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I tried calling MS to report it and the guy on the other side said they didn't have a process for handling that and basically suggested I hang up.

1) Reminder bot for scheduled events.

We're all working adults who all played games as teens together . To actually get us together, we schedule our favorite games for once a month to play for a few hours. We all often forget when they start, so my bot posts a 2 week, 1 week 3 days, and 2 hour notice.

2) RCON bot I run a TF2 server and a Minecraft server. You can manage both via RCON commands via slash commands in Discord. Also the tf2 one monitors player activity and alerts if players are in the server

3. Private server API bot

I founded a private game server for a game that ended service in 2023. The bot reads from our API to make a central list of lobbies and status. It also creates voice channels for each public lobby.

It's also used to help grant items and other admin commands.

4. For April Fools, I made a snarky bot that responded to random messages. It was backed by Gemini.

These have all been fun and novel to make but I've never found a great way to productize them and make money from any of them. Wonder if you've found any avenues there.

1. Does the web interface allow you to download your ROMs in a similar fashion to Plex letting you download your files? I could see myself using this to fetch from my libraries and would like a nice GUI box art interface to grab a game I'm looking for. 2. How does this work with ROM hacks? How is the metadata pulled? Filename? Header? How could I set custom metadata where it doesn't match. 3. Does this have an accessible and documented API if I want to build extensions to it (or am I forced to use the interface?)

I run my own private server for a live service game that shut down in just 1 year. We got lucky because they seemingly bundled the server code into the client. But the game was never meant to allow for that...

I made an Android app that used React Native and it was the simplest thing ever. It had no auth, no telemetry, no persisted storage. Quite literally all it did was take text input and output it's braille equivalent and vice versa.

Had another one that made procedurally generated credits like you'd see at the end of a game. Same thing. No auth, no telemetry, etc.

I made a total of $3.97 for those apps. I did also receive a $350 settlement for some class action lawsuit Google lost about something they did to developers.

Closing my account removes me from potential future class action pools.

The hacker also is showing admin panels such as "private ban reasons" as I recall and a private janitor board and all it's message contents.

The guy gave me a "Pre selection" letter (bokded at the top that it was "NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT") that I was selected to receive 1,000,000 shares, vested at 250k a year (no one year cliff into monthly). 1,000,000 of how many? Didn't say. Percentage? Nope. Was it 25% 3% .00003% Who knows!

I eventually was forced out after him verbally abusing me, making unsubstantiated accusations about how I spoke to other employees, and doing things like asking me to clock out and continue to talk about work.

I received two death threats after I quit. And, seven years later, I get a threatening letter falsely accusing me of defaming the company under random online accounts. After rejecting the allegations, I got a "settlement letter" that demands I forfeit all obligations, and can never talk about the employer again. It also explicitly stated I'd get $0 and that they "wouldn't appear at my place of residence" as my benefits.

Last I saw the SEC audited them and said they had no revenue and no products to commercialize.

They raised $6m on fundraising sites selling SAFEs, but had $800k in assets and $6m in debt. Oh, the most interesting part is the owner had the company paying his other computer repair business $5k a month for IT services.

It really reenforced for me how meaningless the whole process. Working for that company was a lifetime mistake.

The codename for Ocarina of Time was Ship of Harkinian. The one for Majoras Mask is 2Ship2Harkinian.

Both can result in the same outcome, but the readability of underlying source differs

Ocarina of Time is able to play natively on just about every system system imagineable (pretty sure native PS1 builds exist) Sonic Unleashed, previously an 360/PS3 exclusive, now can be played in ultra wide on PC natively.

Majoras Mask got a recent static deanalyzed PC port and has higher FOS and ultrawide mods.

Perfect Dark for the N64 has a native PC port with ultrawide and mouse and keyboard controls.

These are just a few off the top of my head.

I captured them in mitmproxy and ran those through this to help me identify all the endpoints and their general structure. (A few things were a misnomer, like the examples suggesting certain values were able to be floats when they could only be integers)

I was able to get a team together and we were able to stand up private servers as a result.

I've been doing software for about a decade now. But I'm still (relatively) young. I do feel I have good breadth though and could provide value to a fledgling company to move in the right direction.