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@jackvaniadev @PirateSoftware The goldsrc community even has a reverse engineered implementation of the dedicated server. Even though we already have the server software, people went on to go beyond that for sake of updating and expanding. I love them too, things people do is amazing. The skillset is there.

Been reading through all of the posts against me over my stance on the Stop Killing Games initiative. Tons of people calling me a liar or that I misrepresented the initiative. Also lots of content creators dogpiling on this to get their pound of flesh. Lets dig into what I actually did and said. I put out two videos on August 6th 2024 and August 7th 2024. These videos are linked at the bottom of this post. Many people have not watched them and are just calling me a liar or attacking my character. Give the videos a watch, read the initiative itself, make a conclusion that you aren't copy pasting from social media. Monetization on these videos is disabled so no this is not some ploy to increase revenue. I just care about this subject and have rightful concerns as a person working in this space. In the first video. I go through what an initiative is, how it's not law, and how it's a starting point for this entire process. This helps people understand that this is to start the conversation for change and can adapt later. I then go through the initiative and some of it's goals from the official page for it. I then talk about the repercussions of them should they be implemented. As written all games need to be left in a "Functional Playable State". Next I bring up The Crew and walk through the business around it, the sequels, and the size of the player-base at time of sunset. I did this because it was called out by this initiative as an example of publishers destroying a game. I also harshly critique Ross Scotts wording in his videos because they disparage the lawmaking process and lawmakers which doesn't benefit players or this movement in any way. In the second video. I talk about potential scenarios where a studio could be abused if the initiative was implemented as written. It adds new paths for abuse and that needs to be discussed to help hone this initiative into something that would do good without doing harm. I then explain that very few people in the game development space can actually discuss this from the other side due to fear of losing their jobs. A studio is much safer in silent dissent then they are discussing the drawbacks of your ideals. The recent attacks on our games is obvious evidence of this. To recap. My main issue with this initiative is that it is broad in it's approach to change the industry and the exact language of the initiative, not the FAQ, requests that all games stay in a "Functional Playable State". This is not feasible for all games at a technical level and could potentially restrict developers from making online-only games like MMOs, MOBAs, and User Generated Content games in the future. That list is not exhaustive and it doesn't matter if you do or don't like those kinds of games. Effectively this has the potential to restrict future developers from making kick-ass experiences because it locks a weight on their designs. Even though this is an initiative that can change in the future this goal is core to the mission and deeply disruptive so it needs to be called out. To clear up some disinformation about my character. I left AAA in 2016 because I fucking hate how the industry is now and prefer indie entirely. I don't like Blizzard or I would have stayed working there. That's why I quit. That's the entire point. Fuck AAA and what many studios have turned games into. Outside of that no I am not financially supported by live service games. I make a single player RPG and am the Director of Strategy for offbrand games. In that position I am paid MINIMUM WAGE by my own decision because I care about games succeeding not about profiting off of them. To further this the games we're publishing are all playable offline anyway because their gameplay loops are not only based on inter-player interaction. Not all games are like this and not all games can be like this. No, I have not been running away from discourse on this I talked about it for around 8 hours on stream yesterday. I never took my videos down and I have not discussed the initiative in the 10 months it's been since I released those videos. My internet also died mid-broadcast so I had to go live again 30 minutes later. Thanks ISP. For those that will scream HE'S DOUBLING DOWN. Yes I damn well am. I give a shit about this initiative and what it means for games, developers, and players in the future. To finish out. Just because I don't support this doesn't mean you should blindly follow me in that just because I said pretty words on the internet. You also shouldn't blindly bash me because some other creator said to. Watch the videos I put out, read the initiative, decide for yourself. Apply critical thinking and don't outsource it to others. As always. Stay Frosty. First Video: youtube.com/watch?v=ioqSvL… Second Video: youtube.com/watch?v=x3jMKe… Minimum Wage Proof: x.com/PirateSoftware…

@jackvaniadev @PirateSoftware I think that opponents treating the community as a whole of being incapable is weird, when there are showcases or tremendous efforts to revive games, there's even showcases of efforts to turn singleplayer games into multiplayer (SA:MP, MTA).

@jackvaniadev @PirateSoftware To add. I am a little dismayed with how often things get detracted by the notion that we have to do everything perfectly and how microservices are a huge showstopper. I still don't understand what's wrong with stubbing some of them out, or replacing with smaller-scale alternative

@Tyler_McV Would you consider adding Chaos mod? It should work with a bunch of half life based games. Seen it used in CS Condition Zero Deleted Scenes too. It's on ModDB but github version is more up to date. github.com/ScriptedSnark/…

Here is the Half-Life Marathon tentative list of official titles, major mods and Half-Likes. If you have a suggestion to add or remove anything, please make it here. This marathon will likely begin this week, with a set timeline of streams. docs.google.com/document/d/1vC…

@NVIDIAGeForce #HalfLife2RTX That rusty fan looks so good.

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@matteosonoioo @harbulot @troyhunt Oh wow, that's more than I'd expect. Though I'm curious what the banner looks like in your case. Is it compliant one click decline, or non-compliant ones that make users click more than once?

@harbulot @troyhunt Also, my data shows almost 30% of people rejecting tracking, so that's hardly "99% of people accept"

If you don’t agree with @elonmusk on this, you’re wrong: troyhunt.com/these-cookie-w… (Now waiting to see how many people disagree, not because of the cookie warnings, but because”because Elon” 🤣)

@danjconn @troyhunt I once went through half the UK map slowly on Google maps to find odd place names. Titty Hill, Cocks, The Dicker (and Upper Dicker and Lower Dicker). Can't remember them all. Got a dozen or so screenshots at home.

Early in my career, I was told to replace “ten” with “10” throughout the app. So, find and replace across all files and… “attention” became “at10tion”, and so on. No probs, replace “10” with “ten” and… “1,110,000” became “1,1ten,000”, and so on. We had no source control 😭

@tkuenneth @shanselman 200 dollar upcharge for extra 256GB of ssd? :x

16 gigs of RAM and 256 gigs of storage? That is offensively small in 2024. And the 10gigabit ethernet that no one has a home router for is even more hilarious. 32 gigs and 512 gigs should be a minimum today.

@Magic_Nipples I think I downloaded the wrong version

Duake is here! #doom #quake

@lazygamereviews Glad you're safe. Damn... This damage and loss to collection, heartbreaking. Best of luck, hope you manage to figure things out.

almost no cell signal but maybe this’ll work 2 trees destroyed my roof, living/dining room, flooded my LGR collection rooms down below a dozen or more trees down in frontyard, no way yet to get equipment in to remove trees, roof hole is too big & unstable to put a tarp over it

Hey folks. Unfortunately LGR will be postponed for a good while I feel. More details to follow but the hurricane has done *incredible* damage to my place, I won’t be livin there for a bit. Many folks I know have it much worse than I do so please keep Asheville in your thoughts.

@bnuyygirl @nibbnot @MaliceDaFirenze @GorkaGames Yeah. Some people have a really distorted sense of what makes a game good. The gameplay isn't gonna change because a wooden fence model was purchased on asset store instead of being made in-house. It's still a quality model, rest is up to the devs to put it all together. 🤷‍♂️

@nibbnot @MaliceDaFirenze @GorkaGames i'm a coder not a 3d artist so i can outsource the work of the 3d artists! brilliant right?

We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness. Would you play this?

@DROOPSmadeit @kwiens It's only voluntary and only shows up when you click/hover on the blue checkmark to check if the user went through this. Not a requirement.

@StereoBucket @kwiens yes it is. i went thru the verification process like three months ago. it's the same now as it was 3 months ago and i had to send them a selfie of my face along with a photo of my ID. i just told you up there all the steps i had to go thru.

I am thrilled to announce our first electronic product, the Smart Soldering Iron. We've put a huge amount of thought and effort into crafting a soldering experience that's easy and safe for anyone to learn. It has a 100-Watt heater that's ready to solder in 5 seconds.

@DROOPSmadeit @kwiens But you aren't aware that an ID isn't required for a blue checkmark anymore?

@StereoBucket @kwiens no, it's because i decided to stop paying for premium.

@DROOPSmadeit @kwiens You may have noticed that you aren't verified anymore. That is because what you've gone through no longer exists.

@StereoBucket @kwiens so you're calling me a liar about all that stuff i had to go thru to get verified?

@DROOPSmadeit @kwiens There hasn't been verification system in place since November 2022. The only requirement for that blue checkmark is a phone number and 8 dollars subscription. That is it. That's why it's useless too. The only useful verification is gray checkmark for government and politicians

@StereoBucket @kwiens the only explanation for this is that his legal name is also John Cena Have you ever gone thru verification? Display name has to match your ID name, you send them a photo of your ID and photo of your face, and if you change your username later at all, they have to re-verify you

@DROOPSmadeit @kwiens This guy at the bottom did 🤷‍♂️ Maybe it won't last for long, but it's there. It's nothing like the previous system. Old system required you to prove notability, new one requires you to prove you have 8 dollars.

@StereoBucket @kwiens It’s the same system it always was. It’s just available to everybody now. They didn’t change the verification system, only who has access to it. I can’t just make an account called John Cena, and verify it.

@kwiens Sooo 3.5mm jack for the tip... and the iron has a chip that might be powerful enough to play some basic music... Waiting for an janky MP3 mod

@DROOPSmadeit @kwiens It hasn't meant verified in well over a year, wouldn't mean anything if he got it.

@kwiens how are you the CEO of a major company and you still don't find it important to have a verified checkmark?

@ottersdangerden @iFixit Hoping that they also tell you how you can do it yourself via serial. I get it, via Web Serial you can put a pretty page interface for it without any extra hardware work... but also non standard API kinda stinky. Hoping for serial documentation so we don't have to reverse it.

@ottersdangerden @iFixit 🙃 When I first heard that one way to control the temperature of the iron is through a web interface, I thought the iron or the station had some sort of networking. Maybe it still does and this is just one way to do it via a web interface, but damn... non standard APIs suck...

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