JackbyDev

It's really easy to forget, but yes, Steam was annoying back in the day. I hated it so much I bought Borderlands 1 from somewhere else in protest. My friends bought it through Steam. The patch dropped and they got it, I didn't, and I couldn't play anymore. It finally came later, though. This pushed me to give it a second chance. Now it's amazing. Apart from some gripes about the UI of Steam itself, there's not really much to complain about.

That's sort of a weird projection. It's a chore. Obviously people would prefer to minimize time spent doing chores and maximize time spent doing fun things. It's really not that complicated for most people. Not saying you can't enjoy going to the store, but ultimately what you're doing is still finding a way to make it less of a chore. Spoonful of sugar, and all that, ya know?

There was talk about Google changing this, but I'm not sure if that was something that would only affect Pixel phones or all of Android as an ecosystem. Well, to be specific, the change is to not let people run unsigned APKs at all and devs can only get them signed by giving their identification to Google.

This is why "side load" is annoying to me. It's installing. It is not special or different. They aren't "blocking side loading" they're "restricting what you can install."

I'm not saying they're realistic, just that it has some of the flood/farming mechanics the blog author wanted to see in a game.

This is a great article! It's really interesting.

I have two comments to make, and I hope nobody thinks this is me trying to disagree with the article or something, I don't want it to come across as defensive. In explaining some of the challenges medieval cities go through and saying Banished is a pretty accurate game, I think this might just be a genre issue. I consider Banished a colony management game, not a city builder, and indeed, in colony management games your people's health and safety are usually a much larger concern than in a city builder.

The second comment is that the writer suggests a game with flood mechanics and arable farm land. I don't remember if it was out in March of 2020, but Timberland is out now. It's a beaver based colony management game that includes a lot of fluid dynamics. It has flood mechanics like described. It's unrealistic, of course, because they're beavers. But also because flooding isn't the end of the world if it gets into your buildings, I think it's more of an inconvenience. Regardless, I think it's a cool game to check out.

I switched about a year ago. It's going great. The only problem with my computer was because my RAM broke, but that would've still happened on Windows.

You marked your account as a bot but you look like a human user. Some users filter out bots so you may want to change it.

Oh you KNOW I had to be the robot.

Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this. Even apart from instances some community names by default aren't federated. It's a really weird stance.

As long as you can reply to replies of people who blocked you, I think it's fine. Reddit's approach is absolutely insane.

My consciousness is on the cloud now, please speak for yourself!