Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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Unity: We need more funding for engine development, therefore we will unilaterally increase fees and start charging per installation, or you can be exempt from that if you lock yourself into our advertising platform, and it's not like you can really switch to a competitor anyway
Godot: We need more funding for engine development, therefore we will cut out the donation processing middleman so that we get to keep more of your contribution, and do an additional funding drive for those who can afford it, but don't worry if you can't contribute!
I don't know, but if I were a game developer, I'd certainly be developing some Opinions around engine choices and sustainability right about now
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i dont even understand how they think this is going to work? it's designed for exactly one revenue model.
how do devs engage with all you can eat services like netflix or humble bundle?
how does unity track installs on tracker-less services like apple arcade or every console?
i knew unity didn't understand how games are developed, i didn't realize they also don't know how they're sold
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#introducton we are the c3soft.. a inofficial official operation center for all things soft. We restuff Haj, print cat ears and wash your favorite plushs at your next event (the #37c3)
Sewing machines and upcycling included.
🏳️⚧️Trans rights are human rights!
You might know us already as the people who printed cat ears at the #gpn21 and the #cccamp23
We decided on founding this group so we could expand our scope to more. Take care of youe haj, bring it to us!
More info soon!
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they made the ">pirate game 6 million times >company loses $60 million" greentext real
*mumbles something about Unity and trust thermoclines*
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INTERVIEWER: why do you want to work at Unity Technologies? what makes you a good fit for us?
ME: well, i’ve got almost 29 years of experience in making rash decisions without thinking about the long-term impact of those decisions on the people who rely on me
A12-blokkade, populistische onzin
Reactie 1: "het worden met de dag minder demonstranten, haha"
Reactie 2: "hoeveel verlofdagen hebben die gasten wel niet? hebben ze geen baan ofzo?"
Goh, je zou bijna denken dat er een verband is tussen die twee dingen, he? Bijna.
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Day 4 of the daily #A12 blockade in the Hague.
100 activists sat down on the asphalt today, protesting against the 100 million euros that the Dutch govt spends on fossil subsidies *every day*!
Tomorrow, 12:00, they'll be back. #StopFossieleSubsidies #ClimateCrisis
Something I still find a fascinating concept, is theme parks selling used wheels from their rollercoasters as merchandise.
This is actually... kind of nice? Instead of throwing them away (I don't believe they are very recyclable, and they do need to get replaced fairly frequently), they get a second life as someone's memento, without needing to manufacture some new tat that will just end up in someone's drawer.
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Most days the fave button does all my heavy lifting, like "I read this and appreciate it, but I'm too spoonless to respond, so this will have to do byeee"
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for anyone who missed out:
- Calvin is a six-year-old gremlin of a boy with a hyperlexic vocabulary, wild imagination, and poor executive function
- Hobbes is either a bipedal tiger or a stuffed tiger, depending on whose viewpoint you're in, and is probably the second biggest troll in the comic after Calvin's dad
- they're best friends
- the art is great
- Watterson actually managed to wrestle the syndicate into letting him make his own layouts for the extra-large color Sunday strips, instead of using the generic panel sizes that other Sunday comics used to make it easy for newspapers to rearrange into different shapes
- the comic is a mixture of one-off jokes and short storylines (prolly like a week), as you'd expect
- it's mostly funny stuff but there were a couple serious storylines, like the time the house got robbed while they were on vacation
- a favorite option for waiting rooms at dentists
can't say how well it holds up in 2023, but the nostalgia is very real for folks who grew up with it
- 🎒 ( 🐱 ?)
re: grumbling about tech complaints
These cases are thankfully rare (usually there *is* a hidden reason), but it doesn't help for my mood that the people doing this usually are those with privilege and entitlement who expect everything to be tailored exactly to their needs, and they are rather hostile towards anyone questioning it
apple meta, positive
Thanks for CW'ing the Apple event stuff, everybody!
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this was my description of the group of people who leak documents on the war thunder forums
you don't have to be in the military and horny for it to play war thunder, but you do have to be in the military and horny for it to leak documents
grumbling about tech complaints
My least favourite kind of tech complaint to deal with, is the one where someone goes "I want to do X using tool Y", and Y is not designed to do that
And then you try to figure out why they want to do X specifically using tool Y, because maybe the other tools they've tried are just too hard, or they have some wrong assumption or something, or they have a really niche requirement, and you have to make sure that your recommendations fit someone's needs, right?
But no, it turns out that they really just *want* to use tool Y specifically because they've started treating it as the tool for everything, and there *is* no underlying need or concern to address
And then they insistently blame tool Y for not meeting that expectation even though it never promised to do anything of the sort
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Huh, so Unity has reached the killing-the-golden-goose point of their enshittification: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-to-start-charging-fee-pegged-to-game-installs
20c per install doesn't sound like much to PC users, but that's potentially enough to nuke mobile gaming entirely. Which they know, because they also run the stats system mobile devs use to calculate ARPU/ARPPU.
Unreal taking a small cut of revenue works fine. That's based on you know, money you made.
Unity charging based on "Installs" might actually cost you money in mobile space. Or if you do a PS+ freebie. Or GamePass. Or especially an EpicStore freebie. They know what they're doing, and it's fucking evil.
EDIT: looks like it's a one time fee per install, the "monthly" is just poorly explained, as confirmed in a forums reply from a random employee, naturally
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
