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  • Indie is short for independent, as in, independent from outside support, specifically a publisher. Publishers frequently dictate how a developer does certain things as a result of wanting a return on their investment. The whole indie movement came from studios who wanted to do their own thing without a publisher squashing their ideas, and would therefore self publish.

    There’s a huge misunderstanding that pervades the gaming industry where people associate small studios with being indie. They really aren’t. You can’t be indie if you depend on another entity to handle marketing, distribution, etc., who as a result has influence on your work. Being a small studio who uses 8 bit graphics or other stylistic devices doesn’t make a group indie, it just means they are trying to emulate being indie. “Indie publishers” know this is a marketing ploy that sells, and will therefore invest in and influence such projects.








  • Its been years since being able to save files on my laptop hard drive for work. Its all onedrive. The company uses it as protection - if the laptop is stolen theres no proprietary data on the drive. It also ensures if my laptop breaks all my work is intact.

    The autosave feature is also linked to allowing several people to work on documents simultaneously. This is probably related to forcing onedrive use. You can share links to the files, and being able to edit simultaneously is useful. If you turn off autosave like I tend to do sometimes then when others open the file at the same time you all end up with your own version and cant see what the others are doing.

    At home I use linux. I got fed up ages ago with MS stealing my files.


  • His idea of free speech is child porn, racism, and pro nazi talking points. When it comes to the latter things you have the freedom to talk about these things without censorship from the government, but you also have the freedom to suffer the consequences from the public and fellow citizens, such as being criticized and told to shut the fuck up.