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@chr Literally the most excited thing I was for in the trailer was seeing one of the dragons flying up in the skybox behind Link. (Also, realizing the new mechanics will make shield surfing rad as hell.)

@Dex Archipelago occasionally runs multiworld stress tests across their library of supported games, so the answer in that setting is going to be at least a dozen different games.

In the binary itself however, probably fewer, at least until some mad lad randos Super Mario All Stars or something. >..>

@Dex Because if there's inherently nothing separating a creator from a bot (and there is, both psychologically and as a matter of process), it means they can throw money at the problem of being creative. And that helps them feel better about not finding their own spark or devoting any creative energy in their lives.

And I can see why they'd want to try using money to paper over that yawning void where their soul should be.

@Dex Part of what powers projects like this, I think, are when you peel back all of the layers of grift and techbro fiefdom nonsense, this is what creativity feels like to people who have never had a passion or artistic spark in their lives.

And while that's profoundly sad, it helps explain why their standards are so low, and why their expectations are so high for bots and ChatGPT generative babble to fill the space instead.

@Dex Heck, I was around the scene then and had completely memory holed There. Especially with IMVU and Lively trying much of the same model a few years later.

I also agree with the video, ignoring that these are playgrounds of identity is a fatal flaw for any virtual world project. Heck, even EVE Online has more of a sense of identity and place than There did or Meta Horizons does now.

@Karadur_Zero Thank you!

💜

@chr "But we can just wrap cmake in the IDE build process, right?"
"... but we can just wrap it... right?"

My condolences.