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falsem,

Because support is hard enough without supporting other people's code

falsem,

It is a classic Roguelike

I get that Roguelike is basically a vaguely defined genre now, and though Torchlight 2 in a great game it's definitely not a "classic Roguelike".

falsem,

The reason I don't think it's all that in line with Diablo these days, though, is simply the pacing of the gameplay. You blow up screens of enemies at a time, and your deaths are often so fast that you're not really sure what killed you.

Yeah, that's why I don't care for POE anymore these days.

falsem,

We used AA on our CRTs back in the day. Of course we were all running like 1024x768 as the resolution so it was a lot more needed. The higher your resolution the less you need it.

How can I launch a program from a bash XTerm and run a while loop at the same time?

I want to launch Oobabooga Textgen WebUI from the command line with its serial output. I also want to run a while loop that retrieves the Nvidia GPU memory available and temperature for display on the header bar with a 5 second sleep delay. How do I run both of those at the same time?

falsem,

Xterm supports multiple tabs right? Do that? If not then tmux.

falsem,

It's one of the things that potentially prevent the technological singularity. That's undoubtedly why the self-important Musk has an interest in it.

falsem,

Me too. There's little challenge or risk. Progression is really slow and can't really be sped up. Borderline an interactive screensaver.

falsem,

This is like Black and White mixed with Civilization.

falsem,

It was basically Fern Gully

falsem,

Pretty much, all I can think of is Steve Carrell yelling "but I hated it!"

falsem,

That sounds an awful lot like even their first party cartridges could be attack vectors.

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    falsem,

    Is there anything backing up claims that it has AI generated assets?

    falsem,

    I'm on Linux and Valve and Itch are the only ones with first class Linux support. Everyone else you have to dick around with running their launchers through wine or lose features.

    falsem,

    That's not what Valve's policy said at all. It basically says you have to promise you aren't infringing and disclose how it's used so customers can make their own decisions.

    https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3862463747997849619

    It's basically the most conservative fence-sitting position they could have picked.

    falsem,

    My experience has been that they have a tendency to make overly attractive men too. Getting it to generate anyone average nevermind ugly or with deformities (eg scars) is really hard.

    falsem,

    From the same company that intentionally degrades the quality of Google Maps on Firefox.

    falsem,

    Yeah, you're supposed to wait until you actually have a user base to enshittify it.

    falsem,

    If you have proper full continuous deployment infrastructure setup then you can do minor updates of things like dependencies automatically. I'd guess that's what's happening here.

    falsem,

    I'll pick up Reforged if they fix the performance and campaign bugs.

    falsem,

    Usage numbers are part of how they pay for ongoing support and development though.

    falsem,

    Our telemetry shows 80% of users never install any add-ons” i.e. the telemetry that any tech savvy person immediately turns off because they don’t want their browser spying on them and about which we have also complained numerous times.

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    falsem,

    Steam gets all of my gaming money until other vendors support Linux.

    falsem,

    Yeah, "people don't like the racist authoritarian because she's a woman" sure is a hot take.

    falsem,

    Have to pass because there's no mention of Linux

    falsem,

    And they're hemorrhaging money

    falsem,

    Man, just imagine the shitstorm if a game launched at $50 on Epic, then a year later increased prices to $62 everywhere due to Steam's terms and conditions so that the dev could maintain the same profit from steam.

    Of course that will never happen because there's zero consumer benefit and instead they just launch at $60 on Epic. If that did happen and the savings were benefiting the consumer then Epic might have a point.

    falsem,

    Because it was like that in Starsiege: Tribes and was obviously the way to go after you played that compared to moving with the mouse and aiming with the keyboard lol.

    falsem,

    Stoneshard seems much more classic Roguelike to me than lite.

    falsem,

    That list was surprising light on Roguelikes.

    falsem,

    I think the only items it's violating are being non-modal (which is violated all the time genre defining Roguelikes) and by not being ASCII (ditto, pretty much every genre defining roguelike has a tileset these days).

    falsem,

    I played the demo and got turned off by constantly saying "Orruk" instead of orc and lack of base building.

    falsem,

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct2Drive

    Steam didn't allow 3rd party titles until late 2005 but Direct2Drive launched early 2004.

    Stardock Central was 2001.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardock_Central

    falsem,

    Physical sales could see as low as 10% of the sales making it to the developer. Made Steams 30% cut look likea bargain.

    falsem,

    It's stuff that happened 20 years ago.

    falsem, (edited )

    In the US, contracts are routinely deemed unenforcable by courts for being overly broad. A contract with an indefinite duration frequently falls under that category.

    falsem,

    The contract is forced on you in order to obtain employment when there is very unequal bargaining power. It's also a contract that's largely deemed illegal in actual courts. He disclosed information that is no longer business relevant and instead just an object of historical interest at this point.

    I suppose if you were forced to sign a non-compete to work for a fast food restaurant that you'd also honor that and not work for any other fast food restaurants if you had to quit?

    falsem,

    I'm surprised 17% of them are still going 3 years later.

    falsem,

    Yes, if you exclude the research and development costs then most websites have high margins. Keeping it running is the cheap part.

    falsem, (edited )

    How much R&D went into creating the Google Play store? Probably 100s of millions of dollars so far over the course of about 15 years. Do you not know what R&D is or something? In the US tax code, software development is considered R&D.

    And yes, I am a software developer.

    falsem,

    That is a lot, however my point is just that margin is a pretty worthless statistic for software since it has such high upfront costs.

    falsem,

    Yeah, hundreds is probably a low guess but I'm also excluding Android itself. There Play Store itself has a ton of features most of its end users aren't aware of that are important to it's overall operation and development ecosystem. Off the top of my head it does things like code signing and authentication, security scans, governance and enforcement of rules, payment processing, etc.

    falsem,

    Scaling a well written system just requires throwing more hardware at said system. Yeah, you could tune it and tweak it, but that isn’t an ongoing and constant process.

    Okay yeah, this conversation obviously isn't going anywhere if you think the solution to scaling into hundreds of millions of users is just throwing hardware at the problem lol.

    Can you tell me that last major feature added to the Play Store?

    https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/11/power-your-growth-on-google-play.html

    falsem,

    It wouldn't even remotely resemble the first game if it's wasn't 2D. If you want 3D Risk of Rain then there's Risk of Rain 2.

    falsem,

    That's what Youtube still is to me.

    falsem,

    Did anyone read the quote. They literally stated this was part of the problem:

    We know the characters require further work, as they are currently missing their LODs which affect some parts of performance. We are working on bringing these to the game along general LODs improvements across all game assets.

    falsem,

    There's apparently no LOD for this so it doesn't seem that far fetched.

    falsem,

    Just makes me feel old

    Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)

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    falsem,

    I think it's mostly wishful thinking unfortunately

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