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Cake day: September 26th, 2023

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  • That hasn’t been my experience as the gay son of a Polish man in Australia. My dad was hesitant in 2002 when I first came out, but he eventually got over it. It was when Putin started pushing rhetoric about extremist LGBTIQA+ people that my relationship with my dad took a turn for the dark. He’s obsessed with rainbow fascists and won’t hear a word of my side even though I’m the real human he knows. I ended up having to cut all contact with him, and I hold religious fundamentalist populists responsible.



  • Pretty sure that’s why they invented the stock market in the first place… Faustian deal where innovators and disruptors trade their future potential for a leg up today. In exchange the wealthy slowly seize whatever new technology or IP is created, guaranteeing their position into the future.

    Big tech wonder boys like Zuckerberg and others coming out of Y Combinator aren’t miracle stories - they are the chosen few handpicked by yesterdays elite to help them close the circle from others.


  • It scares me that generations before and after millennials are not as proficient with technology. Before makes perfect sense, but younger people being unable to use a computer or tell if they’re being scammed really disheartens me. I blame the excesses of capitalism and ignorance of our lawmakers.

    The way the web and services are structured is extremely unfair to the consumer. We pay for access to the internet, then we pay for access to premium content sources and to stop ads for showing. So many middle men… where is the benefit exactly? How is a podcast better than my community radio?

    The ownership of digital goods is the worst part of all. Games, music, tv shows… stuff that is a formative part of your life you should be able to pass onto your kids isn’t yours. You own a “license” which is just a record in some database that can be revoked between company acquisitions.
















  • I think the games industry will start to use open source tools like Blender and Godot more and more. These options have really matured over the years and compete on features and productivity with commercial options.

    From a business POV - open source makes a lot of sense when you need a guarantee your investment won’t evaporate because a vendor has cancelled a feature or API your game uses. With open source, if you don’t like a path the upstream code is taking you can fork off and make your own!

    Part of the dynamic is also how people are inspired and learning skills. You can learn how to do very advanced stuff in Blender for free on Youtube - why would you pay some private college thousands of dollars to learn an expensive program like Maya to do the same thing?


  • Here are the number of hours I’ve spent on indie games VS AAA titles, according to my Steam library:

    • Indie - Valheim - 435 hours
    • Indie - Space Haven - 332 hours
    • Indie - Satisfactory - 215 hours
    • Indie - Dyson Sphere Program - 203 hours
    • AAA - Skyrim - 98 hours
    • AAA - Control - 47 hours
    • AAA - Far Cry 6 - 29 hours
    • AAA - Max Payne 3 - 43 minutes

    If we’re talking about value - the amount of playtime I’ve gotten out of games with simpler graphics and unique ideas blows the billions spent by the industry out of the water.