lazerwalker.com
Experimental games, interactive art, OSS tools. Games advocacy lead at MS/Xbox (although currently a full-time Sick Person). Organizer, Roguelike Celebration and !!con. Disabled (LC + ME/CFS), queer, neurodivergent.
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If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, I’ve been happy with iCloud Drive as a Dropbox/GDrive replacement. Obviously harder to recommend if that’s not you.
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As a heads up, Brave is founded/run by Brendan Eich, who caused controversy at Mozilla when he supported Prop 8 (the CA ballot prop banning gay marriage).
I also see people rec’ing Proton, but the CEO has been vocally pro-Trump.
(I don’t know your motivations for ditching Google, but just in case)
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So, I’m used to mixing fizzy water with e.g. a splash of tart cherry juice, which adds a good balance of tart and sweet. Unsweetened cranberry is… like being punched in the face with tartness, bitterness, and astringency, even with like 2oz of juice to 6oz of fizzy water.
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Oh for every day to be spa day
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Apparently the sequel GBF Versus Rising gets rid of the RPG stats management stuff and the complexity of the weapon grid from the story mode, which is absolutely the right choice, but also means I have zero interest in its single-player content, lol
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me, taking an arbitrarily-nested list of lists of lists of etc, adding another layer of recursion on, and saying "this will fix me"
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hey, one of these days I swear I'm going to sit down and organize my list of discords. one of these days...
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To be clear, it isn’t A Story About Trauma, which is what makes it work. It’s subtext, not text. But the game’s universe is hyperfocused on mechanically obsessing over a singular traumatic moment in time, reconsidering it from every new angle, in a way that really struck a nerve with me.
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Okay, yeah, it’s funny to see the fan reaction to New War was negative at the time for being full of high-concept sci-fi nonsense, when to me those exact things were masterful use of narrative design to mechanically embody PTSD, easily as good or better than any boxed Destiny campaign.
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ratamari damacy
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(I’m also so glad it’s working so well for you!!! This is a good reminder I haven’t used mine today, hah)
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And it’s amazing how many of them are priced like scams! I fully understand why the approved medical devices are more expensive than the $50 TENS unit and $15 ear clip I use, but Gammacore charging literally hundreds of dollars per month in ongoing subscription fees should be illegal.
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I imagine there’s sampling bias. Custom sculpted boards are “more ergonomic”, but require manual CAD work. Optimizing down to fewer keys is also more ergonomic than a keywell but requires layout fiddling (and usually requires PCB assembly). This appeals to people who just want to buy a thing.
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I’ve mostly done the flow where you go to like Hulu.com/activate or something like that and enter a 4-5 digit code
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That’s so weird, I’ve signed into Hulu on Apple TV via my phone before!
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You can obviously DIY, but there are also fancy printing services like mpcfill.com that make it easy to get a fancy printed deck mailed to you.
WOTC is broadly okay with it, the main rule is you can’t try to pass proxies off as real cards (or use them in sanctioned events)
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I am also a large fan of, instead of buying the WOTC cash-grab collectors bits, printing cheap proxy decks, and spending the money you'd spend on legit cards supporting indie proxy card artists.
It's not perfect (e.g. it's usually bad form to bring proxies to a LGS) but I like it as a compromise.
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So it actively let you maintain existing Stripe payment tokens for active subscriptions, no need to force all your subscribers to re-up? That’s huge if so.
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I find it so funny when interviewers are baffled that all their candidates are clearly using genAI garbage during their interviews. Like, I personally would never do that, but you don’t get how that behavior arises from leetcode bullshit??
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Ahhh, I’m getting hit with a sudden strong wave of energy, but I’ve learned enough about both my sick body and the human nervous system in general to know this is all fake energy and I need to ride this sympathetic wave back up to an actual regulated nervous system. Bodies are so weird.
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With the name, I don't mean to give the impression that there are legal issues with the name Ink (I agree there's not!). But, among game devs who hope to use your platform, I think there's going to be (reasonable but unintentional) confusion that they can use Ink to make games for the Ink Console.
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Yes, that is what I referred to. There are not currently labels, and every single piece of box art you are prominently featuring on your website appears to be using AI art.
It's also a policy that makes me want to not engage with your platform at all, either as a consumer or creator.
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If your arguments are "it's fine for all of my marketing materials to use AI, my FAQ says that games that use AI will be flagged as such [but are not currently]", and "making a new 'Zork' game is technically not IP infringement, so it's chill", we just have incompatibly different values as creators.
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I mean, you're using AI box art for all the games you're advertising, including one that seems to be unlicensed use of the Zork IP, and the name "ink" is shared with arguably the most popular IF scripting language despite no apparent connection. This could be a neat project, but I have questions.
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I agree, the xcom-style procgen gay mech pilots DO need a complex romance system for kissing each other