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  • People of the world. Hear my wisdom as an “old”

    In the before times of home computing, anyone and their mother could make and try to sell video games, floppy disks and cassettes were plentiful. The barrier to entry was essentially non-existent. You could get fully fledged games in magazines. (In fact some magazines included the actual programme for you to type out yourself)

    But it turns out when publishers just shovel slop onto the market it drowns out good quality Indy stuff and even some of the high production value games. This feels quite similar to before the great video game crash.

    There’s a reason Nintendo started putting their “Nintendo seal of quality” on their games. To try and reassure buyers that they didn’t just shovel slop people mailed in. At one point you even had to send them a video tape with evidence the game could even be completed. Interestingly that seal is still found on their games.

    We’ve almost returned to that state of low barrier to entry. Digital distribution means there is no real difficulty in physically producing and distributing the game. AI makes it so that anyone’s half baked idea can be shoved on Steam.

    Don’t get me wrong there are many excellent games that would have struggled to make a name for themselves using steams old green light system.


  • Setiyeti93@lemmy.catoTrans Joy@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Mia fasea
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    7 days ago

    There are two people in my life from Greece. One left because they didn’t believe the culture would ever accept them. They are quite Alt and T. My partner 😊

    The other who is non-binary and ace remains there. They say that slowly some people are more accepting, but it is very slow.

    We actually had a conversation not that long ago about being non-binary in a country that uses an inherently gendered language. I haven’t had to speak or live in Greece for 10 years but still know how difficult it can be.

    All that to say. I’m sure you’re not alone, but fully understand how lonely it can feel.

    Also.

    Δείχνεις υπέροχος 😊




  • Setiyeti93@lemmy.cato3DPrinting@lemmy.world•3D printing for beginners
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    14 days ago

    What a wonderful brother!

    I guess my answer is yeah, the bambu labs x2d would be excellent for a beginner. What I would say is that most mid-range printers these days are very user-friendly.

    I’m sure some people will complain about bamboo labs’ behaviour. Especially around the open source licensing business. Which for the record is aggravating. Honestly for someone just entering the space, I don’t think it should be a dealer breaker.

    I recently purchased a new machine after running my old one for the best part of 10 years. It was crazy how far the technology has come. I went for the snapmaker U1. It offers multicolor printing with a fraction of the waisted material.

    To be honest. Until your sister has started doing some printing, it’s difficult to separate a lot of printers. She will get a feel for things like,:

    what materials she generally prints What size prints she’s aiming for The speeds she needs



  • When I was around 20(M) my older boss regularly tried it on with me. She always tried to lean into me with her large chest. Then one day she basically exposed herself to me.

    Another coworker said she did this with him too. Eventually we both explained this to upper management and she was gone within the week.

    I always felt bad because Iin this case it was addressed quickly. Yet I know if my female co workes were in a similar situation… Well, I hear enough to believe that the story would be different. For the worse.


  • Defence… Russia has shown how lackluster its standing army is. That’s not to diminish the losses faced by Ukraine. But they believed in their superiority that this three-day special mission has dragged on a little bit longer than they anticipated.

    Bolstering our infrastructure is the best defense. And reducing our energy dependencies should be at the forefront. Something which heat pumps are excellent at. Between wind farms, subsidies for solar and heat pumps, we could have a weed ourself off the vast majority of imported energy. Even motor vehicles, a sustained push to make most if not all local traffic either public transport or electric vehicles would render us so much more resilient to the oddities on the current world stage.