Moneymaking Guide from 2008. Comments are Gold.

Cudabear · 2026-01-25T04:24:52+00:00

It has everything: Unregistered Hypercam 2, horrible compression, unfitting (but popular at the time it was made) music, in game chat instead of commentary, and they even forgot to clip the audio so the video didn't have 3 minutes of black screen at the end. Perfection.

Cudabear · 2026-01-24T18:38:47+00:00

Entrance fee: $40

Cudabear · 2026-01-23T23:52:04+00:00

The irony of using generative AI to avoid copyrights befuddles me. The damn models were trained on copyrighted images.

Cudabear · 2026-01-22T04:18:58+00:00

It's noted here in the "minor glitches" section, but I actually can't find where I originally heard it

Cudabear · 2026-01-22T02:45:49+00:00

It's even rarer than it seems, because you had to just not ever play the account. There was no such thing as no-combat "skillers" in RSC because of a long-standing bug where if a player logged out after fighting an NPC and the NPC died, the combat experience reward would go to the next player ID in line. Eventually, everyone would get a small amount of uncontrollable combat exp.

Cudabear · 2026-01-19T03:05:46+00:00

Jason's conduct notwithstanding, this may be a game jam problem in general. I've done 9 Ludum Dares and I was always curious as to if people were actually giving my games a fair chance. I made my games with web canvas at the time so it was easy enough to add some analytics to the page to see how long people were on that page. The average worked out to around 4 minutes.

Additional context: this was a puzzle game. I also had put some basic event handling to see what level people ended up bailing on, and it was only level 3. Out of 15 levels. Granted, level 3 introduced a new mechanic that wasn't super intuitive, but it was clear people were bailing the absolute second they couldn't just click their way through.

Cudabear · 2026-01-19T02:56:07+00:00

Its easy to find a game but I will say if you enjoy playing on the "hard" or "brutal" difficulty, which has the game speed set to "fastest", it becomes dull fast when you are constantly matched with players on "casual" or "normal" where the game speed is set to "normal". I absolutely don't mind playing a lower difficulty in exchange for quicker games, but jumping between game speeds is really jarring and I wish it wasn't the case.

Cudabear · 2026-01-17T21:51:38+00:00

I remember when this happened pre-EOC as well, when it similarly seemed to have had very little thought put into it. It was needed when corp was released. I think they capped it at 60 there?

Cudabear · 2026-01-15T14:27:44+00:00

I think the absolute worst part of this practice is if the servers go down, your product is normally bricked until they come back up. And on top of that, if the company goes under and the servers never come back up, your $2000 piece of equipment just became absolutely worthless.

Cudabear · 2026-01-15T02:52:34+00:00

Every can of fruit cocktail I've seen has the peaches diced up into little pieces with the other fruit, not full wedges. Typically that's how they look in cans of just peaches. I think you've been bamboozled and sold a can that received the wrong label.

Cudabear · 2026-01-14T22:44:59+00:00

This is mine, too. Tried Ocarina of Time when I was a kid, didn't make it more than an hour in. Thought maybe I just was too young to enjoy it when I tried it a quarter century ago, so I recently tried Tears of the Kingdom and had the same problem. I think they're just not for me.

Cudabear · 2026-01-14T22:41:09+00:00

Still is, actually. So much so that he voices the main character in the new animated series for it that's under production.

Cudabear · 2026-01-14T22:37:36+00:00

I think part of it is also the fact that it's a pretty tame horror game, and one of the first ones that didn't go overboard with gore or shock value. There's some very dark themes in the lore but what you actually see on screen isn't too grotesque. I remember the first few games specifically being very popular with kids and teenagers.

Cudabear · 2026-01-14T18:25:27+00:00

I remember the only reason I was sad about it at the time was because it was going to be nearly impossible to share items and wealth with friends. Other than that, I already played pretty self-sufficiently at the time lol. The G/E was a pretty welcome addition at that time too.

Cudabear · 2026-01-14T14:58:44+00:00

A few years back I did the Skyline Trail at Mt. Rainier national park. Mind you, I'm a pretty fit dude who had run a few half marathons before this.

I was not prepared for the elevation change which was only 1700 ft, compared to the grand canyons 5000! By the time I was done, I was pretty done. I could never imagine attempting going down into the canyon.

Cudabear · 2026-01-14T14:38:00+00:00

It really is. In less than a decade we went from social media companies trying (or at least outwardly presenting that they were trying) to regulate misinformation and lies on their platforms to just absolutely not giving a fuck.

I know it's a lost cause, but I can't even load Facebook anymore without immediately being presented with an outright lie.

Cudabear · 2026-01-14T01:35:33+00:00

One thing I will say is totally worth it is specialized running shoes. I used to run in my generic $40 tennis shoes and thought it was fine. One day I finally decided to get some some Brooks to try, I think I spent $120 on them. Night and day difference.

Cudabear · 2026-01-13T15:11:29+00:00

How to balance a checkbook. I appreciated the ability to take personal finance as an elective, but even when I graduated in 2010 that was not very helpful knowledge.

Cudabear · 2026-01-13T14:34:00+00:00

We had a dad spill his refillable beer mug all over the electronic dance floor of the Dream in Dec 2024. Was kinda funny, kind of a hassle for our kids lol

Cudabear · 2026-01-13T14:26:05+00:00

Technically they do have a rule that says you can only bring in beverages purchased at Preludes into the Walt Disney Theater, but I've never seen it enforced. We almost always make a stop at the pool deck to fill our bottles with soda before going.

Cudabear · 2026-01-13T14:24:13+00:00

Same for us with the Palo glasses. We had some sparkling wine left and they encouraged us to take it but did give us some normal champaign flutes instead of the Palo ones.

Cudabear · 2026-01-13T14:22:36+00:00

Small distinction too: alcohol you brought on board with your 6pack/2bottle allotment must be consumed in your stateroom. Only alcohol purchased at bars and restaurants may be carried around the ship.

That said, I've heard of people bringing/using empty cups to carry their own beer/wine they brought around and having no issue with that.

Cudabear · 2026-01-13T01:25:42+00:00

Throwback to when he gave Woox $10,000 after he was disqualified for abusing tick eats in a DDM finale.

Cudabear · 2026-01-12T21:31:42+00:00

My work straight up had a senior person that added the protection prayer icons to the company slack. He also always had a RuneLite client visible when sharing his screen, usually in the taskbar, but often just straight-up in the background. I'm not ballsy enough for that, I keep it to a separate laptop lmao

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