“Yes I play nintendo. You mean romhacks, right?”

I don’t think shots were intended to be fired at the Mozilla corporation, who can’t stop talking about their default, opt-out AI, but it paints a stark picture of the difference between a company that preaches privacy and choice, versus a company that actually provides those things.

I think they’re also taking shots on telemetry. Firefox uses telemetry as evidence to support their decisions in ways that sometimes seem contrived or statistically incorrect (similar to only x% of people turned this default feature off, therefore it is good), making me feel as a user that contributing my telemetry to them is actually a bad thing that is encouraging their behaviour. Meanwhile TDF makes great software that follows what the community wants and needs without any telemetry collection.

(5minute in) When you have a quest market or a minimap, the player doesn’t take in the gameworld. They’re not playing a game so much as they’re sleepwalking through it. It becomes a monotmous grind, there’s nothing stimulating or exciting about it. Go here, pick up this item. Go here, talk to this person, rinse, repeat.

I hate minimaps with a passion and turn them off in games wherever possible. Otherwise I find myself playing the game primarily looking at the minimap, with the actual 3d world just being a background obstacle course I occasionally have to flick to. With it off I have a lot more fun, getting lost and learning new areas.

Flicking to a pause menu map or similar adds friction but I have not found a better way (EDIT: the video touches on this, where a lot of modern games are broken without minimaps and quest markers. There are ways the designers can fix this, like partial maps. I want to make a game now with some shadily hand-drawn maps…)

Site seems offline now, says “Closed Jan 30th”