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Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld are currently on the front page. I don't know why, but I like it.

Tech layoffs be feeling it

I laid myself off recently so that I can play Satisfactory full time.

On the one hand, if you’re gonna spend your energy managing infrastructure and repeatedly fixing technical debt you might as well get paid for it. On the other, at least this way you don’t have to deal with personality clashes and stupid ‘culture’ bs.

If anybody has a method for getting paid for this without personality clashes and stupid culture BS, please say something.

A few people here have talked about indie mobile app development as an approach that's working for them, just making and selling small utility apps on Google Play or the Apple App Store.

It's basically what someone commented earlier on another front page post. Software engineers aren't paid to write software. They're paid to deal with everything else that gets in the way of them writing the software.

Not sure I agree. Programming is honestly not an easy skill anyone can pick up

The point isn't that anyone could do it, but that many of those who can already willingly program for free in many scenarios. Thus, they aren't paid big bucks for the ability to write software, but to deal with the BS of writing software in a company.

My brain yearns for this. 100% the dream.

Well, here's a post for ONI to complete the trifecta of colony sim games... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33712533

I beat you to it by about 3 minutes. Surprised HN didn't dedupe them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33712505

the HN dupe detection is either stunningly broken, or (more likely) has been disabled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709786 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33710180 are literally the same URL within an hour of each other

It's a long weekend in the US -- and a time when a lot of folks buy games on Steam or other platforms.

Lotta games talk today if you include the Diplomacy bot. Guess everyone’s on break this week :D

Let’s get Cogmind and Caves of Qud up here too

Caves of Qud is GOATed

As someone who has played loads of roguey games (ADOM, ToME, CDDA, etc), I found Qud to be pretty miserable. I just don’t think it is possible to play it without watching or reading long tutorials from other people.

In my opinion that is AKA a poorly-made game.

Yeah, I'm a big roguelike fan, too, but Qud just click work for me.

I say that as someone who has ascended multiple times on Nethack, gotten deep endgame in ADOM, etc.

I got really bored with Qud and never went back.

Other similar Indie games : Clanfolk & Necesse

Necesse is more similar to Terraria, but it's the game I'm enjoying most right now.

Songs of Syx too.

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