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Are you sure you want to roll your own ?

I'd suggest Proton or another hosted solution unless your working on a team. Getting a single player game done solo is hard enough

What a great game, my only comment is I would love to be able to pay to remove the ads. Although from my own experience I know that this is probably more trouble than it's worth since the vast majority of people will never pay

I absolutely don't understand why the CEO keeps talking.

Looks to me like the schools in the process of collapsing.

https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/update-lambda-school-te...

Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all.

The lack of ports is what drove me to buy a Mini.

Not exactly sure if I'll end up buying a MBP later though. I basically only use my Mac for recording audio, and once you get your mic set up , your not too portable anyway

Unless your already a subject matter expert, I can't understand what you think you'll be able to do here.

What are you skilled at , what are you selling

The issue is each job might have you on call.

So you can have some 80 hour work weeks and 8 hour weeks.

How many of these people are working three or four jobs ?

Only if I get full remote too. I never want to sit in an office again.

Factor in you also wouldn't have to waste money on enforcement.

I think if someone really ran the numbers you can make an argument you're wasting money by charging people for public transit. You'd also encourage less people to drive which could definitely help when it comes to the suburbs

This feels very dangerous. While able body adults could just jump it, anyone with a disability could be trapped. What if their was a fire ?

This is a good argument to just remove physical turnstiles and rely upon an honor system.

How ?

My ancestors migrated from other parts of the US to California. If you want to survive you need to move.

I stand corrected. I still think Windows is worth keeping around , but I love to see alternatives

I dualboot without issue.

You can also run Linux inside of a VM on Windows.

Or you can even have a dedicated gaming PC and a cheap Linux PC. Windows Subsystem for Linux can give you the best of both worlds. I don't love Windows, honestly I think OSX is the best OS, but I can't run it on anything but a Mac.

>When 90% of your Steam library works anyway

Epic, EA, and Ubisoft don't even have clients for Linux.

I'm actually looking to take a different approach, I plan on working high paid contracts, and then taking 3 to 6 months off to travel after each one ends.

Originally I was going to work super hard to try to save up so much money by 40, but this sounds much more fun. Because 40 might slip to 45, 45 might slip to 50 and then I waste it what's left of my youth chasing money instead of seeing the world.

In much of the world you can live very well off of $1,500 a month, if you have a job which lets you save $30,000 a year, you can afford to only work every other year.

I love that this always comes up, no gaming on Linux will never be as easy as Windows.

It works about 90% of the time, but in that 10% there are probably a couple of games you're just not going to be able to get working. If you're serious about gaining, there's no reason to just not buy a Windows license. You can duelboot

For all of human history people have had to move to where they can feed their kids.

The smart people are leaving, of course if you want to stay in LA and struggle your entire life you're free to

Or people can just leave la.

The idea that were all on this team together trying to find solutions is naive, you need to do what's best for yourself and your family

If you're not, you're going to endlessly frustrate yourself when this doesn't do exactly what you need it to.

I guess I'd be more interested if the tool generated python code or something, and then I can manually edit it, or one of my friends could send it to me so I can edit it. Don't get me wrong if this idea worked in practice I'd be all over it, but I don't think it will.

I can imagine this will end up creating more problems than it solves, for example depending on where you're from you might use various colloquialisms in speech which no AI will ever really get.

For example if I said something like hey I want all the NBA players but they got to be like a little bit taller than 6 ft 2. What's a little bit, once you get into any edge cases, or even have to clarify what you mean, you might as well just program it out.

In that case why wouldn't I just use Unity.

For $1,500 a year or whatever, I get to use one of the most supported game engines in the world. Revenue share becomes a very bad idea if you actually expect the game to do well

I think everyone should be able to write a Python script to change a CSV file. Likewise with reading, everyone can read stuff on Instagram. Most of us can't read the Magna Carta.

Likewise I'm pretty good but I can't code in Assembly

>But having devs work in Unity or Unreal to produce a game is not really all that hard.

From OP.

Even with an engine game dev is much harder than front end web dev. The depressed salaries are due to the amount of passion game devs have.

Then again doing something in Unity is much easier than building an engine out. I credit Unity with teaching me to program.

Love it, add custom URLS!

The next time I start a new project, I might use this for a landing page !

As somebody went through multiple evictions as a teen, I agree 100%.

If you don't come from a stable household your teenage years are going to be absolutely horrible. You're going to know enough to understand that the adults around you should do things like pay bills, but they just don't want to. They'd rather buy new cars and get them repoed.

I make an absurd amount of money now, and I'm grateful every time I pay my rent. Honest to God, if I could change one thing about the educational system I get rid of the idea that your parents are responsible to pay for your college.

If you're coming from a bad household this simply isn't going to work, but you'd be the most likely to benefit from a scholarship or financial aid. What ends up happening is this gets locked behind your parents doing basic things like filling out forms, but they're just incapable of doing it.

I can't put in words how devastating dropping out of college due to this stupid system was. Through the magic of programming I was able to still establish a great career, but when you come from a broken home you're just going to take hit after hit after hit.

I often need to distance myself from what I guess normal people struggle with. I'll see something stupid on Reddit like a man in his late 20s complaining that his parents want him to get a job, and I have to stop myself from screaming at my computer.

Any reason why you went with GPL.

Unless you only want to encourage open source video games, this is much more restrictive than an outright commercial license. Have you considered dual licensing at all, maybe I send you $1,000 or so and I get to use this in a commercial project.

I absolutely love rts's , I love looking at a project like this but I don't know if I'd be open to developing an Open source One

The idea is this $10,000 is the last bit of money the state of California will spend on you. If you want to take that $10,000 spend it all on anime, and then camp in the woods in Colorado cool just don't become California's problem again.

$10,000 is enough to get you back on your feet assuming you leave California, in many places you could actually rent an apartment for $800 a month or so. 10K gets you in your place for three or four months, gets some furniture ,gives you more than enough time to get your life together.

A significant amount of the homeless, really do just need a bit of help. But they also need to get out of California, it's by far the worst state in America for working-class people.

If it wasn't completely illegal, I'd argue to give each homeless person $10,000 and to exile them for life from the state of California.

I guess if you get arrested in California after that maybe you get exiled to Siberia or something

Visual novels, games like 80 Days or Sorcery

Have you actually worked with a game engine. I'll say any day of the week game programming is harder than front end web dev