Because of Light No Fire having rideable birds and being very much my thing, and it being from the #NoMansSky devs (who really understand how to do primarily cooperative online), I'm once again thinking about No Man's Sky and
seriously if you never did the Expeditions? They're 100% the right way to experience the game now. Taking the game and necking it down to a bunch of specific but wildly divergent goals that sorta, tell a mechanical narrative, and giving you a bunch of resources if necessary to smooth out the rough spots you'd normally hit doing those, is just such a clever thing.
Really dig the community aspect too. Everyone has a good reason to build a bunch of purpose-specific bases to help everyone else along with the objectives, which gives you a new reason to go HAM and build some cool new base themed around (whatever it is), just- the whole thing is super rad. Fucking fantastic sense of community in those.
@glassbottommeg I hope that whenever Hello Games puts NMS into maintenance mode, they give players the tools to craft (and hopefully share) their own content using the tools they previously worked in via major updates and Expeditions. HG gets really creative with how they can stretch the normal mechanics of the game into a completely different experience (the semi-rogue-like mode they did in one of the previous expeditions blew my mind). Clearly, in their near-infinite universe, they can still find stories to tell, and Id love to see the stories fans could come up with well into the future.
It kind of burns my biscuits that we don't have a good proton equivalent for #Android.
My s23 is pretty close to the #steamdeck in raw power. If valve had a framework for running steam games on it 80% of their library would open up for me to play with my kishi.
I have been following @milwaukee and @wisconsin from kbin.social and I noticed that starting around a week ago or so, I can post to the communities but new posts and comments don't make it from midwest.social to kbin.social. Is there a federation issue? Was something recently broken?
> A group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors.
Interesting discussions on HN about it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37463662), especially regarding the Google Play & F-Droid versions (spoiler: theyโre the same). Some people are balking at the author(s) asking for optional financial support because โthat's advertisement!!โ but fuck them. Asking for support != ads.
@czottmann Never quite understood that group of people. I can understand how the introduction of money into a project can invite anxiety into incentives for nefarious behavior later down the line, especially from big time corporations, but applying that fear and hostility to what are often 1-5 guys working on a side project (sometimes even as their main project) always seemed silly to me.
Especially as I grew older and was reading into these FOSS projects which the world has built huge, foundational derivative projects on top of being maintained at the core by 1 dude in the middle of Montana for less than $40k a year with very few other contributors. Like, what??
I have no problems with how developers take it the way SMT do; i.e. charging for compiled, auto updated binaries and also leaving up the source code (and many times, also compiled binaries) on their forge. You can still compile the code! Hell, sometimes you don't even have to!
A lot of people forget that the quality, accessibility, and popularity of non-proprietary, libre software is historically rather recent. We should support its continuation while being grateful for the people who make it now.
ETA: It seems that SMT has updated their monetization strategy to be trialware on Google Play, rather than donate to support. A bit unfortunate, but I would guess they are making this move because they are not capable of maintaining development the way they have been prior. They are making like 8 different apps, and that cost of living certainly isn't getting any lower, but I wouldn't say a bit of nagging is the same as ad sdks being put into your apps. Is this not the generation that grew up with WinRAR and other sharewarez?
For what it's worth, I think the F-Droid version remains free.
Claiming that a video game is bad because a wrong engine was used is like claiming that a movie is crap because a wrong brand of camera was used for shooting scenes. Especially when it comes from social media fingers who haven't wrote a single line of code in their entire life.
@darth I might be biased in the opposite direction wrt "move to Unreal, in-house bad" because for all of its very broad capabilities, Unreal shares very visible idiosyncrasies that can negatively affect a game if a team isn't skilled enough (or have enough resources) to manage and conquer them, especially with performance and modern graphics pipelines.
Very few big games handle modern shader compilation and asset streaming well, but when it's done poorly in Unreal... orz
Really? You're integrated in the OS. The OS with root level access to the device with built in GPS where you've already hassled me into most (all?) of the location sharing permissions and you can't tell me at the most base level where TF I am?