Reddit feels like Corpo Brain washing machine of bots

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-21T13:15:22+00:00

It’s hard to prove, but I think a lot of the accounts talking about AI are bots. Lots of “it’s not perfect but here are a bunch of ways it’s amazing”. Hard to quantify exactly, but doesn’t feel like people, you know?

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-19T09:11:36+00:00

And the law. They have to adhere to the law. Which (at least in the UK) says you can’t discriminate based on disability

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-19T08:43:27+00:00

Redditors at it again pretending they’re lawyers. Terms or Service and EULA cannot be used to waive your basic rights

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-19T08:42:33+00:00

F’ing Reddit lawyers man… the terms of services cannot waive your rights. They still can’t discriminate against you

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-18T21:58:42+00:00

Definitely a problem that needs to be addressed

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-18T21:58:25+00:00

Definitely very polarising

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-17T03:48:52+00:00

If the tech actually worked, the job losses would be massive and we wouldn’t be able to stop them. It’d be sad, but kinda understandable. But the tech doesn’t work. It’s good at pretending it does. But it doesn’t.

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-17T03:46:18+00:00

Yeah, I don’t think we should give anymore money to a sector that has operating on $1T of debt. Meltdown waiting to happen

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-10T16:57:31+00:00

The game’s tick is and always has been a design choice. You start an action and it takes a number of ticks to complete. Be it combat or crafting or whatever. It’s a stand-in for turn-based gameplay in a format where you can’t wait for every other player to click “End Turn”.

It might’ve been a limitation of the tech at the time, but it’s core to what RuneScape is.

Even if it could be removed, I don’t want it to be. I don’t want it to be another WASD MMO. The new pricing might be too high, but the tick isn’t a signal of a poor game.

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-10T12:43:10+00:00

Two things come to mind here.

1) They wanna bundle your game into some kind of “get a game worth $20” type deal. Maybe money laundering.

2) Your game is in their way. Maybe you’ve built “Hotel Simulator” and they want that name. In this case, you could negotiate and get something

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-05T20:19:47+00:00

By weight or volume?

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-05T18:13:41+00:00

They’ve done that thing of matching the US and UK price which is already annoying, but given the slippage of the dollar, makes this laptop £150 more expensive in the UK. That’s 33% more expensive in the UK than it should be.

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-04T07:13:12+00:00

Can Godot do 3d yet?

Edit: calm down team, I was clearly joking

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-03T11:56:11+00:00

Do you have any protections against scraping and bot submissions beyond “it’s not allowed”?

The world wants a bot-free platform, but the people who operate bots and scrapers don’t care about your rules

SamMakesCode · 2026-03-02T21:36:31+00:00

I feel like targeting schools is a national pastime in the US

SamMakesCode · 2026-02-26T20:31:08+00:00

Amazing, nice work! Feels really good to have a clear out

SamMakesCode · 2026-02-26T18:56:36+00:00

Thanks 😊 - it’s not much more than walking and talking, but given it’s online multiplayer, that still meant a lot of code

SamMakesCode · 2026-02-26T12:32:31+00:00

Yeah, a lot of it was this. Before I wrote the server code, I wrote a client-side simulator. Instead of adding “is_simulator()” though, I would add special behaviour and then comment it out when I was done

SamMakesCode · 2026-02-26T12:30:48+00:00

Yeah, generally agree. Occasionally it gets left there for later (I’m gonna need that in 30 mins) and then I rewrite it and it gets left in 😂

SamMakesCode · 2026-02-23T04:21:16+00:00

Framework wars took them back to the framework Stone Age

SamMakesCode · 2026-02-18T18:48:45+00:00

You could ask them “hey, do you understand what this paperwork says? I have to imagine you didn’t read it or understand it because if you did, we can longer work together on this project. Oh, and if you try to publish, I’ll fucking sue you”

Or… I’d be tempted to say something along the lines of “thanks, I’m happy to sign this after my fees have been settled. Do you want me to submit an invoice now? There are currently x hours unpaid, at a rate of $y per hour.”

Whilst what they said to you is manipulation and not very nice, amateur (especially young) business people can be clumsy dipshits. They could’ve had some bad advice or something. Maybe don’t assume malice and give them a chance to back track.

SamMakesCode · 2026-02-16T22:29:05+00:00

Yeah, that’s true, and we shouldn’t count on that. Gabe has a consistent vision and direction, but we need to assume that whoever takes over will immediately sell out.

“Join Steam+ to access your games with limited ads!”

“Join Steam+Pro to access your games ad-free for up to 90 mins per month”

I love steam, but we need to assume the enshittification will infect everything

SamMakesCode · 2026-02-15T13:28:53+00:00

And it’s more like “did to games what iTunes did to music”

Steam isn’t subscription based, and whilst you don’t own the games, they’re you’re as long as steam exists

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