xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Something that I noticed in the FOSS and decentralized tech movements (outside of the crypto space) is that there aren't that many incentives to get small businesses to become less dependent on Big Tech which I think is a problem. Small businesses are at the mercy of Big Tech services for web hosting, email, etc and most business owners aren't tech savvy enough to self-host or find alternatives.

I think this is a hole that should be filled by FOSS/decentralized tech developers and activists. There should be more easy to use tools for self-hosting, communication, and other things that small businesses need that are open-source and decentralized. Along with support and advocacy groups to help promote them. I think RetroShare and YunoHost are such tools that could be great for small businesses, but I rarely see any promotion for them.

Unfortunately, there seems to be an extreme anti-capitalist sentiment in the FOSS and decentralized tech communities and would be opposed to this. Personally, I think this is much different than something like Meta creating a fediverse instance with the plan to EEE it. Trying to fight for a decentralized future also means to get your local Mom & Pop shop off of Big Tech.

So it turns out that the residential areas that Iran allegedly struck where already scheduled for demolition and urban renewal.

If this isn't flat out proof that this conflict is all scripted if not flat out staged, then I don't know what is.

https://xcancel.com/morganc000/status/1934651710225744136

I'm almost finished with my game, but I can't help but look at fundamental flaws that are too late to fix.

For one, the game is clearly inspired by Zelda, but I feel like that since it plays somewhat like Zelda then they should also expect shields to work like they do in Zelda, but in my game, the shields just reduce damage (making them act more like the rings in Zelda 1). The truth is that I made the shields reduce damage instead of blocking projectiles because I didn't want to bother writing collision detection for that along with trying to find/create sprites to accommodate. But then I realized that I have Octorok-like enemies that shoot projectiles and there is no way to dodge them outside of moving out of the way.

The other major flaw is something that someone else pointed out, which is that the enemies spawn in random locations. I should have included preset spawners in the room templates, but I never thought of that and including that now also means that I have to make different spawners in each template along with the number of spawners that appear in each difficulty.

I guess these are things to keep in mind for next game.