Posts by birdulon@shpposter.club
(DIR) Post #AvkcjrXEusVVcHKxH6 by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T08:43:16.075766Z
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@Jain @rick @SuperDicq @sun >Louis Rossman has never done something out of conviction, everything he did, benefited him money in the end. As an example, the whole right to repair movement is great, altho he pushed that not for the reason that private people do have more rights, he pushed it because its his business to do so.This is a funny natural consequence of him being self-effacing. He's willing to call his motivations and convictions self-interest, so self-righteous people judge him by their own standards and say he must be a real piece of work. Much like people who always play up their skills will assume someone who plays them down is actually playing them up as well, and we all know how well that works in hiring processes.
(DIR) Post #AvkfXCg1IiD5Hf6DWC by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T09:14:36.010495Z
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@hj @rick @Jain @SuperDicq @sun "iPhone Mini didn't sell, there's no market for a true midrange phone the size of a Galaxy S II""it sold more than your flagship and there's zero competition in the market for that form factor""commercial failure"
(DIR) Post #AvkgQYblSi2ZEJVHMm by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T09:24:36.207366Z
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@SuperDicq @hj @Jain @rick @sun I think that's a fair lower bound. The other day I saw someone complaining that FOSS devs are too selfish and focused on their own needs, and that they shouldn't release it in the first place if they aren't going to put hypothetical potential users first; I think we're better off having it than not having it.
(DIR) Post #Avkiu8VdGGwOshrpnE by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T09:52:21.452692Z
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@hakui @nerthos @sun If I ever made a Live Service game I would have a lagging GPL fork like a year behind retail. Not just as a form of soft idealism or attempt at community goodwill, but because I've seen how utterly destructive outdated official server leaks are to private server projects.
(DIR) Post #AvkkyaUbMUBajkdSro by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T10:15:34.434043Z
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@sun no matter how much I like releasing my stuff under free licenses, I like having a roof over my head and food in my stomach more than that
(DIR) Post #Avkp5tlaV25WMFK2SW by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T11:01:43.533197Z
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@romin please consider dual-licensing this post, perhaps creating a Community Notes Edition of it if it becomes successful
(DIR) Post #AvkxUpK0xewFRgp4ZE by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T12:35:49.685689Z
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@quad
(DIR) Post #Avl1tMPE0U0YowDK52 by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T13:25:02.888307Z
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@quad Hope the momentum doesn't die at 1M
(DIR) Post #Avl2jlJYdsyR8DYAoy by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T13:34:35.838748Z
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@rin congrats mang
(DIR) Post #Avl6S9Zk6LDsyoynAG by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T14:16:12.732382Z
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@hakui Irohas is still pretty recent...
(DIR) Post #AvlTPkNT76jdCF3mVc by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T18:33:30.182598Z
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@sun @kura My favourite excuse is "it would be too hard for people to run anyway, it's ten services split across big iron with esoteric hardcoded environment requirements." Meanwhile, when Genshin Impact server binaries got leaked, people managed to get things self-hostable very very quickly despite missing critical db things that weren't included in the leaks.
(DIR) Post #AvlTpO2AoCS1QdKE40 by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T18:38:07.954928Z
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@sun @kura It's difficult because the well has been poisoned by maliciously bad points, making an inherently unsympathetic position even more unsympathetic.
(DIR) Post #AvlUCgnFEE6SGmSCuW by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T18:42:20.947421Z
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@sun @kura I should clarify, the leaked server binaries absolutely were the mess of "works on my machine" that any reasonably cynical dev expected. And yet.
(DIR) Post #AvlUOPY9AIzsGTyuoK by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T18:44:28.425024Z
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@sun @i @kura I want them to be able to accept donations and even payment for reimplementing server software.
(DIR) Post #AvlVYhtNvH6y0GOAAi by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T18:57:31.931687Z
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@sun @arcana @lain >detecting adblockers was a violation of EU privacy lawsI already said I support the petition, you don't have to keep selling me on it
(DIR) Post #AvlVgVtoOf2N7kJL28 by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-03T18:58:57.972069Z
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@nugger @Groomschild @LordMordred SHE HAS FOUR EYEBROWS (AND POSSIBLY EVEN FOUR EARS?)
(DIR) Post #Avm9Na2qksCKe846Mq by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-04T02:23:43.549981Z
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@sun @i @kura @Arwalk Very few people are going to actually understand the full stack of the problem here, and none of them are going to be in this thread. Luckily, that's not a requirement to demand action.Everything right now is about guessing what the future is going to look like. We recently saw gacha games forced to show realworld pricing on screens where you spend the in-game currency that was invented to deliberately obscure the connection to your realworld spending. I was happily offline leading up to that, but I can imagine any number of complaints about how "complex" and "hard to comply" it is — and this applied to existing live service games!So from my perspective, there's a recent example of EU regulating videogames that worked. From your perspective it may have only worked because of a dangerous vague overreach which may be used to extort corporations in the future, I think this is an acceptable trade-off.Burdens like this naturally fall on the bigger and most exploitative entities. My problem with regulations is the tendency to screw the little guy to benefit the big guy, I am quite optimistic that the opposite is going to happen here, regardless of any "indie developer dreaming big on a live service project legally entangled with outsourced middleware everywhere" scenario people want to imagine.
(DIR) Post #AvmAKQXTk2HAFWS4Zs by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-04T02:34:21.298680Z
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@hakui @mangeurdenuage @romin @sun ever notice how normies seem to not get troubled by ghosts but are weak to fighting-type moves?
(DIR) Post #AvmAVqEqX23L8lBBpY by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-04T02:36:27.869604Z
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@hakui @mangeurdenuage @romin @sun grok is this true?
(DIR) Post #AvmHypcQc7vPINyqLA by birdulon@shpposter.club
2025-07-04T04:00:05.974186Z
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@hakui @sun Same tbh. Love you guys even though I disagree with you on many, many things, but I think it's time for me to logout for a while again.