Endymion_Mallorn

Batman doesn’t always wear black. There’s a time and a place for everything.

No, paint 'em blue, they’ll be luckier.

That’s in the desktop environment.

How about a different pattern;

• Figure out what your breakeven is - in other words, how much money you need to make to recoup salaries, licenses, and generally keep the lights on.

• Put out a free demo (and I mean free - no DRM either). See how many people download it within a month or so.

• Project the production budget for the next game.

• Price based on a 2% retention rate of the demo downloads to accommodate breakeven + next game + 5% profit for op-cap.

Rinse and repeat as necessary.

Mine is more:

$0.00: Is it FOSS, or is it on GOG? Is it DRM-free? Cool. (see: Luanti/MineTest, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Beyond All Reason, FreeCiv, FreeOrion, Remnants of the Precursors, Endless Sky, The Ur-Quan Masters, Mindustry, Jill of the Jungle Trilogy, etc)

$0.01+ - $4.99: Is it in eXo? I’ll get it that way.

$5+: I can’t imagine buying it if there’s anything either in the FOSS category or in eXo that does the same thing.

And 99% of the time, if there isn’t, straight to torrents.

Not Punxsatawney Phil! Aside from his short rivalry with Murray over the starring role in Groundhog Day, he’s a good guy!

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Oh, there it is!

On Windows, yes. PKWare is for DOS.

The fact that it’s part of the browser at all is a problem. It shouldn’t ever be in a browser. All it should be is a tool to strictly download and render W3C compliant text and images. Everything else should be a unique program - and no, Electron is not “unique” - it’s just another copy of an awful browser.

When Chrome came out, a lot of us knew that letting DoubleClick have any control over access to the Internet was a bad idea. This is another part of that.

How about they just… not include the LLM bullshit in the first place? Just make a browser that strictly renders text and images according to W3C standards?

Never tell a cop anything that your lawyer doesn’t tell you to say.

Do you like… penicillin on your pizza?

salutes, begins humming Taps

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Ah, someone else has played Singularity, I see. That was a really fun game.

Absolutely not. Kids should be kept away from social media as it exists now. Frankly, kids need to be supervised on the Internet as a whole, because there’s so much dangerous shit out there to hurt them.

I had a positive opinion of him because he gave me all three parts of Jill on floppy when I was a kid at a show.

Now I wish I knew less about him.

That’s the secondary goal. I feel like there’s enough 3rd party tools to fix that, that I want the repairs done in the backend and trust power users and user-devs to handle the UX.

I wish I didn’t know things about Tim, and could just see him as the guy who gave CliffyB his start, wrote ZZT and Jill of the Jungle, and is at war against Valve.

That one and the Clamavi de Profundis version are both great. I also like To Erebor by Wind Rose.