I mean, yeah? That’s where I buy all my shoes. It sucks not being able to try on shoes

Hey brother.

Size 15 wides here. I feel you. No where on earth have I been able to walk into a place and get shoes. the struggle is real.

It’s a ham sandwich. If you can pick your nose up can make a passable bechemal

I think you missed the point of the blog. It’s not “A guy makes a game” it’s “a group of friends make stuff up and a game is carved out of it”

Which yeah I can understand not everyone likes that. You need some imagination, the willingness to try new things and generally be down for some chaos. For the rest of us it sounds like a fun way to just fool around with friends.

Got through 2 minutes of someone rambling. Eventually the suggestion was to encrypt your files before sending them to a cloud provider which…

I mean sure? 12 whole minutes of that. If you use Linux. Use GPG to encrypt your files and store the key somewhere safe.

If you use windows. Swap to Linux. Until then 7Zip has great encryption features.

Not to be a dick but this would have been better as a blog. A video needs some kind of backbone to be interesting. Do some research. Granted I watched 2 minutes before giving up so maybe it gets better?

What cloud providers have turned data over to authorities? Show how to set up a self hosted cloud? I dunno.

Why?

The Bethesda that made good games is dead and gone. It’s just several shareholders and Tom in a trench coat wearing its skin like a poncho hoping you won’t notice the smell.

People are going to buy it. It’s going to have “Mixed” reviews and support will be dropped by 2026. It’s going to be a broken, buggy mess on release, break modding and be an overall weak experience.

Why buy it? It’s gonna suck.

Possibly unpopular opinion: You shouldn’t be allowed to refund Bethesda games. You should just be told that any reasonable person would know better than to buy a post Fallout 4 Bethesda game within a year of launch and you should not be covered under any refund policy.

I view it from the opposite. Parents know best what their kids would want. Let the parents buy stuff for their kids.

However, this is a great excuse to pick up a craft or hobby that you enjoy and make something for the special people in your life.

I enjoy woodworking, so what I end up doing is getting some small bits of nice hardwoods. Oak, maple, what have you. I buy through the year and I’ll make something like a cute notebook using two pieces of wood and some metal rings. Each one costs me only a few dollars. I spend some time in the workshop and you give someone something that’s unique.

The point is, home made gifts will always be more special than random doodads and widgets.

I made a friend last year who makes cheese. You know what I’m getting for Christmas? A fat wheel of smoked cheese and I gotta say, I’ll take that over whatever can be found on a store shelf.

If you’re also a millennial, I think we all grew up with the mindset of “home made gifts are from poor people”. But today I think it’s the complete opposite. Anyone can hop on Temu, Amazon, Wish or any other sweatshop marketplace and get literally endless amount of plastic trash. But not everyone can make jar cakes or home made marshmallows, a nice loaf of fresh bread or even a jar of home made mead.

Find something you like and spread some good cheer. That’s what it’s all about. While my little wooden notebooks may go unused. A small thoughtful chochky that adorns a shelf still holds a lot of nice memories of Christmas last. While my future cheese won’t make it to the new year (it’s very good cheese) I’ll never forget the best cheese I ever had… especially when I’m making orders for more!

Such a unique and fun design is going to stand out in our collective culture. Kids are going to love this thing.

We spend about 90 Billion dollars on corporate welfare each year.

90 Billion.

Yeah but let’s focus on the rounding errors.

The Department of Government Efficiency is going to increase the efficacy of giving taxpayer money to the ultra wealthy.

Okay…so…I don’t understand how this ties back to community colleges being bad?

I mean. Good luck at real school I spose’

So you tested out of remedial math, but wanted to take it anyway. But it was full. Got it-tracking

So you checked later and slots opened up which is…normal? And you didn’t take it?

And this is the fault of community colleges everywhere?

I don’t get it.

I mean…that sounds like maybe a bad teacher. Not really a reflection of the school.

Why not?

Valve’s 30% is high, sure. But you’re not seeing the total cost of selling a game.

And yes, I’ve done this before.

Besides the user count, besides all other factors. Digital sales are kinda hard.

You need to offer the actual game. If you’re selling an indie game that’s a few hundred megs, well you get to go sign up for a service to deliver it. Could be as simple as a google drive link, but because this is business use you get to pay business prices.

Are they charging a flat rate per month, per gig? Per download? Some combinations?

Now there’s updates and patches that need to be delivered. Same deal as before, but also now you need to handle the actual patching. Do you ship one big patch that checks for previous patches? Small individual patches that your users have to figure out what one they need?

Does your game have multiplayer? Well damn have fun with that.

What about support and refunds and GDPR stuff? Gotta factor all of that in too.

Now we get to do payment processing. You get to pay a company to accept payments on your behalf because you are NOT doing that yourself you WILL get stuck on inane and silly laws.

That’s part of it. Paying steam 3 bucks on my 10 dollar game to handle ALL of that? Yeah that’s fair. Could it be cheaper? Sure. a lot of things could. I don’t spend months on a game and then cheap out on the most important part: sales.

My time is valuable and worth 30%