The user experience of Monero is poor.

While it is true that getting your first credit card isn’t exactly a 10 second ordeal, people at least have their credit card. How are people going to acquire their first Monero?

I’ve recently gotten back into (indie) game dev and made my multiplayer game with Stop Killing Games in mind. When you connect to the game, if the server is down, you get a one-click solution to run the server locally and play single player instead.

This setup actually helped me test the game too, since now I don’t need to run both the server and client when making (most) changes :)

Anecdotal but I’ve switch from Unity to Godot and am quite happy with it. The main things I was originally worried about (performance and feature support) haven’t shown up in any of my games (although I will caveat I make games for fun now, whereas I used to make them for profit).

Similarly, the Google Trends for Godot has been steadily increasing year over year, and decreasing for Unity. I much prefer to be in a rising tide ecosystem, rather than a falling one.

Rest in peace, Windows 7

Oh shit it’s 2025

While I hate that word too, this is a surprisingly high quality article (given it’s a no-name magazine)

The game is believed to have been made in the wake of the suicide of gaming influencer Pangmao, or “Fat Cat.” The incident sparked significant online debate about “gold diggers” upon his death in April 2024.

How on earth does someone make a full game in 1.5 months

It’s a half-assed project for some high level designer at Google to claim impact.

I wish the UI were actually, meaningfully customizable, but alas…

You know it’s time to sleep when Lemmy goes German

Video games haven’t risen in cost with inflation and they’re much better and bigger now

I agree with the bigger, but not better tbh

Looks like you’re right, edited my comment

Her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibtihalaboussad

Nearly 4 years in AI at M$. PhD from Harvard. She’s got a lot more to lose than the rest of us

edit: I have no idea where or why I thought she had a PhD

EDIT: LINKEDIN TOOK DOWN HER PROFILE

Damn she got some balls

Xiaomis are quite hackable. You can install LineageOS to be safe from any potential spyware.

In addition to Steam not being subscriptions, Valve has so far not screwed over their users. The way the Ubisoft exec suggested that we should change our attitude really showed what they in plan

Damn that game looks beautiful

Impressive, he’s still going

Some RuneScape private server called August lmao.

Also been playing some Battle for Middle Earth online with the fam: bfmeladder.com

Ubisoft will go bankrupt, but Tencent won’t

the availability of different components requires specification changes, sometimes in real-time. In fact, customers may experience a free upgrade based on changing inventory levels.

They couldn’t help but try and make “getting randomized components” sound like a good thing

Ok so the two main points:

• Bad people are who the US said are bad
• Azov are Nazis

I think the first one is obvious: Meta is a US company. If you want to see the inverse, check out WeChat.

The second is a case is an extension of the first, where the US is saying “bad people doing the right thing is fine”.

People will mention Gimp, but check out Krita as an alternative to Adobe

92.3%

96.8!!

Free RuneScape I shill 2009scape.org but there’s others. I know there’s free WoW, Maplestory, and pretty much every other popular MMO as well

Another reason to play open source remakes instead of the original

Good luck for them. Hopefully more big tech goes towards unions

Wartime means taxes from citizens. Private companies offer to help the government for said taxes to help fuel the war machine

I’m just surprised this guy’s played games for 64 days straight

Well this is the gaming community…

I would say play whichever era you played in the past :P. If you played RuneScape classic, OpenRSC (the 2003 remake) is the best, otherwise 2009scape is a good shout. You could also check out 2004scape.org, their beta starts soon

Vidyascape is the best real 07 remake, but is it open source?

Historically, only for-profit ones have been shutdown

I used to be a game dev. Busy so can’t reply atm but Jagex and OSRS make a LOT of money compared to everyone else already. Their subscription stats are insane

Shout out to the open source Runescape remakes

https://rsc.vet/ - 2003 era remake

https://2009scape.org - 2009 era remake

https://darkan.org/ - 2012 era remake

There are other open source remakes (2004, 2006) but they’re not as popular. I’ve actually contributed upstream to all 3 of the above, it’s a very nice community!

Last time I applied, it took like 6 months for my beta app to be accepted. That’s fine but I had ran a marathon like the week before, and did all my marathon training during that time. Was big sad. Anyways best of luck with the next round!

Kids make maps. Stuff in the maps is sold for Roblox bucks. Roblox bucks cost money to buy. The kid who makes the map gets the Roblox bucks, and can sell them. The problem is you only get 30% back when you sell a Roblox buck.

So kids spend time making big maps and servers, buying ads, getting shoutouts on YouTube/whatever, and Roblox takes a 70% cut from all of it

I use it all the time. It can even click on images/etc for more dynamic botting

According to the article, the revenue is down 40%…But the costs are also way down? So this title is totally misleading, and a bunch of Lemmies are out here celebrating because they didn’t put 2 and 2 together.

I remember hearing about this on Reddit a few years ago. Congrats on your beta!! Will check it out 🙏

??? There’s nothing in this wording that implies anything more than “don’t negatively review us”