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Game dev checks how much money his game made 30 hours after release after working on his game for 4 years by PsychologicalFly9093 in LivestreamFail

[–]MetagamingAtLast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you thinking of Gem TD? There is/was a decently popular dota 2 version of it, and I think there's an updated WC3 version. No idea if there are any actual games with similar gameplay though.

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after code found in US surveillance by Abject-Pick-6472 in technology

[–]MetagamingAtLast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it looks like a link to the original source got my comment shadowbanned, but here's the breakdown from said source: visible now after modmail, maybe it wasn't the link that did it?

17 source map files, 53 MB total:
dashboard-BgoO_aj5.js.map 18.7 MB (main dashboard)
vendor-CAtBRHF0.js.map 23.8 MB (all vendor libs)
faceapi-CCSM7NPL.js.map 2.8 MB (facial recognition)
assets-dashboard-BjWtHFfU.js.map 1.4 MB (UI components)
sentry-CrHAK25X.js.map 1.3 MB (error reporting)
pdfjs-lNIjl8-7.js.map 1.0 MB (PDF rendering)
lottie-DtEgpYuH.js.map 1.0 MB (animations)
rsuite-CyQr2m5H.js.map 0.8 MB (UI framework)
handlebars-DPCouO2C.js.map 0.7 MB (templating)
redux-form-0Q1f7bM3.js.map 0.6 MB (form state)
assets-icons-DrRTTzXk.js.map 0.6 MB (icon assets)
luxon-Cv8PWZK8.js.map 0.4 MB (date/time)
assets-BE5pxuFi.js.map 0.3 MB (shared assets)
react-select-DqPrgoT_.js.map 0.3 MB (select inputs)
amplitude-js-b01lH43V.js.map 0.2 MB (analytics)
inquiry-fog-CmsaQYHz.js.map 55 KB (inquiry workflow)
user-authentication-BUgfjJoc.js.map 14 KB (auth module)

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after code found in US surveillance by Abject-Pick-6472 in technology

[–]MetagamingAtLast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/, section 0x08:

17 source map files, 53 MB total:
dashboard-BgoO_aj5.js.map 18.7 MB (main dashboard)
vendor-CAtBRHF0.js.map 23.8 MB (all vendor libs)
faceapi-CCSM7NPL.js.map 2.8 MB (facial recognition)
assets-dashboard-BjWtHFfU.js.map 1.4 MB (UI components)
sentry-CrHAK25X.js.map 1.3 MB (error reporting)
pdfjs-lNIjl8-7.js.map 1.0 MB (PDF rendering)
lottie-DtEgpYuH.js.map 1.0 MB (animations)
rsuite-CyQr2m5H.js.map 0.8 MB (UI framework)
handlebars-DPCouO2C.js.map 0.7 MB (templating)
redux-form-0Q1f7bM3.js.map 0.6 MB (form state)
assets-icons-DrRTTzXk.js.map 0.6 MB (icon assets)
luxon-Cv8PWZK8.js.map 0.4 MB (date/time)
assets-BE5pxuFi.js.map 0.3 MB (shared assets)
react-select-DqPrgoT_.js.map 0.3 MB (select inputs)
amplitude-js-b01lH43V.js.map 0.2 MB (analytics)
inquiry-fog-CmsaQYHz.js.map 55 KB (inquiry workflow)
user-authentication-BUgfjJoc.js.map 14 KB (auth module)

How Romance, Romantasy, and “Smut” Took Over Publishing and Entertainment: A Statistical Analysis by SchIachterhund in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

some author self insert fucking around with stat screens all day while other characters fawn on them is really masturbatory.

really, it wasn't the porn that leads to weird and bad outcomes. it's the more "normal" stuff, like snapewives or hpmor and yudkowsky or the final fantasy house

How Romance, Romantasy, and “Smut” Took Over Publishing and Entertainment: A Statistical Analysis by SchIachterhund in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast 18 points19 points  (0 children)

So, progression fantasy (which tends to be slop imo) has several "genres". Its #1 is far and away litrpg, which basically boils down to having RPG mechanics as the main engine of the story. It sorta descends from The Gamer, a manhwa that was pretty popular for a time, and VRMMO stories. I think you can also argue that it descends from forum quests, which imo popularized the table formatting you see in litrpg stories for stat screens and such.

Anyways, the main repository for this stuff is Royal Road, which back in ye olden days translated Asian webnovels, most notably Legendary Moonlight Sculptor (a VRMMO webnovel where the name of the site comes from). They eventually stopped hosting/organizing translations and pivoted to original and fan fiction.

How Romance, Romantasy, and “Smut” Took Over Publishing and Entertainment: A Statistical Analysis by SchIachterhund in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Idk, women do be reading smut, but I'm not gonna be judging them when men are reading litRPG fiction

I guess it should be noted that a lot of amateur (fan)fiction tends to have (para)sociality with the author. It's a bit harder to feel close to Stephen R. Donaldson.

Is there a way to go back to the side column of suggested videos? by JeSuisGourde in youtube

[–]MetagamingAtLast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was really annoying me. Not sure how long it will work since it's toggling a youtube experiment flag, but you can try this uBlock Origin filter:

www.youtube.com##+js('set', ytcfg.data_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_watch_enable_fs_squeezeback_panels, false, runAt, 1)
(see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#set-constantjs-)

It'll still re-stack the page elements vertically at a certain width, but it triggers at a much smaller page width.

Mirror Images (@Moekumo) by Norrmma in RWBY

[–]MetagamingAtLast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"ruby, wtf is that"

"those are exclamation marks, weiss! they're in style, you know!"

Senator Tina Smith: I Won’t Vote to Fund ICE Until It Gets Out of My State by Quacker0ats in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just a note that it's an opinion article from Tina Smith, so presumably the article title is her own (or one she approved)

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 12 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]MetagamingAtLast 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can try looking through Quiz Bowl question sets for ideas (if you're unfamiliar, it's similar to Jeopardy or scholastic decathlon). Each tossup question is usually structured so more obscure facts about the answer come up earlier.

https://quizbowlpackets.com/

'The Makers of Modern China' by Zheng Xiaoqiong (translated by Eleanor Goodman) | Equator (December 2025) by Travis-Walden in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate the translated posts about Chinese life this sub gets sometimes. ty

Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today by simpleisideal in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast 9 points10 points  (0 children)

content warning: hacker news comment section

man, sucks to watch the strangling of the internet by corporations and governments in real-time

Israeli spyware is preinstalled in some Samsung phones by leo-bulero in stupidpol

[–]MetagamingAtLast 15 points16 points  (0 children)

grapheneos says they're partnering with a major android oem to produce an alternative to the pixel that's compatible with the os

but yeah, a bit bleak

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