I agree, for multiplayer video game design I think this is where the most difficult kind of artistry comes in.

It depends, all of the multiplayer games I play voice chat is great, but I don’t play popular games that attract asshats.

I play a lot of multiplayer games and I find that gaming constantly teaches me that no matter what, it always comes down to the quality of the community.

Every other aspect of design is a comparatively merely a detail.

suggesting that it would lead to an order of magnitude increase is surely premature

The US is continuing to worsen in performance on meaures of small business entrepreneurship in essentially all industries in the US, software and software adjacent industries are no different especially if you don’t get distracted by the AI bubble inflating that value of a bunch of illusions claiming to be businesses.

It is easy to see how the inability of the average person to try a new idea, or risk taking on a project that may not pay off immediately translates directly to a lack of available developers for open source software projects.

The impact of Universal Healthcare would be huge for open source development in the US, the amount of programmers that would be pushed over the line from “just making ends meet while having a work life balance” to “ok maybe I could devote some time to open source development”.

Don’t get me wrong though, I think we need to normalize straight up paying developers for Open Source Development. Just because it is open source doesn’t mean it doesn’t take labor, that is not the argument I am making.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2018/oct/affordable-care-act-impact-small-business

Github and the whole culture that it came out of it used to (it feels sooooo good to say that in the past tense) be globally hinged on Silicon Valley, why would you not expect to see a anomalously high number of US developers on it?

Don’t waste comment space by lazily pasting in the output of an AI, you bring down the quality of conversation here.

Use your damn brain.

If you think the video is clickbait (it is not, Nerdnest is a massive fan of the Steam Deck/Steam) and you are too mentally incapable of checking yourself, just keep scrolling and don’t bother interacting next time please.

I once had a woman bicycle into me on a somewhat narrow path, I thought she saw me and was turning but she didn’t and ran right into me at a running pace.

I instinctively put out my arms to stop her, grabbed her shoulders and then realized she might fall over if I just did a brief push to stop her so I kind of lightly held her in place for a second until she stabilized herself.

It was the most harmless yet awkward accident I have ever been in.

Ok then, you are labelling yourself as a pathetic loser.

Black pill ideology is most deeply rooted in misogynistic online communities heavily populated by incels, or involuntarily celibate men.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/What-does-black-pill-refer-to

Either Universal Healthcare is on the menu or society falls apart, pick one.

But where will the maintainers for these alternatives come from, when barely anybody has stepped up in the 30 years of rsync’s existence?

Universal Healthcare would increase the pool of willing developers by an order of magnitude here.

You most certainly are, use a different metaphor/descriptor.

Operation Harsh Doorstop multiplayer playtest.

I played in the match in this video!

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=oTEBj3PiB10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTEBj3PiB10

OHD is a blast! It is like Battlefield but moddable and not owned by EA or Tencent or some other worthless massive company. Oh yeah it is free, and not in a sketchy way, it is a genuinely community focused game. No microtransactions or any of that crap.

It pisses me off Nintendo is allowed to sell handheld computers with their operating system so locked down they become junk in only a handful of years.

FOMO doesn’t work on people that know you are selling them a scam…?

Processing at least for 2d stuff.

https://processing.org/

Parrots also don’t just mindlessly repeat shit like an LLM does, parrots are intelligent AI is not.

This has gotten me thinking though, one of the funniest ways for Aliens to make contact would be to submit a wave of bug reports on cybersecurity systems all over the earth under an umbrella message of “Fixed That For You” - yours sincerely, Aliens…

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

Just go play Motor Town: Behind The Wheel.

Trust me the driving physics are second to only maybe BeamNG and the open world GTA sidejob like structure is a blast to chill out and play in multiplayer or singleplayer.

Urgent taxi jobs are awesome point to point races.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DqdhBP_U4Y

Fuck Microsoft

Either way is fine but just don’t come at me with “the data are conclusive”