Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

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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I do not know how I missed this story

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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🍃Las mejores alternativas al software privativo, sin tener que piratear nada evitando perder nuestro tiempo y correr riesgos. #freesoftware #opensource #linux

The fastest non-Google controlled web rendering engine Servo is trying to compete with only $1.6k funding a month:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine-May-2024

Yes, they did have an NLNet grant, but that ran out.

If we want an alternative to Blink/Chrome, we need to fund it. This is a project where even a tiny regular amount could yield oversize returns:

https://servo.org/

#Servo #Rust #Blink #Google #Chrome

Finally. with 32GB of ram i can open TWO electron apps now

2022 pic of the first time I ever drew Xenia~

while we've managed to scrimp and save to make it to kitsune tails' release day, releasing august 1st means we won't see any money for almost 2 months at the end of september

our other games are currently on sale on itch at https://eniko.itch.io/ and steam at https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/ and buying some or all of them would help tremendously

Me to my wife: the big companies are starting to admit there are problems using the current type of ai. Like racism and sexism comes out of automation attempts.

My wife: is that really happening or is it something else?

Me: they train it on real world data and in the best case scenario it does the same things.

My wife: ah shit

Never forget this!

*limp bizkit voice*
it's all about the she sells sea shells bullshit

Microsoft Edge stops using React for some of the browser UI and it improves performance by 40-80%: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/05/28/an-even-faster-microsoft-edge/ 🚀

Haha get fucked!