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Yeah, pronunciation is the same as the English "boo".

It's actually not a company. It's a website published by our government.

I'll let you think your part about that...

Yeah, pretty sure, it hasn't been officially announced yet, because it is still under development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchblade

Certainly some food for thought, but I feel like people saying indies will save us are saying that as consumers and a lot more selfishly. AAA is struggling to deliver interesting games and indies are killing it, so you play indie titles instead. Whether those indie titles are actually produced organically and whatnot is kind of secondary for that purpose. The mass layoffs in AAA are bad, but in the New York Times article, for example, they're mainly seen as indicative of the business model faltering, which should naturally give more room for indies. But yeah, that these studios are still horrendously profitable kind of shows that this may not be true in the end.

It would certainly be weird, after their recent games were so story-driven. You can't tell a good story, if you need to always keep the end open for possible expansions.

Yeah, and they often launch with loads of systems where future content could be plugged in, but the actual content itself is typically bad or at the very least incomplete. The publishers try too hard to build a platform rather than a good game...

Yeah, theoretically the exact model for monetization isn't as important, but many publishers are hoping to get players to pay subscriptions indefinitely.

And here I would argue that the Rust library is strictly better, specifically because it will come with an automated or precompiled build of the C library. Compiling C is such a pain.

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I'm not expecting insane test coverage. What I'm looking for, is that they've understood that writing tests makes their (future) life easier, too. A hobby project can benefit from that just as well. I'd argue almost even more so, because you might be working on a feature over the course of several weekends, where you'll benefit from having written down the intended behavior at the start.

Fucking hell, man, with how many very publicly visible security problems they had last year, you'd think the stakeholders would be on board with doing security for a bit.