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  1. Soo... how 'bout that Unity blowup? !vgp

    Sunday, 17-Sep-23 00:44:43 UTC from web
    • @scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.

      Monday, 18-Sep-23 06:01:27 UTC in context
    • @adiwan their president also sold 2000 shares just before the install thing was announced, adding up to about 50k in the preceding year. seems bad

      Monday, 18-Sep-23 06:21:43 UTC in context
    • @zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.

      Monday, 18-Sep-23 06:27:36 UTC in context
  2. Very cool and normal that you need to limit your game to only use two CPU cores in order to do the fishing minigame, SEGA.

    Friday, 15-Sep-23 02:50:56 UTC from web
  3. Weird thought I just had: do you think someone who doesn't know sign language would have an easier time understanding ASL or something improvised by another non-ASL-knower?

    Thursday, 14-Sep-23 04:43:53 UTC from web
  4. There are no restrooms in Washington DC metro stations. I had to venture into the city on Saturday to find a bathroom. Found a Macy’s. It was close enough. What I’m mad about is that in DC you get charged your fare when you leave the station rather than the way it works in Europe where you pay for a distance up front, so I basically paid $2 to use the bathroom.

    Tuesday, 12-Sep-23 13:35:35 UTC from web
  5. Gardening will be a pain. Everything is mostly overgrown with ivy. There was even a cut dead tree fully overgrown by that stuff. The tree was so decayed it was basically at the strength of cardboard. The ivy gave it the most structural integrity.

    Sunday, 10-Sep-23 16:47:26 UTC from web
  6. First time posting on this site, how's it going everyone?

    Saturday, 09-Sep-23 04:27:37 UTC from web
  7. It's funny how cheap wine is less expensive than empty bottles

    Friday, 08-Sep-23 05:55:06 UTC from web
    • @scribus Yeah. Preserving jars are almost the same in that regard. It's cheaper to just buy stuff that's sold in a preserving jar than to buy them empty. A family member has some apple trees and the preserving jars I collected were used to preserve apple sauce made from these apples.

      Friday, 08-Sep-23 07:11:01 UTC in context
  8. "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" what a bad movie. For the most part it's "fine". Very slow pacing but "fine". The last act was the kick into the groin.

    Thursday, 07-Sep-23 13:01:08 UTC from web
  9. I have the keys to the house. If it weren't for the heat, I'd be moving my stuff to the house. 31°C and no clouds. Unbearable.

    Wednesday, 06-Sep-23 15:54:50 UTC from web
  10. The last season of Disenchantment is quite a mess in how the story was told.

    Saturday, 02-Sep-23 13:49:39 UTC from web
    • @adiwan I think the whole show would have gone a lot better if the first 4 seasons tried to develop the overarching plot during the whole season instead of just the first and last 2 episodes. This latest one was, like, "all plot, all the time!" and it felt so slapped together. Not awful, but I'm glad they didn't try to keep it alive for 40 years, and I'm not hopeful that Comedy Central will pick it up for a revival in 2030.

      Sunday, 03-Sep-23 17:09:51 UTC in context
    • @scribus I think the creators had a lot of internal conflict on how to create an epic and make the episodes episodic, like Futurama and Simpsons. I fully agree with you. I really liked the characters, some more, some less, but none were truly terrible (even Elfo to some degree). It's just that the plot made all of them brainless and stupid stretching all of the characters to an unrecognizable form. Fast-forwarding a lot of the plot didn't help. In this season, multiple times, there was no reason to stop a chase but it happened despite no reason at all.

      Sunday, 03-Sep-23 18:07:04 UTC in context
  11. Ah F***!!!! Got a bill from the government for the tax for buying land. 11k€ down the drain. I knew I had to pay it before I got into thinking about buying a house. It still stings nonetheless. That's about 2800 comic issues!

    Thursday, 31-Aug-23 10:33:10 UTC from web
  12. oh boy i cant wait! AHAHHAAHAAAAAAA I WANT TO DIE

    Wednesday, 30-Aug-23 01:21:39 UTC from web
  13. In a week I'll own a house! I'd be happier if the city wouldn't penny-pinch me. I had to pay a bill for something that the city should pay themselves: an investigation if the city has an interest in buying the house (first refusal right).

    Saturday, 26-Aug-23 13:58:23 UTC from web
    • @adiwan Wow that is a dumb demand, but congratulations on the homeownership!

      Saturday, 26-Aug-23 14:21:12 UTC in context
    • @scribus Thanks. The bill was 65€ for that. I will certainly suffer for pleasure of owning a home, especially since there was nothing done for over 40 years and has still wallpaper from the late 70s. What has to be done: New switch box (solar power ready), new electric cables, new windows, roof isolation, the wilderness of a garden needs to be tamed. Also when I'm at it I'll lay down network cables everywhere, at least CAT7 and glass fiber.

      Saturday, 26-Aug-23 14:28:15 UTC in context
  14. Done with Yakuza 4, now on Yakuza 5. Big thing I’m noticing about 5 is that it’s slightly more impressive both technically and as a game than Yakuza Kiwami, which released four years later on a next gen console, which is a bit confusing to me but whatever

    Wednesday, 23-Aug-23 22:38:03 UTC from web
  15. Am I lost in the sauce? Or is the sauce lost in me?

    Wednesday, 23-Aug-23 05:49:17 UTC from web
  16. Spotless # https://i.imgur.com/7x9HmqT.jpg http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876403

    Tuesday, 22-Aug-23 08:56:57 UTC from web
  17. IE about to get hit by a hurricane, what even is anything

    Saturday, 19-Aug-23 04:32:55 UTC from web
  18. I'm not really a big karaoke fan in the Yakuza games but I somewhat miss it in Judgment.

    Thursday, 17-Aug-23 09:22:01 UTC from web
  19. That’s Yakuza 3 out of the way, would’ve finished it sooner but due to the way combat works it takes roughly two hours to do one random encounter of beginner level thugs

    Tuesday, 15-Aug-23 13:09:43 UTC from web
  20. I just found the missing bottle and now I have two bottles. My credibility is in tatters.

    Friday, 11-Aug-23 16:27:04 UTC from web
  21. Golf spammers make me teed off. Geddit readers? Chortle!

    Thursday, 10-Aug-23 08:23:12 UTC from web
  22. Now we are targeted by Golf SPAM. I've not seen this before, ever. Not even in my email inbox.

    Wednesday, 09-Aug-23 11:32:12 UTC from web
  23. I’m a few years out from dating being permanently weird, because pretty soon everyone in my pool is either gonna have kids (I AM BAD WITH KIDS) or be enough years younger than me that I, personally, would feel weird dating them even if other people probably don’t really care that much.

    Tuesday, 08-Aug-23 19:40:13 UTC from web
  24. Yakuza 3 is old and busted and scary

    Sunday, 06-Aug-23 06:13:19 UTC from web
  25. Each successive Trump indictment is funnier than the last because every time he’s practically begged people to riot on his behalf at the various courthouses where his arrests occur and like five people show up every time.

    Wednesday, 02-Aug-23 04:07:23 UTC from web
  26. In yesterday's D&D session I used my lizard familiar, placed it on my druid character's head, activated the feature to look through the familiar's eyes, and thusly gained 30ft darkvision. A poor man's Goggles of Night.

    Monday, 31-Jul-23 17:20:53 UTC from web
  27. I think this hotel is not for people like me, it’s next to a bunch of corporate headquarters and data centers, the lobby is a trendy bar where a bunch of tech guys are drinking top shelf liquor, and the TV knows my name.

    Saturday, 29-Jul-23 00:23:08 UTC from web
  28. ChatGPT seems to believe that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be perfectly willing to ally with Tony Soprano but would draw the line at Walter White and I’m uncomfortable with the knowledge that, to an AI, the line between friend and foe lies somewhere between “murderous mob boss” and “murderous drug lord” and not well before both points.

    Thursday, 27-Jul-23 04:56:43 UTC from web
  29. Twitter is essentially dead for me. I used to lurk some creators on twitter but my open source twitter client choqok failed to fetch any new data for a week now.

    Monday, 24-Jul-23 19:14:58 UTC from web
  30. New Futurama’s pretty funny. Billy West‘s voice ain’t what it used to be though. Fry sounds like he’s been in the future for 23 years or something.

    Monday, 24-Jul-23 05:48:22 UTC from web