Hytale pre-orders have been so strong development is secured for two years

Gonna nitpick here, but

Speaking on X/Twitter

...actually puts me off caring about this game. I know it's shallow, but there it is. I don't care if you're "reaching your audience" - first of all, you're not reaching me, and second of all, you're helping fund and justify the child porn platform.

I wonder what it'll take for genuine brands to realise that association with Musk's toxic hellscape rubs off on them. At least for me.

^ I hate game devs using twitter as well. Especially as you said it's now a pay-for-child-porn landscape. How hard is it to setup a mastadon or bluesky account? Oh well.

And this game I'm not familiar with, I guess it looks like a more modern minecraft maybe?

That's excellent! Can't wait to try it tomorrow! I don't expect it to be better than Vintage Story, but I'm sure its still going to be lots of fun.

Quoting: JarmerHow hard is it to setup a mastadon or bluesky account?

Don't want to be a devil's advocate here, but if you want to target wider audience, Mastodon is out of the game. And Mastodon is sadly even more toxic than X/Twitter. Avoiding "social media" altogether is wiser, in my opinion.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfAnd Mastodon is sadly even more toxic than X/Twitter.

Oh, that's interesting, I haven't encounterd much toxicity on Mastodon so far 🤔

Excited for Hytale tho!

Quoting: Numerfolt

Quoting: AsciiWolfAnd Mastodon is sadly even more toxic than X/Twitter.

Oh, that's interesting, I haven't encounterd much toxicity on Mastodon so far 🤔

Isn't Mastodon designed to be sort of . . . patchy? Different sub-communities could be very different.

I haven't checked it in months, but the only reason that I've kept my Twitter account is cause parts of the world haven't switched over to Bluesky (yet). Lots of Japanese people and things are still on Twitter and so are a lotta people in the global south. Though Trump and Musk are trying to stamp out resistance in and by the global south. So that might not matter much longer. D:

Also, Mastodon sometimes makes me think of the "morphin' time" thing from Power Rangers. I suppose there's people that'd default to the metal band too. XD

I left TwitX years ago, but I never managed to truly "switch to Mastodon" because I didn't end up engaging with the platform. I wish I could endorse it, but I just fell out of social media instead. I don't really condemn companies for having a TwitX presence, but I consider it a positive sign if they have a bsky or especially Mastodon.

I checked Hytale's website. They do have a Bluesky.

Quoting: scaineGonna nitpick here, but

Speaking on X/Twitter

...actually puts me off caring about this game. I know it's shallow, but there it is. I don't care if you're "reaching your audience" - first of all, you're not reaching me, and second of all, you're helping fund and justify the child porn platform.

I wonder what it'll take for genuine brands to realise that association with Musk's toxic hellscape rubs off on them. At least for me.

You are definitely more than welcome to your position, but I'm genuinely curious why would you black list a developer for trying to pitch their game? You can follow them on multiple social media platforms, including bluesky and 7 or so others, if that's your thing, and there are hundreds of millions of people to market to on these other platforms. Personally, I don't do the social media thing as I believe it is the worst thing to happen to humanity across our entire history, but I don't begrudge anyone for trying to reach potential customers.

On the other note, trying to hold a company's feet to the fire because of a horrific AI error means doing the same across the board. xAI isn't the first and you can rest assured they won't be the last either. OpenAI, Meta, Google and character.ai, etc. have all had issues with this as the AI market is moving faster than the pace of regulation and no one wants to slow down for fear of losing market advantage and influence. I'm not saying it's okay in any way shape or form, but you can't speak as through xAI is the only one to have this issue. Fair is fair. There are good people on all of these social media platforms and bad people on all of these platforms. I like to hear as much from those who disagree with me as I can and talk to people in person about it, because otherwise the echo chamber just forces you into compliance/group think with no innovation or real improvements to your ideology.

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Quoting: scaineGonna nitpick here, but

Speaking on X/Twitter

...actually puts me off caring about this game. I know it's shallow, but there it is. I don't care if you're "reaching your audience" - first of all, you're not reaching me, and second of all, you're helping fund and justify the child porn platform.

I wonder what it'll take for genuine brands to realise that association with Musk's toxic hellscape rubs off on them. At least for me.

You are definitely more than welcome to your position, but I'm genuinely curious why would you black list a developer for trying to pitch their game? You can follow them on multiple social media platforms, including bluesky and 7 or so others, if that's your thing, and there are hundreds of millions of people to market to on these other platforms.

Not quite a black list, but I think less of them. Twitter's response to users creating child porn imagery in grok wasn't to fix the tech, or ban the users. No, they put the capability behind a paywall, so grok will still generate these images, but now you have to pay for it. Which actually sounds worse when you say it out loud.

Quoting: juliandelphikiPersonally, I don't do the social media thing as I believe it is the worst thing to happen to humanity across our entire history, but I don't begrudge anyone for trying to reach potential customers.

Sorry to say, but the fact you don't do social media is pretty obvious. Hypixel made this announcement on Twitter, but didn't do so on their Bluesky account, or even Insta. Hell, they didn't even post this on their own forums! That's just numbers of course - they don't even have a thousand followers on Bluesky, compared to half a million on Twitter. But if they closed Twitter, people would follow them to wherever they're active. They don't want to take that risk, clearly. And so, I judge them for that decision.

Quoting: juliandelphikiOn the other note, trying to hold a company's feet to the fire because of a horrific AI error.

It wasn't an error. It's a conscious decision by Musk to allow his AI to generate child porn.

Quoting: juliandelphikiI like to hear as much from those who disagree with me as I can and talk to people in person about it, because otherwise the echo chamber just forces you into compliance/group think with no innovation or real improvements to your ideology.

I disagree. You don't argue with fascists. Again, it's clear you don't do social media, since any engagement with fascists will result in abuse and dogpiling.

You also don't debate paedophiles. Why would you? Lock them up.

So when I say that a brand is tarnished for being on the child porn platform, I can't be any clearer. I think less of them for being there. They enable and justify the absolutely worst people on the planet... for outreach.

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Anyway speaking of Hytale itself and not doing off-top about social media: I'm glad that they managed to secure enough funds. Now let's hope that the end product will eventually be amazing.

I was extremely wrong, looks like. Good for them!

I was disappointed by the fact that the announcement for Linux/Mac support was a Twitter exclusive. I have never had a Twitter account and never will. But this faux pas in no way compares to the Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeny's comment concerning "Politicians demanding gatekeepers selectively crush the one that's their political opponent's company is basic crony capitalism." Crony capitalism has been very good to old Timmy boy. Yet one more reason to avoid Epileptic Games.

Quoting: Numerfolt

Quoting: AsciiWolfAnd Mastodon is sadly even more toxic than X/Twitter.

Oh, that's interesting, I haven't encounterd much toxicity on Mastodon so far 🤔

Excited for Hytale tho!

Mastodon is very fragmented(by design).
Maybe he caught a very toxic server.