Any multiplayer game should offer LAN-based P2P and/or self-hosted server options as far as I'm concerned, just because that's totally future proof. That should just be a default feature for a multiplayer game.
Beyond that you have to pick something, because normies aren't going to run their own servers and using open P2P via the internet is all kinds of security holes.
I do wonder what they were using before, Steamworks I assume? There's nothing wrong with that, but it only works on Steam.
Yeah, I mean they totally screwed it up either way. EOS is used quite a bit you just wouldn't know it, and I've not heard a ton bad about it for offering crossplay support, and the fact of the matter is that's becoming an expectation. They were fools for setting it up in such a way to require an Epic account when that's totally unnecessary.
I guess regarding Epic vs Steam I get more irritated because it seems that criticizing Steam almost anywhere online is like criticizing trannies on Reddit--almost certain to be met with ire.
I don't really blame them for using Epic Online Services. If it's something you didn't know about, Epic essentially offers a ton of free multiplayer services to game developers--matchmaking, etc. I'd say for a smaller game it's probably better to use than some sort of independent server, because it may be a lot more resilient to being shut down in a year. All of it is totally cross platform, cross-engine and can be authenticated without an Epic account. I've played around with it a bit, but the miserable little game I'm working on isn't ready for a multiplayer implementation quite yet.
I know because I'm typing words on the internet I'm supposed to have a seething fire of hate for Epic because the Steam community told me to, but they actually offer a lot of really good stuff to small game devs for nothing.
The fact that an account is required is the devs fault. They should use the Connect Interface (which lets users ID by all sorts of platform tokens) versus the Auth Interface (requires Epic account). There's tech stuff about it here https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/game-services/eos-connect-interface#differences-between-auth-interface-and-connect-interface
You're inferring it's a feature not a bug that trans have a higher chance of messing with kids.
It's the only way they have to reproduce.
Prosody server is a hell of a lot easier to set up now than it and other XMPP servers used to be. It's far from normie friendly though. I don't believe it runs on Windows at all. I guess you could run it in WSL on Windows, but that's still very technical.
Clients aren't all that bad. I really only use Conversations on Android though. It's not much different than texting.
I think there's supposed to be a way to use blockchain-tech to set up Telegram account without a phone number, but I can't find much on how. Check out TON and Telegram.
There's things you could do like self-hosting XMPP, but that's not going to be something that just works for, it would take time and know how.
Be sure you hold the keys regardless, if your encryption keys live on a server somewhere, then it's only as private as the ethics and terms of service of the entity that runs the server.
Looked up the replacement "Romeo McGrowl." It looks like a faggot. No surprise necessary.
I don't know how I feel about escapism in general. I suppose in a way that means I'm so stressed about the world around me that I need escape. I prefer to try to address the stress elsewhere as best I can and "escape" for fun. Take that you wish though, I'm also one who doesn't like terms like needing "immersion" in video games--because I just don't feel like I ever get immersed in a game like that.
As far as needing politics in everything, those people are just crazy. Why choose to live your life angry about everything? It doesn't matter how bad or how frustrating everything around is, taking that to a constant state of political angst is on you.
Calls on Russia for cooperation
Putin is probably laughing harder than Assad
He's not wrong. I don't have children. While I do have young family members I'm close with and want to have a future, I still find myself occasionally dismissing issues as, "Why do I care I won't be around for that?" I tend to prefer men with strong families as candidates.
I can really only assume these that have such a sour attitude around families are jealous and surround themselves only with other cat ladies and bitch about how they hate children and such.
They are all wearing red baseball caps too!
This just in, Kamala to win almost unanimously based on a poll of random adults near the exit of the DNC around the time it was over.
He's either the most subscribed channel, or at the very least the most subscribed English-language channel on YouTube.
some kind of really cringe embarrassing normie YouTube channel
Pretty much that. Albeit I think I've only seen maybe one or two of his videos. I saw a more serious interview with him on another channel once though. I'm not sure he's a bad guy by any means, but he's also not someone who I could see doing anything other than following along with what he's told in cases that would offend the intelligentsia.
Yeah, I spent my elementary school days in a black dominated school. I was so fucking bored to the point it made me crazy. I actually wonder if I'd have been different had I had the opportunity to be around people like me those ages. I didn't really have friends several of those years because there just was no one around me with similar enough interests, home life, etc. to even relate to. Especially the early years, when I was really in the hood. I don't really remember more than one or two of my peers from those years.
What bugged me the most was reading in the early years. I started Kindergarten already pretty confident reading, and by the time I'm in grades 2-4 there's still so many who struggled with the most simple things. No, I don't want to sit here taking turns reading aloud. "T-t-th-the dd-uh-dd-o-dog wall-kuh-lead dd-doo-n t-the r-r-r-r-oo-ad." Give me a break, I gotta listen to this for an hour just to blurt out 5 words in 3 seconds every few minutes it's my turn?
I had a friend my last year of high school that had gotten into blacksmithing. I messed around with it a bit with him, it's interesting for sure. If I were to go towards metalworking, it would probably be machine shop stuff, pick up an old manual mill and lathe. I don't know what I'd make though. If anything I should get a welder and get those skills back, I haven't welded in probably a decade.
I am surprised you can still have a bow in the UK. It would be fun, but I don't find enough time to go shoot guns as it is. I guess I could shoot a bow more easily in my yard.
I tend to often use they and their in a generic way like that too. "I don't know what they think they were doing!" "I saw them walking down that way." "That isn't my car, it's theirs." All of these could be in reference to a single person. I think I just don't take the time or care to process such statements to even think of if the subject is a man or a woman. No one ever said a thing about it until the trannies all started taking possession of pronouns.
I keep expecting them to roll with the Covid angle soonish. "The President is dead, it was all Covid. This could have been prevented, everyone must wear a mask now! Mail in ballots everywhere, no in person voting! If it saves just one life it's worth it."
The angle on failed vaccines will just go under the rug and the next software update to the sheep will be to just dismiss any criticism of the glorious vaccines because they don't work on this new variant, but fear not a new vaccine will be coming in mid-November.
I can't think of maybe more than a couple female teachers in my post-elementary education that I'd consider positive. I remember almost all of the male ones. Easily my top 5 teachers of all time, all men.
I just hate that's the narrative they are running with, "why would he want to talk to a 13 year old boy?" It can only lead to isolating those boys even more into a feminist walled garden. I'd be missing on some long-term actual real friendships that grew from being 50% mentor/50% friend to teenagers. Without any sexual stuff obviously, albeit if you spend much time around a teenage boy their dirty mind will occasionally surface.
It instead needs to be the danger of having sex-crazed groomer trannies around kids.
Based on what little I can find about this, and the grooming tendency of trannies, I really don't doubt the situation was nasty. There's not a ton to go on though.
Where I'm conflicted is the implication that adult men should never under any circumstance have contact with teenage boys or it's obviously pedophilia. I'm not sure that's a good thing based on my own personal experience. It was good that I had some men other than my dad around when I was that age, and I've been on the older side of it too with friends' kids, family, etc.
If I take all of this as word for word fact, then this child has been mentally abused. An 11 year old kid should not care.
I mean I've never worked for a game studio, but I've done the corporate world in a technical job. There's a reason they want people back in the office, because at least they control their time then. There's a long list of jobs I know of that can easily be phoned in 20 hours a week or less if you get to being able to avoid meetings. It was never uncommon for me to work half the day on personal stuff anything from investments to dev projects when I worked from home, and still get everything done I was supposed to at work on time and with a high level of quality (I did still care about doing things right, I preferred to avoid fixing my screw-ups later). If I hadn't left that job, I was in the middle of a little Python/SQL project to automate an easy 5-10 hours a week of work away.
The bar is just so low at mega corps.
Add in the part about convincing the company to buy every third-party security software suite who's sales guy takes you out to lunch. You should see an average business computer now, there's a stack of random security software, none of which that place nice with anything.
The second is that it never actually happened
I don't know about you guys, but I think it was filmed at the secret studios at Area 51 between the studio where they filmed the moon landings and where they store the aliens that shot Kennedy.
That is just the world of large corporations. I worked for one a long time, totally unrelated to any entertainment media. The reward for excellence and the reward for mediocrity is nearly exactly the same. Once you figure this out, it's very difficult to have any motivation to do any more than floating slightly above mediocre. So, some leave and some stay around and be mediocre.
The difference with your game is you're invested in it's success. If it's a good game and does really well you benefit greatly. If it's shit and does poorly, you benefit very little. This doesn't apply much to corporate employees, who might get a small bonus on the success of a game.
I'll take it as presented, it's funny because it's true. Anyone who is offended needs to learn to take a joke.