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ajroach42, 7 months ago to random

I believe that Youtube's warnings about adblockers are the beginning of the end for Youtube as a citizen of the Open Web, and the latest volley in the fight that will end with the death of youtube-dl, invidious, etc.

This road leads to DRM powered by EME, and that would be the fulfillment of the promise made by EME when it was launched.

https://ajroach42.com/the-grim-future-of-youtube/

Longplay_Games, 7 months ago to Halloween

Tonight's #Halloween flick:
Alien (1979)

GameDeveloperDotCom, 7 months ago to random

Report: Fall Guys developer Mediatonic "decimated" by Epic layoffs https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-i-fall-guys-i-developer-mediatonic-decimated-epic-games-layoffs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

ryanhoulihan, 7 months ago to random

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Longplay_Games, 7 months ago to random

I find it disturbing how many job openings there are right now for really obsolete tech + electric polygraph requirements.

Did a whole bunch of old security people just die?

Sorry, but I'm not being strapped to a chair just to manage your websphere infrastructure.

Longplay_Games, 7 months ago to random

I'd ask "is there a way to stop the new mastodon from autoexpanding images, from putting every single favorite in my notification with the entire web preview expanded, and to get favorite notifications without it showing the whole thing to me every time"

But the answer is pretty obviously no.

This version is a huge step backwards in user experience.

Longplay_Games, 7 months ago to random

I'm confused - where's "local" on the new Mastodon?
That's where I spend the majority of my time.

Longplay_Games, 8 months ago to random

The unity complaints are annoying to wade through, but are also literally why we pivoted off Epic's UE 2 years into development.

When a company moves the goalposts on your livelihood, you realize you're in their power.

That gives you a really simple choice.

We made ours, now the unity folks get to make theirs.

Longplay_Games, 8 months ago to random

Testing out the extremely inexpensive ($30) music player I purchased for someone with the help of the Fedi.

So far, it's actually quite reasonably decent. It's not going to win any awards, but it's not DOA or garbage so far.

Longplay_Games, 8 months ago to fediverse

Hope the #fediverse can help with this:
Looking for a music player for a very specific edge case.

• Bluetooth
• MicroSD
• 8-9 hours battery
• Smaller than a mobile phone (or a phone would be used instead)

Been looking all over the internet and everything in this niche seems to either be very poorly reviewed or super sketchy.

It's for someone in a demanding/harsh job that precludes just using a mobile for music/audiobooks.

Longplay_Games, 8 months ago to random

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ward, 8 months ago to Spotify

Scammers are filling Spotify with ai-generated chiptunes. Lolol wait until they find out what #Spotify pays for 1 million plays.
Bandcamp pays like 800x more for me per play (based upon sales after plays).

Longplay_Games, 8 months ago to random

That vibe where you literally build a podcast app from source just to realize you don't have any podcasts to listen to...

MLE_online, 8 months ago to random

I need a new seat for the bike i just bought, but all the bike seats now look like either an alien pelvis with a weird vagina hole in the middle or they're super wide cushioned seats for feeling like you're sitting on a couch while you ride

ajroach42, 9 months ago to random

Lots of people are in my mentions today telling me that I'm irresponsible for believing in and recommending creative commons share alike licensing, and accusing me of being deceptive or somehow harmful for preferring cc-by-sa works for the magazine I'm running.

I usually don't rise to greet these kinds of complaints, but there have been a couple today, and all of them carry an accusatory tone, one explicitly accuses me of being ethically corrupt for saying that I prefer submissions under a creative commons by-sa license, but I will consider other licenses.

I feel compelled to address this, because it's fucking ridiculous, and it's irresponsible to pretend otherwise.

asolitarybear, 10 months ago to VideoGames

Glad to see more game journalists talk about game preservation more:

"GameSpot - You Don't Own Your Games Any More"

:youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF_JIDDaojQ

#RetroGames #VideoGames

ifixcoinops, 10 months ago to random

So I downloaded a whole bunch of free or pay-what-you-want Game Boy games off itch.io for my Game Dad. They're all made with GB Studio (which is a free super-easy game-making program to make Game Boy games) and so far they're all pretty chill.

A highlight is Analog Age Rainy Day, which has you playing as a kid trying to survive a rainy day; catch is it's 1984 so there's no phones or game boy or anything so you've gotta find ways to amuse yourself.

A lovely benefit of using the Game Dad for Game Boy games is the ability to shift the palette so that it's red-on-black for playing in bed without giving me insomnia. It only works for Game Boy games though, not Game Boy Colour or Advance; I wish this were an option I could toggle in Retroarch for all my games.

I'm getting into the idea of writing my own Game Boy game and I think I want to make it about a tiny smol officeboy/retailboy who gets laid off and joins a moving company to make a bit of quick cash, and finds that he loves using his body and feeling those aches and becoming stronk. And like this is possible now, it's very do-able to make a game that isn't about saving the world or whatever, doesn't have to have mass appeal enough to justify burning a bunch of ROMs and moulding a bunch of cartridges, you can chuck it up on the internet as easily as we could copy a tape game in a boombox thirty years ago and if ten people fall in love with it then Hooray.