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I know when I tried to sign up with Herztwhatever, the other popular European one, they wanted my ID and I said no way. but yeah OVH has never once asked for mine.

really? I never had to do that. They’ve left me alone since I originally signed up with them.

I believe it was released on the C64 a couple days before Halloween and then on the NES and every where else shortly there after so yeah, just before Christmas.

But I mean that was just a common thing for the early to mid 80s when it came to videogames. Just get something out before the holidays with a hot franchise on the box and who gives a rats ass what the game is about or if it’s even any good. it’ll sell.

I have OVH for dedicated but I’ve also used their VPS and they’re great. They leave me alone, don’t hound me for anything, cheap prices, reliable as I’ve never had issues them. can’t complain. They’re Euro based but they have servers near me in Montreal so I use that which is great when I put my VPN on there cause now I get student discounts everywhere since my server is at McGill University.

It was a rush job.

The NES and pretty much all home versions of the game were essentially ports of the Commodore 64 game which was the original version. After the films release Colombia Pictures was all “holy shit, we have a hit, we need to capitalize on this ASAP and keep pumping out merch while it’s hot”. Colombia then went to Activision and offered them the license. Colombia Pictures didn’t give a rats ass about the design, the content, or anything the ONLY stipulation they had was get a game out on as many platforms as possible and get it out like yesterday. So what you’re playing on the NES is a grand total of a month and a half of work when at the time a game would typically take 6 months to produce.

It’s not supposed to be good. It’s not supposed to look good. It was simply made to so that something with the name “GhostBusters” was on the shelf in toy stores and sold. and it sold VERY well. it was one of if not the best selling Commodore 64 game of all time…most pirated too.

Very serious. I kinda fell into it myself when one of my clients reached out to me late last year about needing help with some project they utilized Claude Code and a vibe coder to build from end to end. After that I thought “huh, wee bit o money to be made here”.

It’s a menial/easy job for sure but man you charge a Premium for it. These companies have no idea what they’re doing I mean hell they put their entire company on the back of a 20 year old junior dev and an Anthropic subscription. I generally charge double what I would normally charge for dev work and it’s always less work, thus I’m able to take on more clients to fix this stuff which means I’m making much more for less.

Like I said a friend of mine simply went back to the place he got laid off from and told them he’d fix their fuck ups and nickle and dimed them to do so. I and others simply go on LinkedIn and call out the bullshit from tech bro posts and then say we’ll fix it. the thing is YOU have to be the one to advertise your service because companies still aren’t going to admit they fucked up and post ads asking for help. Trust me they ARE looking for help they’re just won’t openly admit to it.

it’s very menial/easy. BUT you charge a premium for the service because as /u/pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip put it these places are very desperate to fix their fuck ups and fix them quickly. Like I’m talking builds or projects that could be months along and suddenly…nothing works. or something breaks. or nothing can be added. or more common than anything the AI claimed it had added something when it reality it either didn’t or simply made a #todo comment and vibe coders continued on.

But yes the pay is good. I essentially get paid to tell a company how much they fucked up and what it will take to fix. There is always the very slim possibility of refactoring but i’d say 8 times out of 10 the only clear path forward is to start from scratch and that generally means hiring devs again.

yeah I know I just thought i’d be funny for people to be cloning and pushing a bunch of porn repos and then throwing their “personal” stash into .gitignores

FINALLY someone wrote something about my job. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been doing for the past year and I make more money doing it than I did as a regular freelance/consultant dev.

Seriously people, if you’re a dev learn and get good at code reviewing. And honestly you don’t even have to be THAT good at it because the slop that is puked out by the likes of Claude Code is so god damn easy to find. Deal with the bullshit that is LinkedIn and start advertising yourself as someone that is a sort of “digital janitor” for AI. you’ll get clients.

A buddy of mine that was laid off by a company saw what I was doing and decided to be even more ballsy than I was and actually go BACK to said company and offer them assistance in cleaning up the mess they created by laying him and other devs off. He went back as a freelancer, charged them a premium, and now is “working” for them again but making MORE than what they were paying him and now he gets to work on his terms for doing less work.

These places fucked up, they are now learning how much they fucked up, so take advantage of their fuck ups and fuck them even more. I got ZERO sympathy for ANY company that leveraged AI for their builds and tossed their dev teams to the side. But make no mistake, I charge these places an arm and a leg and they deserve it.

yeah because when I want to be social or check out porn github is the first place that pops to mind.

Although…now that I think about it…doing git clone on a porn repo would be convenient. could even easily update it. hm…Actually I think Australia might be on to something here

yeah and boomers were saying the same about us when we were watching a squirrel singing about “Gonads and strife” or a badly translated Sega Genesis game claiming “All your base are belong to us”

ALL generations watch dumb shit, stop acting like this ONE generation suddenly originated dumb shit to watch.

Well ends up there’s a nixos package for it so I gave it a shot, been using it for the last couple days. I dig it more than Feishin so I switched to it. it’s not bad, pretty good.

Ranger-X - fantastic mecha side scrolling shooter where you can dock your mech with motorcycle or spaceship. Love that game.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone is easily one of, if not, the best sonic level ever

X-Men - the music alone is fantastic

Phantasy Star II - one of the greatest RPGs ever.

Battletech - like jungle strike but with Mechwarrior

Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine - awesome and addictive puzzle game

Jurassic Park - the graphics at the time were fairly game changing, especially the T-Rex

Skitchin - like Road Rash but on rollerblades

Mortal Kombat - IMHO, other than the Sega CD version, best home port of the game just remember to enter in the blood code

Super Monaco GP II - one of the best racing games of the 16bit era

I might, but I don’t have any issues with Feishin so unless it does something way better than I’m happy with what I have.

tried it, but the appimage would just constantly break for whatever reason. just wouldn’t load half the time.

Switched to Feishin for my navidrome server and prefer it, simple and clean.

I now feel sorry for that Fedora dev/maintainer that got thrown over the coals earlier this year for suggesting Fedora drop 32bit now that everyone seems to be, indeed, dropping 32bit.

there used to be entire IRC channels set up just for sharing Dreamcast games as you could file share via mIRC. that’s where I got all my games. just burned them to a CD-R and that was that.

it’s free…wait…weren’t all Dreamcast games free? cause I’ve had my DC since '99 and I can’t even recall a time that I actually bought a DC game.

I have a private instance of Forgejo in docker on my server. took me all of 5 minutes to set up. I did this only because I wanted a web based GUI for some stuff.