Marketing sucks.

Also it's a tad depressing to know only four people have played my game since I launched the website. The latest person got level 2 attack then quit.

I'm unsure if the scary warnings literally every antivirus gives (and Windows 10) have anything to do with it, because the launcher has had more downloads than there are game build downloads which is odd.

I think I'm going to buy an EV code signing certificate soon and sign the launcher ASAP. It's a bullshit racket.

But at least analytics work.

You must have SmartScreen disabled.

I added a "do you want to install ItsyRealm" to the launcher and an analytics message with instructions on how to opt-out.

The launcher will update itself (and thus you won't notice a difference unless you uninstall it and download the latest launcher again). The patch notes for the game explains the rest.

Those things were on my TODO list but I'm trying to make a game not deal with bureaucracy...

gamedev.net is a good place to post too.

I hate picking fights (hence never post in here.....) but there was one thing I couldn't let go.

Absolutely true.

Not true.

Not in the UK at least. I've lived here all of my 44 years, and never bribed anyone. Never been asked for a bribe. Never had anyone suggest that bribery might help get something done. Never had a friend do any of these things (as far as I know). Oh yes, never asked for or accepted a bribe either :-)

It's illegal here too, as you noted in your next paragraph.

...and if you read beyond the first paragraph of the wikipedia page you find:

So it's been illegal in the UK since (at least) 1889.

Now I'm not saying there's zero corruption here; from time to time a politician gets caught taking money for something they shouldn't, but that's kind of the point; if they get caught, they go on trial, if found guilty, they go to jail.

I've never lived in any other EU countries, but Wikipedia(again) suggests that the EU has largely similar levels of corruption to the US. Some countries are worse than others; Spain, Italy and some of the former eastern bloc countries are among the worst in the EU. On the other hand, even they are better than (almost) anywhere in Africa, Asia or South America.

You're all ignorant. Politicians are regularly bribed in all countries. If any politician isn't getting bribed they either don't have the power to be bribed FOR, or they're a rare gem with a strong moral compass that still managed to get elected over the competition that most likely lacked such a compass (protip: this never, or at least almost never, happens). It's like winning a Counter-Strike match against an aimbotter. It's human nature. The worst people rule because the best people are nice and fair.

Our leaders are all corrupt. If you pay attention to politics for a while it's easy to see it. It's completely laughable to suggest that USA politics are not bought. Hell, the entire system is based on bribery basically. "Lobbyists" AKA a legal form of bribery. We'll "give" you millions of dollars to support your campaign! In exchange, we expect "nothing".

Give me a fucking break. They're all bought and paid for. Nobody in the West gets into power without being bought.

It's also evident in the blatant flaws of our electoral systems, and the unwillingness of the elected leaders to change the system.

@bambams et al...

What, you haven't met our local expert on women, politics, and religion? Say hello to bamccaig.

Aaron Bolyard, please put a link to your game in your sig, the way Dog intended.

Long live this thread.

ItsyRealm's web site looks great even with JS disabled, on account of the good use of CSS.

Is Florida as exciting as the Internet makes it out to be?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/26/thousands-migrant-children-report-sexual-assaults-us-custody-border-detain/2988884002/

4500 children were molested while being detained by Homeland Security since 2015.

158 of them were molested by staffers. This is the story the media is going with and it's a terrible thing worthy of news.

Here's the part they didn't bother to headline: The other 4,342 kids? Were molested by other minors in custody.

That's right. As if I ever should have needed prove that bad people are illegally immigrating into the USA. (alongside all the good people), there you go. Imagine all the rapists who didn't get caught by immigration services? Those people are walking around the states and very likely... still raping kids.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I, for one, don't support policies that help rape children.

But you know, you can't pin it on some "evil white man in power" when minors rape minors. So there's nothing to see here, move along.

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There's no narrative to push against the evil white males pulling the strings behind the scenes with their penises of death. So instead, the media hears a factoid like that... and just... lets it slip away into wind.

I'm calling it now. No discussion of "why migrates may rape each other" will happen. No discussion of "why minors might rape each other?" No discussion of polices and culture that may result in "south american or central american rapes". Nothing like that. The only thing we'll do is beat our hearts about those 158 cases because we can blame "teh government"--which again, is a real issue but we ARE talking about that issue. We're NOT going to look into or talk about any other issues like the other 4300 kids that got raped. Their rapes don't matter. They don't matter. Because you only matter if a Democrat in power can find a way to use you to push their worldview.

The same way when a Vegan Bodybuilder Woman shoots up YouTube headquarters they report that it happened and that's it. No discussion of many vegan people being crazy. No discussion of women and guns. No discussion of bodybuilding. None of those things matter because she wasn't a "white male" killing people with her penis of death. "She was just crazy. Simple" But if a white guy does the same thing it's not "he was crazy", it's he was somehow brainwashed by institutional patriarchal power and white supremacy. It was intention malice.

Or the Pulse Nightclub shooting where a Muslim kills over 50 gay people (the deadliest mass shooting in USA history.) and we magically forget that the most conservative religion on the planet throws gay people off of rooftops. If you can't use it to push a narrative, it simply gets objectively reported (if even that, like the Jimmy Carter speech about political corruption) and moved on from.

And why am I so worked up about it? Because ignorance of this failure mode of the media means more kids are going to be raped--and I'm sick of it.

I guess since HRC isn't big in politics anymore you guys needed another woman politician to caricature .

Cows (and other large livestock) are one of the leading producers of greenhouse gases. They literally contribute to almost 15% of emissions per year ("Worldwide, livestock accounts for between 14.5 percent and 18 percent of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions"):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/climate/cows-global-warming.html

That's why part of "going green" is reducing meat consumption. It's not new.

And it's better to call it "climate change" than "global warming" because idiots don't know how climate works... Although yearly temperatures are increasing yeaar by year, due to the increased energy, there is an increased volatility that will produce (small) periods of extreme weather in both directions. But you love to forget record breaking summers and think because it snowed it April somewhere up north the scientists are full of crap .

(Methane is 12x more effective than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.)

btw there was never a global cooling, that was mainstream media being mainstream media; the consensus has been since the beginning of modern climate science that the earth is warming due to the industrial revolution and everything after.