I can only speak for myself, but I enjoy having a regular supply of interesting problems to solve, and the daily routine keeps me grounded.

I think they’re referring to Substack, the hosting provider.

Don’t trust anyone who unironically uses the term ‘fake news’.

I do not want to see Weekend at BernAI’s.

I’m afraid you’ve failed the Voight-Kampff

Wishing to become just a brain in a robot body sadly misunderstands the totality of the human body. It’s been shown that gut biome affects mental health, for example.

Most people can’t tell the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and lossless, but hey if folks really want to waste their money on snake oil like gold-plated cables then I say let ‘em.

If you know what curl is, you’re not the target audience.

The people this is targeting don’t even know what ‘CLI’ stands for, but they absolutely will copy/paste random commands into their computer if they’re told it’ll magically fix something.

Sure, I’ll throw you a bone.

Blatant self-promotion is generally frowned upon. That’s a rule across the internet, but especially here.

Like, you haven’t even made an attempt to engage with the community. No other posts, no other comments. It looks like you made an account solely to push your product, and in a place like Lemmy all that’s going to get you is a flurry of angry downvotes.

Only a problem if you outsource your reading & thinking abilities to AI

Pretty fascinating! I would’ve expected the dongle to be doing something more complex but, as the author says, it’s possible that these developers underused it.

https://newzoo.com/resources/blog/global-games-market-to-hit-189-billion-in-2025

Closer than I remembered, but console is still larger and projected to grow faster.

It’s hilarious that you think game development is a ‘cushy corpo job’.

Ah yes, all those game devs famously enjoying competitive salaries and rock solid job security.

Game development is hitting your head against a brick wall because you believe in the art form. Anyone who tells you they’re in it for the money is lying to you.

Yep. PC players tend to be very outspoken, but they’re easily outnumbered by the console market, and the mobile market dwarfs them both.

Game Changer is their flagship show, and has been consistently great at reinventing itself and surprising season after season. It’s a game show where the game is different every time and the contestants have to try and figure out what’s going on. It goes places.

If you enjoy long form TTRPG, they have dozens of Dimension 20 campaigns with all kinds of settings and genres.

Smartypants is a show where comedians get to give PowerPoint presentations on anything they want.

Play It By Ear is a personal fave - each episode is an entirely improvised musical, which feels like an incredible magic trick when they pull it off.

Um, Actually is a nerdy quiz show where contestants have to interrupt the host with factual corrections about video games, anime, sci-fi, etc.

Gastronauts is a cooking challenge show with professional chefs trying to fulfil unhinged requests from comedians.

There’s way more on there besides all that, but thought I’d share some highlights.

Product placement has never been illegal in the UK, and we don’t have Walmart anyway, so the functionality would be useless outside the US.

Raphnet (and possibly others) make a USB adapter for Dreamcast pads, if you have one.

If you want something brand new, Xbox controllers have a more or less direct lineage from Sega pads, as (iirc) MS hired many ex-Dreamcast personnel to work on the original Xbox after the DC was killed off.

360 pads work well on PC and are easy to come by. Hyperkin also makes a modern version of the original Xbox ‘duke’ controller that might work well.

True, it doesn’t seem like something that would kill the business. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.

Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?

Edit: yes it is

“Do not build your own app. Vimeo’s right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don’t have to worry about legal compliance… Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."

Andrew Bridgman, Chief Digital Officer at Dropout

that might age poorly

The good news is he’s dead now, so you can enjoy Dilbert without any risk of accidentally giving him any money.