Thread 725288534

what's the closest game to this meme?

>>725288534 (OP)
Linux gaming in its entirely whenever the guy that maintains freezip or whatever injects malware out of spite.

>>725288534 (OP)
Dwarf fortress.

games aren’t infrastructure so it doesn’t make sense

The exact moment that project stops being maintained, about 8 different substitutes will pop up and no end user will ever notice the difference. That's why no one really notices when things start becoming dependent on a lone programmer. It's not an issue until it is, and when it becomes an issue it will get fixed.

>>725289521
the meme can be generalized more, and see how fucked we are because of shit like bank derivatives.

Or stuff like a lone scientific researcher being the only guy researching something that entire industries relly on.

>>725288534 (OP)
>a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining
You mean a spiteful loser who refuses to merge his project with the main fork because he wants all praise directed to him

Angry Birds

>>725288534 (OP)
Tribes 1&2

>>725289929
If he's nameless nobody is praising him

>>725288534 (OP)
unironically quake (and i guess DOOM, by proxy)

>>725289521
The main issue is you can have a 0-day exploit that goes unnoticed.

>>725288534 (OP)
Team Fortress 2 Coconut

Unironicly dependency reliance is becoming a problem in software.
There is only so many people who bother to maintain software for free.

And frankly, they shouldn't be doing it for free in the first place.

>>725288534 (OP)
The moment the last employee that knows how this fucking arcane web of lies works, its over for FFXI

>>725290321
So? That happens in big projects with lots of eyes on them too. Even professional projects. See >>725290436 Why is it suddenly an issue if it happens with a lone programmer?

>>725289521
Except for the EU banking system running on Fortran code.

>>725289929
I see your spiteful narcissist and raise you my overeager corpo lawyer

>>725293585
I don't know what any of these terms mean.
This is /v/, not /g/. Get the fuck out of here, nerd.

>>725293585
I have literally never heard of a single positive thing coming out of Kik since it began. How'd this end?

>>725292162
The issue is the software landscape as a whole. But a person doing volunteer work provided without warranty is obviously not gonna do a job as thorough as a company hiring 50 devs in different departments.

>>725289929
no he means a person thanklessly maintaining something so you can still run in on your kikerosoft windows 11 machine, you dumb ape

>>725289521
How many ryujinx clones have their been since nintendo sent a brazillian thugs to kneecap the maintainer? Projects that have actual development to them and not just throw it up on a different software versioning site and pretend poking at irrelevant UI widgets count as "maintaining" the project.

>>725293585
I don't understand that common bullshit about pulling random dependencies youth does nowaday.

When I was young, you pulled each dependency carefully. Each one has a maintenance and intellectual cost that will ripple out in the project for years to come. In fact, the less dependency you pull (without reinventing the wheel), the better. If you can do it with just libc and pthread, great, if not think carefully. Don't be shy about pulling a dependency, but don't be stupid about it.

I've been taught that. It's what I do and teach in my line of work.

Then I hear projects in python or javascript pulling casually 1,500 dependencies from the package manager. Want to pad the left of a string? Oh, just pull up the library that FUCKING PAD THE LEFT OF A STRING. For fuck sake, what are we teaching kids nowadays.

>>725297226
Getting bored of maintaining something is a LOT different than "if you maintain this we will sue and financially rape you into the ground.*

>>725293585
>package that pads out the lefthand side of strings
Is this not built into javascript already?

>>725297762
not really since those threats don't have any weight behind them. the fuck is nintendo going to do to anyone who doesn't live in japan or cuckmerica

>>725298219
>the fuck is nintendo going to do to anyone who doesn't live in japan or cuckmerica
Send PI to your house to imply something really bad will happen to your family if you continue working on the emulator.

That's not a random comment. It happened. Twice.

>>725288534 (OP)
There's a rumor about Goku being a load bearing file for GG Strive but I don't know how true that is

>>725297835
Which book in this jenga tower is POB?

>>725298219
Probably kill your family since that usually means they live in favelas or the like

>>725288534 (OP)
How long did CoD games have iD in the splash credits because they were using old Quake-era netcode?

>>725288534 (OP)
WoW and mods, particularly boss mods since they spent 10+ years designing encounters around the idea that players will have heads-up display of encounter mechanics with timers already available because of beta testers and datamining.

>>725297676
>Want to pad the left of a string? Oh, just pull up the library that FUCKING PAD THE LEFT OF A STRING
welcome to the unix philosophy of package managers and "programs that focus on one doing singular thing well", and it's consequences.

>>725288534 (OP)
>hl2.exe has stopped working

>>725288534 (OP)
Balatro

>>725289929
Holy shit open sores is fucking insufferable.

>>725293585
Just rip the code and put it in your own? Who the fucks going to notice? Shit, the concept is so simple it is entirely reasonable you could create your own implementation sight unseen and it be identical to the public package.
And it pads a string, it's not like it's ever going to need updates.

>>725303576
The code itself is simple and you can personally code it yourself sure. The problem is dependencies. That fancy sortable table component depends on 12 packages, which all depends on a hundred packages, which all end up depending on a thousand packages, leftpad being one of them and it being broken makes the entire dependency tree fucked. Trying to rig that entire system to bypass leftpad is wayyyyy more work than doing left padding yourself.

>>725297835
real shit man, fuck ggg