threeduck

@threeduck@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 8 years, I'm finally releasing my first video game today: Game Over - A Musical RPG??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I’d love a sale, the game is really quite tough. My partner was/is streaming it on twitch, she’s a moderately good gamer and she spent probably an hour on one of the mid stage games.

  I do have “Less Hard” as a difficulty setting that drops the notes you saw in the trailer, probably in half. And if people really want an “Even Less Hard” mode, I can add that in probably a day or two.

• After 8 years, I'm finally releasing my first video game today: Game Over - A Musical RPG??youtu.be ↗
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨13⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vote greens??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I agree wholeheartedly with everything. I’m putting greens 1 absolutely, but labour is obviously above the libs. My point, while labour is shit house, as far as centre left politics go, they’re making gains towards net zero, unlike the libs who vote against both 2035 and 2050.

  But just as an aside, are you vegan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure the current labour government took us from 28% renewables to 48%, with projections of mid 80s by 2030.

  Current gas use was earmarked by the Liberal government in the mid 2010s, with locked in prices that caused gas to be sold at next to nothing until 2030-35. Expansion of gas in the interim was deemed necessary to stop the gas industry from imploding due to poor Liberal deal making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legalise Cannabis Party 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh did everyone know that election funding is given ONLY to whoever you pick as first? Even when your vote trickles down to whoever wins, that $3-5(or so?) is only provided to your first choice?

  I’ll still be putting the Animal Justice Party number 1, but it’s good to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Satire] Politicians ready to condemn one wombat child being taken, yet to mention extreme rate that Aboriginal children are taken⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boy I wish this ire could be directed at the animal farming industry, who also take the babies from the mother (but this time to kill and eat the babies), whilst also keeping the mother perpetually pregnant to rinse and repeat the process.

  All the while contributing 15-20% of the entire planets greenhouse gas emissions.

  Boy I sure do wish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he had a good grasp on consumer desires. Which seems to be really tough for the majority of people, perhaps business people in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “it corroborates the rumours”.

  WHAT RUMOURS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you guys just generating insanely difficult code? I feel like 90% of all my code generation with o1 works first time? And if it doesn’t, I just let GPT know and it fixes it right then and there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian economist argues China is conning the world on net zero⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  India and China look to wealthy western nations that cluck their tongues: “only WE can destroy the planet to take our citizens out of poverty”.

  When in reality, we should be giving a massive portion of our budget to help them grow in a carbon neutral way.

  I’d happily pay an extra 20% in my annual tax to help fund rising nations grow in a healthy manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of Beavers UK & Ireland Tour 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had no idea what this was before watching it, became my favourite movie of the year, what a treat of a film.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll never see it coming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know how when you get put under for anaesthesia, and you don’t notice the time you were gone? It’s like a cut in the tape of life.

  What if death is like that, and BAM your consciousness re-emerges billions of years in the future the moment you die.

  But your consciousness is alone. And in pitch black nothingness. Forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got into the wrong career lol⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope my daughter gets to look up to women established in STEM fields.

  Seems like a busted world where there’s more money in sex work than academia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also I understand his house burnt down in the late 20th century, and the joy of rebuilding/furnishing was another motivation for the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at this point it just feels vindictive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *Except you, you stay

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh thank you! I had a great time, I didn’t expect as many people to come through and play it. I had set up carnival music to entice players, but never got a chance to use it as there was always a line, which was neat. Which game at PAX was your favourite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia detects the first case of the highly transmissible COVID-19 strain dubbed XEC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I caught covid at PAX last weekend, but I couldn’t figure out how to report it. Even if the populace has stopped caring about covid, you’d think the government would still be putting in some effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia detects the first case of the highly transmissible COVID-19 strain dubbed XEC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the purpose of having the three monkeys that basically all say the same thing?

  Like, from a rhetoric standpoint?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victoria sees record fall in rental stock as investors leave the state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Renters have to pay for their own water. I’ve lived in rentals for 15 years, and never saw a landlord do “upgrades” on my house. Didn’t stop them from upping the prices every opportunity they could. I’ll give you rates and repairs, although if landlords hadn’t scalped all the properties I’m sure people could afford to shop around to buy a better built property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victoria sees record fall in rental stock as investors leave the state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But who’s fault is that? That’s right, the investors/landlords who scalped all the houses, making supply scarce and causing prices to increase.

  Owning more than two (and I’d argue more than one) properties should be illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope I won't regret this: Does anyone here live in a van?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother has lived in one for about 3 years now, built it himself from a Ford Transit. He does exceptionally well with ladies and a van has had no impetus on that.

  He tried living in Sydney but it was apparently horrific, what with the aggressive parking laws and terrible road layouts. He’s vowed never to return.

  I’d argue his diet isn’t great, as he doesn’t have much room to make varied colourful meals, but he doesn’t seem to order takeout so maybe it’s not that bad.

  He’s incredibly social and performs in theatre’s throughout Melbourne, van life didn’t seem to hamper that. Everyone seems to want to hang out in his cosy RGB wood panelled surprisingly clean funk wagon. He’s 27 and saving a boat load of cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yogurt⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thants

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activists throw soup on Van Gogh painting again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good on em. The more Just Stop Oil is in the news, the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics Seem to Be in Every Kind of Animal… Except One⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saved you a click (or embarrassment of not knowing what one looks like from the thumbnail)

  It’s the tardigrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supportive dad⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point, corrected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supportive dad⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s not in his jeans is probably in his genes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Not too complex’: health experts criticise Labor for ditching LGBTQI+ census questions⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I’m kinda of two minds. On one hand, it’s definitely good to know the breadth of the LGBT+ community, for further policy decisions and what have you - ALL info is good info.

  On the other hand, what business does the government have knowing what I do in the privacy of my bedroom? Aside from the legal aspects of sexuality which I believe are fairly equal now (marriage laws, adoption laws etc), why do they wanna know who I’m blasting nuts into?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh I’ll be showing off my booth! I got a spot in the indie section for my Musical comedy RPG Game Over, but as a solo dev it’s a bit nerve racking. If you come find me and mention Lemmy I’ll give you whatever merch I have. If I don’t have merch I might have to give you the computer or something, just to keep my word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe this is better for everyone⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vegan diets are popular in third world countries because they’re considerably cheaper. Meat is cheap in western countries because it’s very often subsidized by governments. Meat consumption by wealth proves eating animals is a luxury.

  Also veganism mantras always have “as far as is practicable”. I bought a Samsung phone because Fairphones don’t work here in Australia.