It isn’t really Open Source if it can become not Open Source.

Who needs Minecraft? Play Voxelibre instead!

https://content.luanti.org/packages/wuzzy/mineclone2/

https://www.luanti.org/en/

RIP

Classic regulatory capture example.

Part of the reason you organize is so you don’t become complicit in authoritarian violence enacted by your workplace and find out only too late you are powerless to stop it alone without a union.

People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world.

Weird cus that is exactly how centrists sound to everybody else lol

They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. "

No, it is conservatives that despise rationality and level-headedness and it is precisely centrists that sat by and let this mode of thinking proliferate even as leftists were sounding the alarm.

Centrists were busy wringing their hands in nervousness about all the things conservatives told them about leftists and barely noticed when January 6th happened. This pattern can be demonstrated ad naseum across modern neoliberal societies.

You are mistaking a worship of the status quo with a sense of reasonableness and a desire for justice and equality.

And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack who says it doesn’t matter that he’s a violent authoritarian fascist because you can “separate art from the artist”, Modretro has done the rhetoricians (i.e. me) a favor by announcing a special Anduril-themed version of the Chromatic, covered in Anduril branding and made of “the same magnesium aluminum alloy as Anduril’s attack drones” last December. They were sold as a limited edition directly through Anduril’s merchandise store.

They sold out day one.

Like hiring a bunch of pro athletes and then pushing them all aside to focus on a gas guzzling robot that plays at an amateur level at best.

Operation Harsh Doorstop, Easy Red 2 and I have been exploring Rigs Of Rods a bit, I think it is an underrated driving game well suited to the deck but it has lots of quirks and I am gonna do a more indepth post on it when I get all my recommendations for fun starter vehicles and levels together.

Does “no censorship” mean “no moderation”?

True but also my point is kinda that you might as well try because without workers having meaningful leverage in their workplace, management will undoubtedly drive large corporations that impact the entire industry into brickwalls for the dumbest, most shortsighted reasons.

I don’t really disagree with this sentiment, my point is we risk losing the essential narrative of why what will occur or arguably already has occurred happened if we don’t continually reemphasize the actual issue.

Organize, unionize and have a militant solidarity with people doing the labor to make art.

“Gamer Culture” in general has a longggggg way to go in this regard.

The period during which working in game development could be considered somewhat theoretically reasonable to pursue as a career.

I think history has shown (Nintendo specifically) that game play is king, you do not need a billion dollar project with ultra realistic graphics to have fun… many people, like me, have a ton of fun and rarely play any AAA games

Nintendo is a MASSIVE game company, indie game companies could never produce their games the way Nintendo does. What a confounding example you chose from a company that is notably hostile to hobbiests and indie developers.

You are really failing to understand the basic dynamics going on in the labor market of game development here. Larger entities can do things smaller entities can’t, if you want to dispute that argument you are going to have a hard time doing so as the logic is very basic.

Large game companies can create games that would be impossible for smaller indie studios to make, large game studios can offer employment of a nature that smaller indie game companies simply can’t.

Look at Ubisoft’s large open world games or the Red Dead Redemption series, an indie game studio could never bank on creating similar games as the raw time it takes to pay developers to make that big of a detailed landscape would be infeasible for a precarious indie game company to tackle. This is just basic business sense.

I love indie games, don’t try to take the high road of claiming you have made yourself more pure by only playing indie games as if that was a solution, they are different categories.

The second part is also ridiculous (specially the family part) considering AAA Studios were the worst at exploiting their staff and lay them off the second the beta game was sold in early admissions

Don’t conflate workplace culture with the basic reality of working at a riskier, smaller company vs. a larger established company with longer and more predictable product development cycles. You wanna start a family while working at a tiny company that could go POOF if only one or two things go wrong?

To everybody who said not to be worried about this and that if this was actually a bad idea capitalism would solve it magically from indie game studios appearing out of thin air to replace the roles played by AAA game development…

Take a long walk off a short pier you naive assholes

The golden age of video games is over, yes indie games will step up to the plate to fill some of the gap, but at a structural level they simply can’t replace AAA studios. By definition AAA game studios have a capacity to create video games that smaller studios don’t and even more importantly for the career of promising game developers AAA game studios can play a crucial role in providing early career experience. AAA game studios also provide the possibility for game developers to start families since at least in the past larger companies tended to be more stable and could guarantee more stable employment.

This was not inevitable, and as fans of this medium of art we collectively failed to stop this from happening or even really to put up much resistance to it at all. We failed the artists that make the art we love.

People stress out about having too big of a backlog, who cares? Support artists, buy indie games!

Luanti is a massively exciting game development platform, given it is open source it actually delivers on the dream at the heart of Minecraft that got everyone so optimistic about the potential benefits to kids from sandbox video games that empower them to creatively express themselves, socialize (on a platform not owned by a US tech company) and learn to program organically.

Genocide profiteers

I have said it before and I will likely say it again, Sam Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas’ and Alexandra’s only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan.

The extent of Rasputin’s power reached an all-time high in 1915, when Nicholas left Saint Petersburg to oversee the Imperial Russian Army as it was engaged in the First World War. In his absence, Rasputin and Alexandra consolidated their influence across the Russian Empire. However, as Russian military defeats mounted on the Eastern Front, both figures became increasingly unpopular. In the early morning of 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.

Historians often suggest that Rasputin’s scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the Tsarist government, thus precipitating the overthrow of the House of Romanov shortly after his assassination. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on common rumors; he remains a mysterious and captivating figure in popular culture.[1]