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  • Ok, now suppose you want to release a game for any of the modern Nintendo consoles.

    You need to get a devkit. To get it, you need Nintendo to approve your request, and you need to pay them for a license to use the devkit hardware. And, to actually use the devkit, you need a PC running Windows.

    Sure, to develop a game for PC, you need a PC. But do you know what you don’t need on top of that? A devkit and a Windows license.

    Edit: Two downvotes in two minutes? Oh my, the sockpuppets are angry today.



  • Corpos are skilled at wringing any and all interesting bits out of something and reducing it to harmless, overdone slop that still sells. They don’t take risks because that may make them $5 less. But indies do.

    I’m still amazed at how Gearbox managed to royally fuck up Risk of Rain 2. They had a great game with solid foundations handed to them, and they somehow managed to both regress the game logic into being tied to framerate and release a buggy mess of a DLC in one fell swoop.


  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldTake a hint
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    It’s not that they’re allergic to money but rather the inflated sense of self-importance and ego. To rightsholders and executives, it’s unthinkable that fans could come up with something better and profitable using the intellectual property that they earned (read: bought) fair and square. And if someone somehow did, it’s a threat to the bottom line, not something to embrace and encourage.










  • The part the most astonishing isn’t the fact that he said it, but the numerous ways his dumbfuck supporters have performed mental gymnastics to downplay concerns about it as dogwhistling.

    I have heard stupid shit ranging from “he meant votes will be cast automatically” to “he’s just trolling” to “good, it’s leveling the playing field after Biden rigged 2020.”

    Just maybe… the simplest answer is the correct one, and the guy who claimed he would be a dictator on day 1 and is sending an armed militia to provoke protesters in an attempt justify a violent response intended to crush dissent by making people fear for their safety is, in fact, a dictator that wants to eliminate the democratic process?






  • The magic cable typically goes into ISP-owned hardware sitting in a box somewhere down the street. From there, it’s either converted into fiber optic signals or repeated until it reaches an ISP-owned building where the data can be exchanged with the wider internet.

    How does so much data go through a single-pin coax cable?

    It uses multiple channels (frequency ranges) in parallel, bonding (combining) them to increase throughput.

    A surprising amount of bandwidth can be achieved this way. DOCSIS 4.0 can do 10 gigabits per second in download and 6 gigabits per second in upload.