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The issue is discoverability.

Sure if you made a name for yourself, you can bank on that. People will buy Slay the Spire 2 instead is cheap copycats.

However I you are a new indie dev and made a decent game, how can people find you? They can't under the sea of slop. They could scroll and scroll and never find you.

I heart from many game reviewers that they have an harder and harder time finding good games to review. Not because people don't make good games anymore, in fact more good games than ever are made but finding them is harder than ever. Indie devs don't have a giant marketing department.

If steam keeps refusing to curate game the gaming market is going to crash hard.

Fair point but do people really need high pixel density at 32"?

I have bought a 32" 4k monitor like five years ago and have really regretted it. Sure fonts are slightly crisper but I would rather have preferred to have a higher refresh rate. Newer games will barely run on 4k if you don't have top of the like hardware or will need frame generation trickery. Plus the odd app that still doesn't support hidpi displays properly.

I feel like 1440p is already the sweet spot.

I am sorry to hear that, I hope you will rediscover the joys of programming one day again!

Humans haven't given up playing chess just because computers are able to do it better, there is still a point in recreational programming.

I am fondly remembering actually using Smalltalk in production for a small web project. I think I used Squeak with the Seaside framework. The image based workflow made deploying it surprisingly easy.

I do a lot of printing for TTRPG's.

Generally speaking, if you are in any group situation where you meet in person and want to share something, paper is still king. Easiest to share and no distracting electronic devices.

Also for learning I often prefer physical books and printed out worksheets. It helps engage the spatial memory plus you can write on them with an actual pen which also helps recall compared to typing.

Oh, I love that!

Mandatory initialization, strong typing, context free grammar, lots of good basics. If you get the C++ header converter to work so you can use most C++ libraries I could see this as a great C++ replacement.

I hate when I see a new programming language, get my hopes up and it turns out to be AI slop again.

There might be some decent design ideas there but if you can't be arsed to write them down in your own words but instead make me read AI generated slop I am out.

Orion is also great for iOS devices as you can't install a proper Firefox an them. For those that don't know, apple is being apple and Firefox is forced to use the WebKit engine on those devices so complete shite and no proper ad blocking.

Last time I checked Orion was the only decent solution with at least some ad block capabilities.

OP specified 17th to 19th century though.

Also we absolutely see the beginnings of colonization during the Renaissance era. Arguably in 1492 with Columbus "discovering" America.

So not sure what your point is.

> If Europe has all the science going on in the 17-19th centuries, it is not because only Europe has best minds. Europe has the people with free time, food and riches to afford the science work.

You are talking about a period in history when children were worked to death in mines. When working people in city lived in unimaginably horrible conditions, barely any education, lack of hygiene, 12- to 16-hour work days, flats without windows. A period with horrible wars. A period when Europe build its wealth through the blood and suffering of the global south, by colonization.

It is absolutely crazy that you talk about it as a peaceful time. No, the vast majority had vastly less time than they had in the "dark" medieval times. And it was much, much bloodier.

So what happened? The Industrial Revolution and with it a new economic order: free market capitalism

If you pay people by the hour, you are interested in them working efficiently. You will come up with technical means to increase their productivity.

You can gain a competitive advantage by technological innovation in a free market that has competition.

That is why science exploded. Out for necessity. There was a need. There was a profit to be made.

This is also why progress is now stagnating in the age of big monopoly capitalism. And no, we can't ever go back to free market capitalism. Certain industries simply need a certain scale that makes it not compatible with it. You can't build a startup training the next cutting-edge LLM model.

We will see a lot of progress once we move beyond our current economic system.

> C

Well some procedural language would do the trick.

The main issue is see is people jumping straight into OO or functional programming and developing a habit of over-abstracting everything.

I think something like Odin which is purely procedural but has less historical cruft and offers modern affordances would be a great choice.

C is absolutely worth learning but students will spent a lot of time learning to cope with its sharp corners and subpar standard library. Some might give up before they discover the joys for programming.

No one is trying to get rich from working on Haiku. They are doing it for fun, as a passion project. Sure AI would help with velocity but velocity is not the only goal. Journey before destination.

Also: Open source is about relationships.

Reviewing code sucks. However at least reviewing code from humans allows you connect and learn from each other. You get to mentor someone. Build a relationship and trust. They learn and grow and maybe someday can also review other people's code.

Nowadays with lots of low effort merge requests and spam it is already easy to burn out. Now add AI. Yeah, no. Why should anyone review AI slop for free. Why? It is the prefect solution to burn your contributors out.

If this is an attempt at humor, it is in very bad taste.

And no, please educate yourself on what Finland did to eradicate homelessness. It has nothing to do climate but with the fact that Finland made it an explicit political goal to eradicate it i.e political will.

The ideal number of jails and homeless people is zero.

Obviously you will not reach that literally. That's why it is an ideal number, not a real number. It is still a good and worthy goal.

Finnland for example has nearly eradicated homelessness. It is not literally zero but 0.08% which is pretty good.

You can also reduce the crime rate dramatically by better social security, education, easier access to mental health care and so many other things.

And don't say we can't afford these things. These measures pay dividends in building a better society for everyone. What we can't afford is having so many billionaires not paying their fair share.

The Steam Machine is a victim of RAM prices exploding. It's price is fair considering the price of its parts but also causes it to be in a price segment where I am not sure who it is for.

People that can afford a Steam Machine at the current price point are likely to already have stronger hardware.

A Mac Mini a similarly sized with like half the price with dramatically better CPU. Or if you could get a PS5 pro, still for cheaper with vastly superior gaming performance.

Valve could have started with a premium model for the hardcore fans that are less price sensitive and released a budget version later when maybe the RAM apocalypse has ebbed.

Still hope it sells, the form factor is amazing.

> You don't have to be an amazing programmer to be an amazing game designer

That has been true even without AI.

Solutions to create games with barely any programming knowledge have existed for a long time. You can create a full featured Unreal Engine game with just using its visual scripting language.

Lots of amazing games have absolute dogshit code. It doesn't matter. You can write super simple, procedural code without any fancy abstraction and just get the job done.

Programming is the easiest part of game dev.

Plus you don't have to be a solo dev. Sure, just being a game designer might be hard but if you bring artistic skills to the table as well then you are golden and can partner up or outsource the programming if needed. Honestly people with an artistic background often do much better than people from a software engineering background who are used to overcomplicate things.

So no, programming was never the hurdle and AI doesn't help here. It just helps people to produce more slop faster.