Parapa the Rapper doing Linked In Park "One thing I don't know why it doesn't even matter how hard you try"

I still think the E3 cuts and the non-whining videos like the portal experiment and the sandpaper room (that he deleted) are fun, and were a part of the gaming culture at the time. But man, there's only so much "old thing good new thing bad" I can take. How about you show me something cool instead

I hope crowbcat makes a video on crowbcat's videos getting progressively more soulless

Wade Whuckles

DI MONTHLY #12: Let's Talk About Cannibalism // Distant Illusions I'm slowly losing it and need professional help.

I swear eventually we will start sharing actual news on our projects and not just newsletter entries.

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Imagine working at IGN trying to draft up a review for Ooga Booga on the Sega Dreamcast when you see the second plane hit the twin towers

Sorry, no jokes today. I've forgotten how to be funny, so I'm embarking on a long journey to the Andies to find my sens of humour again

Return of the ardnut gamer???

[Interlude] If you don't like my arrogance, you can suck my socks

Musescore is very funny. Most of the time it's insanely easy to grasp with just the docs and looking at it, and then sometimes you find a feature where it changes the notes in a bizarre way and then locks them in place so you can't fix it, and you have to find some bizarre workaround for it

Acceptable kazooalties

I wouldn't even mind ads if they weren't so massively devalued from Google's and Meta's fraud that you need 13 sticky videos to make a single penny. I miss the days when you could reasonably cover a website's running costs with a single 5-frame gif banner ad per page.

One should be allowed to spend money on the silly creature

LOL absolutely incredible

Awesome, Nuts & Bolts representation!

How does the tiny SLO head sound, anyway? Did they stuff a tiny tube amp into that thing or is it just a digital recreation

There's so much more I'd like to do for indie collaboration, I was talking to some friends about arranging an online gaming magazine of sorts but specifically to talk about actual indie games. Sadly I've got my hands full just trying to make the damn games so haven't had the opportunity to do that

DI MONTHLY #11: Let's Talk About Game Design // Distant Illusions Welcome to my GDC talk.

It’s the newsletter day, and it's finally time to talk about some game design!

Specifically, what's actually been going on in our heads with this strange 3D platformer we've been quietly working on...

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Docker is honestly exactly the solution that we should avoid, lol. It hides a lot of the deployment away in automation, making troubleshooting a nightmare, but deployment itself is still kind of an arcane terminal process. It's the kind of shit that scares away newbies from hosting something for fun

A lot of backend tasks remain in the 90s methods despite how far we've come in software since. It's not an impossible task to write a UI to just automatically run the scripts that have been created for deployment anyway. It wouldn't even take anything away from the power users.

Self-hosting could be so much easier with a basic deployment application that would automatically set up the database and routing for a program. I think quite a few more people would be interested in setting up their own forums or chat servers if the process was this over of a load of arcane scripts

Software in general has had a major issue where innovative and intentional design has been shunned in favour of easier programming solutions and doing the thing everyone else is doing. FOSS has this doubly over, since most projects don't have any clients complaining about how unintuitive it is