archery

archery doesn’t carry a racist history and waste giant tracts of land. they can putt-putt or get fucked.

everything I’ve ever seen about the guy is legit. he works for consumer rights, if you want untrustworthy look at Apple.

musk is going for the hat-trick

suffers?

yeah that’s a cult lol

Godot being FOSS is awesome, but I suspect if any project with Godot’s scope and goals came along and garnered as much support as Godot (not sure how you’d do that without being FOSS but let’s just posit they have FANTASTIC logo or ceo or something) would be the new hotness as unity continues to shoot itself in the face over and over again.

FOSS is real nice, but it’s frosting, the cake is knowing your game engine isn’t going to turn around and suddenly be an antagonist, a threat to your ability to plan projects… you do not what your game engine to be a wildcard.

And that’s unity these days.

I think they’re referring to vietnam when the french requested the ? Eisenhower admin to nuke dien-bien-fu.

I think you underestimate how upset Unity users are at the moment. I’ve been using Unity since 2009. It’s been responsible for a large part of my income for the past decade, especially AR/VR stuff. The crazy shit Unity pulled over the last week (including removing TOS from the internet as if the fucking wayback machine doesn’t exist) has poisoned any love I had. Coupled with the actors - John Riccitiello specifically - and the fact that unity has been wandering aimlessly in fractured development that leaves lifetime devs wondering what fucking versions they can ship a project with (before last week’s crazyness, dots, render pipelines, all kinds of other issues) - I strongly suspect we’re going to see a gigantic change in engines getting used.

As awesome as Unreal is, it’s a 500lb club for mobile and other lightweight projects, and a tremendous amount of overhead for VR/AR stuff that needs to run performant to avoid nausea and input lag. There’s amazing ar/vr stuff made with unreal, but it’s much harder and requires ruthless, fantastic optimization.

Anyway, that’s just my pov as a dev. YMMV

Seriously considering starting a Godot User Group in my city. Very impressed with v4 (I last looked early in 3.x’s development cycle and moved on because vr/ar support didn’t really exist at the time) – everything from webxr to fbx animation support and more has blossomed nicely, this is an awesome open source project and I think we’re going to see amazing games coming from it soon.

Shame Unity had to shoot itself in the face for this to happen but honestly the writing was on the wall when Helgason appointed JR as CEO - it’s been in a downward spiral since.

I have two diverging responses to this - one, if they’re credited for their commits, in the purview of FOSS projects, they’re compensated as much as they expect; two - that said, I would love to see FOSS projects get more love and financial support from the community - which is why watching the GODOT project has been exciting. I’m not much of a dev, and not in a position to contribute to what they’re doing in code, but sending them some coffee money has been worthwhile.

and are hardly the only companies using FOSS; everyone from non profits to miliary systems use it. this meme doesn’t really work when you take the whole picture into account.

This is exactly what I’m talking about. You jump immediately to an assumption that disregards my premise. I’m aware the threat is small compared to the threat from climate change largely induced by C02 emissions, but we’re just getting rolling.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2023/09/10/chatgpt-was-built-in-iowa-using-artificial-intelligence-microsoft-west-des-moines/70819093007/

tell me this doesn’t represent a problem long term. we’re only going to create more and more waste heat.

and one of the oft-cited solutions to keep people cooler, more efficiently, is to dump that heat into the ground. when thousands were doing it around the world, meh. when billions are doing it constantly in order to stave off cooking from a climate gone mad… it’ll add up.

I’m not suggesting we go full luddite but I don’t think people are giving these subjects their due.

thinking that waste heat is a rounding error and not worth accounting for / reducing.

will be pretty fucking dumb to get co2 under control only to find out that we’re still heating up the planet with every recharge, we’re literally pumping heat into the ground (yay heatpumps! wait, shit) and we think it’s ‘free’, but eventually even that will add up, and be ever so much more apparent once the fossil fuels stop burning, but the temps keep climbing.

everything we own or make dumps all it’s resistance generated heat right into our atmosphere.

Strongly disagree, when a US president suggested we inject bleach and shove light sources into people, that was the most insane stage.

“Scupper - an opening cut through the bulwarks of a ship so that water falling on deck may flow overboard”

like so much other bullshit, this comes from the navy. can’t just say tossed overboard, nope, gotta have a whole new nomenclature regarding gutters on gunwales to say the same damned thing as landlubbers

moreso due to heat and violent weather patterns like hurricanes imho. rising seas are coming, but the heat’s going to kill a lot of folks before.

Just look at Brazil’s winter - https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/25/winter-heatwave-another-south-american-country-is-sweltering-in-record-temperatures

Four state capitals recorded the year’s highest temperature on Wednesday. Cuiabá, in central-western Brazil, the highs reached 41.8°C. Residents in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil’s two most populous cities, were also hit by the heatwave. In Rio, temperatures reached 38.7°C on Thursday - the city’s second hottest day of 2023.

what’s going to happen in summer? it’s hard not to be hopeless. when people are driving their fucking gas guzzling coal rollers around like nbd going to walmart fuck the libs…

we could put all the world on renewable energy and I still suspect the assholes will demand their feedumb to pollute the already wrecked atmosphere.

, but I don’t think the average human being can draw the distinction yet

considering the massive heat domes spread worldwide, I suspect the average human has been more impacted than you have.

Brazil had a scorcher of a winter. Antarctica is falling apart much faster than anyone predicted.

Luckily none of us will be around to see that unless some sort of miraculous life extension technology becomes available.

I dunno mate… antarctica is collapsing much faster than anyone anticipated. Brazil’s winter was a scorcher.

Canada’s on fire. Tropical storms are hitting LA. sadlol… I suspect we might be around to see even worse.

blame turbotax and their peers. we should have had an electronic filing system a decade ago. but special interests said naw, fuck that.