Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es
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- Early 30s
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🇲🇽🏳🌈 Nonbinary Mexican on the autism spectrum that does hobby gamedev.
🔞 I'm an adult and posts may be NSFW. Do not interact if you're a minor.
Joined Dec 2022
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@infinimatt @regehr @synlogic @chrisamaphone I tried to look at a bunch of emoji Mashup sites, most don't even have the shrug, but one of them gave me this
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The hacker collective SiegedSec says it infiltrated the conservative think tank to oppose its campaign against trans rights. https://theintercept.com/2024/07/09/gay-furry-hackers-claim-credit-for-hacking-heritage-foundation-over-project-2025/
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No, that's much better.
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Nadie está intentando volver a tus hijos gays ni trans. En cambio, hay toda una maquinaria mediática diseñada para volverlos nazis.
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@aral Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing is either gender stereotyped and boring or political. City infrastructure is either car-focused or political. Energy is either fossil fuels or political. Education is either white christian propaganda or political.
Everything follows the same pattern, tech included.
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"the internet is a resilient network"
the internet when one cdn goes down:
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What are you? Can pick multiple options
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Welp @foone it finally happened.
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I don't care for #React. I find reading it stressful. I think acting like html and #Javascript are one and the same is a foundational error if the framework
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tip for restraining the ADHD hobby impulse: only ever get interested in crafts where the barrier to entry is higher than your tolerance for impulse purchases
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OH
"I'm not smart, I'm just smart-passing"
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How Japan has avoided the gaming industry’s persistent layoffs https://www.theverge.com/24191650/nintendo-sega-from-software-japan-video-game-layoffs
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It's "labor arbitrage". I found the article where I first read the term
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
What was the term for when companies want more labor to be performed by fewer people as generalists instead of hiring specialists? Specifically related to labor. Labor-something
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It's "funny" when people try and defend Steam's cut to me, completely ignoring the fact Steam has an uncontested monopoly position in the PC gaming market. They generally claim that Steam offers some kind of services for their 30% cut though nobody ever seems to come up with what those services are beyond "discoverability" (often phrased as "access to a large audience")
Thing is for the vast majority of games they take 30% from they don't even do that at all. Unless your game is on track to gross a quarter million on Steam in the first year, the cream of the crop of indies basically, Steam does effectively nothing to surface your game. It's not like YT where there are algorithms tuned to show your video to the maximum number of people, so videos sort of get the audience their quality can maintain
On Steam you either overperform and get visibility for life or you get nothing. There's no algorithm that tries to find the setpoint for your game, just if you sell lots you'll sell more
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