Notices by Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)
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Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:53:49 JST 
Dunkag
@SnugSmug @MoeBritannica I like the idea of making custom engines, but it's not a good suggestion for anyone who doesn't have a decade and a good team to spare. Overly time consuming with little actual benefit unless you are mostly aware of what you're doing from the get-go. He even clarifies in that last post this isn't actual advice.
The real advice is "don't buy into whatever is the current engine with the most marketing without a second thought." UE5 is trash for a lot of games, and takes too much work to beat into shape. Unity is versatile, but it can take a lot of work to get certain types of games to function as they should. Hell, if you think your game would benefit from some of the features ingrained in the damn Source Engine, use that. No need for everything to look good in a marketing reel. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 09:46:52 JST
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@Moto_Chagatai Nintendo went the lazy route because I guarantee you everyone in the company was scared out of their minds thinking about pulling a Wii U again, or a New Nintendo 3DS. :gyate_rumia_smug: Systems with poor naming schemes that the general audience would be so confused by they just assume it's not important.
It's bland, but practically everyone is capable of understanding simple counting to 2. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 19:56:22 JST
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@Kyonko802 @SuperSnekFriend @MoeBritannica You are completely right they could never kill it. Sadly though the ramifications would still be immense. It'd take a while for anything to be properly organized and not threatened by Microsoft (only threats though, same to how Nintendo had no actual legal case against Ryujinx, especially in Brazil where companies have less legal rights than an ant, so they just paid the dev a massive payday to nuke it all without warning).
Thankfully though for the current moment this is all speculation on how Microsoft could fuck people over. They can't do a damn thing yet and are likely afraid to even attempt anything. I could see people trying to bring it all back, but it'd be a massive fight and Microsoft would be quick on the draw with DMCA claims that have minimal backing. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 19:45:27 JST
Dunkag
@Kyonko802 @MoeBritannica @SuperSnekFriend Well, it's not exactly about actually hunting people down. It's all about sending the message. If you can't get an official download of the game's files from the server anymore, the number of legally obtained copies with the specific functional version would start dwindling over time. From there, Microsoft can attack the bigger modding sites with frivolous claims. Send them warning notices about their modders "supporting the illegal obtainment of this game they no longer provide". Curseforge would easily fold as they always want to be on the good side of bigger companies. Countless mods and assets gone with little archival done so far, most mod makers not wanting to enter Microsoft's crosshairs by rehosting assets (even if they wouldn't actually sue modders), and a large population of normalfags terrified of legal ramifications.
It's the same idea as when Nintendo took down the emulators. You think they weren't aware it was a fool's errand to actually kill them? The goal is just scaring away larger crowds. Your average normalfag, when they see a situation like this, runs the other way. They would never dare get involved if legality is mentioned. For the most part, it works. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 19:29:53 JST
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@Kyonko802 @MoeBritannica @SuperSnekFriend Modders usually linger on specific versions for a while honestly. 1.7.10 was the first one for it, then 1.12.2, I think 1.16.5 was for a short while, and 1.20.1 is the most recent one yeah. Constantly updating just isn't worth it when newer features are often worthless and the amount of reworking needing to be done can take a while should they overhaul anything.
Sadly though if Microsoft killed Java edition, they wouldn't "create a golden age for modders." They'd offer all Java edition players a copy of Bedrock for free, then stop distributing the game entirely. They'd force piracy and start attacking modding sites for "supporting piracy of content." It'd kill modding entirely as most users are horrified of dealing with legal systems. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 19:27:18 JST
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@SuperSnekFriend @Kyonko802 I was kinda making the jab at this guy over it but honestly I do hope the case goes through. A company needs to be held accountable for their actions, and while he had little luck with contacting agencies to represent him, the EU still heavily looks down upon corporations trying to abuse and draw out the legal system just because a citizen isn't a megacorp. Should it reach the courts he has a much better chance of getting something out of the whole debacle, problem is just reaching the courts since it seems the Swedish government is really lax on Mojang as a massive economic driver.
Asshole troons shouldn't have control over how I enjoy playing a game. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 19:14:19 JST
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@Kyonko802 @SuperSnekFriend It's not much a conspiracy theorist so much as the truth. Microsoft is desperate to kill off Java and force everyone to play Bedrock with micro-transactions, no modding, much more controlled moderation, etc. Only reason they can't is because of how absolutely massive Java still is. Sure, from a numbers standpoint Bedrock has more players since it's the version on every platform, but it'd be rather difficult to actually pull out of Java when it's "smaller playerbase" is in the tens of millions of the most vocal players.
For reference, a modpack that released only ~1 1/2 years ago, All the Mods 10, has 4 million downloads. If Microsoft were to actually start trying to kill this, it wouldn't be just the people who make video essays on youtube bringing them to court. It'd be screaming and lawsuits from an unknowable population. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 18:57:26 JST
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@SuperSnekFriend :akko_tired: This is what the troons and such working on Minecraft now are paid for. Not to plan out decent content, not to properly work on large content. It's all about making minor changes to fuck with people who have gotten used to the game over the years.
This is a reminder, the actual "content" updates that have happened after Microsoft obtaining the game have been pitiful, split releases with as much content and effort as that early access trash you see on Steam where the devs are using default unity store assets. Why yes, I do think it's worthwhile to wait 6 months after the update was actually promised so I can have 1 new fish, 3 decorative blocks, and a useless item that is only there to bloat exploration further. I will be glad to wait another 8 months until you can add the next batch of equally as meaningful content for this singular update that was promised as being the "big expansion of existing features." :cirno_angry: Only time I ever play Minecraft anymore is checking out massive modpacks (which do have their own problems due to most mod authors equating complexity with quality) with a small group of friends, it's just not worth it otherwise. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:50:28 JST
Dunkag
@Kyonko802 The most damning thing of all is that Kill the Justice League is absolutely beat to death as an evil Justice League game by a Lego game of all things. Yeah it's technically not the Justice League themselves, but the plot is far more well thought out and complete of a plot. From a game franchise that is mostly about comedic retelling of movie stories. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:39:00 JST
Dunkag
@Kyonko802 >Writing capeshit is super easy, how come troons are incapable of doing it?
It requires respect for these existing things, which your average fag seems to lack. A respectful writer would understand the Justice League and what people enjoy about all these characters, leading them to understand that the fans would, while enjoying the fights against each member, want to in the end save the Justice League so they could all work together to take down the biggest bad. Respect is vital for quality, and most of these ass writers always seem to think the stories should be used for their goals, not respect of the worlds.
There's also the fact of the forceful modern political angle, which isn't big on idealism and dreams. Batman isn't good to look up to since he's straight, white, rich and decides to try to help create the ideal world by solving genuine problems (not by beating up random people who haven't done shit but are white). Being a hero is seen as immature by these kinds though, and by killing these heroes and being "realistic anti-heroes" they're suddenly mature. This "maturity" somehow makes their political beliefs the correct ones. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 06:15:11 JST
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I love the completely rational online gaming experience of struggling to deal with a bugged enemy, then being accosted by a girl who followed us in, then stood by and watched. Only for her to then run away when she realized she burned her food (which she seems to do frequently if the emails she sends are anything to go by).
Very cheerful girl, definitely shouldn't be getting involved with Kite and the broken data. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 06:14:44 JST
Dunkag
A busy time for Former Hell, what with the cold and snow piling up outside. Though not many a human would dare do so, the hot springs of Former Hell are quite a tourist destination, perfect for a cold winter. Hopefully it remains as just a busy season, for Satori hardly seems to want any involvement in actually managing what goes on between oni and idiots.
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Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 06:14:22 JST
Dunkag
Nothing more annoying than having to deal with the snow when it comes to work, but that hardly means much to a youkai. Oseki will be around shoveling snow and still show up to work the cafe, all as usual. The fact she always shows up is rather strange in and of itself, but nobody has the heart to tell her that.
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Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 14:09:43 JST
Dunkag
@akatsukilevi @ChristiJunior @MoeBritannica @poopernova I just want to, for the absolute insanity of it, run you through what is seen as the current day baseline for monetization in games, the "gold standard", Fortnite. Some people don't really realize what it actually looks like.
In storage size, you luck out a little, it's smaller than most at only 60 GB, however the game instead streams assets rather than downloading them. Be prepared to pay for the reduced storage cost by the game draining all your bandwidth to download assets for 2 buildings and a tree to look slightly more high quality than they did before. You can reduce the strain of streaming, at the cost of increasing the game size over 100GB and still having to deal with streaming on select assets.
Lets say, after playing the game, you want a skin because you decide being stuck as cheap default models (intentionally made to look dull and generic) is somewhat boring. Cheapest a skin can run you is 800 vbucks, but they don't sell that individually, so you need to buy 1000. You have just spent ~$9 USD just to get one of the cheapest skins in the shop that often has less quality than the more premium ones and doesn't come with any of the fancy features. Of course, once a kid manages to get one thing, his friends and his own mind will hardly stop him from wanting to get more, even if it's not a good idea. For sake of this whole thing, I will ignore battle passes, as while they technically are a "deal," time is also a currency and each battle pass requires quite a large amount of time, more than enough to buy everything in the pass were it a shop item several times over if you were to work a job with all that time you need to spend grinding. They also run constant ads for shop items during the time you grind, put notifiers that new shop tabs have arrived, etc.
Money off the table? Well, what other options does the game provide for free cosmetics? They sometimes run "winterfest" (very clearly Christmas themed but we can't associate with Christmas because religion evil) free skins during the holiday season, which are all always wearing santa hats and present decals. Not ideal, most also look bad. Very rarely they offer skins for free through a grinding event, that requires you not only waste dozens of hours of your own time, but also you need to play with a friend you invite to waste dozens of hours of their free time too (or you make a puppet account and waste more time yourself). Sometimes they run skins that don't require the friend stuff, but those are always just the bland default skins again.
None of this is even getting into the damn near predatory FOMO that is forced onto children through how the battle pass system worked up until ~5 months ago (and it still applies to all those old exclusive items and passes). You needed to spend all your time grinding and paying money to get the skins, otherwise you wont get all the skins and their super variants and items, and they never return. Don't have time for any other game when Fortnite forces itself into your life like a damn 9-5 just to be able to get the shit you paid real world money for.
This is the current standard Western Game Devs hold themselves to. Not outdoing Nintendo's top sellers, not making games better than the ones they created in the past, no it's either a political hit piece game or "we need to make the next Fortnite." Spend $9 for a playermodel change that would be a standard free feature and common decency to include had these games been in a more civilized world (a fuckton of Fortnite playermodels get ripped from the files and uploaded to the GMod workshop for free lmao). A lot of money/time, or both wasted for no real net gain. The gameplay isn't even that good, it's very evident Fortnite's gameplay is from a 2011 PvE project that experienced the worst development hell and was hastily thrown into what it is now, updates not fixing issues but instead sidestepping them. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 23:20:13 JST
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@Ronnie21093 :cirno_laugh: How idiotic do you have to be? I don't much care for some things in MGE's setting either, but y'know what I don't do? Forcibly insert my way in and insist the setting must change to fit my needs.
What is up with these kinds of people? How hard is it to consider that if a setting isn't ideal for what you want, you don't have to use it? Specifically with MGE too, this is a pretty set in stone world and passion project from a guy, it can't be that hard to consider it might not be suited to someone else's desires. Monster girls aren't all that rare a concept to begin with, it's not like it's all that hard to even make your own little world for OC stuff. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 18:49:19 JST
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@Kyonko802 @FruitpilledPeachcel Actually this specific image is of Rena, the girl who won the BlackRose model in Legend of the Twilight. Seems like a very minor nuance, but the art for them does kinda vary. Rena is more often shown as younger than BlackRose, and not having the slight breasts that the usual female Heavy Blade has (somehow). -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 18:39:47 JST
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@Kyonko802 @supersid333 You think some guys in the government had to pass an outright law forcing them to keep at least some version of The World running for as long as possible, even if it's not profitable? :flan_smug2: Especially when just before The World's whole critical event happened, only ~2 years earlier there was a virus that wiped out almost every internet connected device. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 18:24:17 JST
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@Kyonko802 @supersid333 I need to watch Quantum again, it didn't stick in my head as much being only a 3 episode OVA.
Also that makes the second time they raffled the dot hacker's models :cirno_laugh2:. The company is very special at times. Then again, I guess it's hard not to start thinking about the world strangely when some lunatic programmer left you a black box of a game that you fear ever deleting or taking offline permanently because you have absolutely no clue what it can do. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 18:15:15 JST
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The real fun of playing emulators on the Steam Deck is being able to use my capture card and OBS to fuck around. :flan_x3: It's always fun to be chaotic with decorations. -
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 18:15:13 JST
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@supersid333 Fair enough, but it's not Kite. Actually Sakuya from .hack//Quantum, which is a weird project I'll be honest. To my understanding it's a revision of The World from after R2 that features tons of mixed designs from both the original version and R2's (GU's) version. The girls are cute at least and it is one of the last proper projects to come from .hack before being sent to the forgotten zone, only to be brought up for GU's remasters and some gacha that each died quicker than they started.
The girl herself is the least hero-like of any .hack hero, she is moreso chaos incarnate. She stumbles into a scene, causes and solves half the problems in existence, then falls down a flight of stairs to exit the scene. :flan_laugh:
Still slightly less of a cursed project than "What if we time traveled exclusively through an MMO's updates to save fake copies of the historic heroes" (seriously Link is such a strange spinoff project).
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