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Step by step: >There is very little opportunity today for any team (let alone individual person) to push the boundaries of the technology in a meaningful way. This is what he said.…

>But marketing effectiveness. Which is closely related to marketing spend. Marketing effectiveness is not closely related to marketing spend on the Steam market for indie games. Yo…

>There is very little opportunity today for any team (let alone individual person) >You will not attract players to your (now generic) platformer >but the people you want to buy th…

>I'd probably agree, but I'm not sure who is calling all of them exceptions or what doing so would be an excuse for. The excuse is basically most replies in this thread, yours incl…

>id Software is an exception and makes a poor example to follow. Studying wild success stories is not without merit, but is -- if you are interested in how to do the thing successf…

This developer's next game was banned though: https://twitter.com/Team_SNEED/status/1651022411368628224 . They're fairly inconsistent about it.

>No way. Fucking hell, Valve. Sort your shit out. How many thousands of hours have been wasted because of this? This is to prevent abuse. Some games will have 1000s of achievements…

A shadowban has the property that it's hidden from the user. Elon seems to want to make these kinds of actions transparent, like, for instance, deboosted tweets being visible as de…

No one needs to explain anything. I transact in it and it works, therefore it is an efficient mechanism for value transaction. If you don't want to participate then fine, but as th…

No, it actually is that simple. Recreational drugs that significantly change your state of mind and that create chemical dependencies (this includes alcohol), or that permanently m…

>I'm fine with a world with more than the absolute minimum number of mentally ill people. Put another way, there are things that are not worth sacrificing in order to have fewer me…

This is what your mentality creates by the way: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/15682375482748641... At some point you have to be pragmatic and realize that some mental …

If you're prone to it (family with history of mental illnesses) you shouldn't use it no matter your age. Why risk it? Something like schizophrenia is no joke and ruins your life co…

>You mean you are going to prefer anecdotal evidence over scientific research? Yes, if it has the potential to ruin my life and the life of people I care about, as it is plainly ob…

Sorry, but I'm just going to trust my own observations of reality over some random paper. It's plainly obvious that these drugs trigger schizophrenia and other mental illnesses in …

I think Godot shows there's a clear subset of people (generally indie developers) who are fine with the middle ground of a proper scripting language instead of either extreme. It's…

This is so true. What really terrifies me is if this new monkeypox became more easily transmissible and killed millions of people. Imagine the backlash against homosexuals?

You still have to pay taxes when you convert back to fiat though. And eventually you have to do this because you don't want a significant portion of your wealth in stablecoins that…

This analysis I saw says something else? https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1512433154875101198 Which one is right? I haven't looked into it carefully.

>All energy and computing resources used on mining Bitcoin are spent and cannot be used for anything else. Bitcoin mining can be used to monetize excess energy (especially with ren…

Deluded self-assurance most reliably delivers success. Cynics and realists tend to not understand this and thus don't take enough risks when they should, and are confined to medioc…

This is like saying it wasn't silly to order pizza using bitcoin 10 years ago. Obviously you can find examples of people doing it and people praising them for it, but it was clearl…

Doesn't seem like everyone in Sweden agrees with that opinion, especially not the people actually running energy companies: https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1457114531314995206

>The only money entering the system is investors and fees drain that out of the system ? Fees are generally extremely small. All the money that enters the system is from investors …