ObsidianNebula

@ObsidianNebula@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I make games and this literally happened to me this morning⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re correct on the two thoughts you listed. Wishlisting also makes the game more visible before release. For example, highly wishlisted games appear in the “Popular Upcoming” section, along with some other spots. This increased visibility before launch then feeds into the two points you made. I believe games that are highly wishlisted before launch are also more likely to appear on the frontpage right after launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when AI tries to get in my way⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t used it often, but the few times I have asked it very specific programming questions, it has usually been pretty good. For example, I am not very good with regex, but I can usually ask Copilot to create regex that does something like verifying a string matches a certain pattern, and it performs pretty well. I don’t use regex enough to spend a lot of time learning it, and I could easily find a few examples online that can be combined to make my answer, but Copilot is much quicker and easier for me. That said, I don’t think I would trust it past answering questions about how to implement a small code snippet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of messaging apps do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m from the US as well, and I can verify that very few average people use those types of messengers primarily. It is almost exclusively iMessage and SMS/MMS/RCS texts as the main form of messaging. I will admit that quite a few people will use the messaging features that are built into social media apps (like messaging in Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, etc). At least to me, it seems like those are moreso used for sending memes or messaging people you don’t interact with regularly and are still secondary to the other forms of messaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"what happened??"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, their business practices regarding selling games are fairly consumer friendly, but overall they have quite a few issues themselves that aren’t great. I wouldn’t hold them up as a great company but rather a better company than the competition, which is a fairly low bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched a video a while back about this, but the details are fuzzy. I think it was the one I linked below if you want to look more into it. In essence, there aren’t a ton of cases where kids are actually being forced to work. However, there are strong incentives for kids to work on Roblox projects that the developers themselves push. The devs want a constant stream of content and money coming in, but they don’t want to pay adult workers at adult wages, so they offer Robux to players who make games. It is difficult for people to convert Robux to actual cash, and the money they receive is often significantly less than they would if they put the effort into any other form of work, so many of these kids are essentially making content for the developers for free or significantly less than they should earn. If there was no payout for content creators and the kids were doing that development just because they had passion for the game, it might be a different situation, but there are quite a few kids that believe they can make serious money doing this and don’t understand that the developers are exploiting them and paying very little. Adults can probably do more research and better understand the situation they are getting into, but kids often don’t have the same critical thinking skills as adults and will accept the lie being pushed by the developers and community that they can get rich by contributing to the game they love.

  Video: youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ

  Follow-up: youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't even think about it⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I worked IT, I went to a local fire station and said I was there to update their computers. The person I talked to didn’t seem to know that this was scheduled, but they led me to their office with the computers and showed me how to log on. I’m pretty sure they just assumed I was telling the truth because I spoke confidently and was wearing a polo, but I could have literally been anyone.