Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh.
Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!
(The actual 8th year anniversary was yesterday, but I was too dead that day to remember to post about it)
Random Death Generator History fact:
The second game to be added was SimCity 2000, added a little under two months later on Dec 18, 2017.
The second game to be added was SimCity 2000, added a little under two months later on Dec 18, 2017.
It was called "Sierra Death Generator" at the beginning, despite the very second game added being a non-Sierra title.
In February of 2018 I called it "the increasingly inaccurately named 'Sierra Death Generator'"
In February of 2018 I called it "the increasingly inaccurately named 'Sierra Death Generator'"
You'd think that was when I dropped the "Sierra" from the name, oh no!
Even though I stopped calling it the Sierra Death Generator when I posted about it, the name on the page didn't change for two more years, finally getting changed on Jun 15th, 2020.
Even though I stopped calling it the Sierra Death Generator when I posted about it, the name on the page didn't change for two more years, finally getting changed on Jun 15th, 2020.
the death generator has had one development hiatus, for legal reasons:
for five days in June 2019, I wasn't allowed to update it because I'd signed an employment agreement that would have resulted in my employer owning it if I worked on it.
for five days in June 2019, I wasn't allowed to update it because I'd signed an employment agreement that would have resulted in my employer owning it if I worked on it.
Curtis Carter@foone I always keep my open source contributions off of work wifi, on a personal computer, and on my own time for that reason. We're technically not supposed to even discuss it at work but they use #NuGetDefense in some of our security scans so it's a little unavoidable.
@codingcoyote this was all three, but sadly it was a Very Big Company with lots of lawyers, so they said that even if I did it at home, with my own PC & internet, they own it
David Zaslavsky@foone @codingcoyote oof, how'd you get out of that one?
@diazona @codingcoyote I pointed out to them that the death generator was technically several hundred cases of copyright infringement and any one of the copyright owners could sue, since with them being the money behind it, they might bother to
@diazona @codingcoyote and they gave me a wavier to still work on it while employed there
@foone @codingcoyote wow, well uh, well played
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