It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
Hades II just dropped by SGG, which is basically what y'all are calling for. This system is viable once you've had your first quasi-successful game. That first game is the problem though - it's a massive hurdle. So many groups seek bigger companies to support them. After that, you're theirs. Especially if you make a hit.
There are also other factors such as running a studio means running a business. If you're a developer, you might have very little interest in that. So you instead get hired by a company which enables you to get a paycheck as you do the thing you actually enjoy.
Additionally, there is marketing and distribution. Do not underestimate how much connections matter when marketing and distributing your game. And yes, everyone needs to market. Which means labor and cost you need to sort out.
I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...
If you don’t trust it to be entirely accurate then it is ridiculous to act like it is “for the sake of discussion.” Healthy skepticism is absolutely warranted
Dude ffs grow up and just ask in the future. This whole post and defensive posture is so childish. You literally admitted in another comment that you were deliberately opaque about your intentions in order to avoid a fringe concern, which then brought about the result you were trying to avoid.
Like seriously dude. You borderline lied because of a fear of people who are “Ethernet-hostile”? And then got upset when they didn’t know what you were doing when you purposely deceived them? Are you kidding me?
Well, OP side of the story isn’t even that vindicating either. The dude literally admitted in one comment that he all but lied to them about what he was doing, yet he’s mad when they were upset he wasn’t clear with his intentions and started plugging in cat5 without any heads up.
How many times do we need to tell you that you can’t lie about your intentions and then expect people to respect your perceived “rights“? This is like anti-maskers who would walk into places with mask mandates intentionally and then take off their masks just to make a scene and record it for the Internet. You’re pot stirring.
Just ask like a normal human being. For all you know they would’ve said “right this way“ and shown you to a port. You walked in looking for trouble.
They could tactfully include ads, but no one ever tactfully includes ads.
Because they don't work outside of basically podcasting. And even then many shows stretch "tactfully."
Additionally, over 60% of American internet users use an adblocker. The Atlantic as a US publication relies heavily on US citizens. They didn't create that situation, but they have to experience the ramifications.
So "tactful" ads are not an option. You don't want obtrusive ads that unfortunately are the only ones that vaguely work. You don't want to pay for it directly. If they went government funded or something it would be used as a cudgel against them forever (look at how NPR gets shit on it randomly, which basically gets a fraction of its funding from government grants and not even formally from the US budget). So functionally no ads, no selling, no subscriptions, no government funding.
The question is how do you expect quality information to be produced if it isn't paid for? I think it's terrible we have to think in those terms but as the other person said, that is reality.
Linux is the result of a massive number of people working at their own paces with no deadlines and no expenses other than time and the computer they already own, as well as foundations where people get paid and pay others do tasks. Lots of private companies are also involved, and they exist because of profits.
Quality, relevant journalism has hard costs associated with it and has to move very fast. I'm not even talking about the twitter blitz that leads to sloppiness. I'm saying any and all breaking news. How do you plan on getting any on the ground reporting in Gaza?
What you are suggesting would mean that only those who don't need an income can participate in the endeavor. Which unfortunately is also the case with Linux - big contributors have to stop all the time, projects die regularly, because "life gets in the way." It just shifts the problem.
Open source programming and journalism have some parallels I'm sure but this comparison just doesn't work on many levels.
I don’t know about other phones, but you can turn basically all of that off with a single tap on an iPhone (“raw”). I imagine other phones have ways to adjust those settings as well. It’s hardly a waste of time.
If you shoot your videos in prores it also drastically changes what you can do in post because the color depth is basically what I get out of professional cameras.
So yeah, I get what you mean, modern smart phones are all pretty good at what they do and a lot of them do a ton behind the scenes on your images. But different ones have different features and they do not all look the same. I’m not even sure if any smart phones do ProRes besides the iPhone (it’s an Apple codec)
It may be a poor artist that blames his tools, but a good artist definitely knows the differences between them. No matter how slight they may appear.
They can dial in the exposure time if they want. I usually set it to 10s and then have it do a 2s delay before starting exposure so I can tap and set it down.
It's fine. Great for a video game adaptation. Good enough to get a large audience, not so bad that Fallout fans won't stick with it for butchering the IP.
Every alternative I have tried has a few “big” communities that were active for about four days before completely collapsing on themselves. It’s not that there isn’t a viable alternative, it’s that there is literally no alternative it seems like.
Definitely not directed at you. I’m just so tired of people in general excusing Nintendo for ridiculous behavior because of some romantic view they have of the company.
Telling anyone to “just Google it” is proof that you have no interest in a good faith discussion.
How on earth you could read what they wrote and say it's in bad faith means either A) you don't know what that term means or B) it's become so diluted and repeated that it's lost all meaning. Perhaps both idk.
Like come on. They gave 4 suggestions, you pretended it was 1, and you're also ignoring other means suggested prior.
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
organic maps is built on open maps and is FOSS. Takes some getting used to though. The time estimates aren't accurate (it doesn't account for traffic) so always add time to the estimate, and you can't really search for things by name you generally need to input addresses (except for maybe your airport. This also varies based on where you live because folks might be updating it more for you locally).
Basically it's a solid option but not good enough for me to ditch Apple maps completely (I trust apple slightly more than gmaps but not by a large margin lol).
They really, really need to take the critiques of their procgen to heart. Games are too big now. We don't need endless planets of nothing. You can create incredible experiences that unfold over dozens of hours - if not hundreds - in a smaller, more curated world.
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
I’ve also never owned a New York penthouse, but I imagine I would enjoy it if I did lol
No, I am not comparing the iPhone to a penthouse in New York. The point is just that not knowing what something is like doesn’t mean we can’t factor in or want it/know it’ll be better.
I think we both know there are better ways to communicate when trying to be helpful, namely ways that are not tinged with shaming/condescendion. I hope the rest of your weekend is nice as well.
I get everyone uses AI to write the posts now but at least give it a little character guys. The info isn’t bad but there’s a lot of filler words and generic info here. If this isn’t AI generated then get a little more granular.
Big same. Calling someone a pedophile is arguably the the single worst thing you can accuse someone of. I don't like how normalized that's become and it happened because of people like him.
Also it was just a wildly disproportionate response to a valid concern. He's just a child.
I don’t agree with everything in this post but he’s pretty much right. Great read, everybody should really read this piece and mull it over for a day or two.
Just sounds to me like excuses made by a marketing department that doesn’t know how to do its job. People just don’t know they want more privacy, largely because they don’t realize the extent to which they currently have none and how easy it would be to claw some of it back.
Apple is flexing about privacy (rightly or wrongly) and has rolled out a lot of privacy/transparency features. Clearly they see value there. Firefox has seen growing adoption with the EU breaking apple’s walled garden. Clearly people care to some extent and with marketing/education more can care.
Brave is the easiest thing for people to adopt because it operates basically exactly the same as chrome. I don’t personally like it but I do have it in case I absolutely need to test something on chromium/because my work is all-in on google and it allows me to do my job without directly going to chrome. Brave’s issues aside, not being on chrome directly is a huge step in the right direction for most people. Then I usually tell them to go to Firefox lol
Exec management wanted out of AAA singleplayer games, so they set the ME:A team up for failure, and then used that failure to justify the change to the shareholders.
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their "platform policies for security and privacy" even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU...
It's these kinds of sweeping generalizations about apple users that lack any nuance at all that spike any meaningful conversation. It just becomes apple-bashing to make everyone not using apple (or who uses it "but it's different I have good reasons" and separated themselves from "the fanboys") feel holier than thou. To make them feel better than "those dumb apple fanboys."
I don't love Apple. I am not a fanboy. I use it because in my field it is pretty damn standard. I also run Linux on a separate computer.
Nobody talks about Windows users like this because they all used to be or currently are one. They assume there is a good reason someone is still on Windows despite the absurd shitshow that is the W11 transition. But for some reason no one is as charitable to apple users on that front. They just recall images from 2007 of people lined up outside the apple store for a new iphone, make a crack about overpriced hardware, and decide "every one of them is a dumb sheep who will die for Tim Apple." It gets really old.
You literally didn’t use any of the words he used other than “wall” or reference him at all. Showing the Berlin wall with an Apple logo does nothing to indicate Reagan.
This is such a ridiculous argument. Feel free to have the last word, I’m done dude.
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers ( boehs.org )
This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.
Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet
I plugged into ethernet (as wifi w/captive portal does not work for me). I think clearnet worked but I have no interest in that. Egress Tor traffic was blocked and so was VPN. I’m not interested in editing all my scripts and configs to use clearnet, so the library’s internet is useless to me (unless I bother to try a tor...
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It ( www.theatlantic.com )
Comparing my current phone and previous. ( aussie.zone )
The realme was super impressive when I got it. But, In comparison the realme isn't as clear. Glad I got the pixel.
Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months ( fandomwire.com )
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers ( www.theverge.com )
Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news ( www.gsmarena.com )
As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend https://audiobookshelf.org...
Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it ( sneak.berlin )
Edit: Guys I didn't write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I've now fixed tho...
What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
Bethesda Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, Provides Small Development Update on The Elder Scrolls VI ( www.thefpsreview.com )
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly ( www.nytimes.com )
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
Looking for a good photoshop alternate
I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t anything any suggestions?
Apple Joins Hollywood & Netflix on a Pirate Site Blocking Trip to Oz * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
BitTorrent is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic ( torrentfreak.com )
Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled ( www.theverge.com )
Improve Your Privacy Setup
Hello, Lemmy!...
The Greatest Enemy of Privacy ( blog.thenewoil.org )
There are many enemies of privacy. There are politicians claiming the (at best) misguided pretense of “protecting the children,” intellig...
“It‘s kind of depressing”: WB Discovery pulls indie game for “business changes” ( arstechnica.com )
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Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU ( support.apple.com )
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their "platform policies for security and privacy" even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU...
Mr. Cook, tear down that wall ( www.spacebar.news )