Fwoosh.

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Waiting for the army of swifties to singlehandedly take down ISIS

Introducing a Captcha on a form on my website basically blocked bots 100% of the time. It’s arguably good enough from a practical standpoint.

If someone really wants to exploit my site, then they will find a way. You can only make it harder but never truly impossible if you don’t want to dispose of all convenience.

I think I might pay less than those 200$ backers for both games when I buy them on steam 😄

I get it’s for peeps that really want those games to exist, but this article writes about it like it is completely unexpected, which is bullshit.

Seems like we’re in the same boat, haha.

I also have a big backlog, and there are far more interesting options than their stuff.

Wasn’t Piranha Bytes not profitable for quite some time?

Their games certainly had a community of fans, but I don’t think those are enough to keep a whole studio afloat.

Just thinking out loud, I did not look at any numbers, but in my head what’s done them in is not producing games that feel good to play. I loved Gothic 3 and Arcania at the time, but I’d choose any other 3rd person RPG that actually has snappy controls over the more modern stuff like Elex and I feel like that’s the mainstream opinion going around.

Ha, that’s funny. When I run some Visual Studio builds on Windows it completely freezes at times.

Never have that issue on EOS with KDE.

100% that.

Especially that working software over comprehensive documentation part, which can be automated so easily if done right.

There’s so much value in TDD and providing a way to do integration and automated UI tests early on in a project, yet none of the companies I’ve worked at made use of it.

Also automated documentation tools like Swagger are almost criminally underutilised.

So, judging by the wizard frog being clothed. The wizard just told this dude to get naked for what reason? 🤭

I feel you. There should have been an option to avoid those fights for the non lethal players.

The bot, designed by a user known only as @Blazeman98, frequently tries to help users engage in CBT — “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,” a talking therapy that helps people manage problems by changing the way they think.

Oh yeah, that CBT. Not the one I thought about.

Unfortunately I can’t help you with Nobara, but I’m surprised you’re having troubles with EndeavourOS.

EOS has been working out of the box for me for almost everything.

I’d have recommended it as well.

Popular stuff is usually available in most languages.

Well, you can only win against big corpo if you shoot them with their own guns.

Or literal guns.

Thanks for explaining. I was not arguing the point that closures happen, just expanding on why it’s not easy for the studios to get back on their feet again as independents.

There will likely be non-disclosure agreements, non-competes or simply IP rights to take into consideration if we want to argue why these studios can’t continue their work. In the end it comes down to legal stuff and money. The IP rights even for unreleased products very likely are with the parent corporation. The same goes for the codebase.

So yeah. The studios are left with nothing, except a severance pay if they’re lucky.

Why even engage if you’re not interested in discussion?

Misrepresenting what I’m saying is not nice of you.

If the studios had the resources they could easily become independent. But the corporate side owns the rights to their works, so the now independent studio doesn’t have any incoming revenue.

The average employee won’t work for scraps or nothing. So it’s effectively over if big corpo cuts them off.