There was. When Unity moved to the subscription model going forward, a lot of people, me included, pointed out that Epic is shifting Unreal in the exact opposite direction. It’s completely free to use now, and Epic only assess any sort of monetary fees when your game sells (and has multiple tiers based on unit sales,…

Yes, but it’s still a pig.

16 times nothin’ is, let me do the math — nothin’, carry the nothin’...

Oblivions, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, etc — they’re all solid evidence that Bethesda either has no UI/UX developer on staff, or the ones that they have are genuinely terrible at the job. But considering how low the bar is for ‘acceptable’ UI/UX work across software development, that’s not really saying anything —…

“Just because it’s not doing what you want doesn’t mean it isn’t working.”

“It’s hard to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it.”

Easily the creakiest, jankiest engine still actively being developed on by a major studio. For better and worse, because it’s honestly both.

It’s certainly a step in the right direction, but it’s more telling about the sorry state of American’s organized labor movement that unions have devolved this far from what was once the backbone of the American economy. And I’m fully serious when I say that unions were the backbone of the American economy. Not…

This was a choice by Twitter and Musk to replatform Trump for personal and financial reasons. As such, Twitter and Musk should now be financially and legally liable for every lie that Trump posts, every libel, every word. Everything. It is well and truly known exactly who and what Trump is, so the choice to bring him…

Republicans haven’t let facts and reality get in the way of their agenda before. They’re certainly not going to start now.

It’s not like they ‘announced’ anything gamers didn’t already know — another Elder Scrolls game was coming. Eventually. It was never a question of ‘if.’ Only when.

It’s a nice and timely reminder that capitalism and its dogmatic, cultist adherents don’t give a shit about people and never will. It and they are only responsive to profits. It is the only mechanism that exists within capitalism. Profits go up = good. Profits go down = bad. That’s it. That is the sum total of its…

The strange thing is, when you think really think about and break down how the typical JRPG battle works, it maps quite well onto the the standard wrestling match design: a fixed set of opponents, mostly taking turns, with a predetermined and largely fixed space for the combat. Which, honestly, shouldn’t come as a…

Who also like the idea of a high-risk, potentially one-way trip to Mars, where they will live in cramped, unpleasant conditions, in extremely close quarters with a bunch of other people, eating limited and mediocre food for foreseeable future. And then they have to deal with the same conditions for even longer once…

Which the Paramount Decree put an end to in Hollywood. Fast forward a few decades, and suddenly that decree is viewed as ‘unnecessary’ and ‘antiquated.’ Or, at least, that’s what powerful PR firms and think tanks are trying to convince everyone to believe. With an alarming measure of success, because what the…

Walled gardens are never good for the customer. Anyone who says or thinks otherwise is too shortsighted to see how it always goes. They’re not building walled gardens to benefit consumers They’re building them to ABSUSE consumers. And the employees. And anyone else they can extract profits from.

Better idea: cut from the top. Like the CEO and president. That’ll save hundreds of millions of dollars a year. I mean, how much do you really need to pay someone to run a company into the ground? Bob the intern can do that in his spare time between coffee runs.

Yeah, and then you get the ‘Boeing’ phenomenon, wherein you’ve drained all the legacy talent and institutional knowledge out of your engineering teams, and suddenly your teams can’t design their way out of a wet paper sack, let alone test and validate their designs properly.

Considering how rampantly predatory, exploitative, and abusive the healthcare industry already is, gleefully holding your health hostage for ransom, can you imagine how much worse it’s going to be when those same people literally control the very air you breathe?

I didn’t say that was the *only* way they ‘think of the children.’ But it all shares a common theme -- pettily, vindictively, cruelly, etc.