@Pirat_Nation I'm not sure what it's like in Japan, but people need houses and a little space to raise kids. You'd think as the population continues to decline more land would open up, but the opposite is happening and real estate just keeps getting more expensive.
It's perfectly okay to celebrate layoffs when:
Studios ignore player feedback for months.
Studios prioritize ideology over fun.
Studios hire based on DEI quotas instead of merit.
Studios antagonize their players.
Studios get in bed with the media.
It's called Capitalism.
Your only job is to offer the best possible product and turn a profit by meeting consumer demand and treating your audience like royalty.
That's it.
@Chavenham Technically indie means no publisher, but the term has changed meaning over the years to refer to a very small team with no funding. Words change, especially slang. Small studio or AA refers to mid tier team sizes. Saying no publisher or independent is effective for no backing.
@K__Med@FzzyBzzy Looking at the dev's other games and his bio, it was pretty obvious this was going to be a bait and switch from the start. He's probably just going for the edgy humor and doesn't care either way.
@CodeRed_dev It feels like there are more devs than players in today's market. Players are in 3 groups.
1. Playing forever games for a decade straight.
2. Playing their decades long backlog.
3. Playing whatever hotness flavor of the week from social media.
Everyone else is fighting for scraps
@IndieCurator There will always be indies because the barrier to entry is now so low thanks to game engines like Unity, UE5, Godot, etc. AI is only going to lower that bar even further (that does not mean they will be bad games, I'm just talking about barrier to entry).
@Pirat_Nation As great as stardew valley is, it's not like the current relationship system is that complicated. Just give the person a favorite gift on their birthday and you get something like 4 hearts. Rinse, repeat. Then give them flowers, then a marriage necklace, and you've got them.
@ChogaLogan3595@DomTheBomb Yes it does. What do they spend that money on? More employees = larger studio. Art assets = workaround for hiring artists. Code modules = workaround for hiring coders. Music tracks = workaround for hiring a composer. Even if they don't hire staff, they're contracting out work.
Residents living near AI data centers are experiencing health problems caused by infrasound from cooling systems and gas turbines.
These inaudible low-frequency vibrations can cause symptoms including dizziness, nausea, vertigo, headaches, insomnia, and anxiety.
Because infrasound falls below the range of human hearing, it often evades detection by standard noise measurement equipment.
As a result, some local governments have implemented moratoriums on new data center projects while the environmental impacts are studied further.
@Polymarket Too many fake jobs were invented to create artifical parity between men and women in the workforce
AI fixes this problem
Hopefully after this is over, women can go back to doing what they do best: being a mother or being a prostitute
@BellaBaddie__ Extremely annoying having to watch a movie with my hand on the remote constantly turning up and down the volume. It's not worth the time putting the remote down. On the rare instance we still go to the movies, I bring my noise canceling earplugs.
With the recent v0.050 release yesterday, I decided to see if I could publish Gatekeeper on other platforms before I get into the weeds of v6. Fortunately Ren'py makes this "easy".
keeperatthegate.itch.io/gatekeeper/dev…
It's time for another release. v0.050 marks the addition of music, the continuing storyline, a permanent pixel art location, and tweaks. Tweaks everywhere. I must say that the music addition was quite the eye opener.
keeperatthegate.itch.io/gatekeeper/dev…
@Pirat_Nation I've heard that Quantum computing is just around the corner for my entire life. I first heard it when I was a teenager. Let's just say I'm VERY far away from being a teenager now. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it.
@Pirat_Nation This was the year I had planned to replace my 10 year old PC. I have the money set aside and everything. Instead I was lucky enough to get a 3070 and hopefully will get a few more years out of it thanks to the upgrade.
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