Tim Apple’s rival

It’s built off of OSM. Which is how it should be.

Absolutely a depression indicator.

Post-election, my wife and I are going hard on co-op games again. We are not feeling so great.

But prior to that, we were casually gaming, maybe 1-2 hours a day at most.

You literally cannot search for Mastodon without getting a weird ass 2-paragraph manifesto about The Fediverse.

End users just want to use shit.

This is unfortunately the world of open-source.

1. Nerd tells you to use the open-source thing.
2. Non-technical tries it and asks questions
3. Nerd proclaims it’s not a real problem/your fault/not applicable/fix it yourself
4. Some company takes that open-source version or idea, makes it easier for end users and monetize it
5. Nerd gets angry and repeats step 1

Source: I am nerd and I contribute to open-source.

This is funny on the internet but I met this guy at coding conferences.

This is how we, the people, shall regain power from those pilots who think they know everything!!!

The US will continue ticking. Money keeps flowing, and greed will continue running rampant.

As someone making a bank and based on the projections, the Trump tax changes are going to pay well. Anyone making less than $100k, or living off of social security or retirement are going to really suffer.

The Trump tax breaks are going to fund a future international trip. And poor folks will starve.

Btw I voted for Kamala. And America voted for a old dude who struggles to form sentences.

Seriously. Reminds me of those “I’m Rich” apps which just displays that text, and actual idiots wanted to flex so they bought them.

Cute article and nice data.

Doesn’t matter though here we go.

Isn’t it spelled Turkiye now?

And last I checked, I can’t fuck a Turkiye.

Oh. Yeah. That’s… Not going to hold.

Luckily the House of representatives have set up the rules such that they can call to change their majority leader whenever they disagree with each other, so very few actual policies will change.

A bunch of things did get changed during the last presidency because of the Republican majority.

Healthcare, internet privacy, hell even how mail got delivered.

If it’s not from policy changes, it’s from gutting the department and putting in cronies willing to sabotage the industry. You brought up environment policies, yeah those are gonna die.

I was thinking about this recently. I’m not disagreeing that there isn’t massive bot bullshit.

But I purposely stayed off the internet for like 48 hours. Many of my friends did too.

I had more “go back to your own country” from 20-30 yos from their shitty pickup truck than some old racist boomer.

There’s trolleys in my city. I love them riding on their little tracks and I go choo choo.

Having slept in a train bed that has a bathroom and was 3 doors down from a kitchen, it’s wild that we looked at a car and went, “That’s what I want.”

Nice! It’s in the Humble Bundle and in my wishlist!

Secondly I don’t blame devs for not beeing active on social media with the community. Especially when your game is rather small this task can be really mentally exhausting and we all know how easily people get toxic on the Internet.

I took fault with that as well.

I am a developer who makes games on the side. I mostly do gamejams and release games on itch.io. It’s a pretty positive community.

But I did get one comment (only one) that some troll told me to stick to my day job. Like I am? I do this to create art and fun, and make bank working a boring software job. I put all my passion into making this game in a short gamejam window.

I know some fans love reading about “the struggle”. They see the developer eating ramen and crunching 160 hours as passion. To me, that’s abuse. Because survivors bias, there are people with 100x the passion but their game doesn’t sell.

Everyone who puts out a game is doing it for different reasons. You have no idea if the dev team was crunching late hours while their child was dying from cancer. Or if they were coding this on their golden yacht using AI bots. To judge them because they don’t share that as not having passion?

It’s a toxic metric and would strongly recommend removing it.