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Key word is "was."

I feel like a16z is run by the AI crypto brainworms at this point.

Congratulations on your exit. OpenTofu will continue the work you started.

It works until Elon has to step in.

You have a point

Tell me you're a cartel without saying you're a cartel.

Porn on a work computer ANYWHERE should be an instant dismissal. The track record of porn sites using nefarious trackers and extorting customers is so well documented anyone viewing it has problems beyond just being a pervert.

If they aren't rehashes, they're broken, unfinished, or underwhelming. BG3 was a welcome anomaly. The norm in Generation 8 has been that AAA releases just plain suck, or are buggy.

It took a few years, but COVID has claimed its biggest victim yet.

In the era of livestreams and corporate events, it had nowhere to go. ReedPop and the ESA could have tried numerous times to get consumer engagement up, by maybe offering demos of what was on the showfloor. But that never happened.

Hopefully smaller events like Gamescom, Paris Games Week, Siegecon, etc take time to look at where E3 failed, and aim to improve engagement with the consumer base. Of which to me, at least, feels a bit aimless due to the sorry state of games released in Generation 8.

Regexes you say?

He's probably on Atlas right now starting the company.

Counterpoint: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-m...

Right, it is. I intended to talk about Bolt and ProBuilder, tools they bought, added to the engine, and then left to rot.

Although to build DOTS they did poach a lot of ECS and Data-Oriented folks like Mike Acton, who left earlier this year.

Cyberpunk was delisted because CDPR told consumers to request refunds.

We're weeks past a very public pricing change that cost Unity market reach amidst competitors and open source projects; and that led to a CEO change. There are problems beyond what the employees can realistically fix.

"And the reason why the game has its own culling implementation instead of using Unity’s built in solution because Colossal Order had to implement quite a lot of the graphics side themselves because Unity’s integration between DOTS and HDRP is still very much a work in progress and arguably unsuitable for most actual games."

This sadly tracks with my own experiences with Unity's tooling, where DOTS did ship but its implementation rots on the vine like every other tool they acquired. The company is woefully mismanaged, its been mismanaged, and given the very public pricing incident from a few weeks back, they aren't focusing on improvements to the engine, but on any way to scrap money from its users.

Bevy's ECS implementation is really good, and I want to see it succeed here, in addition to Godex.

I've used Czkawka (https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka) because it does Lanczos-based image duplicate detection, which makes it more practical for me.

I actually use Okular on Windows and Linux, it is quite good.

I'm keeping my eyes on O3DE as Godot's designs aren't conducive to high performance operations, or lots of actors (at least, I haven't had a need for a lot of actors, but I do find myself needing to use Observers). But in terms of trivial design, Godot is much closer to Unity, and in a lot of ways, its Node system gives it an edge for extendibility and ease of use.

Wow. So that was a bunch of navel gazing from the man who brought us Netscape. Are we sure he didn't just get lucky? I don't think I've ever seen anything discredit Marc in such a big way since the last time I remember him saying or doing something that discredited him in such a big way, like investing in crypto or claiming India was better under Empire colonization.

Also, citing Nick Land (neo-nazi), Filippo Marinetti (co-author of the Fascist Manifesto), Milton Friedman and John Galt (A LITERALLY MADE UP CHARACTER) is a bad read. Yikes.

Not to mention that Nick Land is an avowed Néo-nazi.

Well that's one negotiation tactic.

Bandcamp is heading for the dead pool, and it fucking sucks because it's my go to online music store. God damnit Epic.

Can't have shit on someone else's computer. Atlassian has become a company I don't want to do business with.

Interesting design that solves nothing.

You think Apple is expensive? Licenses for Dassault Catia start at $12,000.

Unity didn't mishandle the announcement. They were actually quite clear about their brazen rentseeking, and that made the decision to switch pretty easy for new development.

Ellen Pao was a glass cliff hire.

Nah, this is totally a normal retraction.

Are they gonna change the governance at the last minute like with Turbo?

Incredible. My phone does everything except the make calls part.