Ah, I recognize the style but didn't realize that it was specific to one computer. It's cool to see various niche traced back to where they came from, over 20 years later and one PC is still having ripple effects on art today
For Microblogging so far I've used Mastodon because it seems to have the most feature complete apps from what I've seen (Megalodon and Tusky are both good). For the most part they interface together, I follow people on Misskey.
While it's got a good amount of activity I don't use it as much as Lemmy since the advantage here is that things are sorted into communities so it's easier to find good content. You can follow tags on Mastodon, but because it has no real algorithm and the "toots" are less substantial than Lemmy submissions I find that you get a lot of banal status updates. It also has to compete with Bluesky which has more name recognition being made by ex-Twitterites that also draws more users away from it. If you can find good people to follow it's good but I think we're still waiting on a critical mass of people to move from the former site.
Lol sorry, I did not mean it in a judgy way. I just figure most parents don't know or care enough about Minecraft to host a server themselves but I'd probably do the same thing in their shoes
Well they offer subscriptions for Realms, which is essentially just private server hosting (likely for confused parents) and the Bedrock edition has microtransactions. But Java edition is probably the best $20 I've ever spent in gaming
People aren't being replaced by AI because the AI is as good or better than them, people are being replaced by AI because the AI is massively cheaper than them.
We're going to end up with shittier products so more profit can end up in shareholders' pockets
Sometimes just holding up that mirror is enough to remind people. I think we overestimate how much bad activity on the web is active maliciousness and how much is the occasional poorly thought out post on a bad day
People don't have issues paying. As you said, if it was a user-run co-op, people would be fine with it. But as it stands right now the services keep raising their prices just because they can while all the money goes to the bosses and shareholders while the actual people who do most of the work get whatever is left over
I have messed around with generative AI and that is what lead me to the conclusion that it's just derivative replication of things humans have already done. Trying to direct the AI to create specific visions or wholly original things feels like trying to herd cats, it's just not very good at it.
While there are obvious applications for AI even if it is only useful for replicating things, it's starting to feel like the whole thing is smoke and mirrors in how much AI is actually capable of. And they just keep saying "think of how good it will be in the future" which makes it seem even more like the next crypto/nft bubble. Especially when AI companies are burning through money so fast that they're bound to try and get industries dependent on their tech before squeezing and enshittifying them for all they're worth
Impressive, but being able to make a breakout clone is one of the most basic tests. How well does it do with things that haven't been made a million times before?
It used to be that if you wanted an open world game you had a handful of options, and for RPGs Fallout and Elder Scrolls were really the only options. Nowadays we have more open world games than you can shake a stick at. Bethesda doesn't seem to realize that the rest of the industry has caught up with and passed them in a lot of ways
It's pretty hard to make a "small scope" 3D open world city game with driving and shooting elements. The sheer amount of work is more than the vast majority of indie devs can achieve. There's a reason most of them go with procgen wilderness survival games. The closest I've seen is something like Cloudpunk but that has a fraction of the gameplay elements that makes GTA popular
Nah you're on the mark, it was more like the older Internet where you were just a username and didn't have your entire identity attached to your account. And yeah, for better or worse Tumblr was known to have a very insular community with weird interests and trends. That's how we got Goncharov.
Two other things about Tumblr that no other site has managed to capture are longer format posts and being able to reblog multi-user conversations. Everything else prevents you from making longer posts outside of screenshotting a notes app.
Pretty much, is anyone from their golden age still even at the studio? Makes sense why they need to rely on their past hits if they can't make any new ones
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Ah, I recognize the style but didn't realize that it was specific to one computer. It's cool to see various niche traced back to where they came from, over 20 years later and one PC is still having ripple effects on art today