Notices by xianc78@gameliberty.club, page 30

@PurpCat @SuperSnekFriend @coolboymew @RehnSturm256 Honestly, before Poast came along, what united this side of the fedi was the value of decentralization and wanting to get away from big tech. Other than that, there wasn't that much drama between users, outside of the Mastodon NetworkTM side that blocks anyone that is on some fediblock list on GitHub. I had people from all backgrounds following me, anime-avatar Nazis, libertarians, conservatives, conspiracy theorists, tech enthusiasts, and people who just hated big tech but were otherwise "normies".

I think the problem with most of the Poastoids is that they have the mentality that any community they participate in should be their own echo-chambers. Now you got these people gatekeeping something that isn't even theirs, and the fediverse is even more fractured than ever.

Nostr seems to be more like pre-2021 fedi. That's probably why Alex Gleason seems to have favored it over fedi now. There are still a lot of people who constantly talk about how Bitcoin is going to save the world, but if you can get past that, it's pretty laid-back. And the way it operates means that users are forced to judge other users on an individual basis instead of blocking entire instances.

@coolboymew @PurpCat @SuperSnekFriend @RehnSturm256 I like it better when this place was more laid-back and open minded.

@SuperSnekFriend not sure what this is about, but it’s just fedi being fedi. We aren’t all going to agree 1:1 on things so people should be more accepting of each other or at least not judge each other harshly based on an internet fights. We all have stakes in our eyes and shouldn’t point out the specks in others’ eyes ifyouknowhatimean :anko_pray: . It does feel like there is less camaraderie and fwenship on fedi at times, and arguments can get so heated over the littlest of things. I think everyone is under a lot of stress in their real lives and at times it can come out in mean ways to people we like online. :BlobCatHeart:

@MechaSilvio @confederatehobo @sickburnbro My area has stores selling milk in glass bottles. You are expected to return the bottles after consumption and you get $2 back. It works as far as I can tell.

@gentoobro @PurpCat @jyushimatsu And that is also the problem because you need to have played a diverse library of games in order to be a good dev. Masahiro Sakurai even played the games he hated growing up just to learn what does and does not work.

@matthew I used to work for my great uncle's electric company, doing data entry and he did not know what Microsoft Excel was. I used his Microsoft Word templates and manually calculated everything in the tables.

Stop having fun, guys.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240903171851/https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/halloween-pumpkins-climate-crisis-b2606240.html

Just three more hours of being allowed to wear white left.

@BigDawg869789 I don't know. Closest to COD multiplayer I played with GoldenEye 007 for the Wii and I don't think those servers are active anymore.

@BigDawg869789 If you have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion subscription, you could try Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64 selection. The game has also been unofficially ported to PC with online multiplayer and should run on a potato.

@xianc78 Been thinking about that too, a lot of people I know my age are now just settled in to doing nothing and sitting in front of the computer and getting high. They seem like they're really in a terrible place but that's what they want to do. And for some reason the suggestion to something fun outside of their home is abhorrent to them and elicits a bitter response. Like "I don't want to meet anyone, everyone's a scumbag, everyone sucks" whatever. And money definitely isn't an issue for them. When these people hit middle age it will hit them hard, because they'll realize they spent 20 adult years of freedom not doing anything interesting. And it sucks, lately I feel like I have to cut them out of my life or else I'll be sucked into that too.

@arc I don't think they really mean that they think everyone is a scumbag, but public gatherings do bring in at least a couple of people that could ruin it.

I think young people choose not to go because local festivals tend to attract older people and they might get looks from them if they attend, unless the young people in question are the types who grew up in a more rural environment.

There is also the issue that unless an event is explicitly adults-only, there are going to be people who will bring their children, and that could ruin the moment for some people, and the events that are adults-only probably have alcohol, recreational drug-use, strippers, and/or gambling which might turn some people off.

@PurpCat @jyushimatsu Just use N88-BASIC it's just essentially Microsoft BASIC, even down to having the same graphic APIs.

@PurpCat @jyushimatsu I honestly wouldn't recommend targeting obscure platforms unless you are really experienced at creating games. Community is a really important factor when choosing a language, framework, engine, platform, etc.

@jyushimatsu @PurpCat
>unless they wanted to make an engine for anyone else to use, but i don't see that quite often either it's usually just personal use and then they die

People who write their own engines do so either because they don't want their game to have that samey feel that most games using the same engine have, they want to target older/more obscure platforms, or don't like how bloated most modern engines are. As for allowing others to use their engines, there have been successful and popular engines that were originally used for indie games. Godot comes to mind.

@jyushimatsu @PurpCat
>the ones that get caught in the game engine autism always get me
like they actually are talented and have motivation, you could probably have them working at a AAA game company but their brain worms are intense and you can't convince them to do something else
wasted potential

Not much anymore, sadly. The internally developed game engine is pretty much dead at this point. Even some subsidiaries at Nintendo are using Unity or Unreal for some games. I wish they would at least compromise and use frameworks like MonoGame or OGRE instead, but I guess it's better for them to use full-blown engines as it makes it easier to reuse assets between games.

@PurpCat @jyushimatsu I think gamedev is something you need to start when you are really young and still have a lot of free-time. You also need to be a rare, patient child who realizes that you aren't going to start by making 3D first-person shooters with online multiplayer. The problem is that most kids aren't willing to learn how to program and can't convince their parents to buy something like the full version of GameMaker for them. I messed with GameMaker Lite as a kid, but I was spoiled and wanted to make 3D games which was only available if you paid $50 for the pro version, and I was too stupid to pirate software back then.

By the time I was in high school and knew how to program graphics using Pygame, I was involved with so many extra-circular activities that I was easily burnt out when I got home.

Is this guy a real person? He never posts anything or replies to anyone, but he seems to favorite and repost everything I post or repost.

Just looking at his timeline, it's all reposts and most of it is either stuff I've posted or boosted. Though given that "lurker" is in his handle, maybe he just prefers to lurk and view other people's post.

If this guy is real, hopefully he doesn't get offended by me talking about him. I just don't like the feeling of being stalked by some bot.