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@aschmitz we’ve had a student intern from time to time, but i refuse to mix work and hobby because i don’t want the university to hold copyright

see my problem is i don’t have any students i can apprentice in my weirding ways

@wallhackio @aescling we already figured out she didn’t have friends in high school

remember when the french police raided Beaux-Arts to try to shut down Atelier Populaire during the May 68 protests in Paris, but were confused because they were looking for offset printers and didn't know about screenprinting

@akjcv you know at least two people who work for libraries

typoed google as goof but duckduckgo knew what i meant

somebody just @ me when the tangara supports ALAC so i can start considering it

obviously the correct way to format json is

{ "like": "this"
, "mother": "fucker" }

@akjcv i tried learning icelandic from a book in college but didn’t get very far

unsolicited invite re: the internet, negative 

@aescling @xenon (the forum is small, but bigger than it looks to outsiders as most of it isn't public)

@coriander why have fun when you could religiously dedicate yourself to learning fictional information about an intellectual property

more money:
• can make games faster and cheaper
• can sell games to people who can’t afford $70/game and thus reach a wider audience
• GBA games are better and so should sell better
• GBA games are better and so will drive merchandising opportunities more than switch games
• lower development barriers = more exclusive third-party titles, driving sales

less money:
• GBA games are worse for performative gaming (streaming) and so have less cultural cachet
• the price of games is so disconnected from the costs of producing them that anything you can do to make charging $70 justified is worth it
• can't cash in on ports of iOS games
• most gamers only buy prestige games meaning they won’t consider anything cheap or technically simple

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if nintendo pivoted to rereleasing the game boy advance and developing comparatively low-budget, easy-to-develop games and selling them for $30 apiece, they would make

@akjcv and in this market $450 over three years is a lot better option than $300 for one

@akjcv i feel like if you can earn $300k for one year you can probably earn $150k every year for the rest of your life somewhere a lot better

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