BlitzGeology91

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by BlitzGeology91 3mo ago
> Yes, and it was an awful experience with a fraction of the playerbase. “awful experience”? That’s a very very surprising thing to read. My personal experience has been the exact opposite. I’ve personally experienced two types of games:
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by BlitzGeology91 3mo ago
> I’ve worked in games where we could drop a server binary over the fence an that would be fine. I’ve also worked on games that have required a bunch of different standalone services just for core logic - running it requires a combinatio
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by BlitzGeology91 3mo ago
> Pretending that not doing that is bad design would have a chilling effect on novel games. Well, the comment that you replied to said “Gaming companies did not need to insert themselves into the process in the first place.” If the gamin
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by BlitzGeology91 4mo ago
> The movement for free software traditionally draws a distinction between software and art. This means that only the software part of each game would need to be distributable, not the entire game. Personally, I’m a big fan of this idea.
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by BlitzGeology91 4mo ago
> To be fair, the legislation also kills any sort of multiplayer games, so it's in the same spirit. No, it doesn’t. It just requires that we go back to making multiplayer games the old-fashioned way (the good way). Descent 3 was rel
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by BlitzGeology91 6mo ago
> At this rate, how likely is it that Codeberg is just going to become a wasteland of abandoned ideological forks (with the exception of one or two major projects) by next year? I don’t know. What makes you curious about that?
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by BlitzGeology91 7mo ago
> There are no self-destruct mechanisms put into games. That’s not accurate. I used to play the Android version of EA Tetris [1]. I liked the game so much that I paid to remove ads from it. One day, I opened the game, and the game told m
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by BlitzGeology91 7mo ago
I’m kind of confused. In your metaphor, what do the road tax, gas or mechanic represent?
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by BlitzGeology91 7mo ago
> But at least by going down that road, you end up with more games, better games, and people learning skills throughout the process. And who knows, maybe one is a mega success. Yes, but in that scenario, some really good games would stil
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by BlitzGeology91 7mo ago
Uh… this certainly wouldn’t be the first GitHub-drama: < https://github.com/neodrama/github-drama >
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by BlitzGeology91 7mo ago
Eh, I don’t really think that this is an “or” situation. I think that this is an “and” situation. The last time that I set up Xash3D FWGS, I had to copy files from the version of Half-Life that I own on Steam into a different folder so that
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by BlitzGeology91 10mo ago
From your perspective, what would Linux forcing Wayland on you look like?
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by BlitzGeology91 1y ago
> Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers. > I can't find anything documenting that saga[…] You
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by BlitzGeology91 4y ago
> This is a very "american" definition of freedom, which is basically, just let me do what I want. Eh. I see what you’re saying about gun control, but the idea that “some restrictions can lead to actually more freedom, while so