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>>100279 No.107857
>>107856>who would hire him?He's got gardening experience, send that man to a greenhouse.
No.107858
>>107846Can't post there. Cell dynamic IP range is "permabanned for spamming musclegirls". Interesting person in my region it seems
No.107969
I kind of want to support GOG because I appreciate their efforts to restore older games and such but perhaps ironically I'd have to run a lot of the games I purchase from them through steam/proton because I'm not on a Windows computer as often these days. LOL
No.107993
>>107969The owner of GOG is a billionaire like Gabe. While GOG has a better offering than Steam for being DRM-free only, if your goal is to maximize retro PC game preservation and proliferation, "voting with your dollar" on storefronts like GOG much less Steam isn't the most efficient way to donate. There are more direct ways to allocate your dollars to such causes, specifically to the autistic nerds actually doing the work.
Donating directly to emulator projects & archivers:SoftGPU (GPU accelerated driver for Win98 on VirtualBox)
https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpuhttps://ko-fi.com/jhrobotics86Box
https://86box.netRuffle (Flash player emulator)
https://opencollective.com/ruffleFlashpoint Archive
https://opencollective.com/flashpointarchiveDOSBox-Staging
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/get-involvedWine
https://www.winehq.org/donateProbably some others I'm missing.
Hosting seedbox(es) to seed retro game collection torrents (which come with pre-set emulators & frontends):https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html (638GB)
https://www.retro-exo.com/appleIIGS.html (9.4GB)
https://www.retro-exo.com/win3x.html (372GB)
https://www.retro-exo.com/win9x.html (282GB)
https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads (2.28TB)
They also provide a launcher to make the above eXo torrrents compatible with Linux:
https://github.com/exogui/exoguihttps://www.retro-exo.com/linux.htmlWith dediseedbox.com it would cost $35/mo to have a seedbox uploading all those torrents above. DSB is located in Netherlands (NL is the only Western country that ignores DMCA takedown requests). Russian would probably be a little cheaper but I don't know of any app-only seedbox Russian hosts. I'm not sure if the above need any more seeders, I haven't checked, maybe it's not even necessary. You can probably find all those games on archive.org and such anyway. Still more efficient for proliferation than giving cash to middleman storefronts.
No.107994
>>107993This is a good post that will go ignored. Buyfags are pathologically compelled to purchase games.
No.107995
>>107993I'll also add that a lot of indie devs have kofis and patreons which directly fund their work, rather than funding gaben's third yacht. For example:
https://www.patreon.com/Frankiesmileshow/aboutThis is the patreon of the guy who made look outside. Giving him a dollar here and then pirating the game would end up with more money going toward the dev than purchasing the game on steam, which would result in numerous middlemen dipping their hands into the money before he even sees it (steam itself and devolver digital at the least).
No.107997
>>107993>RuffleI wonder if they fixed the castle cat games yet heh, it was a little disappointing to try and replay Weisi (RIP)'s games on Newgrounds only for the character to fall through the ground plane instantly, smheh. This is a good suggestion in particular though and I will be acting on it
>>107995I know Steam takes 30%-a considerable sum for sure. I wonder what Devolver demands as tribute for supplying the funding to help get a game off the ground? Honestly associating with an established publisher seems like an extremely bad, even ruinous move especially if you're a one-man dev. Devolver will never stop taking a cut, whereas alternatively a personal loan's principle could be paid off.
No.108000
Looks like the Ruffle fund is doing pretty well all things considered ($175k over 5 years), not saying it isn't worth supporting (I will likely be joining the $5 tier minimum) but it feels like the money is being squandered a bit if it's not being used to employ further help than the current roster of three devs.
I support a few artists on Patreon (n-no, none of them are THAT kind of artist, aha) but I don't think I'll be giving $5 a month to someone who's made one post on their Patreon in 11 years, LOL. Between you and me I bought his game for probably a dozen people or so. I'm not happy that at least half of that money went to Steam and Devolver believe me-but it was also only half of a day's wage to share my appreciation for my favorite game of last year with people who 100% wouldn't have bought or even pirated it themselves lmoa.
Back to Patreon though. Why do artists have zero business sense? Having a "free" tier on your patreon is not some enticement that's going to get you more exposure (that's what your twitter or whatever is for) and make you more money, it's a pit that you're leading someone to who'd otherwise be giving you $7 a month without thinking about it for the rest of their natural life. A sub-$5-tier is just as bad imho. Anything less than that and you're not really supporting shit, especially these days.
No.108001
>>108000>Looks like the Ruffle fund is doing pretty well all things considered ($175k over 5 years), not saying it isn't worth supporting (I will likely be joining the $5 tier minimum) but it feels like the money is being squandered a bit if it's not being used to employ further help than the current roster of three devs.If that 175k is divided by 5 years then divided by three devs, there's a big difference in productivity between a dev who has to work a full-time job to cover bills (unless he lives somewhere cheap like India or Paraguay) and then spend an hour or two a day on a project versus the project being his full-time job because its donations can cover bills. This is why projects like Yuzu were successful in a short time. A smaller set of full-time employees for specialized cutting-edge reverse engineering (that means ChatJeetPT can't help them much) are usually much more efficient than dozens of unpaid uncoordinated volunteers who have a cursory understanding only able to make minor changes. But yeah I agree for such few donations it would be more efficient to only employ South Asians and Latin Americans, first world employees are obsolete especially for low-budget ventures due to purchasing power differentials. The only way you can fix that problem in the first world is through civil wars followed by violent revolutions with a lot of guillotines or firing squads, to establish new nations with new economic structures with globally-competitive devalued currencies. That's what China had to do to get where they are now.
No.108003
>>108001It's more that this retro nostalgia stuff is super niche and taken for granted. You're just not going to get a lot of donations for that like the amount of subscriptions an OnlyFans girl would get. The market (collection of normies) doesn't care about your autistic endeavors.
No.108004
>>108003Most women on onlyfans get like 20 bucks a month lol. It's a scam for them as well as you. Imagine selling your body for a cheeseburger, like randy from trailer park boys...
No.108006
>>108001China's not a good role model over anything labor-related. They have the term "996" to describe how they work from 9AM to 9PM 6 days a week, and are the largest producer of workplace death videos. If it's gonna take another 15 years for FOSS volunteers to get ruffle working, so be it. No need for the unhinged rant over civil wars and firing squads in the hopes of getting a flash emulator sooner, lol
No.108007
>>108006The existence of a flash emulator seems redundant to me when you can simply use the standalone flash player made by adobe.
No.108009
>>108008Yeah I've never had a problem running it with wine, even years and years ago when wine was considerably shittier.
No.108016
>>108004I'm convinced despite 0 hard evidence that top onlyfans models and twitch streamers are being funded by insiders to create the Fear of Missing Out phenomenon and/or impress political narratives upon the high double digit iq audiences of these websites
No.108017
>>108016I 100% believe this.
No.108021
>>108003>>10800450% of onlyfans accounts never receive a single payment so $0.01 a month automatically puts you in the top 50%, to end up in the top 10% you only need to hit ~$1000 and ~10k will put you in the top 1%
So Walmart employees earn more than 90% of OF creators.
>>108016Plausible. The entertainment industry has never truly been subject to the whims of the market.
No.108032
>>108016From what I've heard the current CEO of Twitch Dan Clancy spends thousands of dollars on Ewhores. That aside, it seems like an ultra minority of whales are always the ones doing the grand majority of the funding. They dictate a streamer's career in the same way they dictate the content of gacha games. They're like the retarded cousins of political lobbyists.
No.108034
Oh, "FrankieSmileShow"'s Patreon isn't 11 years old, I apologize. It's just that the one post he has on his Patreon is of an 11 year old video of his. Not much better but it is worth mentioning
No.108035
>>108016>>108017>>108021Keep being naive and believing there's some grand conspiracy instead of accepting there are a lot of shameless, fiscally-irresponsible down-bad dudes out there.
No.108036
>>108035>listen here, rubes, the truth is that the jews are telling the truth about everyone wanting the things they pushI was not ready for this level of realtalk! Someone get this guy a spot on Joe Rogan!
No.108037
>>108035It's not mutually exclusive, faggot.
No.108038
>>108036Manufactured desire. People want what they're told to want. It's the point of advertising and consumerism in general.
>>108037This. Obviously there's a lot of simps out there but a lot of these celebrity whores feel artificially propped up.
No.108047
>>108046Because that is why they're created.
No.108103
New open-source flash cart for the DS looks pretty cool. Considering buying it to replace my M3 Real flash cart. Still a lot of DS games I haven't gotten around to playing or finishing.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005011575849540.htmlOr maybe I should just save up for an AYN Thor Max eventually. Then again Android makes it pretty limiting instead of something Linux-based.
No.108137
>>108046Denial of objectivity is a fundemental axiom of egalitarianism (and tikkun olam)
No.108178
I f*cking forgot to save in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and now I have to start at the beginning of the h*ckin' dungeonerino!
No.108180
>>108178I am a chronic saver in every game out of habit.
No.108193
>>108192>pvp raid shooter>mostly negative reviewsAnon... I am not sure I believe you.
No.108196
>>108192My brother mentioned that game was shit. I got it confused with the new Minecraft thing.
No.108201
>>108196Hytale? It looked sort of intriguing but vintage story just seems like hytale but better in every way.
No.108204
>>108201Yeah that's the one.
No.108207
>>108205Seems like an ok game. Smiley doesn't have bad taste, overall.
No.108308
>>108307Microshart is behind the times.
