This, very much so.

Your smug response to my distaste of capitalism as a whole really changed by views. Thanks for sharing!

You forgot the part about a paywall. You need to pay to learn about the cravenness.

Out of the games I’ve been fortunate to work on, 1/7 require internet, and the 1 was my first industry job as QA. Everything else has been mobile, online required. 5/7 are no longer playable / removed from the internet.

It makes me sad because my kids will never play a bunch of things I made. I can’t revisit them nostalgically. If I had made something in the 90s, it would be preserved still.

I played the cards dealt to me to follow a dream and make a living, but I wish the industry wasn’t like this. The money has always been a role, but nowadays, it’s distorted so badly.

Finest kind.

What if some of my parents really love red hats?

Our parents really screwed this country up:

• Worse off financially
• Lonelier
• Worse mental health
• Worse social safety net
• Less affordable homes
• Less affordable health care
• Less affordable college
• Climate is royally screwed

It feels like an older sibling who took your toy and broke it rather than parents as stewards who gave a shit about the society they leave the next group. We were taught respect, share, work with others, and then it turns out all the adults are just doing whatever selfish thing lets them get ahead. All the BS propaganda about communism taken to its extreme was true of neoliberal policy taken to its extreme. Now we slip into textbook capital Fascism and defunct cronyism.

#voidposting

I mean, that’s when the game really opens up and you get to focus on trade routes & skill trees.

After reading the article, it sounds like the start of a new resource in an idle game. “You now make 89 nuclei of gold every 1 hour. It lasts 1 pico second.” It’ll take a few more prestige loops until we can do full jewelry.