Yeah, this is not an autobattler - you are controlling the unit.
I think you can even, if you want, fire shots manually (some games in the genre have that optional feature, not sure if this one).

Autobattler is games like Mechabellum, Dota Auto Chess, etc.

Anyway, DLC for this is great, I wanted to get back into it anyway.

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Fantastic game.
I'd describe it as "Programmable Autobattler Pokemon Class Build Pr0n".

It is not technically an autobattler, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone play it after the first few hours without using the VERY programmable autofight macros and without setting the speed to the highest setting.
A few times, the available commands are not quite enough and you need to intervene manually, but it is rare.

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That's weird about Itch. Something happening there?

Not weird at all.
Plenty of stories about Itch not paying at all or extremely delayed, being absurdly slow with their customer service if they do reply at all, not having done any noticeable development on their client for years, shutting down threads where people complain about this (after all, why fix issues when you can close threads in which people complain nobody fixes issues), etc.

As an indie dev, I'd use Itch for very early, pre-pre-pre alpha development, but I'd never ever count on it for revenue.

The whole service seems run by incompetent and/or chronically overworked people.

It's not like it offers discoverability, anyway (nowhere near a strong enough userbase for that) - might as well go fully homegrown like Vintage Story or Starsector.

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HD2 is one of the more beautiful games you can play today.

Yeah, no :grin:

But HD2 looks good in motion from the perspective of the player.
This trailer, however, zoomed in on all kinds of stuff you wouldn't normally see up close: Low poly digging effects, low poly particle effects, etc.
It's like they turned the shading/texture/etc. levels down for the trailer.

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Yes, of course, the level of distinctiveness needs to be practical, but also coherent. Roughly, in this topic, we're discussing the ability to treating equally to everyone, so common sense would dictate that when giving an example, like the Ukrainian and African devs before, they ideally should be of equal measure, so our words send the correct message.

I completely disagree with this.
It was just a list of examples and examples do not need to be of equal... well, equal anything really, as long as they still serve as valid examples.

My words got the correct message out, you just started diving in and overanalyzing. You are waaaayyy overthinking this.

This is an online forum, not a dissertation waiting to be submitted as thesis.

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At least Nexus Mods seems to have implemented the law in a sensible way compared to other sites.

What do non-sensible ways look like?
Genuine question.

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Honestly: Good.

We tried the laissez-faire way, and we know how that ended. However this eventually turns out, I cannot imagine it being worse.

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Genuine question from a non-native English speaker. I thought using the term "of colour" was now considered untasteful/not-correct because everyone has a colour?

Totally possible.
To be blunt, I just stopped caring about people's sensibilities when it comes to "word X bad".
Whatever you say can and will offend someone, always, so you might as well just speak your mind without trying to walk on eggshells all the time - as long as I'm not trying to be a douche on purpose, my conscience is clear.

A stance I can only recommend. If someone still takes offense, so be it. Life's too short to worry about that.

But also, this whole package is called "devs of color", so IDK how many people are really upset about the terminology and how much of it is just online brainrot that can be safely ignored.

Putting together "African devs" as one culture seems rather... unfortunate. I'm sure there's no need for me to explain, but I'll give some examples anyway; Algeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Equatorial Guinea or South Africa are all countries in Africa with VERY distinct cultures.

African includes all of the above, regardless of level of distinctiveness - I'd consider that obvious, to be honest. Or do you seriously want people to go into detail with every single statement? That would be... impractical.

If you wanted that, you can also forget about German, Spanish, French, most certainly European, .... because all of those are split into smaller and very distinct ones as well (just ask Catalans how Spanish they feel at times).
Once you start thinking about stuff like "what precise level of distinctiveness is acceptable in this generalization", you might as well not write anything at all <- getting back to the "walking on eggshells" thing.

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A great step toward eliminating racism would be to eliminate the thought of distinguishing people by the color of their skin. By promoting things, for good or bad, based solely on the skin is making a step backward in my humble opinion.

Amen to that.

I understand the goal is to combat racism and honestly, who wouldn't be on board with that*.
But events and actions such as these - even if they put a positive spin on it - only cement skin color as a factor of otherness, something to stick out and notice, to look at and gawk, to pity or celebrate. I fully agree that is counterproductive.

Meaning well and doing well are not the same thing.

It is also wholly irrelevant in game development.
Nobody* would avoid buying a game based on the skin color of the dev (who would even check for that in the first place?!).

Now, cultures on the other hand, I get.
African devs, Ukrainian devs, etc. - culture can have a strong influence on the game, so categorizing in that regard makes sense.
But skin color is not a culture. Other than for public social posturing, I really do not see the point.

Also, if I was of color, I'd sure as hell not want my game to sell because someone pitied me for my skin color, or wanted to flaunt their social stance with me - I'd much rather the game sold because people liked the game.

*yes, I know, there's always someone. But that someone is so statistically marginal that it doesn't matter.

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Hmmmm, with how badly Postal 4 went, I'm not sure what to think about this.
Two years later (or more?) and that game is still barely playable.

I am just not sure I trust these guys doing it better in a remake of Postal 2.

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