Serious Sam is mindlessly dumb in the good way.

Yes Android Auto is needlessly complex. I don’t think the parking sensor is the cause anyway.

Perhaps there are some options on the phone to disable screen takeover or pop-ups or something. Deleting all app permissions is my best guess.

There is no good fix. It’s a Google thing. People have tried using roots and OBD2 fixes, but there is no easy solution.

I don’t know the Spotify app that well, but it should be possible to scroll through songs on a playlist using controls on the steering wheel or voice control. Those methods shouldn’t trigger the scroll warning.

Alternatively, he could skip Android Auto and use Bluetooth instead if it’s only connected for the music. That’s what I do for other music apps and the steering wheel controls also work just fine that way too as long as I have prepared a playlist in advance.

The music doesn’t have to be completely synthesized… Most early computers would simply reuse the audio snippets as “samples”, and program the pitch and timing in a “tracker”

Listening to the Flappy Birds music, which I admit that I did, then all of the music could be done in a tracker, even if it might not have been originally. It’s a bit of a lost art form, but there are several kilobytes to save!

Personally, I have been considering making a HTML5 game, including the sunvox DLL, to make it really easy to put tiny yet advanced music files into a cross platform browsable game. Haven’t gotten around to it though…

What’s the size of the music/graphics/game code/stuff that is needed for any app to run on Android?

I believe (without knowing for sure) that you could make a similar game much smaller by “rendering” the music and some of the graphics.

Roblox is a mess, but in an alright way. There are many different games and investing into it is useless, because kids will move from one game to the next soon enough. I have never paid for Robux and never intend to. The kids keep playing it without the buy in. It’s something everyone in school does, so they play together and change game constantly to whatever is trendy.

I’ve only barely played it myself to see what it is like and if the chat was problematic. It seems safe enough, but there are limits to the gameplay when not paying. Most of the games are pretty pointless anyway and don’t require Robux, but the kids are still entertained for a while in each game. Robux might make sense in the more complex games, but I refuse to pay for it.

As for paid games, I’ve paid for Minecraft for pc and android and that’s worth it on both platforms. I have accounts for the entire family so we can join each other and they can have friends over who don’t have their own accounts or don’t know the logins. It’s relatively cheap and only a one time purchase. It can be tricky with the Java and bedrock editions not playing along, so that’s why I just bought more accounts. There are free clones of Minecraft for android that are soo close that my youngest didn’t even realise that it wasn’t the original.

My oldest has also herself paid for the horse game Star Stable for pc, which is a great game, but also expensive. This is more like buying an actual game. It’s basically an 3D adventure game with horses. No microtransactions if fully paid for. The account also works for android, but she uses the pc mostly. Again, this is because her best friends are playing it. She has no interest in horses, but the game is good. It’s sort of like GTA but instead of driving cars and shooting guns, they ride horses and run errands for the stables or something. It’s possible to play for free, but only until it gets more interesting.

Depends on age a lot.

My girls have mostly played Toca Boca World and Roblox (playing Adopt Me or Brookhaven).

I doubt any game logic is going to be that fast ever. It might look better, but it won’t make much difference in how players or even the game itself can react to events in the game. Perhaps it’ll make VR more comfortable or something.

Looks fine. You have better screen estate, 7.5 posts while I only have 6 posts on a screen.

I think the reason why I changed from Jerboa was the data usage at the time (July last year). It’d download the entire picture instead of thumbnails. Sometimes it lagged.

The reason why I liked RiF was basically only that I had used it so much that I knew where everything was. I’ve been using Connect long enough that I’m not eager to switch at the moment.

Posts:

Connect.

I like to have posts and comments as small as possible, without large pictures being downloaded before I click the post, and it must have a dark mode.

I also tried Jerboa and Voyager, and while they’re also customizable, I couldn’t get it exactly right. Maybe it’s possible now, but I can’t be bothered to keep up to date on three apps when Connect does it just fine.

I’m not sure what any of them look like by default. I basically set out to recreate the way I used RiF for Reddit, which also wasn’t the default.

It would make sense for games abandoned by publishers to be given away including a donation button for the original developer and hosting service.

The RTS genre got drowned by cellphone apps doing the same thing.

The games don’t have high technical requirements, so it’s a perfect match for phone/tablet apps.

However they’re also quite easy to program, and easy to make graphics for, so the market is swamped with clones of clones of stock code and stock graphics, so no developer can approach it seriously anymore.

The best games in the genre are good because they have carefully balanced gameplay, but that takes time to discover for the players, so even if someone made the perfect game, it’d never be discovered amongst the shovel-ware.

Sudden success has killed lots of businesses.

I enjoy popcorn with this shit show.

The whole thing was poorly managed and there’s nothing they can say now to tell a different tale. I hope the people who put any effort into it gets paid somehow.

Hmm. Even Wolfestein 3D was more of a Gen-X than Boomer generational thing, so setting the bar at Doom seems a little misunderstood of who actually played those games.

I only played the first game more than 20 years ago, but I can still hear the voice.

I loved Half-Life and played through it several times to get all the details. However, watching the 25 year anniversary about it is about as boring as watching the anecdotes from some old rock band describing their amplifier setup in the 1970s. I’s interesting in some technical historical way, but it also seems soo out of touch with what’s happening today. These guys aren’t going to put out a new banger.

Everything he has ever touched turned to shit. How people keep hiring him is beyond me.

Some CEOs are hired for that specific purpose. If a board wants to do greedy shit they hire a fall guy. There are plenty of jobs for that guy.

Kind of looks like BF3.

Are you using windows? Then you don’t need software. You can do that in the command prompt.

The command is literally called “sort”

Step by step tutorial:

Right click somewhere, select “Create New/text document”. Type or paste your list there. Save it. Right click the file, select properties and copy the location. F.i. “C/user/desktop/”

Press windows key. Type CMD. Open the the command prompt. Go to the place where the file is by typing "cd " and paste the location.

Type: sort [your filename.txt] > [new file name.txt]

You now have a sorted copy of the file.

Otherwise use a spreadsheet to do it.

That’s a different actor. The Friends character Janice is a parody on Fran’s character on The Nanny.