Notices by :meru_B: b e a r d (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club), page 7

@matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBwJZitSBx0

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the layoffs and studio closures will continue until the games improve. There's no other way around it. The gaming industry is not some sort of infinite money glitch. Yeah, sometimes it is going to suck to be the guy at the bottom that gets totally screwed over by higher-ups thinking they know best. It's happened to me in at three jobs at this point and I'm not even 30. There is always more work somewhere else and it might suck if you're not doing the thing that you want to be doing, but that's literally just the way it is.

For the sake of the gaming industry's health, I also hope that these teams and budgets get massively trimmed down so that games can be more focused. I know making games is harder now, but it's also pretty damn easy with the tools we have available. Indie teams can make incredible things with what are essentially skeleton crews. Lethal Company sold more than Call of Duty did. I'm sure that whenever Hollow Knight Silksong comes out, it'll outsell whatever AAA games are currently being pushed on the market. Back in the days of the 6th generation and before that, you had teams of like 15 people making these amazing games that have aged relatively well and are still beloved by so many people. Those games would take like, 3 years to make tops. They had to do all of that from absolute scratch, and you're telling me you can't make a good game with a team of 200+ people over the course of 6 years with the tools we have now? No way. It's gotta' just be so much bloat.

Yeah, this is coming from someone who spent 9 years making a single game. I'm a solo dev doing it as a hobby, it is 100% not the same thing lol.

>smoker gets permanent lung damage
>"IT WAS COVID GUYS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WahJn52te4U

@matrix not the rising sun flag, not right wing enough.

@xianc78 depends on if you're going to the serious or comedy route. I'm eating a sandwich right now so I thought it would be funny if it was a sandwich and the MC just wanted his sandwich back that the BBEG stole lol.

It's getting to be that time of year again where the mountains start getting a lot of snow and clouds on them and every time I look up at them I think "I should play Skyrim again."

No, beard.... you have many other things to do.

@matrix maybe it's good that so many modern games suck... i can't play everything i want to right now as-is lol.

@xianc78 @PurpCat @j yeah he's not, I do like soapbox though, it's very mastodon-esque. I did play around with misskey for a bit too and that one isn't bad either. Pleroma fe is just too noisy imo. Very functional, but noisy. Which I guess has its fans but I'm not one of them lol.

@xianc78 @PurpCat @j I honestly really like the frontend at the very least. I wish we had some QOL features that pleroma does like emote reacts and media posts being able to contain more than 4 photos or 1 video, but I can't stand the pleroma fe tbh.

@j absolutely baffling idea. why not just have a mute and a block button like idk, fedi.

@PurpCat @j are you telling me that if you block someone on pleroma they can still see your posts and your profile....?

@xianc78 @coolboymew decomp is technically done BTW, it's just not 1:1 byte matching yet.

@thatbrickster @LukeAlmighty @matrix he wears a rubber at all times, because it's a necessity?

@LukeAlmighty I have a deep disdain for modern day lighting techniques

@Kyonko802 @Suzu yeah it doesn't, although i'm not sure if anything can hurt you. haven't wanted to try lol.

@Suzu the remake does treat the map stuff from the original game with a lot of respect

@LukeAlmighty holy fucking warnings batman

well they know their audience. life is strange is only slightly better than dustborn. cringe ass tumblr game.

@matrix jaywalking is one of those crimes you'll only get charged for if you cause an accident

@nyanide @matrix @VD15 a real YouTuber that one

@matrix did not expect tay zonday in the comments