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glassbottommeg, 6 months ago to random

The Internet is at a point where I trust the geocities-ass page that looks like a child made it more than any slickly produced modern web experience.

I crave your shitty blogs. Give me your UNDER CONSTRUCTION gifs.

glassbottommeg, 6 months ago to random

Please do vote if you're in the US. Literally every school board/director up for us had a book burning type running, some more subtle than others.

I know it's boring off year stuff but holy shit those types can do damage en masse.

glassbottommeg, 9 months ago to random

Hahahahah. Holy shit.

So Zoom is irrevocably turning their entire network into a training data set: https://hackers.town/@devlogic/110843380784157782

EVERY "public service" company is now attempting to extract value. They're all going for it. They're gonna burn it all down to try and turn AI into a financial exit. Search engines, communication backbones, social networks, everybody.

My read is they're all shit terrified of the impact AI will have and aren't long-term thinkers, so their only short term play is to burn it all down and exit ASAP. Never mind that what they're burning down is, uh, the entirety of our infrastructure. They don't care.

glassbottommeg, 11 months ago to random

Facebook is trash, Twitter is garbage, Google is useless

embrace tradition

INTERNET YELLOW PAGES

glassbottommeg, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to gamedev

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

#GameDev #Unity3D

glassbottommeg, 10 months ago to random

Wint (dril) finally leaving Twitter really is the end of the era. Reading back through his quotes, he all but defined the vibe of Internet discourse through the 10's. https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dril

Also I love the idea that a legendary shitposter leaving is what will finally mark the site as dead. Not when everyone else left, famous people, when the site broke, etc, no- because what truly defined Twitter was:

"who the fuck is scraeming 'LOG OFF' at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off'' -dril

glassbottommeg, 11 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to gaming

Oh my god it's happening, you can order a SkateBIRD plushie RIGHT NOW!

https://www.makeship.com/products/skate-bird-plush

(EDIT: and we hit minimum order size! So hop in now if you wanna ride the sure thing and get u a plushy birb)

Anyways LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY IS. With them lil feets.

#GameNews #GamingNews #IndieGame #Gaming

glassbottommeg, 8 months ago to random

Being a programmer is like having a puppy who isn't potty trained yet, so you spend half your day walking around cleaning up messes and sighing loudly

except you are also the puppy

glassbottommeg, 1 year ago to random

Just thinking about the Florida shit actually killing Pride celebrations there, and

this is the first Pride in I don't know how many years where it feels relevant again, instead of just an event to be hijacked by corporate interests? So that's gonna make next month interesting.

(remember kids, the first Pride was a riot, and it probably should be again, and you've got 2 weeks to buy uh, Pride supplies)

glassbottommeg, 1 year ago to random

On that last boost: not only is staying on Twitter "because your livelihood depends on it" kind of a short-term notion at this point, but it can poof in an instant. My studio account over there is still banned. Straight up. No explanation. I appealed the decision weeks ago. Nada. It's just gone. (no, I don't do adult games, I make bird skateboarding games heh)

I get that you need to keep posting stuff there right this second, that's fine, but HOLY CRAP do not keep relying on it moving forward. You need to be actively migrating away, rapidly, with all haste, to literally anywhere else, because that place is (already) toast.

glassbottommeg, 10 months ago to gamedev

If you're not aware of the Black Game Developer Fund (I wasn't!), hey, now you are. This is rad! https://blackgamedevfund.com/apply/

Yo #GameDev folks, maybe spread this one out a bit? I know very little about the fund itself / I can't vouch for it or anything, but more options to choose from is better than less when it comes to funding.

glassbottommeg, 5 months ago to gamedev

So there's a big thing about Unity shutting down Weta and that sucks and etc but buried in the middle is this:

"Unity will no longer mandate that employees work from offices three a days a week and will reduce 'full in-office services' to three days a week in most locations, the company said."

Which amounts to a patent admission at a corporate level that (1) WFH is cheaper, and (2) Return To Office isn't worth pushing at a corporate level.

Wonder if the worker bees at other studios are just meant to ignore this. Cus, er. It's right there.

https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-layoff-3-8-of-workforce-weta-digital-closed/ #GameDev

glassbottommeg, 8 months ago to gamedev

Oh gooood, this whole #Unity3D blowout?

It literally happened because of that shitty Iron Source buy-out that everyone was pissed about. The call to add this fee literally came from the Iron Source side of the business, and it only exists to "kill AppLovin" (a rival ad provider that is better). https://mobilegamer.biz/unity-is-offering-a-runtime-fee-waiver-if-you-switch-to-levelplay-as-it-tries-to-kill-applovin/

glassbottommeg, 8 months ago to gamedev

Folks, if you believe the #Unity3D backpedal, you need to- sit with your feelings a sec, because. Heh.

Nobody deletes a git repo for "low views." #GameDevs don't delete anything unless someone tells them to / they need to, because, why would you? It costs nothing to just leave it there. Unless.

glassbottommeg, 1 year ago to fediverse

I hear a lot about reconnecting with old communities after moving over to #Mastodon but less about this being a huge moment for new communities to be formed

which is to say,

RISE UP, my fellow "eating a whole handful of cheese out the bag of shredded cheese while standing in the kitchen leaning over your nachos", our time is nigh!

glassbottommeg, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to godot

Humble just threw up a "Learn to use #Godot !" bundle and I am HOWLING

looks like a rerun, so someone in their marketing division was able to go "I got this" and did the funniest thing by just flipping a switch https://www.humblebundle.com/software/everything-you-need-to-know-about-godot-4-encore-software

glassbottommeg, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to gamedev

It's nice that #Unity3D walked back to terms that don't apply unless you use their latest engine, but that's the take-away: you need to not use their latest anymore. Finish your game. Find another engine. This is just an escape clause.

Anyone who sticks with them will get screwed the next time their c-suite wants to goose their stock price.

If you can find a way to keep making games on old Unity versions, that works too probably. But. You'll hit issues if you want to target consoles. There is no porting path for most (any?) Unity versions more than 2 years old at time of port.

EDIT: (but really even old versions, they already changed their minds once on that, so assuming they won't again is foolish- find a new engine after you finish out current projects)

glassbottommeg, 9 months ago to random

This is neat, I feel like Masto turned a corner recently on "being a place to find news and stuff"

Seems like we're getting that thing where news ripples across the network, which was part of why Twitter was useful. Probably crossed some active user threshold necessary for that network effect to kick in or something. Yay!

(though thankfully the effect is less uh, "screaming into the void"-ish here, just folks talking about a thing)

glassbottommeg, 4 months ago to random

"Ring will no longer let police request footage from users"

Looks good, but read further: "Law enforcement agencies can still access videos using a search warrant. Ring also maintains the right to share footage without user consent in limited circumstances."

Don't fucking install these in neighborhoods. This is just a PR thing. https://apnews.com/article/ring-amazon-camera-police-request-56a128dcd77a4cb0b27d71be9384fe1a

glassbottommeg, 8 months ago to gamedev

Anyone who believes the #Unity3D retraction and stays on their tech is, well, a fool.

Capping at 4% of your rev is an arbitrary number based on appearing lower than Unreal because optics. They can change it. They will.

They don't know your revenue either, unless you tell them (don't tell them), meaning this is more navel gazing into a proprietary AI model then they try to shake you down.

glassbottommeg, 10 months ago to gamedev

If you have 100 followers or less? Reply to this with a couple of screenshots and a short brief of your game / the game-adjacent thing you're working on, and I'll Boost you to my er like, 5.6k followers.

I'll space things out so I don't spam my folks. Can't promise I'll do every single one. But, we just got a LOT of new #GameDev folks here from dying-site who need to find their people.

(I'm just copying eniko here, but it's a very good idea and it seems especially relevant right now)

glassbottommeg, 8 months ago to random

Unity saying "don't worry we'll send a bill to Microsoft and Sony and-" has huge Sovereign Citizen Sending Letter Signed In Blood To Reclaim Their Federal Taxes energy. https://twistedvoxel.com/unity-playstation-xbox-nintendo-pay-on-behalf-of-devs/

glassbottommeg, 6 months ago to random

Oh thank god.

(the git repo associated with this was archived today, fuck yea) https://9to5google.com/2023/11/02/google-chrome-web-integrity-api/

glassbottommeg, 5 months ago to random

Fuckin love that this year, the #GävleGoat was raised to the ground not by fire, but by birds, and-

the entire town is 100% behind it. They chose not to scare the birds away. They're totally ok with it, so long as birds do the vandalism. BIRD VANDALS HECK YEA. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/g%C3%A4vle-goat-birds-1.7066692

glassbottommeg, 5 months ago to random

Every time I see anything about the birth rate crisis I just want to scream "you know all the brown people that developed nations dehumanized/ignored, currently dying because of our climate policies? Why not let them in? and especially ease visa requirements for big families, you fuckos"

https://www.vox.com/23971366/declining-birth-rate-fertility-babies-children