Have you ever listened to Complexly’s Dear Hank & John? I enjoy that one, it’s usually the right kind of light and casual for background while still being interesting enough for active listening.

Like everyone else says, the remake isn’t a remake, it’s a weird sequel. More importantly though, the original is one of the greatest video games of all time while the remake is a video game. There’s no comparison, tbh

Thank you for the phrase “and the ISP you rode in on” which I will be shamelessly stealing from you

The Lemmy devs have arguably pretty worse philosophy but dev with a sense of integrity and don’t inject their politics into their software.

The Piefed devs have arguably much better philosophy but do directly build that into their app development.

I’m sorry, I don’t think that’s an improvement.

I don’t want brands to think there’s a loophole they can exploit by half-heartedly endorsing FOSS for nefarious advertising. “Coke tastes great with the user agency of Linux” is still an ad for Coke.

Avatar is a glorified tech demo and nobody ever really claim otherwise. I agree Oscarbait might fit this, but I do not understand how Avatar could

voted, two write-ins at the bottom of my list

I have no interest in “proving” anything to you, but I have contributed to the scene for literal decades in both my talents and funding.

There are a hundred other revenue streams that don’t require turning the sandbox into a sales floor. Go do one of those. Or don’t, just don’t assume that we’re all going to be okay with it.

The moment reddit users went from being primarily old.reddit to m.reddit was the final day of decent reddit, imo.

If they want an income source they should find a job.

Sometimes are sacred, and the community sandbox should never become a sales floor.

If you can’t see how paid mods have already enormously increased toxicity in the modding scene, you’re either blind or ignorant. And people will always make things they love for free. Graffiti will always exist. There’s no reason to pretend art will only exist for the profit motive, or that it is better for it.

Maybe they want to make a living or extra money by working on something they like.

Exactly the problem. I don’t want my hobby spaces to be filled with entrepreneurs looking for a revenue stream, I want them filled with people who love the hobby enough to sacrifice for it. And when those spaces do get filled with money-makers, it pushes the people with the actual passion out because they aren’t interested in competing in another fucking competitive capitalist space.

If they won’t do it for the love of the game, then they aren’t part of the community.

I don’t really care about the developers tbh, what I care about is the community, and paid mods hurt the community. Well-received mods have always been thanked by donations, and there’s nothing stopping that system from continuing today, but the idea of monetizing the community sandbox is toxic and should be wholly rejected.

I agree with this.

That said, the prohibition of paid mods should be a cultural matter, not a legal one. It shouldn’t be illegal, but we as a gaming community should refuse to engage with them as poor practice

If you want to make money for your effort, Dev a game. The idea that you should be able to piggyback off the work of another dev team and profit from it is BS. It’s like saying you should be allowed to walk into Starbucks and start selling custom mugs to their active customers; no way they would allow that

Love Hitchhikers, but I’m not sure that replacing annoying machine beeps with annoying mobile notifications is the improvement you’re suggesting :p

Yeah but it seems clear from @[email protected]’s comment that they also think this is frivolity, so the unrelated niche market is a moot point in this case.

Why though? Why does he want a networked dishwasher at all? There’s no benefit or reason for that in the first place

Imo having film nerd employees to talk to and ask recommendations from was half the appeal of video stores. Yes, even Blockbuster.