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If I can go to the library and borrow a book or piece of media for free to return on later date, what's the functional difference between that and downloading that piece of media from a pirate site? I mean, support your local library and all that, but there's something funny to me about how we split hairs between borrowing and stealing when it comes to a format that is lent away for free and can reproduce infinite copies of itself
also, considering how the #ComputerGames industry works now; i'd be OK with PIRATING then deciding if you want to pay for it afterwards -- maybe??? idk
if you like the studio and the game and you want more: PAY
if you don't: DON'T
the big ones like EA or Activision pay devs hourly rates or are contractual, i think? they already got their money and have moved on to a new project. paying only to help those actual human-beings might be a non-point for bigger "triple a" studios?
I need a new hobby like I need a new hole in the head, but I am also powerless to resist when a new hobby strikes. Such is life.
I work as a #TechnicalWriter at a Danish software company. I have three clever and independent children who shout at me a lot, and a wife who doesn't. We live a happy normie-life in suburbia.
So 4 Guys Co-op took on Chapter 3 of Serious Sam 4 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - and failed miserably. We played it twice in about 2.5 hours and while we got slightly further the 2nd time, it still ended ugly, with 100s of monsters roaming free. I may have to add a few more lives to our game. Right now, I'm giving us 5. But replaying long levels gets tiring! #ComputerGames#Videogames
Not a bad year of gaming on #Steam, although my biggest time sink is Divinity: Original Sin 2 and that's via #GOG and is probably over 75 hours at least. And I think 4 Guys Co-Op played at least one game on Epic.
probably been stated to death but i haven't thought about in awhile so please allow me to indulge.
pre-ordering has ruined the #ComputerGames industry, or not, or maybe; something: "seems likely" category
"here's $60 for something that hasn't been released yet of which i don't know the real quality" seems counter-intuitive to how we should be treating #anything
we are just giving money to big corporations for lols? before the product is even out? what???? why???
Digital Eclipse is remaking #Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, one of the earliest dungeon crawler RPGs for personal computers. I remember playing this (badly) on an Apple ].
humans are evil in the same way that if you teach a dog to bite, it will bite. nature is made and social creatures are constructed by the society left to them. the villains that inspire you to vilify humanity itself have a specific history, and it is not the story of all peoples everywhere.
Picked this up this week. It brings back so many memories of my youth. I typed so many of these programs when I was 14, 15, 16. I'm very happy to have re-found a copy.
Morning Mastodonians!
We had an enjoyable evening of gaming last night. First up was a 3 player game of Resident Evil 2 The Boardgame, playing the intro scenario. For a game that is at its heart pretty simple, there sure are plenty of edge cases. Then we had an epically successful 4 player #videogame session of World War Z, where we finished off the Kamchatka episode on our first try, then went back to the dreaded gas station chapter of Jerusalem and beat it too. #computergames#boardgames
I love programming and thinking and talking about thinking. I have an education (BS, MS, PhD) focused on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
I'm an advocate of the public academic pursuit of knowledge, the scientific process, peer review, and I see open source software and hardware as an essential part of the scientific process.
I see software user rights, including security and privacy, to be protected mainly by free and open source software.
I see the democratizing effects of the Internet, including distributed journalism and social networking, to be largely the effect of the collaborative development of free and open source software.
I am interested in free and open source manufacturing, including open source 3D printers and CNC machines. I believe open source manufacturing will be important for distributed manufacturing, allowing local manufacturing and local labor.
I see worker-owned coops as the way to safely transition from a non-democratic authoritarian top-down power structure of a traditional corporation to a democratic work environment, where the workers own the company and elect the board of directors, transitioning to democracy in the workplace.
I believe that socialism is a regulatory response to capitalism.
I believe that laws, money, corporations, and government are social agreements, and I'm in favor of democratic social agreements.
I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
I try to eat plant-based / vegan foods to boycott the animal industry, to help with the climate crisis, to improve my health, to avoid animal cruelty, and to avoid the extinction of species of plants, animals and ecosystems.
I have been diagnosed with Retinitus Pigmentosa, which is a disease of progressive retinal degeneration. I am legally blind, although I have about 5-degrees of vision remaining in my fovea. I'm interested in researching and developing BCIs (Brain-Computer Interfaces), specifically BCIs that function as vision prostheses that may help with conditions like RP, or the more common degenerative retinal disease AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
I enjoy playing computer games like Age of Empires and Rimworld. I used to program computer games when I was younger and would like to get back to it one day.
I love playing music, especially bass guitar. I've been listening to a lot of Rage Against the Machine and Enya recently.
I enjoy reading books, mostly non-fiction.
I enjoy studying religions. I've found a lot of value in Buddhism, and I meditate often daily.
Nina and I have recently had our first baby, a boy we named Tyoma.
I'm currently working at Apple on the Vision Pro headset team.
I'm currently playing #Level9#interactiveFiction#textAdventure game Knight Orc from 1987. Which feels almost like a #MUD with many autonomous NPCs running around, fighting and grabbing treasure! And has some very unusual command shortcuts, as shown in the image of part of the manual. A very intriguing game. Which can get into unwinnable states, like Melbourne House's The Hobbit. But I am very much enjoying it. Will write up more thoughts after. #80sGames#ComputerGames#RetroGaming#British