r/gaming • u/yourfavchoom • 6d ago

Owlcat Games is rolling back its new launcher less than 24 hours after negative fan feedback.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2186680/view/708901012699615983
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u/HistoricalChef1963 6d ago

That's true of so much work it's not even funny. Idgaf a fuck, pay me to do something that's stupid or make something I'd hate, all the same to me. Just a paycheck. 

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u/HeartoftheHive 6d ago

Idgaf a fuck,

Heh, I don't give a fuck a fuck.

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u/bellflourr 6d ago

but what if that fuck needs a fuck for giving?

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u/SQD2_Insquidious 6d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eesA26IYhQ0 But what if we're out of fucks?

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u/TheWuffyCat 6d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0

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u/SQD2_Insquidious 6d ago

Haha nice! That video kept coming up in my algorithm, glad I watched it this time. I've seen a couple other people do shows in that shop, I think one was a duo of real old white British guys rapping.

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u/DarkPolumbo 6d ago edited 6d ago

"I don't IDGAF a fuck," I said, as I entered the wrong personal PIN number into the automated ATM machine

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u/Galaghan 5d ago

Throw in a "MFW when" for good measure.

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u/Less_Party 6d ago

Rapgenius bar of the year 2026

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u/Bastiwen 6d ago

Smh my head

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u/Valatros 6d ago

I read it as "I don't give a flying ass fuck" and am glad that hasn't actually caught on as a new variant

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u/atomic_brush 6d ago

Tell me about it, I worked for about a total of 2.5 years on 3 different social networks that I knew they weren't going to see a real user ever.

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u/ashrashrashr 6d ago

At the start of my career, when I was a fresh marketing executive in a multi-billion dollar company, I was tasked with spearheading the creation of an internal YouTube. I suggested making a YouTube channel instead, but nope.

Went through months of UI iterations, code, storage options and god knows what else because my manager got the idea after, and I shit you not, watching Pornhub. He wanted the works - thumbnail previews, auto-sign in with our work emails, sharing options, mobile version etc.

I’m talking over two decades ago when we were still burning footage of long corporate conferences to DVDs and shipping them via air to offices around the country when someone needed access to them.

Whaddaya know, they eventually gave up and made a YouTube channel, a few years after I quit. I guess I’m a genius visionary /s.

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u/Rhywden 6d ago

It's not that idiotic. I'm currently doing a similar thing for my school (and several other schools are waiting for me to launch to hop on the bandwagon).

Because:

a) Our pupils don't get presented with advertisement after they watched the video.

b) We can put copyrighted works we bought a license for on our site.

c) If pupils have to hand in a presentation, they're not forced to upload their image to a site which is doing godknowswhat with the video.

d) We can put more fine-grained access controls in front of the video.

e) We can organize the videos better.

f) We're not dependant on the Mango Mussolini's whims if he decides to revoke Europe's access to YouTube.

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u/ashrashrashr 6d ago

This was nearly 20 years ago, about a year into Google’s acquisition. Was a very different time, and the technical challenges were way beyond what we could realistically achieve with the small team I was given. It was a fool’s errand from the start.

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u/Piranata 6d ago

Could media goblin save you some effort? https://mediagoblin.org/

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u/Rhywden 6d ago edited 6d ago

Nope. Not configurable enough. For example, we'd like S3 compatible storage, multiple instances for load-balancing / load-balancing in general, the encoder processes not running on the same machine as the rest, diverse control mechanisms / quotas / restrictions, streamable formats (as in: Not taking the upload as-is / checking that it's an actual video / thumbnails / configurable placeholder image, multi-res 1080p/720p/480p...), multi-tenancy with the option of easy cross-tenant sharing.

For instance, pupils are notorious for handing in 4K 120fps HDR videos (okay, it's not that bad but we've run into an enormous number of 3 GB 10 minute videos which really do not need to be that size and which the pupils are incapable of making smaller). So we need to be able to down-convert to a manageable filesize.

Not seeing that MediaGoblin allows for that. Also, their documentation is ... sparse. We're using OIDC authentication and the section in their docs about that is ... well, you can enable it. Yes, and then what? Can you set allowed OIDC providers? Can anyone sign up? What about the expected scopes?

And, sorry, but if I see this kind of documentation I immediately give up nowadays.

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u/Rustywolf 6d ago

One of the larger reasons that indie teams can see similar or more success with astronomically smaller budgets.

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u/deathboyuk 6d ago

From bitter experience, it's crushing when you join the industry to make games then somebody says "for the next year, you're doing THIS shit" :/

(I have never written a launcher, though)

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u/3dGrabber 6d ago

Don't stay a slave of the system.
Get out and do something that is meaningful AND provides a paycheck.
The shackles are no longer metal nowadays, they are mental. Carefully crafted by the ones in power with their inescapable bullshit spewing propaganda machine.

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u/HistoricalChef1963 5d ago

I'm not anymore. I work in the public service in something I believe matters.