Metal Mutton π€π @SteelWool@computerfairi.es
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- Early 30s
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π²π½π³βπ Nonbinary Mexican on the autism spectrum that does hobby gamedev.
π I'm an adult and posts may be NSFW. Do not interact if you're a minor.
Joined Dec 2022
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Why is it called a dental check-up and not a cavity search
What if videogames were developed so that playing on the lowest graphical settings was the base experience and anything higher than that was just a nice bonus? Because, holy shit, too many games have text or even visuals in general become hard to parse with lower settings
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This might be one of the best "hey I moved servers" post I've seen.
If you're on .art can you boost it as well? They seem to have lost a lot of their connections with the recent days fiasco from mstdn.social
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i drew this some time ago i still like it #pixelart #selfportrait
Ew, you can feel the desert heat here even before 8 AM
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In life, there are three unwritten rules:
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the ceo of reddit's position is that moderators are not workers nor clients, but a secret third thing
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just need to get the little screen showing unique animations.
i may have gone overboard but i think its worth it to have a stong aethetic theme for all the editors going forward, that will likely define the games UI style.
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@welshpixie @inherentlee Not pride as in the opposite of humility, but pride as in the opposite of shame.
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twitter: *shits itself*
reddit: you know that looks like a really great idea i should do it too
reddit: you know that looks like a really great idea i should do it too
I passed by the local pride event! Didn't get to stay for long but it was nice to see everyone with their flags and shops n stuff :)
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the lesson here is presumably: don't ever rely on any kind of Software As A Service, especially if you're the kind of person who likes to play around with software and see if you can break it. thankfully in my case i found very little practical use in the LLM as a product, beside exploring the tech, but imagine if this was some actual productivity software you were paying for and relied on for your livelihood, and now you're banned from the entire product, with no actual way to appeal!
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This may be the best rebuttal of the "Pride should be family-friendly" argument that I've ever read.
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Cohost's financial update is a poster child for what I and others have been saying for a long time now: the internet won't survive without decentralization. You can't just make the next Twitter or Reddit or Tumblr. That's a joke. Cohost was against decentralization but they've now learned why centralization isn't feasible: only massive corporations with infinite VC can afford it, and they hemorrhage that money and close eventually too.
The internet is too expensive to work this way and it won't long term. We just got complacent while there was enough VC to go around. It's pets dot com again. It doesn't last.
And this isn't even about AP/fedi, while I like fedi this is true with or without it. We have to go back to having websites. Not The(tm) website for whatever, but lots of them. If you don't want to go to more than one? Too bad, it's how things will be regardless. Having One website isn't sustainable for corporations and isn't even vaguely feasible for little guys.
You have to have lots of websites. I can run a small community for a bit of my entertainment budget for the month or donations from a handful of users who like what I'm running. You can run a mastodon instance for a small crowd for very little. You can run a website off an old laptop laying around. You cannot run a 130k user site and pay you and your friends $94k a year to run it. It's not sustainable. I wish it was. It isn't. Sites have to stay small, and there have to be enough of them spread out to spread out the financial load to hobbyist levels. Sorry that you can't make a living running a site for your friends to hang out on, but it's just how the math works out. Reddit can't make money doing it, Twitter can't make money doing it, Patreon can't...they only survive on being Huge Corporations Who Can Bleed Money. You can replicate bleeding money on a small scale all you want but I wouldn't advise it. You can however run a forum for your friends for the cost of Netflix or whatever.
Got the address of my nearest recycling center so I can get started with cleaning up the place around here!
No idea what I'm gonna do with all the old electronics, though. I'd ideally like to repair them and donate them or something.
