Tax the tractors and put the money towards public transit. The tractors can enjoy the roads they ruined, while the rest of us go in fast lanes of well-maintained infrastructure.

It’s even worse than that. They increase the price right after they increase the ad length. As in “well, now that ads are longer, this subscription has more value. Therefore we should increase the price”.

It was a dream when it wasn’t available. Once it existed, we saw the many flaws it had. That’s why statically strong typed languages still exist. And even new ones are being created.

Yes. All of those aim to solve the yellow paint problem, so they serve the same purpose as yellow paint. The difference between yellow paint and other solutions is that those other solutions have some game design thought behind it.

You don’t have to have an npc walking slower than you. You can make it run faster, and just wait for you if you get too behind, like any human would. You don’t have to have the villain stop in the chase scene. If the enemy gets too far, you lose and restart in the last checkpoint, like it always has been.

You don’t have to have low-poly art for this to work. Not everything in assassin’s creed was climbable. But you know when it was and when it wasn’t, do you didn’t even try to climb what wasn’t. You could climb vertical walls of mountain rock. You couldn’t climb up flat walls either, you had to have bricks sticking out. Granted, most buildings had something to grab onto. But you saw which elements you grabbed onto, if those weren’t there you would know why you can’t climb.

If your level design is clear and consistent, you don’t need yellow paint.

That’s why yellow paint is lazy. You just apply it everywhere and be done with it. Instead of figuring out the right way to highlight each situation in an “organic” manner.

Before yellow paint, each game had its own way that differentiated from the rest. Now they are the same thing. Games are supposed to be art.

In lego star wars games, grappling hooks were marked by a big red circle. Bombable assets were reflective metal. You could use the force (both normal and dark) on items which had blue/red sparks. And you could build objects in places that had jumping Lego pieces.

In assassin’s creed, bricks that you could grab onto were clearly sticking out. You could also grab onto windows and such. No paint needed. If you saw a building, you most probably could claim it. If there was a pile of hay, you know you could jump from somewhere, and you would take no fall damage. If you saw a bench, you could sit on it. If you saw a roof tent, you could hide in it. If you saw a big guy with pockets in his back, you could steal from him. And many more things. I believe the first game already had a map, you could use it to find most of these items.

In both of these games, interacting with the environment was an important part of the gameplay. There were thousands of interactables. Why can’t modern AAA games use any of these methods instead of lazy yellow paint?

Yellow paint is just lazy level design.

Yes, yellow paint exists to solve a real issue. But many games before it have managed to fix that issue.

Wanna guide the player through a path? Have a guide NPC go before you (might even be the villain in a chase sequence!).

Want to clearly show in which places you can do X thing? Have a clear visually distinct asset that stands out mark those places. Make sure you don’t have similar assets elsewhere.

If the argument is accessibility, just make it an option to turn those special assets bright pink/yellow, or just a much more distinct (even if visually unappealing) asset for higher-budget games.

Wanna show which ledges are grabbable? This may be the only acceptable use case. But even then, there are more discrete ways like shining stones or have the character extend its arm towards it or something. Or just make basically every ledge grabbable. I had no issues in either sm64 nor in the original assassins creed, and neither had yellow paint.

You have to trust them though. That’s my point.They may say they are funded only by donations and still sell your data.

In fact the first link says the same as I do as the first phrase. When using a VPN, you are moving your trust from your ISP to your VPN provider.

Of course there may be exceptions that are actually free and don’t sell your data. But the ones that sell your data will rarely state so.

Idk what either of those are. I don’t endorse any VPN. All I’m saying is that it doesn’t matter how strong the encryption algorithm is, you still have to trust your provider.

VPNs have the exact same power over you as ISPs. Using a VPN to avoid your ISP is just kicking the can down the road. That’s why you better choose a VPN that you trust.

It’s not the cryptography you have to trust. It’s the other end of the tunnel. A free VPN most probably sells your data. Nobody offers free services for actually free.

It works. As long as it’s not a Thursday. Or any other day with a 5% chance or so.

I just selfhost in my own computer. 100% uptime when I need it (I don’t need it when my computer is turned off). And as a bonus, it’s not on the public internet so I’m not training slop scrappers.

Factorio does have high quality graphics, sounds an animations. It is just in 2D instead of 3D.

But if you price a product based on its cost instead of its value, you do you.

I prefer to pay 30k€ for a car than pay 60k€ for a worse car that happens to have a steering wheel made out of solid gold.

That was not the point. The point is that Factorio is in a similar level of quality. That is the top one. If you believe that 3X€ is too expensive for a top game, then you are saying that every game out there that is >30€ is overpriced.

If you believe that, you are honestly way out of touch with reality. 30€ is on the low side of a price for a game. Most AAA games are >60€.

No AAA value? It’s up there with Minecraft and terraria as one of the best games.

I’d say it’s better than any AAA if you consider the games above “indie”

The X just sends a signal to your application. If you ignore that signal, it will just do nothing.

That signal tells your application to clean itself. Maybe the changed how that “cleaning itself” worked, in a way that lead to actually ignoring the signal all together.

The thing is easy to break. The question is how that even got past QA testing. Or even just any other dev testing.

A single person launching the program and trying to close it should see the bug.

Jokes on you. Boost does not support spoilers, making it 0 clicks.

Idk why you are discarding python for the reason that makes python the best option. If there is a programming language that a non-programmer should know, it’s python.