Fr that’s gotta be his cousin or college friend or something

Same way we knew the names of dinosaurs I guess

Bit of column a, bit of column b…

That was basically the only Pizza Hut I ever had growing up, other than that it was Little Caesars or nothing

Good vibes though

Here’s my anecdote: I’m not a game dev but I dabble whenever I’m between jobs. I also don’t really game very much, maybe 2 or 3 hours every couple weeks. So for awhile I sort of identified as a shade-tree gamedev and super-occasional gamer. I wish I gamed more, but honestly a lot the games that I’d like to play … don’t actually exist . So my motivation for making games was always to pull from those ideas to build something that hasn’t been built before. Of course, having to blaze that trail is technically difficult, so though I’ve spent 100s of hours in unity I don’t have much to show for it but a handful of janky demos collecting dust in my harddrive. I haven’t done any gamedev in years now, you know cuz of life.

Another anecdote, when I followed the game dev subreddits back when I still used Reddit, I noticed that the hardcore-gamer gamedev’s projects tended to be reflective of the games that they enjoyed. That’s not strictly a problem, especially when learning, but it does make their ideas…derivative. A Zelda-clone, a souls-like, yet another puzzle platformer about depression. It’s kind of no wonder to me that so few make it in indie gamedev; a huge portion of projects I saw were just a worse version of something that already exists.

This is what I visit Lemmy for

I swear to god, lemm.ee’s server has been more reliable for me than reddit’s ever was

This is why I don’t agree with the “lemmy is cozy, it doesn’t need to grow” point of view. There’s always specific, largely defederated instances that provide that cozy feeling, but I really want decentralized platforms to replace the corporate ones. If that’s ever going to happen, the fediverse needs to grow.