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I love showing people Saturn. Clearly visible even with city light pollution, and rings can be resolved even with cheap hardware.

Kind of nuts how long people can live without ever seeing the rings for themselves.

Most mobile game developers just want to attract whales. People who spend thousands of dollars in their app. They don't care about everyone else because they don't make any money off anyone else.

For some games, 20% of players spend $1800 or more a year. One of those people spent $90k.

So if your game sucks for everyone else, it's not a big loss.

You could also argue that if even if you're not self-hosting (i.e. renting server hardware from a 3rd party), your data is still in a siloed environment. While it may be accessible by law enforcement if you are targeted specifically, it's unlikely to be dragnetted like the data collected from popular apps.

I remember thinking the interactive TV thing was dumb when I read it in middle school (early 2000s).

But now we have streamers who just sit there and say "mmm ice cream!" whenever someone gives them a dollar.

If you’ve got 25 minutes, I made this a while back https://youtu.be/Yzfk0t0HfZc?si=YQRNtg5hHbp-CFcO

Oh. I was looking in the article itself.

Oh also I got an oxygen concentrator from the wholesale Goodwill where everything is sold by the pound. Paid $13 for a $800 medical device.

I use it to get my fireplace going. Works like a charm.

A failed 3D print. Some Pokémon missing a leg.

I’m on mobile. I legit don’t see it anywhere. I must be blind.

Better not lock eyes with Mr. Birthday Celebrations in this thread

We have two full baths, but the master bath has two showers which is the fucking bomb if you live with someone you’re cool being naked around.

I mean…books have been doing this for a while. No need to make it a game. Look at 1984 and see some parallels. Book was written 75 years ago but covers things like:

• information sources being constantly edited (far before things like Twitter were able to remove posts)
• constant wars where people are resigned to always being at war
• language being modified so people can’t even express what the problems they’re experiencing are (like how certain terms like CRT are being erased from schooling)
• the every day shmoe being complicit in it while just receiving orders from someone he’s never met editing news articles he knows nothing about (like everyone stuck in the “machine” as it were).

1984 is a bit of a cliche, but it has a lot of relevant discussion of modern issues in it.

Also Brave New World where everyone is too absorbed in entertainment and drugs to realize how fucked everything is, and Fahrenheit 451 because, y’know censorship.

Not exactly modern, and maybe a bit cartoonish, but given how old these books are it’s remarkable how relevant they still are.

Point is, doesn’t have to be a video game. Books are cheaper to produce and tend to need less financial incentive to be written. So you get better content.