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  • Depends on the game. If it's a good fit, go ahead and add it, but if it's not, it's better for a game to focus on doing one thing well than two things poorly.

  • Statler & Waldorf.

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  • DRM-free games can be freely copied, nothing's stopping you.

    Pirates have to crack games that don't have DRM-free versions available, games that aren't on GOG.

  • I got my CS degree eight years ago and never managed to find a job in the field. Still sending out resumes to every position that claims to be entry level, only to be told they're looking for someone with five years of experience in a technology that came out two years ago.

    I wonder if still not having any relevant experience by now just comes across as a red flag to recruiters.

  • We've reached the point of diminishing returns on hardware. IMO, anything that can't run on Switch 2 probably deserves to be scaled back anyway.

  • Will never be anywhere close to what Newgrounds and Kongregate were at their peak.

  • Porting two existing titles is hardly what I would consider a new golden age.

    Browser games peaked in the 00s-10s as the most accessible place to publish a simple indie project. It was simple and easy for beginner developers to just make something and put it out there, and for those that took off there was a decent pipeline to monetize a hit by licensing it to sites that would share a cut of ad revenue.

    But now, mobile and Steam have replaced that as the go-to target for developers. They've gotten to a point where they're just as accessible to develop for, and if you want to make a living off your work you'll have a much better shot that way.

    Plenty of great tools still exist for HTML5 development, if developers wanted to they could, and some do. Itch.io has a good amount of new browser games, they exist.

    But there's never going to be anything as big as Newgrounds or Kongregate. Those days are gone for good.

  • It's hard for me to not just list his entire filmography. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are his two most popular films, so I guess start there.

  • Bought the Lego Game Boy two weeks ago. Haven't played with Legos in a long long time, since I was a kid. But this was a really fun set to put together.

  • I send out resumes to job openings that claim to be entry level, only to be shot down because they want five years of experience in a technology that came out two years ago.

  • Nintendo doesn't sell products that are branded as Switch but don't actually play Switch games.

  • They may not know how their own voice sounds, but they are definitely aware that Deaf people are often perceived as sounding odd. Some Deaf people put a lot of practice into learning how to speak, sometimes even with the help of a vocal coach. Others may choose not to even try because of it.

  • Since it's only October, it's already more than once a day.

  • At one point MaxEnt had announced an Avatar fighting game, but then silently canceled it when everything imploded. So this appears to be a revival of that.

    Over a month ago we were told that TFH's IP had been sold to a new owner, and they'd have an announcement within a month. Announcement still hasn't happened, but the publisher on Steam was silently changed to Gameplay Group International, along with Diesel Legacy's.

  • I'll be that guy. I do think the Tetris: The Grand Master series built on it in really good ways (shame this style was then discarded in favor of Guideline, but that's a rant for another day), but classic Tetris kind of just falls apart as soon as you start to get good at it.

    It's a product of its time, but I honestly feel there's an entire genre worth of better puzzle games that came after it, and I have a small chip on my shoulder at the fact that Tetris is the only one that gets any recognition while every other IP lies dead and buried.

  • Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (1987)

  • Farnsworth: These are the dark matter engines I invented. They allow my starship to travel between galaxies in mere hours.

    Cubert: That's impossible. You can't go faster than the speed of light.

    Farnsworth: Of course not. That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.

  • FTL

  • I got a Computer Science degree eight years ago, and couldn't find any entry level position in the field - everybody wants five years experience in software that only came out two years ago. Two years later I begrudgingly took a menial data entry job that has been slowly draining me for the last six years, menial work that's tedious and honestly just exhausting. They keep assigning me more with tighter deadlines, and I'm pretty certain they're looking for an excuse to fire me. I've been on LinkedIn firing off as many resumes as I can hoping to get out, but I fear than a eight year old degree with no relevant experience in the field maybe just looks like a red flag to employers now.