Q&A boards on reddit functioned thanks to flairs, [answered], [open], etc. Programming adds the value to also specifying a language in question. Lemmy devs promised they’d eventually impliment them. I see that change doesn’t block one from creating specific communities (and I already asked questions and got answers on existing ones), but I see them bringing the closest experience to what I feel you want on Lemmy, without making a separate solution.
I wanted to be transparent about me coming from a cyrillic country first, and of my usual style of conversation and overall intelligence second, for быдло means ‘uncultured’ in many slavic languages. That adds context to my replies and let’s people choose their strategy around them. I also found the combination of bid and law kinda funny in forming that word.
I don’t find any difference in men and women having some advantage in efficiency or design taste besides what they probably were encouraged to do while being dependent on their parents. It’s just stupid and unfair to hardline their future at that stage and later judge them by their gender while judging their employability or contribution. I’m happy some project and companies do care about that, because I encountered a lot of women being way better than me or their men coworkers in their lines of work due to their curiosity, responsibility and effort put into projects. I’d probably be happy if some successful start up would employ a women-only team to counter bigots and be succesful at that. And I can only cheer to parents who encourage their girls to try engineering, IT stuff and supporting them if they get interested in that.
Do you find open source games interesting/good thing as a gamer?
@games I am a game developer working on game called Mushy Score. I decided that my niche would be to create open source games. I think these could be helpful for developers or teachers to teach about games and how they are made. Most open source games are small game jam games, but there are few “real games” that are open source like 0 A.D. and Doom. As a non-developer do you think open source games could be good thing?
If you look at what Valve does, it may be. With software companies being too big to challenge by themselves alone, with top specialists and budgets, they bet on open source to connect with every little player on the market and probably choose the direction it would evolve in the future as Steam revenue lets them be the bigger fish of that pond. And, for what they did with SD they made open source products accessible.
I feel like the problem here is funding full-time developers, marketing, so to convince moneybags to bankroll you on a product that people can build and modify. That’s not easy, but we saw, once again, Valve and others employ and support modders and other volounteers. So probably sticking to some platform or fundraising place may be a must. Passion projects may be endlessly cool but there is only so much you can do on your own and if it’s not a hit like Minecraft, the result would have that junky feeling not inviting a regular consumer at all.
One of the greater foes is intellectual property and getting one’s name known. There’s no way to put together a project with a lot of designs and voice acting for cheap because artists and actors usually want at least a mark in their portfolio and their contribution is not very cheap in commercial works (like IT doesn’t). They can do it as an act of charity or just for their name recognition, but it’s hard to suspect from top shelf personalities, and unless money are involved, the most probable source of talents is college students. That can hurt their output and quality.
Having said that, my first pick would be educational and casual products done for public funding. They usually don’t require overcomplicated mechanics, done in a cartoonish style that’s easier to replicate (although by a designer, so it stays tasteful) and are what many would find essential to be free and open source. I think it’s not the worst way to collect initial funding for more complicated products.
Thank you for answering and honest cheers on doing that. I don’t think people behind these projects have enough support or credit. And as little as 1.3k can be seen in IT, it goes directly into supporting their passion projects benefiting us as a whole (:
Indeed. If only I wasn’t in fucking russia. It feels like FOSS suporting may finally lead me to learning crypto, in non speculative ways, only to support what these chads are doing. The Atlants, bearing the world I can regularly shitpost to on their shoulders.