ElmiHalt

Never were high, weren't you? A bed for $150 is surprising tho

Huh, so... I guess it's time to change my view on the topic then. Thanks, I'll look if I can get my hands on these

I just like how some drinks taste and it's not really the tastes achievable without alcohol I think. Like there's non alcohol beers, I can see how that's possible (yet I don't like beer), but I'm yet to see an alcohol-free whiskey or gin/martini. Despite I don't have much of a hangover after a moderate amount of good whiskey/gin - the morning is still rougher than usual and me not like it -_-

I mean take a look at what's happening in Russia (besides the war) - folks over there had nothing to hide until suddenly they had and quite a few people got a prison sentence for their posts, re-posts and likes made before the war. While Russia is quite an extreme case it's not the most extreme and you can sit on the "it won't happen to me/here" pills yet so thought those people.

You can see what an instance has defederated by adding /instances to the URL of the instance. There's no way to see it for more than one instance (at a time) as far as I know, so yeah, have to agree with you.

Just move to an instance that has defederated from major nsfw instances.

Ah, yes, the nsfw genre, I see people of culture were involved in the survey

Well, you can create an account on an instance that's defederated from nsfw instances and doesn't allow nsfw communities inside. For example I've seen almost no porn in my 'all' feed and had to block like one community from some big instance.

Well, that's probably a wrong kind of 'open' to what FOSS means by 'open' yet I'm not convinced. With the whole 'anybody can make an instance and collect all the data they wan't it's kind of awkward and messy. How much of the said data you can obscure/encode without losing the openness between instances?

Because if one instance can't verify actions of another then you have an issue dealing with bots and overall the platform becomes way more obscure and less reliable as a source of information.

And like if the buttons themselves had an ability to openly show who upvoted/downvoted a post - how much of a difference would've been here? I don't feel like it's such a concern.

The point about deletion/edits - it's not about removing your info from the internet, it's about correcting what's wrong for the sake of providing correct. If it's on the internet once it's there forever. I don't see people complaining about weyback archive doing their thing. Yet it's doing exactly the same thing possibility of which upsets so many people here.

If you monkey brain posted you home address and where the keys are - it's on you, not on the internet for storing the info.

The only real point I see here is corporations/governments scraping all this data for their use. Yet as long as they can federate there's nothing much to do and if you try to restrict federation then it's just a bunch of forums with extra features.

Well, if you can smell something for days and stay alive then the smell becomes neutral (as in the source doesn't actively tries to kill you)

I don't know how much programming experience you have so I won't assume yet the stuff I wrote down the line are quite basic.

Generally speaking you always want to use the latest stable (!) version of whatever tool you want to learn, just be sure you're watching/reading tutorials for the right version.

As to how to learn, I'd suggest to start with videos on YouTube - get some free assets on itch.io (maybe ones being used in the tutorial, maybe not) and just do stuff along the videos - figure out the basics, build the base and move from here.

You want to get the feel of the process, what works, what doesn't, try to break the whole game in pieces and just do one at a time. Make an animated character, make a level with collision, map some inputs to the character, run through the level, add something the character can break, add means to attack, break the thing that is breakable, add an enemy, realize there's no health, add health and damage and so on... Don't really focus on getting it right - focus on getting it done, you'll have a lot more understanding how to do something better after you've done different parts of the game.

As to the docs - it's great, but you don't need to read it as a book to start something, it's a hefty time investment and you won't get much out of it at the current point. Just remember that the doc exists and go there with questions you have. You're stuck with the collision BS? Go read the docs - the answer is there and you'll understand and memorize it much better as you apply it to a problem you've faced.

Also don't be disappointed or harsh on yourself for being "stupid" and doing something in a weird/ugly/inefficient way after learning how it's done properly - it's part of the learning process.

For the publication of your game - it's up for you to decide, I mean you can just share it with friends or relatives, it's all good as long as you're having fun with it.

Well, Twitter is a mobile game now... Is there something to consider it a gacha?