wccrawford

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone puts this much work into something to make it “deliberately bad”.

  But when I first saw it, I couldn’t believe it was actually a thing. The mix of things you do in this don’t make sense to me. In what world would I think being a “toll booth operator” involve selling dodgy drinks to people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The grooves?

  The pattern on the left is actually just inside the case, under a clear part of the case. That part is black in the Euro version, but the case looks the same otherwise. (We have cases like that, too.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong that i would like to start a small 3d print business?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a dream isn’t wrong, but every business is difficult, and this one is already being run under by cheap Chinese prints.

  It’s still possible, but all the success I hear now is from people who have designed their own product and are fulfilling specific needs, like adapters for certain tools and such.

  Etsy also just banned 3d prints of other people’s design, so it’s even harder to make money with those now.

  You can still make money with your own designs on Etsy, and direct to people who need things, but now it’s as much about the design of the items as the printing of them.

  I suppose selling at a local market can still work, too, but it’s a huge time sink. (Like any other job, I guess.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yeah, I think I remember that. It was pretty obvious it would be brutal for a lot of gamedev companies there, and I wasn’t surprised at all that it didn’t end up going through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you mean. The in-game reward path still has a daily “check in” task for points. And the daily “do 4 tasks” thing is in there, though they’ve opened it up a lot, which I really appreciate. (You can now do quests, open chests, or anything that costs energy to complete them, as well as the standard 4 mini-quests.) And the web checkin is still daily, with only 3 days that you can reclaim by visiting certain pages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played Genshin almost since the start (took a break for a while) and it’s had daily tasks the whole time. You earn gems and other in-game rewards every day for it. There’s also an additional web-based daily checkin as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker eufyMake E1 3D-texture UV printer now crowdfunding⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched a youtuber that was using this, and the cost to print something was pretty high. Like a 2 inch by 2 inch tile with a little depth was like $2 USD for the ink/resin alone. A larger board that looked like it was about 1 ft by 2 ft, with a single layer of print (no depth), was about $25, IIRC.

  It’s beautiful, but so expensive to run, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, moves like this have convinced me that when I get another NAS box, it won’t be from them. It’ll probably built custom instead. After some quick searching, OpenMediaVault and TrueNAS seems like top runners right now. Hopefully it’ll be a while before I have to really consider it, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve bought stuff from Temu and without installing the app. I’m sure it recommends installing the app if you tap the ad on a phone, but not on desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a self-driving horse, but I implore you not to use it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure who needs this advice. The game was designed to be played without it, so that’s good.

  People that need the feature will use it, of course. For whatever reason.

  Everyone else has a choice: Mindless running through the wilds to get where you’re going, sometimes seeing something interesting on the way… Or just letting this thing get you there, without the “follow the white line” minigame.

  The people who are going to use this were already using in-game features to do it as much as possible, but with a manual component that irked them. Asking them not to use it isn’t going to improve their game experience.

  Anyone who roams without the white line isn’t even in this discussion. They would never use this feature, so the advice doesn’t change their mind at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZeniMax union "overwhelming" votes to authorise strike if Microsoft contract negotiations break down⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just Rosie the Riveter, as a dragon… For some reason.

  It does feel weird to copy something so obviously and use it for a union logo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really appreciate the specificity of the headline, rather than the clickbait it could have been.