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Damn, the incantation failed.

Time to bring out the billy goat.

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At that point, people were curious and decided to go deeper into the engine. Low and behold, it’s a game engine, based entirely on telemetry technology.

Are they gonna make their morals police kiss?

Little me had this. I got my feeling of success from this thing. Believe it or not, but getting one of these installs to work on a consumer i386 wasn’t easy. It was uphill, both ways, bla bla bla they had just introduced python as this hip new systems language that they used in the installer - which was the style at the time, and still is, apparently. The circle of life I guess. In any case, my system drive couldn’t be the slave. It had to be the master. What’s that, nurse? Is it nap time? ZzZzZzZzZz…

Marvel heroes can eat a fat one. This guy’s the real McCoy.

…well of course they did, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft.

Well of course it is… you gotta render the service paid for lol let the Russian oligarchs get their money’s worth.

Your mom is easy… said the deep-pocketed founding member of the Rust Foundation.

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I put peepee in the doodoofard.

It’s either that, starve their conscripts or end up breaking certain conventions, which means Ukraine gets more money, and Russia gets more sanctions.

This, and Bangladesh. All places that rely on wage slavery, child labour and unethical working conditions, because that which is unethical is also very cheap.

You can’t really compete with slavery, because again: it’s very cheap, and the way the Chinese state leads Chinese farmers and villagers into social lock-ins, whereby they legally become stuck in an area where there’s only grueling, deadly, soul crushing and back breaking labour that leads to a life of poverty becomes a problem for the rest of the world if it’s used to manipulate the markets.

I do of course realise this article is about “too big to fail” companies that corner every market, but I also think that the west and the east needs to think about what it means to partake in a race to the bottom where wage slavery is part and parcel of the market. It creates conditions whereby competition involves who can make the most horrible living conditions in the world, and do you really want that?

There are Chinese labourer families who have been trying to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” for generations now, and it’s all thanks to other nations enabling the Chinese regime - especially the west.

Pretty much. It’s all about optics now, because the US knows that they can’t really change the minds of the crazy ethno nationalists who run Israel, and that they need to show they’re “doing something”.

But we all know there are plenty of Zionists in congress who will prevent any form of ceasefire where Israel doesn’t take over more ground. It’s what they’ve been doing for decades.

Oooo, someone wants to be in the history books as “the guy who wanted to end the conflict.”

No deal, Lukashenko. You’ll always be a Boris Yeltsin knockoff, and a bootlicker, and a spineless shill, so sayeth history.

Partly, yes. It’s the idea that they’ll do the exact same thing, take over and then, Russia would have to be on the offence in their own country. How hilarious isn’t that?

I think it’s a whee bit of a shaming campaign in military form. I mean all the land they lost in such a short amount time.

How embarrassing.

This is why Godot is so important and that source available can be something the EU has to consider for all newly designed games. Sorry, small, mid and big time game studios, and screw you publishers, what we need is to make sure that the barrier to entry for game developers is significantly lowered. What, you think I’m taking about video game conservation? Leave that to AccursedFarms.

What I’m saying is that you can more easily pitch games to publishers, using assets and engines that are already “standardised”, like Bethesda’s several Rube Goldberg machines, if they are available. I’m looking at Fallout London as saying to myself: why isn’t this on Steam, Switch, and every other platform Fallout 4 can run on, being sold by Bethesda?

Even split prices, one for people who already owned Fallout 4, one for who recently purchased Fallout 4 if they don’t have Fallout 4 - if you wanna be pedantic. But the point remains the same: these lovely modder devs, though they shouldn’t be forced, could have pitched this game to Bethesda, even as an “off-universe” game. Whatever.

But then we remember the Fallout 76 Store. Oh my god, no. And DMCA takedowns, claims of copyright infringement - even though “modified works” doesn’t exclude software - and what about actual live services and competitive games? Like could the community make the server instead? Can it be something even the Olympic Committee has a hand in, so the game can be vetted for the Olympics?

Like update your EULA. “May be used, modified and deployed for free if it’s used for education and development purposes”. I’m not a lawyer, so take them scribblings with a grain of salt, but something like that would really just add an extra level in participation in schools, clubs, organisations, etc, even as an easy way to recruit and receive games and new worlds, for free.

Free the engine! Free all of the engines! NOW!!! “The secret sauce” fallacy has been stupid, is stupid right now, and will continue to be stupid into the future - unless we do something about it.

Free the engines!

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I was missing a couple of teeth and saw Jeru The Damaja live, and he told me I looked like Snagletooth…

I got the Hannah Barbera reference as well and oh my god I’m old.

“You’re not fooling anyone, r/TigTooty - banned.”