Hey, developer of RPG Playground here, and I agree with you.
My platform has moderate success (multiple games released each day), but to compete with RPG Maker means being 10x better. I was hoping to grab some of that market, but marketing wise it's incredibly difficult.
Blender itself is also over 20 years old. And it struggled a lot even when opt source until several things came together at once. A mix of a UX overhaul, autodesk pissing off the community, and outreach yielding fruit as corporations experimented with adoption.
I'm not sure if we had that perfect storm in game engines yet. Unity fumbled big time, but Godot wasn't quite mature enough to fully take advantage of that opportunity.
>Just freeing your product might not get you enough traction by itself.
Plus not everyone wants to give their product away. I see that advice all the time here and reddit and other places, "just opensource it" as if that's a solution to every problem a creator might have. I even saw it on a gamedev subreddit where a guy was asking how to make more money and people were saying to make it opensource, as if making it free would somehow increase sales for him.
Nano has a completely different security model though, and isn't nearly as secure/decentralized as Bitcoin/Litecoin/Monero and other standard POW based cryptocurrencies.
> isn't nearly as secure/decentralized as Bitcoin/Litecoin/Monero and other standard POW based cryptocurrencies.
That's not remotely true. Nano is up and running like 9 years now and has survived countless spam attacks. The last attacks have gone completely unnoticed except by people watching for them.
As a non-inflationary feeless currency it's inherently far more decentralized, and tends to decentralize over time.
Why on earth would POW be the standard when block lattice is better in literally every way? It's faster, safer, and 10x more efficient than a Visa transaction.
And then there's quantum resistance.
Why do people on a tech site full of 'smart' people let statements that wrong go unremarked. It's weird.
It's like someone was saying, watermills are great because they can help you mill your flour. Someone else chimes in like, hey, you can actually just get a wind turbine or a solar panel now; it's way more efficient... And then you - a year old account with -1 karma - jump in saying, 'lol solar power shills still exist?!'.
Like... Who's the shill here? How much BTC is in your bag?
"The guy whipped out a rudimentary financial model in a few hours. Turns out it’s not that important—it’s for illustrating your runway and spending plan, not to justify an imaginary revenue number."
I'm old enough to know, and no, it's not the same. Bush never claimed that Canada is a US state, never hinted at invading Greenland, never repeated Russian propaganda.
We thought the Gulf War 2 was under false pretenses of "Weapons of Mass Destruction", sure. But what Trump is doing is plain betrayal of trust amongst allies.
As long as the other sex also has the same opportunity to join a similar group, I agree.
But when there is no proper alternative for a man or woman to join a similar club, it's more about the exclusion of people with the same interest but happen to have the wrong sex.
What have you done already? Have you joined the protests? Have you co-organized protests? Have you helped out the opposition? Go out there, connect to like minded people, see how you can help, get your hands dirty.
A country doesn't belong to the majority, it belongs to the ones willing to fight for it.
US is not my country, it's yours. But not if you're not willing to defend your rights and values. If you stay passive, others will decide for you.
It's probably obscure, but anyone from that time would find it plausible because we know both radio and computers used cassettes.
So for me, this title was "Yeah, I get it how that would work".
For fun I just asked my 16 year old son "Do you think it was possible in the past to download a computer game from the radio?". He thought is was impossible, and had no clue how that would work when asked further :D. It totally confused him because "you can't play games on a radio".
As an experienced "software engineer" :D, I fully agree with you. Although I would phrase it differently.
All patterns & practices come with their benefit and drawbacks. So all decisions are very much dependent on the circumstances. This is what you called "local maxima".
It's clear that the real problem in Europe is access to risk capital. Startups are no problem, scale-ups are.
Nobody was able to replicate Silicon Valley, not even within US. My opinion is that it's a chicken and egg problem, and Silicon Valley already has crazy risk capital, which will generate more crazy risk capital.
My platform has moderate success (multiple games released each day), but to compete with RPG Maker means being 10x better. I was hoping to grab some of that market, but marketing wise it's incredibly difficult.
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