Office Space

If you know what curl is, you’re not the target audience.

The people this is targeting don’t even know what ‘CLI’ stands for, but they absolutely will copy/paste random commands into their computer if they’re told it’ll magically fix something.

MacBooks.

Plenty of reasons to hate Apple as a company but the hardware and build quality of MacBooks really is second to none. I know several Linux/OSS die-hards who swear by their M1 MBPs.

People follow users here?

I subscribe to communities, and I often see the same people posting & commenting, but I don’t go out of my way to follow any of them. That seems odd to me.

Sure, I’ll throw you a bone.

Blatant self-promotion is generally frowned upon. That’s a rule across the internet, but especially here.

Like, you haven’t even made an attempt to engage with the community. No other posts, no other comments. It looks like you made an account solely to push your product, and in a place like Lemmy all that’s going to get you is a flurry of angry downvotes.

Pretty fascinating! I would’ve expected the dongle to be doing something more complex but, as the author says, it’s possible that these developers underused it.

https://newzoo.com/resources/blog/global-games-market-to-hit-189-billion-in-2025

Closer than I remembered, but console is still larger and projected to grow faster.

It’s hilarious that you think game development is a ‘cushy corpo job’.

Ah yes, all those game devs famously enjoying competitive salaries and rock solid job security.

Game development is hitting your head against a brick wall because you believe in the art form. Anyone who tells you they’re in it for the money is lying to you.

Yep. PC players tend to be very outspoken, but they’re easily outnumbered by the console market, and the mobile market dwarfs them both.

Game Changer is their flagship show, and has been consistently great at reinventing itself and surprising season after season. It’s a game show where the game is different every time and the contestants have to try and figure out what’s going on. It goes places.

If you enjoy long form TTRPG, they have dozens of Dimension 20 campaigns with all kinds of settings and genres.

Smartypants is a show where comedians get to give PowerPoint presentations on anything they want.

Play It By Ear is a personal fave - each episode is an entirely improvised musical, which feels like an incredible magic trick when they pull it off.

Um, Actually is a nerdy quiz show where contestants have to interrupt the host with factual corrections about video games, anime, sci-fi, etc.

Gastronauts is a cooking challenge show with professional chefs trying to fulfil unhinged requests from comedians.

There’s way more on there besides all that, but thought I’d share some highlights.

Just don’t accidentally send 👉👌 instead

If you want to express agreement, it’s usually 👆or ➕

If there was an action and you want to confirm you’ve done it, ✅ (or 👍 but that’s ambiguous between ‘I’ve seen this’ vs ‘I’ve done this’)

OpenOffice isn’t as well known now because it was replaced, for all intents and purposes, by LibreOffice in ~2010.

Looks really pretty, but… yet another pvp arena battler? Really? The market is hard enough as it is without launching games that are doomed to fail.

I like Double Fine but we see it time and time again - this kind of game is dead within weeks of launching.

Raphnet (and possibly others) make a USB adapter for Dreamcast pads, if you have one.

If you want something brand new, Xbox controllers have a more or less direct lineage from Sega pads, as (iirc) MS hired many ex-Dreamcast personnel to work on the original Xbox after the DC was killed off.

360 pads work well on PC and are easy to come by. Hyperkin also makes a modern version of the original Xbox ‘duke’ controller that might work well.

True, it doesn’t seem like something that would kill the business. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.

Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?

Edit: yes it is

“Do not build your own app. Vimeo’s right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don’t have to worry about legal compliance… Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."

Andrew Bridgman, Chief Digital Officer at Dropout

that might age poorly

Are you talking about Swedish fish?

Yeah, same for me in Safari - not sure what happened to OP but it looks like they triggered a rendering bug somehow.

I don’t believe there is any situation in which a penalty of death is ethical.

Even putting aside the morality of killing someone, you can never rule out mistakes, miscarriages of justice, or political abuse.