My Litleo here in Pokemon Legends Z-A like "I can haz your cake??" π₯Ί
17.10.2025 07:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@packetdancer.bsky.social
Former gamedev turned embedded firmware engineer turned gamedev again. For my sins, I now write MMO networking code. (I am bad at social media.)
My Litleo here in Pokemon Legends Z-A like "I can haz your cake??" π₯Ί
17.10.2025 07:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Since someone DM'd over on the Site We Do Not Speak Of asking: I've put a couple of the aforementioned pieces of music (not nearly all of what I've done) up on my ancient and disused Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/packetdancer
22.09.2025 21:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Been writing music again over the past few months! It's weird trying to pick back up after years of not composing anything...
22.09.2025 16:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And if they just shrug it off... then hey, they have to stop doing lootboxes and just sell things directly. Which would still be a victory condition! Even if not the intended one.
24.07.2025 20:12 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Because I feel like the *instant* that everything with lootboxes or other gamble-y mechanics gets delisted from Steam or whatever, larger publishers are suddenly gonna be *way* more interested in throwing around their weight to say "Hey, uh, payment processors should not be able to dictate this." π€
24.07.2025 20:12 β π 27 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0As I said to friends elsewhere...
I feel like we ought to organize a campaign to get the payment processors to similarly ban payments for anything that lets you use a purchased currency to get lootboxes or gatcha pulls, on the grounds it encourages gambling.
I honestly wish I were.
It felt pretty unbelievable at the time, too. When the would-be client left, the jr. engineer turned to me with wide eyes and asked, "Did that really just happen?"
(We did not end up working with those individuals.)
At a previous job, a potential client kept asking a nearby (male) jr. engineer their technical questions, which I (female sr. engineer) would then answer.
He kept looking more and more unhappy each time, as he'd point to me and go "She's the domain expert, not me; I'm shadowing her today."
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So far as I know, literally no one knows who owns the rights any longer. If this was resolved in the years since the article I'm linking, I'm unaware of it.
www.thegamer.com/no-one-lives...