villainy

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

It took Valve years to build Steam into the juggernaut it is based on maximizing customer value and minimizing friction. Years! Like multiple of them! Who has time for that! I need my profits this quarter!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's a reasonable price for 250+ hours of unique (not roguelike/proc gen) gameplay with AAA level production values? Just curious, I'm not sure what my own answer would be.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

That's unfortunate. It sounds like they recognized the burnout, that their new project was poorly scoped and would not be completed without further damaging personal relationships, so they pulled the plug. A healthy decision IMO. I wonder if any other small developers following up an initial big success need to learn from this? 🍒

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Staying on the Zelda tip, I'll always have a place in my heart for Crystalis (1990) on the NES. More linear than Zelda but with significantly more RPG elements worked in.

If you want to get even more obscure, both Neutopia (1989) and Neutopia II (1991) for the TG-16 are great! Extremely obvious Zelda inspiration but they hold up well on their own merits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Rad Spencer solved the loneliness problem by having his badass metal arm be his wife. 2006 was a different time...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Understanding the cheese is 100% part of getting stronger.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the best community on Lemmy. My Star Trek knowledge is almost entirely by cultural osmosis but I still regularly understand and appreciate the high quality memes on offer.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That's an interesting perspective. Please enjoy having our stupid bullshit slightly further away from your face for a while! My only option is sticking my head in this hole in the ground.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Musky needs to hook up with NextGenHacker101 and get on that tracer-t tip!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

One of my strongest gaming memories growing up was beating Silver Star Story sitting in a cramped hotel room in the middle of a Minnesota blizzard. My parents let me lug along my PSX on this road trip and I beat the last boss on last possible hit. Like everyone dead but the main character, if I didn't win this round then the boss would wipe me next time around. I had a full on throw the controller in the air, run circles around the 6' of open floor space in the hotel room, kind of celebration. My parents... didn't get it, but that's okay 😆

I never did get around to finishing Eternal Blue. Maybe this will be my excuse to pick it up again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I had this happen once where input validation on login and password change were different. I was allowed to set my password to a string containing a special character not accepted by the login form. Top men.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Woah screen is seeing active development again? There was like a decade where it stagnated. So much so that different distros were packaging different custom feature patches (IIRC only Ubuntu had a vertical split patch by default?) Looking at it now, the new screen maintainers had to skip a version to not conflict with forks that had become popular.

When tmux stabilized I jumped ship immediately and never looked back.

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