banished is real good. it’s a medieval village sim. it’s also 6.50€ right now.

i see everyone recommending against the storm, banished is basically “what if that game was colorless, depressing and brutally realistic”.

idk if that fits but i’d be real impressed if they manage

the reason i’m super negative is that the blog post makes no sense. he’s overpaid massively for a domain because it used to have an old forum on it, and he is now announcing his intention to build a thing using that name which is nothing like it, to recapture a feeling of nostalgia for another app which is nothing like the first two. and he is marketing it as a way to meet new people despite he fact that you have to meet people before you can see them in the app.

this has amico written all over it.

like, how do you even reach critical mass if the barrier to entry is intentionally set 20 meters off the ground? why market yourself with an old forgotten name despite not resembling the old thing at all? why announce it before you have something to show?

if it’s federation-focused i’m out. make it with the same atmosphere as the iron lung film, though…

i use latex beamer templates for presentations. it’s hard to fuck up displaying a pdf. if you want you can use markdown -> pandoc -> tectonic to skip writing latex.

family business innit

you’re doing a better job than most of us

yeah they have best-before dates on them. i think they should be switched every few years or so

i got into computers so that i didn’t have to do math and now glenda is my best friend

but the us is only 5% of the potential market, and most countries don’t use primarily iphones. western europe is around 35% apple and that’s as high as it goes internationally

any european ones?

I’m in the domain name business

it’s called “cybersquatting”. fuck all the way off.

also

> “my wife and i met on okcupid and i want more people to make connections like that”
> creates an app that’s only available on 20% of phones and requires meeting in person to connect

this guy is delulu

was gonna say, i think lunarstorm had like 700k users in 1998. but then again i’ve never heard about friendster.

> show is called fruits basket
> look inside
> oh no

i’ll give you the second case, but nobody should plan for putting stuff on aws with the world as it looks right now…

…a hard disk? you can just write data to a file

oh, Ma is in this?

i think the implication is that they will just die in combat for nothing

you do have to like primer though

at that point it feels easier to just connect the base station to the same satellite receiver the onboard internet uses