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I also played the android version of Curious Village soon after it released and enjoyed it. From what my friends have said, the rest of the series really is more of the same, just with new puzzles and another simple new story. Safe to say if you enjoyed the first one you'll like the rest. Unwound Future seems to be the most well-liked one in the series.

Not a lawyer so I can't give you a straight answer, but I'm pretty sure it's not. So many AAA games just copy-paste UI layouts, just look at how many of them have the Destiny-style inventory menu and generic RPG skill tree. As long as it's not too blatant or uses their original assets, you can get away with copying anything.

I'm mixed on it. They just cancelled their multiplayer game because it wasn't their ballpark, now they want a studio known for linear story-driven experiences to make an open world game (I assume). Could go either way.

We did, it's old news. This happened 2 weeks ago.

I just tried and got it. Might be worth shooting them an email.

It's big. According to Wikipedia they gained 30.5 million dollars in 2022 and have almost 170 employees - not mentioning probably hundreds of other volunteers. It sounds simple in concept but storing petabytes of data safely and maintaining complex software and hardware for it is impressive. That's why there aren't really any alternatives to it.

They're also much bigger than just the wayback machine, they have multiple projects like OpenLibrary which is a goodreads alternative and scans books to read online. The IA is also under constant legal fire for archiving copyrighted materials so I bet they spent millions of dollars on that alone.

I gave thumb key an honest shot for a few days but I found it cumbersome. Swiping takes too much time and effort compared to tapping, and you're better off just using a normal keyboard.

Yeah, it's a weird blunder to not have rotated keys after being breached. I'm not familiar with how the org works but it sounds like they don't have a dedicated security guy, which is weird for something of that size.

I'm really not a fan of this. Opencritic's entire point is to filter out the garbage and be a great way to see a summary of reviews from professional critics. One look at Metacritic's user reviews and you know it's just going to be flame wars of fanboys and haters.

Yes! There's https://opencritic.com/calendar which is available in ics format. It usually only covers big releases though, not many indies on the list.

Yup, we've gone full circle. The initial release of vampire survivors copy pasted a lot of Castlevania assets, but now they've negotiated a deal to have them officially in the game, which is neat.

Yeah, it's an accessibility update that adds cheats and minor options to the game. I'm not sure why they hyped it up.

Ugh. And here I was hoping they'd bring back the rest of their systems online soon, but it seems like their security is in shambles and we may be looking at a few months until IA is fully back online.

refusing to be transparent about updates and future dev for over a year just letting it slowly die.

That's par for the course for Hi-Rez... Realm Royale was a smash hit when it was in alpha, and they ignored the fanbase and kept messing it up more each update until it faded into obscurity.

The Llama 3.1 models are probably the best all-rounders, with the Llama 3.1 8B version being the most popular.

If we're talking about weird video game ads, I want to give a shoutout to PS3's baby ad

Thanks for your hard work as always.

I'm in favor of moving away from proxying. Too many images break and proxying in general is very wasteful, having to download images from potentially small servers constantly would definitely get you ratelimited.

Passing through external images is OK. Many people often post external links anyways to sites like imgur and catbox because of the file size limits anyways.

I think the end goal would always to store images locally though - or at least caching them for extended periods of time. Don't large instances like Lemmy World and huge Mastodon instances work this way? How do they manage the risk?

The article is tongue in cheek, but I'm not sure where you're getting "pretty decent AA game" from. It got scathing reviews and has a worse average score than Forespoken. It's currently mostly negative on Steam so from what it sounds, it seems like a bad game that got zero advertisements because the studio gave up on it.

Wanting to stay alive is not a "relentless lust to make an extra buck". You're portraying people wanting to earn money as villains trying to abuse you. Putting ads in a website where someone puts so much effort to create is NOT evil. Youtubers without sponsorships for example simply wouldn't exist, because nobody would put in dozens of hours of work a week if it wasn't lucrative.

The concept of “every sharing of information must be financially profitable” is a sickness - a festering disease.

I would argue the concept of expecting everyone else's hard work to be free is selfish. I'm not talking about major publications that have millions of dollars, I'm talking about small websites where the creator needs it to succeed or else it shuts down a year later.

How many people get paid to go to ham radio clubs, to write up plans for model airplanes, or to share telescope mirror polishing techniques? How many people try to profit off of community seed/plant exchanges?

What you're describing is a hobby that people with free time and extra money do. This isn't what 99.9% of content creators work on or have the capability of doing.

So you think people should just work around the clock making content and not get anything for it? I keep seeing this view and it sounds so naive, you can't expect donations to keep you afloat. Even hosting the website and domain names cost money.