The 40% ownership of Unreal is probably the single biggest factor here, because that engine is driving a *HUGE* segment of the market, from AAA to indie. Steam has it listed at roughly 25% of all games on its marketplace, with the next closest ‘competitor’ being Unity at just a little over half of Unreal adoption…

I’m looking at the header image, and I still can’t decide which one is the vacuous bag of wind and which one is MTG...or Boebert, for that matter.

“I got me and mine, so fuck you and yours.” — The Wealthy Man’s Theme Song.

No, you said something incredibly ignorant and are trying to pass it off as ‘just joking.’

The voice of ignorance, because you clearly don’t realize the extent of developers who are hired straight out of the modding community.

As far as I can tell, the only part of their case that has any real legal merit is the watermark portion, because Stability AI isn’t ‘smart’ enough to ignore the watermark as an extraneous detail and incorporates it into its training data instead. And yes, their claim of it diluting or damaging their brand is…

You have a minor point regarding 3rd party assets. However, both Skyrim and Fallout 4 use them, and while those 3rd party assets did complicate getting the customer version of their toolsets out (certain parts had to be disabled), they *STILL* managed to do it without real issue. Which, ultimately, invalidates your…

There’s a lot of things that many developers just can’t ‘grok’ about gaming. This is just one example. Another is modding. The Elderscrolls series is proof that *IF* you design your developer tools around providing access to them to your customers, the time and manpower spent on those refining those tools pays for…

“Is what Musk said fraud? It depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is...”

That reminds me of the story about how a certain ketchup baron got the FDA created. Dangerous or even deadly counterfeit products star prominently.

“I have no idea what I’m looking at, what this game is, what it’s supposed to be about, or — no offense to Ella -- what this character is prattling on about either. None of this is selling me on spending my money or my time on it.”

Bigots are always going to bigot. I’d say “Just ignore them” but I’ve come to the conclusion that simply ‘ignoring them’ isn’t enough. They won’t just ‘go away’ if you ignore them. All that does is further embolden them, so they consistently get worse and more underhanded and toxic in their reactions and attempts to…

She’s ‘sorry’ in the way a serial killer is ‘sorry’ after being convicted — not for the crime but for getting caught.

It’s a good thing Texas invested in winterizing their electrical grid to protect it from catastrophic failures. I mean, sure, these storms only happen once a century...oh, wait...

Yeah, because his ability to work in Hollywood wasn’t totally dependent on going along to get along with the rich, petty, vindictive Hollywood execs who holds his career hostage. I mean, it’s not like they haven’t blacklisted other talented people for less.

Exec who has already and repeatedly demonstrated a complete absence of taste, understanding, or awareness deems a product ‘unreleasable.’ And everyone should totally take the word of said talentless, witless, drooling hack. He, despite clearly knowing nothing, somehow knows ‘best.’

A raging alcoholic, drug user and peddler, and unapologetic MAGAt denies allegations by a former coworker of him acting like a sexual predator, despite video evidence of him acting in that manner on at least one previous occasion.

It doesn’t matter if the conditions are tough or not. Shitty people rise to the top because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get whatever they want. Ethical, moral, decent and honest people *WON’T* because they have lines they won’t cross. Shitty people don’t. They have no qualms lying, cheating, stealing,…

And you aren’t the person at whom those tweets are directed either. You’re not a c-suite exec. And as we have already established, most of them are also horrible people. It’s from one horrible person to a bunch of other horrible people. There *IS* presence of mind in said tweet. What there is *NOT* is any concern for…

It should *NEVER* come as a surprise that someone with wealth or power is a shitty person with shitty ideas, attitudes, and behaviors. They get that wealth/power specifically because they’re horrible people, not because they were honest, fair, ethical, moral, etc. Wealth and power — by the positions in and paths…