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Cake day: 19. Juli 2023
  • andiooptoTech•Buying NSFW games on itch.io? Paypal may Nuke your account!English
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    vor 2 Monaten

    A quick search of the phrase brings up more the “make sure the science done is credible and that you did not massage your data to end up with a specific result” type of skepticism, but I’m guessing the person you replied to meant the type of person who says vaccines do not work and they are just skeptical of all this science stuff in general.

  • andiooptoProgrammer Humor•The vibecoders are becoming sentientEnglish
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    vor 2 Monaten

    That’s a bit difficult because I already go into anything from The Onion knowing it’s intended to be humorous/satirical.

    What I lack in ability to recognize satire or outright deception from posts written online, I make up for by reading comment threads: seeing people accuse things of being fake, seeing people defend it as true, seeing people point out the entire intention of a website is satire, seeing people who had a joke go over their heads get it explained… relying on the collective hivemind to help me out where I am deficient. It’s not a perfect solution at all, especially since people can judge wrong—I bet some “omg so fake” threads were actually real, and some astroturf-type things written to influence others without real experience behind it got through as real.

  • andiooptoProgrammer Humor•The vibecoders are becoming sentientEnglish
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    vor 2 Monaten

    You are right about the thespian thing, but when you watch TV/film/theatre everyone is in on the “joke” and we all know they’re not really falling in love, getting murdered, or whatever dramatic happening. I’m not sure if OOP is just trying to entertain and expects everyone to realize they’re joking, which would stick them on the thespian side, or if they have other motives. But hey, interesting point to bring up!

  • andiooptoGame Development•"Our game made €4 million," says Rise of Industry's creator. "Three years later, I was broke"English
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    vor 2 Monaten

    I feel devs should push major bug fixes for free—something something games released with more bugs not just because of increasing complexity but because they just ship immediately due to easier distribution of an update instead of testing before shipping. That’s all we’re entitled to. If you want content updates you should probably pay for continued development costs, which is where DLC and subscription comes in. Those also have potential for abuse and unfair pricing, though, so that’s a whole other minefield.

  • andiooptoProgrammer Humor•The vibecoders are becoming sentientEnglish
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    vor 2 Monaten

    Thanks!

    I really wish people did not do this. This isn’t something I was ever taught to look for, and I like to think I got a good education. I was taught to make sure my source is credible, to consider biases and spin and what things are facts and what is just opinion, but I wasn’t taught to look for a lot of deception people call out online. But I guess I have to live with this and gain the skill to look for deception. Genuinely, thanks for helping me, since I don’t think I ever would have figured out what raises “fake” flags in most peoples’ heads on my own.

  • andiooptoGame Development•"Our game made €4 million," says Rise of Industry's creator. "Three years later, I was broke"English
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    vor 2 Monaten

    I feel like there’s a difference between cosmetic microtransactions, game-balance altering ones, and the predatory ones most gamers including me dislike. The ones where you only have 10 energy for actions and every action depletes your energy, so you wait 10 hours or PAY 10 IN GEMS, DON’T HAVE ENOUGH GEMS? BUY 55 FOR $2.99! Which are acquired quickly as you learn the game and then you get a very slow dripfeed of them once you have completed all tutorial/onboarding tasks, and which you are forced to spend in the tutorial. Or the lootbox gambling ones. I’m all for cosmetics to support the dev, but take a dim view of the game-balance altering ones and outright predatory ones.

    Although I do wonder how much whatever-dollar-horse-armor opened the floodgates to this.

  • andiooptoProgrammer Humor•The vibecoders are becoming sentientEnglish
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    vor 2 Monaten

    I’m entirely too trusting and would like to know what about the phrasing tips you off that it’s fictional. Back on Reddit I remember so many claims about posts being fake and I was never able to tease out what distinguished the “omg fake! r/thathappened” posts from the ones that weren’t accused of that, and I feel this is a skill I should be able to have on some level. Although taking an amusing post that wasn’t real as real doesn’t always have bad consequences.

    But I mostly asked because I’m curious about the weird extra width on letters.