My Second Life neighbor deleted everything they built and is now selling the land for the equivalent of $200. I don't think I'm willing to pay that (nor do I want to pay an extra $22/month for having that much land) but maybe they'd be willing to sell a small portion of it to me so I could expand my house a bit.
It'd be cool to see more people (or communities) try and make their own little hangouts online. Websockets make it really simple to have a basic chat app because they simplify everything down to the point where you can send and receive strings, and the client can just be a webpage.
Though I admit most people probably want features like a history, uploading images, or good handling for unreliable internet connections, and those aren't exactly trivial. I specifically wanted something where presence is meaningful and where everyone isn't just expected to be reachable all the time, myself.
@NovaSquirrel Yeah, our streaming site logs history in a file forever, but never reads that file, and tosses in-memory history when it restarts!
It used to send you the entire in-memory history on connect, but we recently changed it to only send you the past 4 hours. (4 hours is long enough to probably be longer than any given stream, but short enough that you don't have to worry about people coming by the next day and reading the kinda private conversation you had in the stream chat.)
I'm using Animal Crossing: New Leaf's "talk to random strangers online" feature and everyone is so open about talking about Pretendo and custom firmware and everything.
I guess there's no reason not to be; what's Nintendo going to do, ban me from the service they're shutting down tomorrow?
(yeah yeah I know "you don't have to do sizecoding" except all anyone EVER talks about is sizecoding, for the most part; and also pixel-arting an executable sounds kinda neat)
@HeNeArXn hey could you please not tag random official-PR-accounts on people's posts without asking first?
and whoever's running the @lovebyteparty account, if you wanna follow me, maybe try doing it as /yourself/ instead of some PR account? Because this is a bit creepy.
if my OP was actually /about/ the lovebyte demoparty, then it would also have been fine probably
but this is like,
it's like nonconsensually adding hashtags to people's posts, with a side of "official Brand® Account acting like it's a real person" creepiness.
Since I'm playing Animal Crossing: Wild World regularly at the moment, it could be fun to try and make a homebrew program that does a little bit of save editing for some things that aren't necessarily cheats, but that just make the game nicer to play? That kind of area feels under-explored.
It'd be nice to have some expanded item storage (with a "sort" button), and a tool for making it easier to decorate the ground with patterns (and help with patterns in general). Maybe the ability to move rocks and trees around? And it could help with keeping backups.