Diversity is good, competition is good, but these are all such huge projects that having TOO many is bad because that’s less funding for any individual project

Personally I would’ve loved if they’d taken on Bevy and increased that project’s funding a lot. It’s an existing engine, but a lot less famous than Godot and currently not as usable yet. One day it may be a worthy competitor to Godot though.

I like this flag because the states aren’t in the tent at all.

When I used windows and had EGS, I had to log in nearly every time because it was so rare that I launched it. So not even a Heroic issue, yet another Epic issue

Ooh the Botany one sounds cool, thanks for reminding me

I do occasionally play the free games, I just do it through heroic games launcher.

Not to mention you don’t really need slavery when your minimum wage is like 3 euros an hour and unpaid overtime is the norm anyway, at least in office work

China’s doing this capitalism thing way better than the west. We should really learn from them. For example if the US abolished auto unions and increased manufacturing subsidies, they could lower wages and deliver cars for more competitive prices instead of having to rely solely on tariffs on Chinese EVs.

The thing is, we just use whole numbers. If you get under 1, then you move down by one SI prefix et voilà, you have whole numbers again

I’ve never thought of counting on fingers as a good reason for using it for units. But since our numeric system is base 10 (likely because of having 10 fingers indeed), it’s easier to have our unit systems as base 10 too. If we all learned to think in base 12 from ground up, having base 12 units would make a lot more sense too

And also not banned by reddit but a mod of the specific subreddit.

Also is it a legit ban or just a comment? I haven’t seen this version of the reddit UI before

I feel the same way about Bevy. Not as impressive as Godot yet in that it doesn’t have an editor and is missing a lot of things Godot has, but at the same time, the changelogs are detailed and come with screenshots and videos of the changes, as well as code examples to try out some new ways to do things

Aren’t both pretty imminent in Canada? I seem to recall something about China operating a secret police in Canada to keep Chinese people in line. A Chinese backdoor wouldn’t affect you personally, but if you have a conversation with a Chinese person that’s critical of the CCP, a Chinese backdoor in your phone COULD affect them.

I guess something like GrapheneOS would work best. I hear they’re partnering with some manufacturer to get rid of the Pixel requirement. Very much intrigued personally. I’m still happy with my aging iPhone and don’t have a threat model to be super concerned about state level actors, but if push comes to shove, I’m getting either GrapheneOS, or a de-googled Android ROM on a Fairphone at the very least.

But have these companies indicated that their branding shouldn’t be used to advertise 3rd party software?

The “mod” in question isn’t even specific to that game, it’s just one game being used to advertise the software.

Probably because those are the terms that the company whose product they’re modding set out for them.

CDPR has opted not to implement a mod marketplace though. The expectation there is that all mods are free for all.

Neither of those was a paid mod though.

I think that’s the easy bit. For me at least.

Any sort of artwork is expensive to commission though. And if you’re born without a shred of artistic talent in your entire being, you ain’t doing it yourself.

So I’ve got some very broad strokes vision of a game I want to build and I haven’t expanded on it further because I know I can’t afford to make it.

If I do decide to make it, I’d have to hire someone to do 3D modelling* at the very least. I don’t see a world where that’s feasible without copyright, because then I’d just be paying someone’s salary (or commissions) and be out of pocket for it.

* No, don’t worry, I’m not thinking of yet another photorealistic-ish looking 3D game. More like something in the style of the 3D Zelda games or like some of the (MMO)RPGs of the 00s.

It’ll probably take a long time for that world to materialize, since it’d require all corporations and billionaires to disappear forever first.

It’d require universal basic income first because game devs would have to work unpaid and may only make some money if they’re lucky. We know from open source software that 99% of people don’t donate shit.

Well, Valve funds Linux development and other than GOG, they run the only passable online game store. Idk if you remember, but you used to have to find a shop that stocked the game you wanted and then buy it from there. Steam and EGS have more or less everything, but since EGS is a Chrome instance running inside Unreal Engine 4, it’s extremely slow. Yes, they managed to invent something worse than Electron.

Ubisoft, on the other hand, went from creating some of the most iconic games ever made, to pumping out repetitive garbage. Any individual newish Assassin’s Creed game isn’t bad, but once you’ve played Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla… You no longer feel like buying Mirage and Shadows.

I may be wrong, but there’s sources saying Valve pays game and steam developers roughly 1 million dollars a year, hardware developers about 400k a year. Likely much of it in the form of profit sharing. They could hire 10x as many people and still be profitable, but what’s the point of adding bloat to something that works? Over-hiring during good times tends not to end well for the people hired, nor the company’s actual productivity.

I do think they should actually downsize. Stop pushing out a new Assassins Creed every year or 2. Reduce the magnitude of the games a bit. First few Assassins Creeds were special. Far Cry games used to be great too. Now they just feel like a grindfest. As do the AC games.

But I don’t think Ubisoft leadership would be capable of doing it right. They’d probably just lay off everyone who actually does work, and expect a similar amount of games.

Unfortunately all open source software is just food for LLMs now. That’s something we’re gonna have to accept. Contribute to open source and OpenAI, Anthropic and Google will make money off your contributions.

So either we accept this, or the Odoo model kinda works if you still want to make money. It’s open core, and with an enterprise license you get access to the enterprise repository as well (or maybe you have to be a Partner, I don’t remember), but the enterprise codebase is not open source and not publicly available - meaning there’s a lot of stuff that the LLMs shouldn’t be able to learn from, but clients will still know what code is running on their servers (kinda important if you’re doing custom modules to extend the upstream ones)

Makes sense when you think about it

You’re running an oppressive dictatorship. You still need enough people to support you to keep the thing going. What do you do? Make a bunch of people believe you’re going to improve their lives. How do you do that? First, you find an enemy to blame for everything. For Nazi Germany it was Jews, for the US now it’s mostly Latinos, but really all foreigners. But that alone might not be enough. So what else do you do? Pretend you’re doing everything economically and technologically to make things better for “the right people”.

Well, closed source doesn’t imply off github. Plenty of orgs have their closed source code on github.

Hope he at least has the sense to move to some other hosting solution though.

I mean the i7s had SMT. You had to pay extra for SMT, whereas AMD started giving it to you on every SKU except a few low-end ones.