For now, mime and apollo have full control over LC and will be handling site decisions going forward.
I’m stepping back from making site changes for now and letting them decide how to move LC forward.
- Jack Of Blades
No, I'm actually seeing positive reception in new games that are fully complete. The main problem is I see most new games release a version along the lines of 0.3 or 0.11 and they get shit on for not having any content, rightly so. They try to copy the method of popular VN devs with a...
Things are building up for sure but the end result will always have workarounds. Ease of access is basically what is being attacked right now. Luckily for pervs, ease of access also effects other places of the broader internet so we also have normal friends to fight along with.
It's not really labelled stable diffusion anymore but no it's not hard to setup. I loaded up ComfyUI and picked up on it quickly. Do you have a decent graphics card? If you do, then I can explain how I got it setup.
Looked at this thread earlier and couldn't put words to it, but what you said is pretty spot on. I like to think the loner part is a side effect of being weird and awkward because it's so hard to make friends. My best friend in high school was a popular outgoing person who was friends with me...
Compressing doesn't deter pirating.
For the question: the answer has been previously mentioned, devs don't compress because they just don't know from inexperience, or they're lazy and it's more work.. list goes on. But it's not just simply press a magic button and now you have smaller files...
I've thought about this myself as well. One thing I think that is absolutely required for the actual users of the distributed game is the hotkey navigation. In RenPy games I constantly scroll up to reread something I read too fast or when I go down a decision path and realize I need to go back...
The people pushing for age verification have absolutely no idea how it works. I'm already past being frustrated and now it's comical seeing them so adamant about it just for there to be large ID database leaks months later and then radio silence. Repeat. They're also starting to target VPNs...