This timing is pretty amusing.

The other day I shared this video (Failure of Battlebit Remastered), which itself was uploaded by its creator only a week ago.

It’s great to see the devs coming back to it. Tbh I don’t think it’s my sort of game personally, but I typically prefer to see projects revisited and restored well instead of abandoned.

The section concerning dedicated servers potentially contributing to the decline in playerbase struck me as a kind of microcosm example of some of the difficulties federated social networks have been facing for years. Albeit unlike this game, there are still communicative software devs around here.

Image uploads are enabled 4 weeks after account creation, & image upload limit is 500kb per image.

Source is instance sidebar, but if you’re using an app that’s gonna be found in a variety of places. In Voyager for example it’s under Communities>3 dot menu in the upper right>Instance sidebar.

A few of the highlights I disagree with pretty strongly, but much of that’s my being-too-online showing so I see why they mentioned them.

[…] I really don’t see gamers ever embracing AI.

They’ve spent years training to fight it, so that tracks.

Ubisoft cannot complain when gamers “pirate” their games then.

If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t theft and all that.

Efforts like this always have me split. On one hand I appreciate them keeping old media going, on the other I wish their efforts would go towards an open source clone/variant instead of propping up a neglected property from a giant company.

Especially when said company could abruptly change with different management and start trying to shut down their activities.

Under this scheme, the equity investor floated cash flow to make the movie. They would recoup their $5 million investment, plus a 20 percent premium — so, $6 million goes to the investor. The sales agent would also take a 10 percent fee from the sale; that’s $700,000. From the $7 million sale, that leaves $300,000 to split between the investor and the filmmakers.

I get why the investor is getting that split at the end that I’ve emphasized, but put in these terms it reads as such a clear dick move, and this is supposed to be a rosy scenario. Like they recoup their investment with an additional million on top, and they want a cut of what little’s left to the creatives? As if they need another $150k when they’re out there floating millions for productions. 😒

One can only imagine how much worse the real terms are if this is anything close to okay terms for indie productions.

Whenever you like, honestly. It’s mostly a nice acknowledgment to the poster that you appreciated their post. Unlike commercial social media it’s not sending out anything to your followers that you interacted with it (at least last I checked).

I think many people boost more than favorite because it functions a little similarly in regards to acknowledgment, with the bonus that it helps share the post to others which is even more relevant in federated networks than on centralized platforms.

In other words, vibe coders are today’s technologically accelerated script kiddie.

That’s arguably worse as the produced scripts may largely work and come with even less demand for understanding than a script kid’s cobbling together of code may have demanded.

Like others in the comments of the video, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard of it earlier when it was still new. Then again, it may be even better to learn of it now so I can be excited by it being new to me and motivated to share stuff about it.

Funny coincidence, I thought the name sounded familiar from a mention on here, and sure enough it was in a recent [email protected] thread: https://lemmy.world/post/26982491/15781177

Was thinking the same and you can.

Minimal fucking around needed too, just pkg install imagemagick then navigate filesystem to images ya want to adjust and magick however desired to reduce the file size.

Oh yeah, plenty of good moments throughout

The intervention is definitely a top moment. Plus the adult ghost tour, and the whole, “Don’t tell him he’s creative” skit is right there on the edge till its end.

This is funny and cool! I like the tiled/grid view even more after giving the demo a look. Not sure why but the instance sidebar as shown in the screenshot isn’t displaying in the demo on my end (Firefox), but probably related to being a weekend whip-up.

Still with the spirit of this as you mention in another comment, would love to see more experimental and strange frontends. It’d be fun to see more of the different Lemmy instances/sites with unique looks to distinguish themselves.

You may want to be a little clearer. Are you after a mix of the old style Reddit interface alongside what RES added?

If so I can’t remember what RES added, but I gather it’s enough that the old style frontend may still feel lacking and the others aren’t scratching that itch either.

Unfortunately this has Denuvo to restrict your use of your purchase. Was hoping after their first title getting criticized for this they may have changed course on that, but appears not.

Would recommend waiting till that’s removed, maybe in a GOG release.

Try to learn more, focus on creative/constructive approaches or outlets (not necessarily artistic in nature, but may be).

Sometimes I’ll read into history for something or other and find myself mildly amused and sort of relieved to see how familiar the accounts are. Of course it would be better if they weren’t so familiar, but it goes to show things aren’t freshly awful. It’s a lot of the same old garbage we’ve yet to effectively deal with, same as ever, but we have been dealing with it.

In other words, I try to take steps to regain perspective to recognize there’s as much, if not at times more, good to experience than bad, and even if I struggle to find much good, I can try to make my own sort of good to keep myself going.

Aah, that may explain it! I thought it might be best to check logged out for a better sense of how search worked, so was searching logged out.

I checked on a different up to date instance (lemm.ee) knowing that, and confirmed it was federated with the relevant community, but didn’t see those results.

Strangely enough I can’t replicate similar results searching lemmy.ml either, so not sure what’s going on. 🤔