there are a shitton of more serious, better-drawn BL titles on the market already. This one is unique largely because of its tongue-in-cheek approach, with its terribad artwork and what I’m guessing is a focus on odd humor.

oh goddess wat

worth noting that, while it looks nice, unfortunately Hype is OSX-only. =/

If we’re at the point of talking about outsourcing anything, we’ve already gone beyond the scope of the majority of amateur flash game devs =x

Um. Generally my rule is “Don’t masturbate in the bath” >_>;;

Is there a visual authoring environment for HTML5 that’s as full-featured and easy-to-use as Flash? If you’re already a skilled programmer, sure, it’s probably pretty easy for you to port game logic from one platform to another. A lot of people who make flash games, however, would not see themselves as skilled…

You have it backwards, shower *then* bath. That way you’re already clean before you soak.

Custom in japan is, shower first to clean yourself, then bath to soak and relax. People in a family may reuse the same bathwater, which isn’t a big deal because by the time you enter it, you’re already clean from the shower.

it’s an algorithm that takes other images and tries to find content from them in the image being processed. It isn’t making stuff up out of thin air. The content it generates is limited by the images that were supplied to it during its training process. The problem is that nobody seems to have bothered to re-train it…

Eh, that’s largely only because nobody seems to have bothered to re-train it on another set of source images.

I never intended to suggest that it did. I’m simply stating the fact that, ultimately, if you already have no money to begin with, the developers can’t get any money out of you whether you pirate it or not. Of course, the situation changes when you actually have income, and have to start weighing purchasing decisions…

because we can.

The difference is, the only way to acquire filet mignon if you can’t otherwise afford it is to deprive someone else of it. Taking software you can’t afford actually deprives nobody of anything, even revenue.

The reactions to the “I pirate because I can’t afford it” notion are a little unnerving; everyone seems to be seriously comparing it to stealing a car or TV or whatever, when they couldn’t be more different. I mean, really — If you steal a TV, you are actively taking something owned by someone else and thus depriving…

duh, they’re seeing how deepdream will handle the uniformity of a starscape.

My solution has worked pretty well for me so far: Don’t play any games that require origin/uplay.

well, we ARE talking about To Love-Ru here...

noted.

How bad it is is mostly irrelevant. It could be better than steam, but the fact that I’m forced to use Steam to run a Steam clone and login to another account before I can play the game I purchased from Steam is patently ridiculous. It’s an unnecessary pain in the ass, and it only exists so that the companies can try…

Okay, I lied, I have one more final note. I do play old games on emulators. Actually half the reason I bought my Shield Portable was for emulating old console games. Games I’ve bought ten times over on different platforms because I’m a total fucking sucker for nostalgia. I’ve allowed myself to get nickel’d and dime’d…