I’ve found whenever people complain about rust code they can only point out how it’s different but not why it’s worse and I can usually point to a reason why it’s better.

to be fair, I get sometimes it’s difficult to pinpoint why something is bad and even “being different” can be a legitimate criticism on its own

I’ve been mostly making games for fun and am fairly risk adverse so am planning on sticking with a stable job and making games in my free time.

It’s discouraging, but it is reality. I still want to try, but definitely not putting more than one egg in this basket.

I’ll admit I’m knowingly doing the following haha

hopefully it’ll at least be a positive experience and I learn something from it

I’ve been doing itch and jams for a little bit, even managed to win one once. I’ve learned a lot but can’t shake this feeling that I’m just making free games for itch. You might be right though… whatever kind of sea of games I think itch is, the mobile sea may be a lot worse.

ooph, I just started trying to make a mobile game in Jan 😬

this makes so much sense, how do you know all this?

it’s a tough choice but I made a similar one. I shave my head every week or so with clippers with the smallest guard. I don’t like how shiny my head is sometimes but eh, overall it saves a lot of time and money. It’s not a big deal but society makes it feel like it is, especially if you’re a woman

obviously it depends on your requirements but what I meant was you can’t compare them at the DB level within queries… you have to pull the data out into your application layer to use your date library.

The problem there is you effectively need to grab more data than you need to answer queries like “which record has the most recent date” or “give me all the records between the values of the result of this subquery”. it can quickly become a massive bottleneck and may even prevent you from doing certain types of queries at all due to memory limitations.

you wouldn’t be able to sort or compare in your queries though

do you use clumping litter? not everyone does, which can make it messy if you leave it for them to kick up the next time they go. Not to mention the smell… if you’re really leaving your cat’s pee go for days at a time you might be nose blind to the smell it makes.

wait, you have robots?

OK OP is a weirdo, my bad

I feel like your examples aren’t quite what OP was referring to. Those games have pretty great gameplay

have you seen Forbrydelsen / The Killing?

how do you test a mattress?