You can rest assured that it is within M$'s interest to retain yuropeean customers, as 1 euro > 1 dollar. All the better if they can slurp all your data for free.

The base 12 comes from the number of divisions from your fingers, minus the thumb: you can count to 12 on each hand :D

I thought people would miss the keyboard on smartphones. Turns out we are a small minority

Those pesky nationalists thinking they could nationalize oil just because they fairly elected a president that wanted to do that!!!

For the Iranians, yeah, different asshole, same shit

The democratisation effect is something I’ve been thinking about myself, as hiring developers or learning to code doesn’t come cheap.

It’s not really “democratizing” anything, since anything made that isn’t like a simple calendar or forum will come with more bugs than working features. Low and no-code development options have been available for ages, so “doesn’t know how to code” was never an actual barrier to making software. Not only that, learning to code could be done effectively for free for well over 15 years now, online resources have only gotten better. It was never about the (lack of) money, it was always about time needed. “I don’t want to/can’t learn this, yet I want the thing done” - that’s why we pay professionals.

However, if it allows non-profits to build ideas that can make our world a better place, then that is a good thing.

At best, they’ll get semi-working prototypes. At worst, they’ll try to sell said prototypes as end products. Besides, anything that is “a disposable utility, designed for the immediate “now” rather than the distant “later.”” is extremely unlikely to make the world a better place.

Underground fort, so I could feel like a proper dorf

You mean it isn’t the folks at trap-o-mart?

designer for Gotham Studios

Curse you, Batman!

Itching to start a fight

I keep forgetting to check it every week to grab a game. Never installed a single one via EGS, but pirated a few later on, though it’s no longer piracy if it’s a game I legally own :)

The main advantage of not seeking profit at all costs is satisfied customers who are very likely to return, who’da thunk?

They can’t even fix their stupid engine to make it not shit on graphics anymore. Seriously, UE5 makes great graphics look like shit because of a bajillion forced effects and filters, like temporal antialiasing.

Singled them out because they’re the most used to seeing “autoplayers”, aka bots

I so want this scene to show up impromptu in a random VN for no reason

He’s over there, swapping channels in Beakman’s World

Don’t forget to call Josh from Let’s Game it Out to create forward outposts that the enemy will find first

When artists now are now asked, after years of being on social media platforms and these lackluster art sites, what their dream art website looks like.
They describe a store.
A store that is allowed to sell pornography also.

Capitalism and the greater opportunity to live off your art are definitely one of the biggest death causes of most community oriented sites. The moment money enters the equation, fun gets kicked off. Why show off your art around if there’s no profit to be had and the clout can’t be transformed into money?

The author finding Artfight and mentioning how it has no monetization further drives this point.

All that shit for a game that will look and perform worse than The Order 1886 or Ryse son of Rome