HAHAHA I would heart react to your comment if I could, but you get a star for that insight. I mean, it’s funny that Musk, a guy who’s dating someone much younger than him and actively lurked Amber Heard before dating her, thinks he has the grounds to make unfounded comments like this.

I mean, considering Thailand is literally one of the best diving locales in the world and he’s an expert diver, it’s a bit hard to immediately jump to “this old guy is a pedophile.” If you know any serious divers, sailors, or surfers, they are often the type of people to relocate to places that are favorable to those…

also, if you saw what Steam was like for devs/publishers on the backend, you’d realize how fucking ridiculous 30% is for a system that feels prehistoric. I get at least two calls a month from people who missed their launch window by hours or days purely because of Steam’s ridiculous systems. You may even see this with…

13% placement fee for an online store is actually quite reasonable and probably covers both the cost of doing business and a solid profit margin, especially when you consider the level of infrastructure they already have in place for that kind of distribution for the UE4 platform. As someone who has released a game on…

Can you define what is “predatory” about Epic’s pricing strategies?

This makes sense, I’m sure it probably took a while to optimize ray tracing anyway, so now this gives them an opportunity to upsell the 20— series a lot more. I have a feeling that they were actually hoping for this much earlier because ray tracing is esoteric enough of a concept for most people that it was already a…

You’re completely ignoring that rapid and massive consolidation is a regular occurrence in the modern social media and tech sector, meaning “several websites” are actually industry shaping tools that affect the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. It’s sorta like saying “I’m not sure how a social…

It’s terrifying how few people really acknowledge how deeply and horrifically misunderstood the sex industry is and that many of them are still willing to support positions that have the exact opposite impact of their intentions.

You really don’t understand what’s being discussed here. This isn’t about sex workers being “out of work,” but rather about venues that preserve their safety and ability to work without resorting to pimps or dangerous situations. There is literally not one metric about the sex industry or child sex slave trade that…

Kamala Harris PERSONALLY went after Backpage and made it a significant platform of hers. I get having tone deaf attitudes towards sex workers, but to not identify her explicit actions a SWERF-y nonsense, while then seeking to take points out on Bernie through his awful decision to vote for FOSTA/SESTA is weird to me.…

You obviously have no understanding about how FOSTA/SESTA and the shutting down of backpage actually put more sex workers at risk and increased human sex traffic rather than decreasing any meaningful metric we use for progress. The fact that you just accept this kind of basic justification for a complex issue…

No offense, but you honestly sound like a teenager who uses a really reduced view of pro-consumer activities without any real awareness of what choice means in a cruel marketplace like this one. You’re advocating for “choice” over which storefront you use, but it’s very clear that your focus is more on your view of…

So you’re saying that we shouldn’t criticize a proponent of overpolicing at a time when it’s a major issue? If you’re willing to throw marginalized communities off the bus just so you can fail yet again with an establishment democrat, you can fuck off right now. The fact that AOC threatens you is super suspect.

If you just unironically used the phrase “virtue signaling” you are counter virtue signaling your ability to spot virtue signaling.

I totally agree, and I’m usually the guy saying “well, game design is more complicated than your simplistic view of what you think happened.” Honestly, I’ve been on disorganized indie teams that seem to have had more general awareness about what was going on, our goal, our challenges, etc. and I just can’t honestly…

It’s always nice to see artists returning to their roots

I mean, what did science ever give us anyway? Last time I checked, McDonald’s is responsible for bringing the McRib back time and time again, so science better step its game up.

Yeah, the issue with publicity is that some businesses really aren’t ready to deal with the other aspects that come with it. A small restaurant may not really appreciate the value of Yelp or regulars may get put off by an onslaught of people who are now attracted to the location. I’m not defending Stanich (admittedly,…

I felt the same way for a long time, but you need to play more of the game, the morality system makes a ton more sense later on.

To be real, most engine “bases” tend to just be the editors, which mostly consist of Graphical User Interfaces and components that have very little to do with the way games run. Beyond that, most elements of an engine tend to be pretty modular systems that can come and go with new developments (especially with most…