Goblin’ deez nuts

o7

Surprising that Boneworks wasn’t mentioned. The whole game is physics based puzzles, meaning you can either solve them, or stack a couple boxes and jump really high. These types of solutions are encouraged in the game, and there’s a couple puzzles I’ve never even solved because the walls were too low.

The source code of a program is like a recipe and list of ingredients. If you buy a coffee from Starbucks, you get a coffee from Starbucks. You can’t easily change the beans used, the brew temperature, etc. With the recipe, you could brew your own with slight differences, or make coffee from scratch knowing everything that’s in Starbucks coffee. With the source code for a game, you could change/mod anything. FPS unlock mods, ports to other platforms, and much more. You could make your own game, and make it better knowing how some systems work in another game.

Some games have their source code leaked, in which case it is illegal to own, redistribute, or learn from the code. Although it’ll usually still happen, it’s much more “underground” than games where the source code was reverse engineered. Reverse engineering is like buying a coffee, tasting it, then coming up with your own recipe. Having your own recipe almost exactly identical to the original still allows you to make changes easily, but it’s not illegal, as you wrote it, and are allowed to share your own recipe. Some older titles like Super Mario 64 have been fully reverse engineered, and ported to every possible platform, with multiplayer mods, FPS unlock mods, etc.

Same here. Tried Mastodon, but the birdsite like way of following people, not topics, and having only this sites equivalent of “Sort by New”, just doesn’t work for me.

Deleted account history like many others (after a GPDR and manual export of everything). Going to delete my account just before the 30th, as I won’t be able to use it anyway. For now I’m still somewhat lurking on Reddit, so to keep my list of subscribed subreddits, I have not deleted my account yet.

I’ve heard similar things several times, so I’ve been staying away. I should move more of my daily tasks to different self-hosted or non-corporate services.

SearX-NG, coming off DuckDuckGo it wasn’t a major change in the internal structure (the search gets relayed over to a larger search engine), but there’s no one company behind it like DDG. They’ve been working together with Microsoft on some rather sketchy things.

I would still love to self-host something decent (that doesn’t relay over to a company), but nothing like that exists as far as I know.

Likely the case, but it could be my instance not federating with Mastodon properly.

It looks like the title of the post might just be the first line of the toot.

I don’t know if this comment will arrive either, I set up my lemmy instance yesterday.