i get their desire to control the cashflow of the entire ecosystem given they practically birthed it (since the oculus acquisition) -- but it would have grown much more healthily if they let other players have incentives to grow the ecosystem rather than be subjects within it

meta kind of crippled the VR market despite putting so much money into it, by not doing any of the following:
- open sourcing the shipped OS
- enabling sensor access to devs
- simpler app screening than apple
- leaving successful apps without copying or acquinuking their business

im curious what engine you're using, and have you been implementing RTS/RTT interactions from scratch for this game? it looks (and sounds!) really good

yeahhh...i happened to be passing through grand central on the first day of lockdown with it looking like this during "rush hour", which is surreal for any new yorker. the next month i walked by medical tents in central park. in 2021 i moved to a place a block from Bellevue hospital. COVID was *bad*

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you rolled credits for blue prince, but did you *roll credits* ;)

(i couldn't, i refused to use walkthroughs and i had to call it at some point to play CE33 instead)

i love this (and hate that we're in this timeline)

bsky.app/profile/korc...

if we managed to divest the monetary incentive from the creation of art, artists could work on what they thought was nifty, instead of what would "sell"

we could stop making the trillionth breakup song, christmas romcom, and hero's journey RPG plot and make truly beautiful things

/end rant

if artists had food/shelter/dignity *without* transactional consumption of their art, we could *all* have art, and we could all *make* art

corpos wouldn't have the incentive to make it cheaper, and thus no incentive to burn piles of cash to automate it

i am once again convinced this is the difference between "engineering" and "shipping a game"

blame modern french for that one, as it's a direct loanword, the "i before e except after c" rule IINM applies to words closer to their original latin root (and isn't a rule in french)

that said im sure there's *still* exceptions even if you get your etymological ducks in order

TIL lowering the tick rate makes players hear DDR tracks playing in the background that weren't part of the game bundle

at this point it might be easier to make an open source stream-watching desktop client *out of an OBS fork*, say "open receiver software" ORS — that can (somehow, magically) access the pre-"streaming platform-encoded" stream data and reproduce the inputs as outputs

the web: awesome
offline desktop software: amazing
cloud-based desktop software: has its uses
mobile apps: the bane of humanity for generations to come

(bonus) vr computing: could become something meaningful if we stopped fucking with cell phones for a hot second

the gmaps pin display algo is specifically trying to avoid the ubisoft-objective-marker situation, because above a certain pin density the map becomes useless. as you zoom in + "search this area", it will fill in more. the only question is how they choose what to show at lower zoom levels

of course if my economic sustainability were more dependent on being the exposed endpoint of the technologist pyramid, i'd still feel differently about it, but no longer for my ego or sense of failure

i used to have a similar feeling after spending days failing to implement something correctly after many approaches, and then later find the correct solution built on top of my published work — now im fine with it because im not displeased to be the giant on whose shoulders a useful thing was built

that's 1 whyte. 9 x wheat = 1 whyte. 1024 whytes = 1 kilowhyte