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by CM30 2y ago
Virtually all tools for video game modding and hacking are Windows first, and a large percentage them are only usable on Windows despite being open source. Approximately 95% of the tools on SMW Central and ROM Hacking.net run on Windows, wi
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by CM30 2y ago
It's funny you say that, since it seems like early 3D games are seeing their own retro revival. Quite a few collectathon platformers based on Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie and Spyro the Dragon are being created by indie devs at the
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by CM30 2y ago
I think cleverness simplifies what are arguably two different but somewhat related factors here. An interest in a market/subject that has the potential for growth, and the ability to execute on said interest. The first one probably has
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by CM30 2y ago
Honestly surprised the trademark wasn't nullified earlier. It's pretty clear the term has become genericised at best, and was in common use before the trademark at worst. Guess it shows you the dangers of uneven legal resources, s
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by CM30 2y ago
Earlier in my career, my gaming site actually got me hired for my first web development related role. And I had a recent interview revolve around said site for at least one stage, with said topic probably one of the key reasons I got to the
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by CM30 2y ago
This is embarassing: Before: > The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit. When in doubt about your use of the WordPress or WordCamp name or logo, please contact the
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by CM30 2y ago
They'd have to be aware because people have gotten wary of anything new from the company, due to the fears it'll be killed in a year or two. That's not a huge issue right now (since Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Android, Chr
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by CM30 2y ago
Market in places your customers frequent in addition to developer/creator related communities. Have a social media presence, post in relevant subreddits/Discord servers/forums, target your actual audience with paid ads if you
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by CM30 2y ago
SMW Central does require all hacks to be submitted in the form of BPS files. I think ROM Hacking.net had similar requirements, though given it's closed for submissions now, it's not relevant anymore.
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Because the quality of the code is at best very, very loosely related to the quality of the end product. I mean, what are many of the issues you see in poorly designed sites, apps, programs, etc? Usually a mix of poor design choices and hos
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by CM30 2y ago
Most I can find is the trailer for the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN1ORLvuamI Unfortunately, the author seems to market their work on Facebook more than anywhere else, without much of a YouTube presence or what n
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by CM30 2y ago
This is an issue with a lot of online creator communities and people using them for marketing too. Way too many would be authors, artists, game developers, YouTubers, musicians, etc end up marketing their work in communities for their choic
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by CM30 2y ago
I genuinely did not know that the acronym had another use, apologies. Apparently Wikipedia thinks it can refers to Server Messaging Block, Super Mario Bros 3 or Super Mega Baseball 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMB3
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by CM30 2y ago
Eh, 99.9% of fan projects are left alone. The worries about takedowns are seriously overblown alone, even for the likes of Nintendo properties like Mario, Zelda and Pokemon. There have been projects and sites for those games online for over
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by CM30 2y ago
Oh yeah I remember 3Mix. It's got some incredibly interesting mechanics and world themes, and it felt like a huge step forward for the Mario 3 hacking scene. I also interviewed its developer at one point too: https://gamingr
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Incredibly Ambitious SMB 3 Hack Released After 12 Years(marioadventure3.com)
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The difference being that Star Citizen has some very passionate fans willing to put an obscene amount of time and money into the game. Lots of people dislike that game or think it's a grift, but lots of people also like it and throw lo
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by CM30 2y ago
Or in other words, you're not Google or Facebook. You almost certainly don't need the level of performance and architectural design those companies need for their billion + user systems. And it doesn't help that a lot of peop
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by CM30 2y ago
Damn, didn't realise that Forbes Marketplace was run separately to Forbes itself. Knew it was always a parasite SEO operation, but the idea of it being a separate company entirely (and how much they tried to hide the fact) is really in
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by CM30 2y ago
Oh how badly SEO and copyright have screwed over online recipes... Sadly, the former have basically screwed over all kinds of online wrting, since everyone's trying to please Google rather than their readers.
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by CM30 2y ago
Hmm perhaps it fails with two or more lines at the start of the user bio? I had an extra paragraph or two of text before. But maybe it's only looking for a certain number of lines and cutting off anything after that, hence why the inte
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by CM30 2y ago
Wait, are there really 36 Hacker News users in North Korea? The map just refreshes if I check that, but it seems kinda unbelievable given how isolated the country is and how heavily monitored the folks living there are. Either way, had a bi
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by CM30 2y ago
Just gonna correct one thing here; fanfiction and other such forms of fanwork existed before the internet in the form of fanzines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanzine Many things associated with the internet and foru
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by CM30 2y ago
Medium is definitely outdated. The interface is just so hostile that it seems most credible authors have moved away by this point. The average writer is probably on Substack or a blog at this point, and the average startup founder is probab
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by CM30 2y ago
It's a cool concept, though distracting as all hell. Might work okay for something special like an /r/place successor, but I sure hope this doesn't become the norm for web pages in general.
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It's getting better, but it's still dire. Anecdotally I've gotten a fair few more job interviews in the last month or so than I did when still at my previous company, and seems recruiters are reaching out a bit more than they
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It's very much a matter of what topic the forum or Discord server is about to be honest. My experience is that anything particularly tech orientated skews very heavily male, while more arts and crafts esque topics tend to skew more fem
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At work or at home? At work the answer is probably about 5-10% of my time. Most of the work I've done at companies is either building something for clients (who usually want a website or app at the end of it), or for the company itself
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The conversation part. I am not good at talking to people in person or holding an interesting conversation in general, nor confident enough to just go up to strangers and just starting chatting with them. As you can probably guess, networki
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by CM30 2y ago
Unfortunately, I suspect the structure of the tech industry has kinda made this inevitable. If you need to jump ship every few years to get a meaningful wage increase, and companies are happy to drop the axe on an entire team because profit

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