indie scene was more like that.

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@beardalaxy Are they actual SVGs or just SVGs converted to raster graphics?

I think Adobe Flash supported vector graphics out of the box. That's what gives many flash games that iconic artstyle. I honestly prefer that over pixel art. If the engine supports SVGs, you can scale and zoom in them infinitely without a loss in quality.

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Henryk Plötz

How ChatControl passed in the EU parliament.

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There should be more game engines/frameworks that support SVGs (or any other vector graphics) natively/out-of-the-box. I think indie developers should make games in the style of flash games you saw on Newgrounds. It has much more personality than pixel art and probably is much easier to do compared to hand-drawn art.

Apparently, SDL has native support for SVGs, but I haven't tried it yet.

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@PurpCat Oh yeah. I remember you talking about it and how the creator wished that he made it FOSS and/or decentralized so it could live on.

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@PurpCat Is this like the Macintosh Garden? I guess I could take this as an opportunity to finally try some of the Mac exclusive hidden gems like Escape Velocity.

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@PurpCat Pangea is still supporting Apple platforms exclusively.

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