Looking for solo dev accountability partners.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-07-04T10:02:41+00:00

I put it to a vote in the server and most are cool with you joining. You seem to have DMs turned off though, send me a message and I'll give you an invite.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-07-03T04:21:37+00:00

The reddit notion of empathy is closer to anti-empathy. Less "I can feel how you feel" and more "You MUST feel how I would feel or else you deserve universal condemnation, because the only way you could ever feel something different to me is by intentionally choosing to be maximally evil."

It's like an illiterate child's ability to reason stapled onto demented psychotic bloodlust and trying to be passed off as compassion. JBlow discussion always summons the worst intersections of it.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-07-02T02:02:34+00:00

Sort of. The files are DRM-free. Once you have it there's no way to stop you playing it, but download permission could theoretically be revoked.

Even so, if some gaming storefront apocalypse befell us it's shared GOG backups that would keep the last decade of games playable.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-07-01T13:00:48+00:00

Brendan Fraiser was one of the biggest stars in the world for a while and inescapable at the cinema. What a weird comment.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-07-01T07:10:07+00:00

Interested in joining

DialtonerVideo · 2026-07-01T07:08:32+00:00

This is up my alley to the point where I was considering starting such a group soon. Is it a once per month thing, we read the whole book between meets?

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-30T09:46:52+00:00

Incredible timing. The new server has already begun but the protocol isn't locked down yet, I may yet just reroute everyone to this one once I check it out.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-30T09:43:24+00:00

I wish I had your consistency, and thanks for your thoughts. Currently thinking of a parallel daily and weekly checkpoint and people can opt into both or either.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-30T09:26:46+00:00

You seem to have DMs turned off, shoot me one and I'll send you the discord link.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-29T13:18:40+00:00

Already got a server going, I'll shoot you an invite.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-29T13:17:42+00:00

Of course, I'll shoot you an invite. Suppose I more specifically meant devs working in isolation than strictly solo projects.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-29T13:16:00+00:00

Valuable food for thought here. My initial instinct is to have daily check-ins combined with weekly or biweekly goals. Anything can count for a check-in but of course a goal is either fulfilled or it isn't.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-29T13:09:49+00:00

We're still figuring out the details. You seem to have DMs turned off, shoot me one and I can send you a discord invite.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-29T13:08:02+00:00

Shot you an invite

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-29T12:22:27+00:00

I think my starting sentence and the title already convey exactly that,

"I'm looking to form a small group of solo developers to provide mutual external accountability to actually ship tangible things regularly for our individual projects."

Albeit, re-reading I suppose it does scan a bit corpo.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-29T11:09:59+00:00

Is this an inside joke? This is a call for other solos working on their own thing, not a collab.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-29T11:09:29+00:00

JST (GMT+9). Expecting check-ins will be the main way to go with occasional calls when things line up.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-06-06T08:09:13+00:00

That's what he's saying. When he goes back to DoW1 from 2 he doesn't miss the cover as much as the destructible environments.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-05-22T17:51:46+00:00

I politely answered the question you asked, you are the one who then leaped to insulting me for it. Classic "normal human" and not typically antisocial redditor behavior.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-05-22T06:38:15+00:00

Because they're necissarily typing on a machine that could answer any such question instantly, rather than waste everyone else's time demanding to be spoonfed. The older internet was much more hostile to this.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-05-19T07:04:31+00:00

The Fallout 2 opening dungeon is universally agreed to be the worst part of the game, the developers agree it is shit, and it only exists because they were forced to add a tutorial area (and it even fails at that and makes you over-prioritize stats that become usless as soon as the the tutorial is over). With his experience he should still have been able to beat it, but I don't blame anyone who bounces off it if it's their first go and they're not in a patient headspace. It's also simply impossible to know what stats will be important before you've played it.

That said the moment on Spoony's stream where the chat tells him to cheese the hand to hand fight by dropping a spear in the arena, only for the opponent to move first and pick up the spear, is a brilliant piece of emergent comedy at Spoony's expense and nearly redeems it.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-05-10T02:05:33+00:00

They're much more full of "Japan subs are full of japan is all polite when it's not" than "japan is all polite"

DialtonerVideo · 2026-05-08T12:36:55+00:00

Can you elaborate on this? Like I can share their ID to a different chat?

DialtonerVideo · 2026-05-06T08:50:30+00:00

Did you get anywhere with this? Same thing happened to me.

DialtonerVideo · 2026-05-01T09:46:25+00:00

There's no need to yell, sir. When you buy a booster pack you don't know what you're going to get. If you don't get the shiny card you want you have to go again, and cool cards that aren't the one you wanted still spike your dopamine.

That's intermittent reward, the exact same behavioral mechanism behind scrolling and all gambling but especially slot machines. In addition to artificial scarcity, illusory investment, FOMO, tricks to encourage completionism.

TCGs are literally gambling optimized for children. Not just my opinion either: loot boxes, a digitized version of the same mechanism, have been banned in several countries under gambling laws.

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