@RyanLykos Yeah. I just got curious what kind of wide body they would have for it. Went to check and found that it's body kits are these nice box truck and van variants.
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@RyanLykos But it's also in auto-show. Honda Acty. It's default is with a different face and a bed.
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@RyanLykos They gave me the truck after a quest. I just painted it to my liking. The box variant is one of the "body kit" options for it. You can also have a tiny van.
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@WodenWanderer @TheAliceSmith @Will_Ford76 The cobra didn't even die. It's just shed it's skin. The ghouls in kremlin never went away and US and Europe showered china and russia in technology and investment money making sure the cancer of communism grew to what it is today.
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@TheAliceSmith @Will_Ford76 It’s similar to celebrating the death of a cobra after it has bitten you.
The snake may be dead, but its venom still courses through your veins.
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The West didn’t win the Cold War.
Communism merely immigrated from Eastern revolutionary committees to Western university campuses.
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@honeytubs @CooperZurad There was money. Just not for the people in rural areas. They would be "paid" in flour or sugar if there was excess in production on the collective farm. They did not receive money, they didn't have passports, they could not leave the collective farms up to late 70s.
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@FkLucky @CooperZurad Mind boggling that entire countries would do away with money which is so essential.
In China too there was no money between the 50s and 80s. Workers did get coupons though which were used to get grain or cloth.
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So I had a genuine conversation with an avowed communist discussing this point.
We made it simple. A lathe. What if I were to acquire and fabricate all of the components of a lathe myself? Would I be bourgeoise?
Eventually it all came down to, "uh yeah and we'd have to K you"
Uri Kurlianchik@VerminusM
Why is it always "seize the means of production" and never "create the means of production"?
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@AnxiousNeck @modredcastleton Game design aside. But just the assets, the polish, licensed music soundtrack, and media "care" package that includes CD player, headphones, custom run CD with music (license fees again) and a bunch of merch. What kind of small team has this much money to throw around?
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@modredcastleton The mixtape of Mixtape alone has a bigger budget than...ALL indie games.
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"a broke group from Melbourne"
Mixtape is published by Annapurna Interactive, headed by Larry Ellison - the world's sixth-richest person. It's made by a large team.
As a now essentially solo dev who has been actually broke in Melbourne myself most of my life...
Really?
Felpz Crypto@FelpsCrypto
> seja a Mixtape > um pequeno estúdio australiano > formado por ex-roqueiros > construir um jogo inteiro > em volta de uma música do DEVO > escrever a playlist primeiro > e a história depois > fazer personagens baterem palmas > exatamente no ritmo da música > criar um minigame > onde você controla duas línguas > durante um primeiro beijo > transformar uma corrida de carrinho de supermercado >em helicópteros > televisão ao vivo > e caos absoluto justificar tudo com: “pelo menos é assim que eu lembro” > recusar streamer mode > porque a música É a alma do jogo > fazer a maioria dos streamers > nem conseguir transmitir direito > ainda assim > virar o jogo mais bem avaliado de 2026 no OpenCritic > duração: 3 horas > preço: $20 > apenas um final Enquanto estúdios AAA gastam centenas de milhões… um grupo quebrado de Melbourne com bom gosto musical acabou de vencer o jogo do ano. Talvez criatividade ainda importe. Mesmo em uma indústria obcecada por orçamento.
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@honeytubs @CooperZurad Pretty crazy system. Technically farmers didn't even have money officially well into 70-s. You had a quota of "work days" to work on a collective farm that's on top of all the stuff you needed to give up to the state.
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@FkLucky @CooperZurad Insanity. In the US there would technically be tax due if those things were sold or bartered but small amounts don't seem to concern the IRS.
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@honeytubs @CooperZurad Same in soviet union. Have a fruit tree - need to surrender most of the fruit as a tax, have a chicken - quota on eggs and chicken poop, if you're super rich and have a cow - quota on milk. Miss any of the quotas - you're a counter revolutionary and best case get some jail time.
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@CooperZurad In communist China it was illegal to have an apple tree. It wouldn't be fair to have apples when your neighbor didn't have any.
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@TheWizardTower It's interesting to see these patterns emerge over and over. I could probably rant some paragraphs on it. Also an interesting parallel with people wanting to be journalists but settling to being "game journalists" and movie makers settling to making "games".
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Well said. Knocked it out of the park with this one.
LuckyFK@FkLucky
@TheWizardTower Games inherently stimulate independent though and problem solving. But for a rigid ideology it's unacceptable. So the only game possible in that ideology is something that is already pre-programmed? Party approved. You turn it on and consume it. No deviation.
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@per_digitos @TheWizardTower I think you unknowingly highlighted a deep misunderstanding of games as medium. You view it as a movie. Impactful choices for you mean something in the story. But a game can have no story and be full of impactful choices through gameplay mechanics. That's the beauty of it.
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This is such a fascinating object study.
So, if you're a leftist, games are *tremendously* appealing, because gaming has, built-in, the idea of making a new reality to suit your whims and preferences. It's so appealing because you finally get to live out the "what-if?" without having pesky details like "If we gulag/wall all the farmers, what will we eat?" get in the way.
But, games also showcase that choices matter, have consequences, and that some choices might actually be better than others, which is ✨problematic✨.
Put these two facts in a mixer for a few years, and you get """games""" like Mixtape. Where everything just magically works out no matter what you do.
That's not a game, it's wish fulfillment. Masturbation has more utility.
Christina Tasty@ChristinaTasty
Explaining why I, personally, hate Mixtape in just under 3 minutes of totally uninterrupted "gameplay" (Spoilers):
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@TheWizardTower Games inherently stimulate independent though and problem solving. But for a rigid ideology it's unacceptable. So the only game possible in that ideology is something that is already pre-programmed? Party approved. You turn it on and consume it. No deviation.
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@TheWizardTower 1/1 Might be a bit of a stretch. But having grown up at the tail-end of Soviet Union. These walking games remind me of soviet 3 channel TV and endless "working drama" movies. USSR didn't really had games and I think for similar reasons you mention.
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@JussiKemppainen I'll guess I'll wait and see how it works in the end. Just during play-test the more I did it the more annoyance it caused. The computers are close together but you need to do the whole loop around the base. Seemed odd.
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@FkLucky The flow is better when you first chose whick mission to go on and then what gear to take with you. It can be 2 terminals side by side (with camera move), but breaking into character movement after selecting the mission would be odd.
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solodev day 572: mission computer refactor. In the last play-test it became painfully clear that people had no idea what to do in the game, I am now FINALLY redoing my mission selection computer to walk you trough step by step! #solodev #indiegamedev #UX #buildinpublic
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@JussiKemppainen If I may ask. What's the purpose of making it go all the way around and not have just two terminals next to each other? Atmosphere/scenery break between missions or it makes more sense in a full game idea?
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@FkLucky Or not quite now, but soon when I move that stuff over the the mission computer flow.
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@DellAnnaLuca I got yelled at by a professor cause I used excel to automate data processing and building graphs, also drawing the manufacturing floor plan in cad and printing it out instead of drawing it by hand. We studied "automation" by his book written in 67-73 in 2003.
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My oldest professor was 83. He failed me for suggesting car factories use robots to assemble doors. In 2009.
I showed him a video of a real factory. He said it was impossible because he’d never seen any back when he still worked there (which was probably decades earlier).
Now, imagine how detached from reality a public system must be to allow people like this to still teach.
A major problem of most public education systems is that there is no quality control on teachers subsequent to hiring.
Alessandro Riolo@aledeniz
Italy’s university system’s main objective was to create the new generation of academics. Producing professionals for the job market was the least of their concerns. The system was extremely selective; it wasn’t unheard of for a professor to fail all students in his module. It was far more commonplace, and absolutely expected, to pass only a handful of students. Italian lawmakers decided the country would be better served by adopting the Anglo-Saxon system, where the first five years (3+2) are dedicated to the job market (with module failure rates lower than 20%) and additional years to select the new generation of academics. They heavily reformed the system in the ‘80s and ‘90s but failed to inform the professorial class. When I attended university, 50% to 80% of professors stuck to the old ways, routinely failing 95% of the students in their module like there was no tomorrow. When I passed, I was often among the 3-4 students who passed out of 200. When I finally graduated, the session was organized for just 5 of us. Over the decades this has slowly changed, but even today, almost half a century after the Italian elites decided to reform the university system, it is not unusual to hear anecdotes of professors still anchored to the old ways: failing all students except a selected few – in this case, one. P.S.: I hope we don’t jinx them! 🫣 They have passed the written phase of the exam, not the oral yet! 🥹
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@HazelAppleyard C. But I feel like "clever" problems like this only achieve the child hating math, the teacher and school in general.
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