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@matrix nutty putty
not even once

amazon cart needed 3 more cents to give me free shipping so i just put a single pen in the cart lmao.

honestly though could lowkey use that pen, the one i have right now i use a shit ton and i'm surprised it hasn't run out yet. probably doesn't have much left in it.

@lain 3 is based
2 is woke because you can play as a girl

oh shit

@MoeBritannica @kerosene would

@matrix sounds perfect for the democratic party

@matrix he's straight up said he's a propagandist lol

@poopernova gn

lol i saw someone saying that there was some movement to do a total blackout of paying for anything on feb 28th to show all the corporations who is in charge or some shit.

yeah because a fringe group of people not buying anything for one day will definitely do something.

it's just something you can post online to make you feel like a righteous person. i bet at least half of these people are still going to buy shit.

crash photos. sorry for the low resolution, i got these over text.
look at how perfect my door looks lol, untouched.
seriously crazy.

@Kyonko802 I'm thinking miku miku uooohhh

@SuperSnekFriend what the FUCK
Like okay, bored and rebellious teens doing rambunctious stuff... I get that. Sneaking out to go kill raccoons, that makes sense. But SEWING THEIR PELTS TO A DOG?? THE FUCK

@xianc78 @coded_artist the issue with modern games being too easy, from my knowledge, usually comes from things like "yellow paint" and the characters pointing out obvious as fuck things, or just straight up spoiling puzzles. that's bad too. the "let's make this shit super hard" thing happens more often in the indie games space, whereas the "yellow paint" issue is more often in AAAs.

@coded_artist the obsession with making every game ball bustingly difficult was already bad enough when it started over a decade ago. Feels like every other game is chasing that now. Like how am I supposed to immerse myself in a world if I keep getting destroyed and then punished for it? Not my thing at all.

@Mr_NutterButter @xianc78 yeah, just because you want a system gone, doesn't mean it's okay for someone to abuse the system that's there. That leaves you in the dust as the little guy.

@matrix communists using reddit will never not be funny

@matrix @WhitestTemplar that would just be modeling

@xianc78 yeah, one man studio, but paying for freelancers and partnering and stuff is definitely on the table and will likely be necessary.

@xianc78 yeah procedural is a no-go for me. I have very specific ways I want things done. Procedural generation could be good for things like the random wilderness, but in a traditional rpg that doesn't make sense because it's all on the overworld.

Even God's Disdain wasn't done purely solo, though. The only things I did myself were the music and the programming (minus plug-ins). Everything else I either had help with or didn't touch at all. It is far from a solo endeavor, but I did do most of the work, technically speaking.

A theoretical open world God's Disdain 3 would be much, much easier than GD1. Reason for that being the setting. I actually already have the entire world that game would take place in prepared in terms of the outline of what's in it, since I wrote it all for an extreme sandbox D&D campaign. There are only like 5 NPCs in total, actually. So that cuts out a huge amount of work I would have to do. A lot of it I've already done, a lot of what I had to do in GD I wouldn't have to do here (quests involving character story lines and NPCs with all their schedules). I wouldn't have to make shops either. It would be a little closer to those open world survival games, but adapted for an RPG where you need to take a path on the overworld tile-by-tile. In my head I don't think it would be as hard, but that might be different in practice.

I am and probably always will be a game dev hobbyist. It would be awesome to make money doing it, but I'll always work on them regardless. I think I'll always be able to make time for it, even if it's just 30 minutes a day and that's all my free time. An awesome circumstance would be if I got to teach my kids about it too and maybe make games with them one day haha!

@xianc78 funny enough I also have a basic story structure planned for GD3 too, but that's a long ways away. Might go back to open world for that one just due to the nature of the plot, we'll have to see if I'm still burned out on the concept by then. That's like 6-10 years away though probably lol.