Just make a new 2D isometric Iceland Dale and it will sustain a small dev team no problemo IMO. Then don’t push the tech but write new stories and expand the world. But no, it doesn’t have microtransactions and you can’t get funding without selling your soul I guess.

I’d love working on a project like that, I miss the old game dev days 😊😌.

My eyes opened when a videogame in a company I worked for (I worked on another title) was made under hard conditions, polished, pushed under almost burnout conditions to be finished “in time”, and the budget for commercials was 4x the dev budget…

Are those “more effective ways” in the room with you right now?

People have tried to be rational about it for ages and guess what, it didn’t work.

Are you one of those “regulations are bad” people? Many regulations are outright bans.

I was forced to learn some of it at work (using and signing medical payment transactions, with x509 certificates) so I have ar least a starting point. I have no idea how the revoke process works though, I can’t figure out a way that it functions without a central authority getting queried regularly. I thonk I can start without that knowledge though.

Anyway, with your information I’m up and running, thank you again!

“Derived certificates” not child certs, noted !

Thank you! This is actually precisely what I need, you IT guys are the best!

I already did but my browser choked on it.

So yes I should probably set up the whole CA thing.

Thank you!

Is there some simple soft that let you make those certs, like with a root cert and then “derived” certs? On linux :-) ?

I guess people have to re-trust every now and then because certs get old, or do they trust the (public partof the) root cert and the daughter certs derived from root are churned out regularly for the sites?

Starting around 10-11 I guess, Roblox and that popular shooter with a bus dropping the players was all the rage.

I don’t know if they got the value of money back then, the lesson was taught, but I guess learned way later. The skins and the super shovel etc. “Was” the “money” for them and poof it all went away when they didn’t want to play that specific game any more.

But you have to manually accept this dangerous cert in the browser right?

Very interesting actually, do you have any experience about it or other pointers? I might just set one up myself for my tenfingers sharing protocol…

And you still can’t self certify.

It’s cute the big players are so concerned with my little security of my little home server.

Or is there a bigger plan behind all this? Like pay more often, lock in to government controlled certs (already done I guess because they control DNS and you must have a “real” website name to get a free cert)?

I feel it’s 50% security 50% bullshit.

Edit: thank you all I will dive down the CA certification rabbit hole now! Have worked in C++ & X509 on the client side so maybe I’ll be able to figure it out.

I explained how it works, that it’s just artificial scarcity, with vark patterns like FOMO, that they’ll lose it all on day (when switching game for example or the game stops existing), but also that for a small game it could help the creator (they loved a sand digging game and bought a better shovel lol) etc. I also put the money in perspective , like remember that candy we bought, it was 5€, are you sure you want to buy a skin for 8€ (they did)? But I didn’t outright forbid them to do so, they got to chose and they were quite happy about it. I very rarely gave them anything (maybe 20-30€ during like 3 years) but they hit the gramps :-) and eventually the house of cards went down and they were outraged that all their skins and “rare skins” were just useless now. They got a single skin for the next shooter IIRC so to not have the newbie skin, but then it just stopped.

Puts the full EU regulations in robot.txt

Black Adder?

???

So what’s the problem with those protocols?

I worked hard to make my kids understand why that stuff is bad. They got their highs, crashes, and understanding, now they’re not attracted to stuff like that any more 😅 but man, it should totally be illegal.

Especially for kids ffs.

Sometimes chewed nuts produces a tiny pyramid that lodges perfectly between two molars, impossible to get out without serious effort.

School year starts around September so that’s kind of nice but what did it in, or so I have heard, was the 10 day workweek, just too long.

At least my reading skills are up to scratch…

Did you just conveniently forgot humanitarian aid?

And the whole call USA in need, from a NATO standpoint, it has only been the other way around, and we were there for them. We (Europe) also let the hard power plus soft power to the USA after WW2. They have benefited enormously from that internationally, economically… We also have been buying USA weapon systems for enormous quantities.

The deal? If we need you, USA, you’ll help us against Russia (I don’t think there is another threat model).

First try: slow walking and half siding with Russia…

Well it seems like the party is over and good old europe is coming back.

Interesting times.