NaibofTabr
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Open Camera is FOSS (GPLv3) and is available in both Google Play and F-Droid.
I’m guessing you don’t remember what the market was like for indie games before Steam. Valve’s platform has done a lot of work to expose small game developers, and made it economically viable to work on and publish games independently. Before this it was very difficult for small titles without the advertising budget of a AAA publisher to get any attention at all, let alone actual sales. There’s nothing else like Steam for small studios trying to find buyers for their games, and Valve does deserve credit for that because it’s improved the video game market overall to have more people making more games and able to earn a living doing it.
The other major effort that Valve has made is Linux compatibility. Even before their work on Proton, Valve released native Linux versions of their games (they were one of very few publishers to do so at the time). I’ve been gaming on Linux since 2006, and Wine was great but rarely easy or complete. Proton has made things so straightforward that people have forgotten just how difficult it was before.
Credit where it’s due. No other major publisher has contributed to the gaming community the way Valve has, except maybe id Software when they just handed the entire Quake 3 Arena source code to the open source community in 2005 which spawned countless new open source game projects.
Downvote me you bootlickers.
No, you’ll enjoy the attention too much.
You say that with such confidence, but the counter disagrees.
We all live in denial of something…
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Oh absolutely, and Bethesda is absolutely capable of that. It would be very myopic for them though. They can’t possibly be ignorant of the fact that modding is what kept Skyrim selling for a decade.
Preventing modding would be a substantial exercise in hubris (“we don’t need them”), or one of those intentional failure/tax writeoff things.
Crash Team Racing is the pinnacle of kart racing games. The driving is more skill-based than the leading brand name, and it doesn’t have shitty rubber-band AI.
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is still great fun, easy to learn but hard to be good at.
Nothing compares to F-Zero GX. The abandonment of the franchise is a travesty, and should be considered abuse of the gaming community.
Does anyone else remember seeing this video and getting excited for the movie?
It’s their property, they don’t owe it to anybody. There’s nothing sketchy about this.
It’s likely that they always intended to release CAD models, but it took time to clean them all up and get them in order. Usually you don’t want to make a public release with your original working files because they’re messy and would cause more confusion in your user community than benefits.
“At the end of the day, though, it always comes down to that most important resource of all – people."
You know, like the ones we just fired…
Maybe it’s time for these massive publishers to become irrelevant anyway. They’re only in it for the money. Steam has proven that there’s plenty of market for games made by small, independent publishers.
Add it to the pile.
If I were choosing a business to work with at this point, it wouldn’t be Google. They might just kill off whatever service I need at any time.
Get dev cycles to 3 years or less so that you can actually react to changing market conditions, and charge a fair price for a good product.
This industry’s already killing people with overwork and stress. Increasing the time pressure isn’t going to improve the quality or bring the price down.
We don’t need faster game development, there are already more games out there than anyone could play. We (the market) need to encourage quality over quantity.
It’s very dangerous to oversimplify your opponents (in a strategic sense). Generalization is also very risky.
Also, to label them as particularly different from yourself/your social group in some way (especially a way that you consider to be inferior) is the first step on the path to dehumanizing them, as a basis for justifying disdain/anger/hatred/etc. It’s far more likely that they have different life experiences from yours which have lead them to understanding the world differently, but are generally similar otherwise. They “do not comprehend satire” in the same way that you do, that does not mean they are incapable broadly.
I think you are criticizing the movie for not being more overt in its political messaging. As a counterpoint, I think that if it had been more overt, it would have been less accessible overall and particularly to those who most need to be exposed to that message. It’s intentionally subversive, which means that it can exist in homes, in conversations, and in minds where a more direct stating of the same idea would be rejected out of hand.
While I was looking for information about the display I found a lot of references to similar ones used in pinball machines
so maybe that?
Today they’ve mostly been replaced by LED panels.
Sounds like Nvidia is shopping around for new manufacturing partners after dicking over EVGA.
Yes, it’s a more honest term which reflects the quality of work that was done by people who weren’t compensated for their effort.