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The widening of the pool of drafts doesn't work because it is not fun. When you find something that works you want to use it as much as possible because as the player all I want to…

Empathy is I feel what you feel. Compassion is I understand what you feel, how can we help? It is usually better to aim for compassion because if a person is having a crisis you do…

Thanks for the reply. I feel very hesitant about saying anything further anyway but I will. Consciousness is an expression of love, which is another way to describe the life in us.…

But what happens when you realise that your life is straight forward and simple, whereas everyone else around you is living complex or seemingly complex lives?

Use multimc.org. When the launcher changed to a microsoft app we moved to using the multimc launcher. It has far more predicatable and reliable behaviour than what microsoft is off…

>perpetual refund period that covers "DRM or server obsolescence." This seems like it would still be an issue if the company providing the game goes out of business. I've bought ga…

Hi and thanks for the question. I can think of several reasons why it is possible to trust software that may need to be run with full privileges. The game is hosted on itch.io and …

The two fonts I've used in the game are Hezaedrus and Redkost Comic. I selected both of these because they are available under the OFL (SIL Open Font License). For parts where read…

Hello Everyone, I was playing a game of solitaire one afternoon and got very close to sorting all of the suits. When I play solitaire I think about how the game is an elaborate kin…

I'm really surprised that out of 276 comments, only one comment mentions that this is Jeff Vogel. I have enjoyed playing Jeff's games in the past, I think his games are beautiful. …

Would you even want to tell yourself advice learned from ten years of experience? If I learn from the past ten years and then go back and tell myself two outcomes are possible. My …

For something that feels decent enough to share the minimum for myself is three weeks. Functional and verification testing is really important, and then deployment testing after th…

I made a fishing, farming and mining game about thoughts and feelings called Peace Of Mind. There are characters in the game you can talk with about different ways of thinking and …

Hi Kenny, The motivations that you've talked about, learning or money and generating users, are these the only motivations when undertaking a side project? When thinking about a si…

If you are looking for information about current research into consciousness, there is a book, The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms. He gave a talk organised by The Royal Institution th…

> ... correlation between games and violence (i.e. the consensus is that no such causation relationship exists). I feel that the connection between violence and violence in games i…

> The book Factfulness makes a pretty good case that people generally think the world is falling apart but that objectively the world is currently in better shape than any other pe…

> My phone has the bare minimum things on it I need to get by. I turn everything off I can. I've railed about location tracking because I know how it works, but damn it, I am not g…

> We work longer, not shorter. We work as a couple, not as a single breadwinner. We have less job security than ever. The combined stress of a life long quest and grind for economi…

Endless Sky is truly excellent. I've been playing it for the last couple of months. It's even possible to explore the whole galaxy playing pacifist and never firing a shot. It's wo…