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I was planning on having at least two games done this year, but I feel like the game I'm developing right now won't be finished this year.

CaveStory celebrated it's 20th anniversary a few days ago and I feel envious of Daisuke Amaya because he didn't have to deal with drama like every other indiedev has to deal with these days. He also got his game done in 5 years despite having a full-time job and a child.

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It seems like most of the RPG Maker games out there are fan games or parody games. It's also used a lot by children who have really ambitious ideas, but immediately get hit in the face with the reality of the program's limitations.

People try to make "practice games" in anticipation of creating their dream games, but the practice games are uninspired and life gets in the way.

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It seems like what really holds people back when it comes to gamedev isn't the lack of design, programming, or art experience. It's not playing a diverse amount of games to truly appreciate the medium.

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Most people know by now that microplastics are building up in our environment and within our bodies. However, according to Dr. Leonarde Transande, director of environmental pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine, there are ways to reduce the influx of plastics into our bodies.
https://naturalblaze.com/2024/12/microplastics-are-invading-our-bodies-5-ways-to-keep-them-out.html
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A federal watchdog has released a report detailing how federal law enforcement agencies are using more than 20 types of surveillance technologies without a warrant and with limited privacy protections.
https://activistpost.com/2024/12/federal-government-watchdog-warns-the-dhs-surveils-americans-without-a-warrant-using-more-than-20-technologies.html
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On Friday, an attorney for Ascension Health, a major U.S. hospital operator, wrote to Maine’s attorney general to tell him the electronic personal health information (e-PHI) of Ascension patients and employees were compromised during the ransomware attack that occurred in May that affected nearly 5.6 million people.
https://activistpost.com/2024/12/concerns-over-the-security-of-electronic-personal-health-information-intensifies.html
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You realize the narrative changed, right? The murderer was from a rich family and never had United Healthcare and the CEO was from a middle class family that did not have any big money.

That's the narrative switch. Now the narrative is no longer about the rich evil man .. now he's evil BECAUSE he got rich! The narrative has switched to anti-merit and pro-commie.

My third job out of college was Health Insurance. It was a very wasteful business. I sat down in meeting with a c-suite person who probably made 5x~10x more than me. I saw millions get wasted away on stupid adverts to make people healthier. I think a lot of things were misguided .. but I never wanted any of my managers/directors to die. Most of them had families. Most were honestly good people ... or at least not worse people than any other industry I've worked in ... as far as I could tell anyway.

I'm not okay with dead CEOs. That's a shitty, unscalable, and ineffective solution.

To fix the medical situation, you really need an entirely separate system: cheap schools for unlicensed doctors, their own boards and who push against vaccines and unnecessary surgeries. Medicine needs to be less regulated and treated more as a religion (which it is). The Church of the Board Cert needs to break away into sects and there need to be so many neo-doctors onboard with the cult that it clogs up the courts with Patch Adam's style cases of "doctors without a license."

People didn't get sick like this decades ago, but we're still better than a century ago. But instead of real change, this propaganda narrative will just get people riled up and angry and totally fine when Orange Man starts pushing some insane new medical system connected to carbon credits or crypto-shit.
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>Poa.st users are still using NJP emoticons despite the party having been dissolved over a year ago

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