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   xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 06:15:30 JST xianc78

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   @mr_penguin Most other platforming games at something to the table or do something different. Sonic has you run into enemies. Kirby has you swallow them and copy their abilities.

   SuperTux IS a clone. Even the enemies in the game function the same as the ones from Mario, just with different appearances. It's not a bad game per se. I played it before and enjoyed it. But it feels like most of these libre games don't bring anything new to the table and there is no reason to play them unless you are committed to only using 100% free/libre software.

   My main point was to bring up that you don't need to only play FOSS games to avoid the bad business practices of the modern AAA industry.

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   Dušan Mitrović (dusnm@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 09:31:45 JST Dušan Mitrović

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   @onepict @darkwiiplayer I would say, if I'm allowed to go on a bit of a tangent, that the real curse of programming as a hobby is that it can turn into a day job, because our world runs on software.

   My hobby is joyful, relaxing, cathartic and beautiful.

   My job is boring, stressful, unrewarding and a pale reflection of my hobby, but it pays the bills.

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   BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 11:19:54 JST BeAware

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   @evan I just hope there's no major financial influence from the major companies involved like Meta.

   I don't want to lose control of my own site because I am not a programmer. I have a bit of control with Mastodon right now. However, there are some gripes everyone has had like lack of moderation features.

   I worry a financial influence to change certain things will lessen my control and I'd have to find another software.

   My worries always come from a place of passion and concern.

   Thanks for your response. I appreciate you.

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   Nat Bennett (nat@ruby.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 00:27:57 JST Nat Bennett

   Cannot overstate the value of regularly delivering working software.

   My single most effective software dev habit is to start with a walking skeleton -- a "real" if very stubbed out program that can be deployed on its real infrastructure, receive real calls, visited for real etc. -- because of what this does for non-programming stakeholders.

   When they see a real working thing and then they see that thing get meaningful improvements they tend to chill *way* out and get much easier to work with.