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  • Start with pen and paper - no computer, because that'll just distract you.

    Write down what kind of game you want to make. Sketch out what you want your player to see when they play the game (top down, third person, first person; which UI elements should they see? Health? Mana or power bars? Selected items?). Does it have a story of sorts? What kind of setting (future, past, fantasy, sci-fi). 2D or 3D? What kind of visual style are you going for (realistic, cartoony, abstract?).

    This will be your Game Design Document. You don't have to get it perfectly at the first go - iterate over it, scratch things that you feel won't work.

    Once you have something that looks like a minimally viable product (MVP), THEN you can start making something in Godot, Game Maker, or Love2D. Because now you have something to follow along. Try to get something out ASAP, because feedback from people who are not you is important. Maybe you made something that feels fun to you, but no one else likes it - you would want to know that as soon as possible, not after toiling away for 5 years.

    Do not start caring about "what is the fastest programming language". Even the slowest of languages are fine, because you're learning how to build a game, not how to program like a pro.

  • Pretty sure .compact also still works.

    Slap .compact after a URL and you'll see a mobile version of reddit from like 2006.

    edit: THEY REMOVED IT! D: RIP .compact - I've visited you about 5 times, ever.

  • Are they asking for selfies, or selfies of the user? Important difference.

  • I can't imagine why a country that suffered under the USSR would want to put into law, to criminalize, the ideology that once fucked up East-Europe...

    The Communist Party of Bohemia

    How the fuck do they still even have a literal Communist party!?

  • she has had European clients shocked to learn they can face serious consequences for briefly overstaying a visa.

    Are people stupid? Visa says "GTFO before this date". If you then don't then there are consequences. It's not that hard to understand, no?

    I agree that it's ridiculous how people treated in those jails, and that he should not have been held for 3 months, but come on...

  • And he was locked up before Trump took office.

    So you're saying this happened under Biden? Not sure whether this is the dunk-on-Trump that people think it is >_>

  • A full family (of white people) could still survive off a single person working, though. That bit was nice. Not the white people bit, obviously.

  • What are the chances you are GenZ / Alpha?

    Older generations bitch about "damn kids these days don't respect their elders" ever since at least Socrates.

    The young have always bitched about the older generations being stuck in their ways and being too nostalgic about their own youth.

    This is the way.

    You're not special.

  • I would argue we have a whole list of purposes:

    • procreate
    • copulate
    • mate
    • engage in sexual reproduction
    • propagate the species
    • reproduce
    • conceive life
    • bring forth offspring
    • weave new generations
    • kindle the spark of life
    • sow the seeds of tomorrow
    • whip up some womb-biscuits
    • bake a bun in the baby oven
    • start a stork-summoning ritual
    • do the chromosome cha-cha
    • know each other in the biblical sense
    • lie together
    • hook up
    • get it on
    • do the deed
    • bump uglies
    • initiate a genetic merge request
    • fork the DNA repo
    • compile the next generation
    • instantiate another human

    I think you got the gist.

    And in the meantime also entertain ourselves, of course.

  • What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package? I prefer NixOS, BTW.

  • Like you can’t feed your kid?

    Tell me how you haven't raised a child, without telling me you haven't raised a child.

    Those little fuckers are insistent, and you'll think "I'll just out-energy them"... No, no, you don't. They will make your life hell, if you don't know what you're doing, and you may not know because you've got into a routine, but those little shits will change their behaviour every few weeks, and you will have to keep up, while only getting 5 or 6 hours of sleep per night (if you're lucky).

    I can very much imagine parents asking an LLM for help. People don't just instantly turn retarded, and can just reject an answer if it doesn't help.

  • Having all your configuration hidden in ~/.config/, so you can have ~ all to yourself is nice, IMO. Just having a handful of folders (including hidden ones) makes things a little more readable.

  • What's a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package?

  • "ewwww, brother! ewww! What's that? Brother, what's that?"

  • Uh, just yesterday. Installed NixOS (with KDE) because I learned Debian at work, but am really missing the ability to track what I've installed via configuration. I like the idea of dotfiles in a repo, but want a bit more control like that for my OS.

    Context: I'm a data engineer that writes Python. Python has pyproject.toml files (toml ~= ini files) where you can specify which libraries you want to use, defining which version you minimally, maximally, or just specifically want. And I wished that setup existed for Debian as well, but it doesn't. So after searching I found that NixOS is pretty much the closest thing. Windows 10 is EOL soon enough, so might as well switch beforehand and not wait until the last second.

  • We live longer and longer, retirement age is something that needs to be adjusted with the human lifespan.

    I think it has more to do with the baby boom right after 1945. If those older people retire, there isn't enough younger generation to support them, so more people need to work longer, so we don't get too many retired people all at once.

    I think it's more of a "can we support the retired" kind of issue - not just "muh money". It's a little more nuanced than that.

  • (Seriously what would you even have multiple computers do.)

    Setup k3s (pronounces "kubes") on each computer as a node. Run scalable software - a website, database, some LDAP setup for users, maybe.

    Check out /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world for inspiration :D

  • oof