Quoting: JörmungandrTo anyone dissatisfied with Rusts complexity I recommend looking into hare [External Link].

Can't mention hare without mentioning zig [External Link]. Similar to hare with some compelling features of its own like comptime and powerful C/C++ compilation tools.

I would say zig has more traction than hare but Drew DeVault is great!

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Quoting: NodMy favorites at the arcades were Xevious, 1942, Slap Fight, Sky Shark, Twin Cobra, 1943, Truxton, Twin Hawk and Raiden.

I love Xevious and 1942. :grin: The rest, I haven't played yet (well, I have played 1943, but unlike many I prefer 1942). I've been having a good time with some of the shooters on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 of late - my favourite one there, by far, is Star Parodier [External Link].

You should really give some of those others a try then, highly recommended, all classics of the genera!

Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: NodWhen the arcades changed the price from 20c to 40c I just stopped playing.

You should've seen how insane the UK prices got - they went from 20p up to £1, £2, or higher! :shock:

Yea I always wonder about that price jump, was it a good idea or did it contribute to the demise of the arcades? I found myself pondering how to optimize revenue as an arcade owner. My theory is you really want to price things to optimize throughput and get more people in the arcade and playing and then cross sell drinks and snacks. It really needs you to own two arcades so you can do A/B testing. Do you earn more with games at 20c and higher utilization of each console or 40c with lower utilization? How much does higher utilization impact maintenance costs? What are the cross sell opportunities? Do arcades make most money from the games or something else (like restaurants make more from alcohol sales than the food).

I find myself pondering similar questions whenever I go to a second hand bookshop or restaurant. Like if you train your restaurant staff to be very attentive to the state of customers drinks and always offer a top up as soon as there are empty glasses and you will boost revenue by 25% right there. Yet I often find myself always sitting there with and empty glass desperately trying to get a waitresses attention.

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Quoting: PenglingI've really been digging into some shooters this last week, enough so to finally have a preference for vertical ones*, so I may well end up picking up Tiger Heli, from this selection. :grin:

My favorites at the arcades were Xevious, 1942, Slap Fight, Sky Shark, Twin Cobra, 1943, Truxton, Twin Hawk and Raiden. When the arcades changed the price from 20c to 40c I just stopped playing.

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Here [External Link] is a counter opinion that might give you a bit of hope.

But there will be silver linings to The Great Robot Spam Flood of 2024. It will drive us into healthier online communities. It will spotlight and boost the value of authored creativity. And it may help give birth to a new generation of independent media.

Robots will make the internet more human.

Essentially he argues that AI content will turbo charge the already dire enshittification of content on the internet such that the experience is so bad that it drives people towards sites just like this one. Ones that prioritize content "by humans, for humans".

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Quoting: lejimsterI wonder what the hold up is in places like Australia and New Zealand for example? They're in the same region and still nothing, nadda. I don't get it.

I would think Valve would want to be selling in as many places as possible.

I wonder that every day :(

I am so close to ordering a parallel imported one but I just know as soon as I do Valve will release them in AU/NZ.

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Quoting: TcheySince BAR (Beyond All Reasons), i cannot play any RTS without the position control (not sure how it’s called) : draw a line to move the troops so they end up on that line instead of a blob full of collisions.

Looks like its called Move Line Drag [External Link]. That looks great, never seen that before. Might have to give BAR a try.

The closest I can think of is unit positioning in Myth II which if very good but not quite the same.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeanyone remember the Atari Lynx (and I think the Game Boy supported this too) where you could connect a cable and play multiplayer... I wonder how feasible that'd be to do with two Steam Decks...

The PS1 supported this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Link_Cable [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhat a clever idea.

I subscribe to Icculus's youtube channel and watched his intro the other night. While watching I was thinking it seems like a really obvious idea? Why did it take until 2023 to try and show the player a glyf that corresponds to the input method they are using? Every time I get shown a glyf for an input method I'm not using (pretty common especially if you use a not xbox controller) I think the same thing.

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate that Icculus has done this but I'm still surprised that it took so long for someone to do it. Is this a solved issue if you use steaminput?

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Inspired by TempleOS I wonder?

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Great write-up, thanks! Wishlisted.

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