Paradachshund

Don’t touch grass, stay indoors 👍

I came back after trying it a bit in early access a year ago. Definitely feels way more fleshed out and I’m really enjoying it so far

Yeah agreed. It’s pretty wild what the tech can do at the best of times, but it’s just way too half baked on many levels right now to rely on.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today.

This is such a massive red flag comment. If anything it’s become increasingly clear in the last year how problematic the tech is…

He follows that up by saying people should make the tools help maintainers not harm them, but suggests no means to do so. This is so blasé and hand wavy, especially when he’s responding to people complaining about how it’s making their jobs harder. “Just use the tools better”. Gee, thanks Linus.

Its all so misanthropic. Not once does he actually justify whether they needed to make more money to be profitable. It’s just flippantly assumed that they would have needed to double revenue to be worth keeping. That sounds like a made up number.

I’ve had a moment like this even doing indie game dev as a passion project. There’s a never ending flood of marketing and sales advice for game devs, and it can really suck the fun out of a project if you start to obsess over doing everything the “right way”.

Unfortunately marketing is a necessity, and if you need to make money from a game you have to try and make a product, not just a piece of art. I think for most creatives they want the business side to stay as backseat as possible, though.

Or an algae bloom, because they inject the money first.

Now introducing Steam Agent. It buys your games for you!

Thrive? That sounds like commie talk! Get 'em back in the office ASAP