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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • There are some excellent C&C mods available now. Here’s two:

    Combined Arms is a Red Alert mod that brings in GDI and Nod and does a lot of interesting things. Campaigns for all factions as they deal with the upheaval that is a second war being overlayed over the war they were fighting.

    Mental Omega is a Red Alert 2 mod that reimagines the expansion pack, Yuri’s Revenge. Heavy faction overhauls and a full campaign. There’s also a second mod that goes on top of it that remakes the entire Red Alert 2 campaign using the improvements of Mental Omega. It tells the same story, but all of the missions have been recreated with more complex and varied design.






  • The handheld PC market is still small. Nobody else in the digital space has taken it seriously yet.

    If you look at iOS, you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s effectively two products, a piece of hardware and a digital store. To beat it, you have to beat both the hardware and the store at the same time. It took the entire mobile hardware industry forming an alliance with one of the largest software companies in the world to even try to compete with it.


  • If SteamOS comes to dominate the handheld market, I could see them being forced to make an API so that other stores like Epic and GOG can have the same quality of integration in the non-desktop interface.

    If you have two products that are both the best at their respective thing and you tightly integrate them, it makes it incredibly difficult for a competitor to match you. That is abusing a monopoly in each space to benefit the other.