Cookie Clicker Dev Tracker

anyway while i'm still trying to solve some trickier Steam features i've also been writing the next Cookie Clicker content update. current roadmap: new building, new upgrade/achiev tier, and whatever little things i can cram in. stay tuned for a web beta possibly early december

technology motivated by capitalism no longer requires meaningful innovation; instead, what we have is a billion tech startups whose entire business plan is reinventing the wheel over and over and trying to generate the most effective social buzz to sell it

every pro-NFT article i've read tries so very hard to pretend people haven't spent decades commissioning art online just fine without crypto

at first the introduction of escape characters faced a lot of backslash from programmers

i know i don't check in on my fellow web/game devs very often but i hope you guys aren't falling for that "web3" nft branding

[neil degrasse tyson voice] heh. tsh. i've been alive for 11,688 days. as if THAT'S significant

when i am on a webpage and i run my cursor around and there is text i can select and text i cannot select well they just have different mouthfeels

i don't care for any wacky proof-of-stake advancements meant to diminish their environmental impact next year. NFTs are the 2021 flavor-of-the-year fad and the bulk of them is being minted right now. the damage is happening right now

the only thing NFTs successfully decentralize is global warming - thanks to crypto, industrial megacorps aren't the only ones selling our kids' future for a quick buck anymore; you too can hasten the planet's ecological collapse for a tenuous chance at personal gain

i've been seeing just about every celeb under the sun buying into this blatant LuLaRoe-tier scam and i am just so tired. everything is already so bad. why are we trying so hard to come up with new ways to damage our culture and our climate. i just wanted to play video games

any thread i see about how absurd the concept is (ie. "even if your unique item is NFT-backed its value is still entirely dependent on whether the game itself cares to honor its existence") is met with dismissive QRTs either happily (knowingly?) ignoring the point or going "NGMI"

there is no aspect of "NFTs in video games" that is even remotely a good idea and it is simply unreal to see these big companies pushing it into the mainstream. the only audience this caters to is "greedy wannabe wall street bros". really? that's the playerbase you're aiming for?

i'm trying to put this as delicately as possible but the Age of Empires 4 live-action cutscenes are the tackiest thing i have ever seen in a video game. i am so sorry it's like watching Kitchen Nightmares i just don't think i can play through this. i'm sorry

remember when we were all on forums and moderators could just edit people's posts? we really lived like that

true cyberpunk isn't nasty carbon-guzzling pixel avatars it's web users resorting to leetspeak like "s3ll" and "c0mm15510n" in 2021 to get around bots and suppressive social media algorithms

what's your favorite fact that ends in
"...that we know of"

nice

anyway Pam's Harvestcraft should be baseline as far as i'm concerned. end of statement

my favorite memories of Minecraft are modded - exploring new biomes, building factories, discovering magic systems etc. on its own it just doesn't feel like much to chew on. meanwhile i've only just recently gotten into Terraria mods and it's like cherries on top of a full cake

my statement was not an absolute judgment and every player is different and gets different things out of different games. i'm just personally inclined to view most Minecraft updates as kind of... badly underwhelming, esp considering all the budget and dev time put into it