Notices by joshie 🏳️‍🌈 (6a62@raru.re), page 4

@soft my other hobbies include:
- ruining my posture by sitting with my feet on the chair like a gremlin
- spinning around on my chair until i feel very unwell

@chjara it’s been quite effective, for instance i haven’t bothered to watch a single youtube video in days now. thanks google!

@NeonPurpleStar very much the same here, part of the reason why i go with demi-boy these days

@chjara they should both live within the arctic circle then, just at different times of the year

this evening i chomped some salmon it was tasty :blobcatHungry:

@NeonPurpleStar much faster CPU, slightly faster GPU, and a lane of PCIe for extra I/O

if thats interesting to you, sure

@tlapka

@gardevoir sometimes i play armored core in thighhighs does that also count

:blobcatNotLikeThis:

@NeonPurpleStar technically it was arm’s 2nd IPO, it was public before the softbank acquisition in 2016 so

@lanodan @katka @ocean fractions of a cent usually

for successful mobile games the number i’ve heard is that it averages out to around 60cents per user (between ads and micro transactions). so if unity is taking a 20cent cut, suddenly that’s 33% gone huh

so yeah, I doubt mobile game devs are too happy either

@lanodan @katka @ocean i believe unity is backtracking on some of their bullshit, but worth pointing out they were proposing 20cents *per install*

customer puts it on their desktop and their steam deck? that just doubled. let their friend access through family share and they also installed it? whoops now it’s up to 60cents etc etc.

and sales are easy for engine folks to track at least. installs? not so much. the whole thing raises so much uncertainty. I reckon 90% of corps would rather pay a little more for that certainty of “i know exactly how much of a cut my engine provider is taking” at the end of the day

@lanodan @katka @ocean not to mention what happens if you have a free to play game?

what if you give your game away on steam or w/e and 100k people download it out of the blue?

what happens if pirated copies still get registered as installs by unitys telemetry bullshit?

@katka @lanodan @ocean uhh i was more so commenting on lanodan’s post about other engines being worse

i just hit reply on the wrong post lol 😅

@katka @lanodan @ocean eh, I’d say it’s more about trust than the costs for the big studios

sure, most of those *can* afford it, but why the fuck would you want to build your company and livelihood on unity engine games when they’re willing to pull shit like this?

at least with unreal engine each specific version is immutable. got a license and agreed to the EULA for UE4.17 or whatever? the terms for that version will never change, you can just use it forever

meanwhile every dev who had a unity game in production is completely fucked in comparison

@lis …. i was gonna say that has never once been an issue for me, with thinkpads or macbooks but then i realised

this is an EU vs UK electrics thing isn’t it. I don’t think i’ve *ever* had an ungrounded charger?

reproduction case sticker for my Commodore PET arrived, looks a lot nicer now :3

Commodore PET 8032, it is SO pretty

needs a little restoration work, keyboard is barely working and missing the big case label currently. but gosh I am very happy with this regardless :blobcatOwoHappy:

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

@chjara i heard this AI stuff was hot these days so i picked up some reading material

@NeonPurpleStar yes, and? i'm not trying to run google chrome on it now am i