“Make your own games!”

“Okay!”

“No! Not like that!”

the best game ever

Citation needed!

I’m a game dev, so I’ll have to at least keep around either a Windows VM or a dual boot system, since Windows is still very popular.

1. Go to the Minecraft servers of OpenAI and similar corporations.
2. Find a room called “AI server room”, all while avoiding of defeating the mobs protecting the area.
3. Destroy everything there.
4. Go to the offices.
5. Destroy everything there.

Dude, I don’t even own a single Nintendo hardware! I just think the Palworld fans are utterly toxic, a lot of Nintendo haters’ only argument seeming to be “muh unreal engine”, with everything else just being there as a deflection once someone points out it.

I’m not a Nintendo fan, but:

1. Palworld fans are toxic as fuck. Not nearly as bad as sending death threats, instead more like in a way they can’t express their love for the game by also not shitting on something else, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
2. Most of the criticisms are also in really bad faith, with often the “multibillion dollar company” being used to deflect how bad faith those criticisms are.

Culture war rots people’s mind, and many just wants to win either internet points, still have the “early age of console wars” mentality, don’t want to criticize the underlying systems, etc.

It will depend on how (if at all) will they maintain the game, and how that will turn out. Some might be just buying extra copies and leaving it running on a backup toaster PC, just to stick it to Nintendo/wokes/artists/whatever. Most people seem to having fun with it.

Also pro audio software.

I will have to keep a Windows install due to I’m a developer, and Windows is still more relevant for games (also GUIs for debuggers - is there any for GDB?), so no big deal.

Two words:

Pro audio

2023
Cries about “SJWs”

bruh.wav

You’re making Linux look cringe!

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There, I made that kind of comment more useful!

1. I already had issues with Reddit long before the API drama, due to spam, etc. However when the API drama dropped, I almost 100% switched to kbin, save for the rare occasion I found some useful info on Reddit, with the occasional tumbling into some other interesting threads.
2. I post more often to Mastodon, slowly leaving Twitter too, I just need to convince my fellow authors to do so, to give me even less reason to use it. I however decided to limit posting updates of my game engine to Twitter, and instead use the main account now dedicated for it ( @PixelPerfectEngine )
3. I haven’t heard of Matrix, I’ll look up it. I don’t have any major gripes with Discord so far.
4. Peertube is fine and dandy, however it’s even less adapted than other Fediverse platforms, all while YouTube would be mostly fine IF IT DIDN’T ACTIVELY TRIED TO SABOTAGE MY FIREFOX! I EVEN PAY FOR PREMIUM AND MEMBERSHIPS!

I don’t really use any other save for following a bunch of Misskey accounts with my Mastodon. However, I was thinking on creating a federated game launcher/gaming-focused social network similar to Steam. Some parts of it would use ActivityPub (especially public stuff like achievements), others XMPP or something similar. Issues are the question of a copy protection system, and an anti-cheat system. Banning pirated copies of the game from official networks is probably easy even with open source tools, and likely not so controversial. Anything more than that would require more complicated setups, such as a lot of proprietary stuff, not to mention are very controversial, especially with gamers. Anti-cheat systems are also a though issue, likely being the responsibility of the developer, and also there’ a lot of controversy with them with kernel-level anti-cheat systems.

Also GPU drivers.

If you’re mad at NVidia for their closed-source drivers, then remember that ARM seldom makes their Linux drivers available for free, so you have to either have to deal with absolutely no GPU driver while the CPU does the graphics rendering (might not be a big deal on a NAS though), or with open source drivers that are less capable than the Nouveau drivers and even fiddlier to install. The ARM Mali driver issue is so bad I was legit thinking on a solution to run the Android binary blobs (which at least are available by ripping them off from the Android kernel) on regular Linux, a lot of function call redirects would likely take care of that issue.

Sometimes it’s better, sometimes it’s worse, all depending on your usecase.

Even without that, things can go really bad:

1. You’re the only developer, then you burn out on the project.
2. You underbake the UI so much your project becomes infamous for how hard it is to use, complete with an elitist userbase that just screams “git gud” memes at everyone asking for help (most often happens to dev tools).

The rare occasion, it’ll become like Krita, modern Blender, Audacity, etc.

I have a GameSir G7-SE, and despite I still can’t leave Windows for software development reasons, I feel your pain.

I’m a Deus Ex fan, and I envy you! looks at Deus Ex 2