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Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
An advantage of writing a dependency free game engine is that it's easy to set up anywhere. My flight was delayed, so I bought a cheap Bluetooth keyboard and added features to my game via Termux on my phone. In a million years you couldn't do that with something like Unity.
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