I feel like the big name titles are all headed in a similar direction (realism, large open world, story-driven), because they need to differentiate themselves from the indie titles that cover the other bases for cheaper.

So, if that direction isn’t your jam, I can certainly see that you’d feel that way, because you need to inform yourself more actively to learn about those indies.

To be fair, the kids are just a pretty good indicator of where this whole boat is headed. Someone who’s been adulting for a while probably has savings and is willing to burn some of those to keep doing the hobby they like, especially when they’re invested with hardware or friendships that exist through gaming.

What does it matter? I’m fucking thankful that the Ukrainians do the fighting and will lobby for every support of them, because I do not see why Putin would stop warmongering, if the Ukraine was just handed to him. He had no need to invade the Ukraine, so he won’t require a need to invade more of Europe.
Even if all Ukrainians get murdered and the land falls into Putin’s hand, they would still die as heroes in my book, because they are wearing down Putin’s troops.

I believe, Icecast ticks at least some of your criteria. It’s been around since forever, so it’s probably the most stable option and even a Pi1 is likely overkill for it. No idea how it holds up in terms of UI, app and Docker, though.

They do have a mirror on GitHub, but the main repo is on a self-hosted GitLab.

You’d have to rewrite the Git history to pseudonomize the author, which yes, is pretty bad, but I don’t see why you’d need to remove the code, unless they genuinely checked in their home address or such.

I need it to not be distracting, so no vocals in a language I comprehend, or I need to have listened to the song a dozen times already.

And then I need something upbeat to keep me motivated, so 8-bit music is high up the list, overly epic orchestral music also always works, but at like 3 o’clock in the morning, nothing hits like instrumental classical music.

I considered getting a crank-operated bread cutting machine, mainly so I wouldn’t need a wall socket to use it…

For me, it was Skyrim. It was one of the first games I bought with my own money and certainly the first where I followed the news before the release. I did not know that Todd Howard was a notorious liar and that ruined the game for me. Like, the game itself was probably fine. It was an upgrade in some ways and a downgrade in various other ways. But having been promised that it would be so much better than Oblivion and Morrowind, when it was simply not, that just robbed me of the fun I could have had with it.

A few days beforehand, I was talking with my mom on the phone and she said, I should come visit them on my birthday. And at first, I thought, she just wanted me to visit in general, but found it a bit weird that she considered it such an imperative.

Then I thought about it and realized that it wasn’t just any birthday, but my 30th. I genuinely would not have realized, probably until months later when someone would’ve asked me about my age.

…I’m not saying you shouldn’t celebrate or whatever. I just never cared much about birthdays and that felt really on brand for me.

I have made the first-hand experience of genuinely nothing being in reach to hold onto, but the reason I couldn’t reach anything was that everyone was standing so densely packed, that there was really no way you could possibly fall over anyways.

I can also recommend not having anxiety in that situation.

I don’t know, I haven’t heard of people doing that and I feel like I’d need to throw some salad or tomato on top to make it worthwhile.

But I might also misjudge it, because we don’t call the 100% peanut stuff “peanut butter” in my country and well, because I haven’t really tried it.

To be honest, though, the main point of my comment was that it’s great for cooking. I really don’t feel like you’d want to mix the sugary stuff into even a fraction of the sauces that I put the 100% peanut stuff in.

Well, peanut butter is often with added sugar and whatnot. If you got the stuff that’s just pureed peanuts, that isn’t really something you’d spread on your bread. Instead, you can use it for cooking, e.g. mix it into sauces to make the sauce more creamy and hearty.

Yeah, I feel like it requires more cooking skill to tie it together, but it prevents you from playing it safe, by going for your usual recipes or by selecting relatively few ingredients that you know to work together.

If you tie yourself to a commercial platform, it’s gonna take advantage of you. That’s how they make money. So, I would also recommend using an open-source game engine like Godot and then distributing on multiple platforms.

The closest open-source thing to the Roblox model, that I can think of, is Luanti, which is basically a game engine and distribution platform for Minecraft-like games. Don’t expect to make money off of it, though.

I like Luanti, because it has a more mature community and more extensive mining gameplay.

Man, I wish them all of the luck in the world, but I have never seen a 3D platformer with tight movement and you do need tight movement for a brutally hard game, otherwise it just feels brutally bullshit.

Seems to be this one: https://www.maerklin.de/en/products/details/article/32000

I find it so bizarre, too. I’ve been using quite a similar autosuggestion feature as part of Fish shell for a few years now. But when an LLM keeps spewing words at me, that’s a whole different shtick. It genuinely just inhibits my thinking, which is a feeling I never had with Fish.

I guess, one difference is that Fish uses real intelligence, a.k.a. my shell history. If it has a suggestion, the chance is high that it’s actually what I want to do or close to it. And it also shuts the hell up when there’s no good suggestion. I don’t have to be constantly vigilant that what it suggests might be complete garbage.

And the other difference is probably that it’s *my* intelligence, *my* shell history. I will have thunk the thoughts before which lead to the command it suggests, which brings the brain load much further down again.
Occasionally, it’ll suggest something where I have no recollection of having run that command before, but knowing that I have, is still really useful and this only happens for niche commands anyways. Most of the suggestions are just stuff which I’ve run a few minutes ago or last week or such, where I won’t have to think about it.

I guess, it probably also helps that commands have simple formatting, with only a single line and you can mostly read the flags in any order…

I was just wondering that, too. Wasn’t the first one almost like an indie title? Not sure, how much I’m mixing it up with Outer Wilds, but Wikipedia tells me their teams were around a similar size anyways…

The game looked quite generic to me. As someone who’s not deep into Star Wars, the titular character looked more like 70s mom than space adventure. And the gameplay also looked like they just slapped yet another texture pack onto something I’ve seen a thousand times already.

So, I don’t see why you’d buy this game in particular, unless you do a lot of gaming or a lot of Star Wars. I imagine, they missed out on most sales towards the more casual crowd.