@glyph Did you quote post something?

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@glyph yes'nt (because it will force me to finally purchase and play this game)

[aldeka@wandering.shop]

@glyph I did not really pick up on that as a primary theme, and so would be an interested reader!

[mpirnat@mas.to]

@glyph Sorry, I was distracted by a fascist conspiracy that infected the brains of the populace, turning them into unrecognizable monsters.

But also yes, I’d enjoy your thoughts on BG3 whatever angle you take.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mpirnat there's also a bit of that. "fascism is a death cult" is a reading so surface that it's practically levitating

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aldeka thanks for the encouragement, I guess I will be entering my Aesthetic Philosophy Arc in 2026

[mpirnat@mas.to]

@glyph Fox News is the tadpole.

[feditree@masto.es]

@glyph Here is your #FediTree for the year 2025.

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[bitprophet@social.coop]

@glyph Glyph the eclairs are OBSCURED its right in the title!!!

[christi3k@toot.cat]

@glyph I had to read this three times to realize you hadn’t genericized that output and it is, in fact, ‘com.company.game’

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@christi3k I am not kidding, I opened info.plist and I like… clicked on the identifier because I had this impulse to think "oh that's the placeholder, I must need to click on it to reveal the actual value"… in a terminal, in `less`

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph but the game runs, right?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aeva for now, yes!

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph it's a christmas miracle!

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aeva I do want to be crystal clear that this is 100% Apple's problem. The issue is not that the developer made some mistake that they should have corrected, it's that there is literally *no way* for the developer to reasonably know that this is a mistake until some smartass like yours truly complains. Apple should have, like… developer tools, or something

(The fact that there's no communication pathway for me to actually complain in a useful way is a separate problem.)

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph i happened to catch a whiff of the daily player metrics during the launch week of an osx port of a big budget AAA game that a friend worked on, and let's just say the numbers weren't great

[seanlinsley@mastodon.social]

@aeva @glyph people should be promoting CrossOver more. Yes it's an extra expense but it's great to be able to play most things on Mac without a port. It sure seems like Mac ports aren't worth it unless Apple is paying for it

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@seanlinsley @aeva I own and regularly use CrossOver but I definitely prefer it if there’s a native port. dozens of us etc

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@seanlinsley @glyph i'm reminded of a memorable conversation with a friend back in college where i was ranting about the difficulty of porting some project of mine to osx, and he listened with amusement and then when i was done venting he asked sagaciously if i had considered simply not bothering, and then proceeded to fire up windows on his macbook

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@seanlinsley @aeva I think the bad numbers are a bit of a cyclical/self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. mac users expect that devs have no idea what they’re doing and will churn out barely-functioning ports that perform like shit unless apple is shilling it, devs assume users will just never buy unless it’s got a ton of first-party promotion. and that’s a minority already, most mac users just assume the machine can’t play games at all

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@seanlinsley @aeva I was reminded today how well it *can* do when everyone involved wants it to, after playing a ton of Power Wash Simulator on Steam Deck, I tried the Apple Arcade version today and it runs SO well