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Cake day: February 5th, 2025

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  • Look I get it. The planet is dying, income inequality, it seems everything is unfair and going to shit. People yearn at an opportunity to help make things better. But yelling for simple solutions is the opposite of helpful. Because there are no simple solutions.

    Saying to “just open source it” does not make sense.

    What do you do about:

    • proprietary codecs
    • proprietary software that just does not exist as open source
    • the fact you need a copy of the game engine to actually build the game from sources
    • assets that have been bought on asset stores. Do the people who make those for a living not have a right to continue to make a living?

    Making single player games without always online DRM: yes totally doable

    Running game servers of online games forever: not really doable, as soon as all the libraries etc. they depend on are unsupported they will shut down one way or another. You need staff basically forever. Not even mentioning the maintenance headache that every legacy system always turns into.

    Letting people run their own dedicated servers: sometimes doable, depends on the game though. Some games do not have “a server” but a whole infrastructure of stuff, look at foxhole. Some “servers” are a house of cards barely held together by duct tape.

    This initiative all comes down to the definition of “reasonable”. What is reasonable, actually? Running an infrastructure at a loss until bankruptcy? Or just keeping it online until it starts making a loss.

















  • The basic thing is this:

    You cannot turn emotions off. They always come back.

    Anything an individual can do to try and suppress emotions, it never works. Whether it be telling yourself you have no emotions and trying to become a machine, or using drugs, the emotions are still there.

    This leads to a negative cycle where you manage to suppress emotions for a time, but then they come back worse, and you double down on your suppression efforts.

    On top of that you are making the underlying issue actually worse.

    The only long term solution is to make peace with it. It is possible. There are even Mengele experiment survivors that forgave Mengele.