Asooka

> Just bundle [...] everything except base system libraires

That means everything above libc. There are no "base system libraries" in the Linux world for GUI. Not even libX11, that has been deprecated in favour of libxcb, which has been deprecated in favour of not having X11 and running Wayland. Some days I am amazed that the ELF binary format hasn't been deprecated yet...

Then add the option, but make it default to soft caps. Or bake the default into the tiers. If I sub with a $20 spending limit, I will probably be ruined by a $2000 bill. On the other hand, if a company subs with a $1000 limit, it can probably cover the occasional $10000.

At the very least, there should be an optional hard limit that is obviously indicated in the UI. When you're signing up where you set your "usage cap" warning, next to it should be an optional hard cap with big bold red letters "THIS WILL CUT YOU OFF THE MOMENT YOU GO ONE CENT OVER". So I can set e.g. a warning at $20 and a hard cap of $100.

I would say the game should generate some kind of a grand staircase every time a slope is the right shape, but let the player replace it if they wish. Would be even better if the element was chosen based on zoning policies, local ordinances, land value, etc. Soul by default, but infinitely customisable.

What does a "script" mean in this context? Like a Python script that runs a series of agents with small tasks? I'm still getting used to doing things with AI, this is all very new to me.

I don't think it will get quite that bad. Making your own pharmaceuticals is practically impossible, because you cannot buy the machines or chemicals needed without jumping over lots of regulatory hurdles. Training your own AI model is just a question of money and time. The hurdles there are mostly technical - how do you read the entire Internet without getting banned. Unless you envision a future where AI training itself is regulated.

Yeah and look at where this soft approach landed us. We have entitled crybabies voting for Hitler 2.0 because they can't stomach the uncomfortable feeling of seeing a diverse person in their pure white neighbourhoods. Children and young adults need to be hit with the big hard fist of reality repeatedly until they become good people. If some should fall through the cracks, they would not have made for good members of society anyway, so best they fall early and not drag the rest of us with them.

For efficiency, I would prefer to store files with a random short filename that's just letters and digits and store the original name in a separate database.

If writing a GUI was as easy and stable as writing a TUI, yeah we should write more GUIs. I can run practically any ancient TUI program on a terminal emulator, but running a GUI program that uses an older version of GTK means going through dependency hell to compile and install all the old library versions. If they even compile with the new GCC... I really wish we had a standard way to spawn a webview (or similar) and connect stdin/out to it.

I did, but found it somewhat boring. Yes, I did get to the stuff you're thinking about, but personally it felt too forced. The game was trying to present itself as breaking the fourth wall in a way that is impossible with something built on Ren'Py. That is, I would say DDLC tries too hard and ends up stretching my suspension of disbelief past its breaking point.

Also, past the weird bits, there isn't anything there. I have no reason to care for these characters. It feels like a vertical slice of a longer game, or a proof of concept.

DDLC has a really cool idea that should be tried again, in a way that remains consistent within its game world, with more character depth and a longer story.

You could have also learned how to edit the saves to give yourself the radio :) . A tall ask of an 8-year-old of course, but not beyond the realm of possibility. Funny you mention Bennett Foddy's Getting Over It, because that's kind of how I "beat" it. After about 6 years of on and off attempts that always died around the church, I got fed up and edited the physics constants to make the game significantly easier. Since I used my own skill to hack the game and not an outside patch, I consider that "beating" the game in a sense.

I am now thinking if you can pull off an adventure game where some puzzles require editing the save file. It would be pretty tricky to make it understandable to most people. Now that I think about it, I wouldn't put it past Deltarune to eventually have an easter egg that can only be reached from a save state, which is impossible to achieve through normal gameplay. I know it doesn't have one right now, because all the scripts have been examined in depth and nothing like that was found.

Or the author could get in touch with GoG, who currently distribute several classic Sierra games. I'm sure they would be happy to offer patched versions.

I think of them as legalised marijuana. It is not good for you, but if it were made illegal, there will be criminal organisations providing the service. Without patents, we would be mired in NDAs dictating which company can talk to which other company about what technology, and quite possibly several open-source developers passing away in mysterious circumstances.

So I see it as unavoidable evil. The patent system makes it lawful evil as opposed to chaotic evil, which is strictly speaking an improvement.