A lot of people forgot about the Eunomia shit, especially with the whole Meta drama, but I think that if you want to know the truth Eugen isn't your friend.
If you hate corporations, if you hate big tech, if you hate the government and big tech being in bed with each other, don't run Mastodon.
Put it this way as well, of all the time I've seen the Akkoma project I have never seen the Akkoma project do anything notable to distinguish itself from Pleroma aside from custom emote reacts (which are backported into Pleroma and Soapbox thanks to popular demand).
As much as Rebased (the Soapbox fork of Pleroma) is critiqued as being "gleasonware" or dumbed down for Twitter users; Rebased with Soapbox has a few things going for it. Namely, Rebased is designed to be Pleroma modified somewhat to emulate Twitter's UI while adding in other "social network" features such as events and whatnot and that is pretty much where all the design goals go with it. While politics might have had something to do with the final decision, what is not disputed is that Alex wanted to go in one direction and the Pleroma guys wanted to go in another.
Akkoma has done nothing of the sort other than be talked about more in certain circles. That's it. In every way it's worse than Pleroma, and I see nothing but complaining from people who move from Pleroma to it.
Akkoma is a very "iffy" fork of Pleroma IMO. Namely it removes some features (like the shoutbox), but most notably the developers are notorious for breaking things Pleroma does just because they don't like the people using some feature, leading instance owners to have to try to "remove" the patches removing said features to even keep the instance going. It's a total mess compared to just running stock Pleroma. I've never been able to see anyone tell me anything good Akkoma does, and even custom emojis are now in Pleroma and the other main fork of it (Rebased/Soapbox).
Unless there's a warrant first, they can't open shit up. By that I mean mailing from an obvious drug house, packages that "smell", and whatnot. Gun parts are legal to mail too and so is ammo.
> graphics? sorry that was the main battle way ago and i think that shit peaked with nfs 2015, that may be a shit game but it has the most realistic graphics thus far
Don't worry about trying to be Crysis (2007). Worry about having a distinct visual style that "sticks" in your mind. That's the trick there. Nobody uses the graphics hardware to do anything unique but either "ironically shit" graphics or the best you can do.
>sensational gameplay and shit? nobody tries to make something really unique, out of indie games the best you'll get is a nintendo-type ripoff because people don't have taste and don't base their games off good games
Blame that on most devs being fat neckbeards (physically or spiritually) when they make games, basing them off the same 4-5 Nintendo games or basises of influence.
They're not creative types either, they just want to get big money from doing gamedev at college but then graduate with no vision other than to ebeg on Twitter for a sex change surgery.
>soundtrack? moot point, music is subjective, but imho you won't outdo unreal tournament 99 and deus ex
I think a lot of devs forgot this IMO. They have so many bullshit forgettable Hollywood OSTs in video games these days and not some sick music that makes you feel like shooting a bunch of people online talking shit (in the video game of course).
as for distractions they don't even need to be intentional either.
June 17th 1994 had Game 5 of the NBA finals, the sportsball event that everyone was fucking tuned into (if they weren't into the World Cup or seeing Arnold Palmer at the US Open), literally interrupted by the latest media circus: OH MY GOD SPORTSBALL PLAYER CAR CHASE. https://youtu.be/Mp__MzFnAfk
@siinclaiir@greentext@sjw it's not uncommon for some furries to try to go to non furries for art if they imply they might draw it because working with some furry artists is a disaster. Namely taking money and running.
some purple cat thing :Vtoken furfag on this side of fedi, very niche/autistic interestsI own like 8+ pc98s, a fm towns and x68k, Amiga 500, pretty much every unix boxI want to do gamedev when I escape this wagie cage