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by bluescrn 3y ago
Delaying the 2030 ICE ban was inevitable. Moving it to 2035 puts it in line with the EU. (But it'll probably get delayed again. You can't just price the poor off the roads nationwide and expect the economy not to nosedive. As well
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It certainly looks like hobbyist drones/model aircrafts are going to be regulated out of existence almost everywhere (maybe still permitted at registered club sites, but nowhere else?). Especially now the world has seen videos of weapo
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In a crime-free utopia, they could be useful. Or maybe within a large corporate campus type environment. But 'on the streets' in the real world, they're just targets for vandalism and theft.
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But guess who tends to have loads of money invested in property... politicians! (and their wealthy donors/supporters)
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They'll still be staring at their own individual screens all day.
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Given the rising costs of housing/living, it's going to take 3-4 working adults to fund a home before long. A 1-2 income household will become ever more of a luxury.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
They're taking all that government money but still making huge job cuts. So presumably production is going down? Therefore more steel will be imported, shipped across the world using fossil fuels.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Definitely a sign that better training is needed. But the public reaction to a suggestion of 'more riot/combat training for cops' isn't likely to be positive.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I'm guessing you're one of those people who don't consider destruction of property as a violent act? You see 'protestors' smashing and burning things, but that's 'not real violence'. It only becomes v
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If cops are in a mini-warzone with vehicles on fire and bricks and molotovs being thrown, bad outcomes are likely going to happen. (50 shots does seem extreme, but when the decision to use lethal force has been made, does the number of shot
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Even if you extend 'all means' to exterminating the entire population of rich countries (where most activism takes place), it's not going to be enough to stop climate change.
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While I'm a Unity user and rather unhappy with the changes, maybe the outrage would be better directed at App Stores, Steam, and Console platforms all with their near-monopolies and taking a much larger cut of revenue.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> Cars, meat, heating and AC are not rights We have no right to prerequisites for being a productive worker (safe shelter, food, the ability to travel to a workplace) But we have to maintain the right for people to breed a dozen kids if
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's potentially about centralised power literally taxing people to death (unaffordable housing/energy/transport) in a probably-futile attempt to modify the climate. Yes, climate change is very real. But my current opinion is
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Meanwhile, the private jets continue to fly, and the little people think 'well, there's no way I'm giving up my car/meat/heating/AC while the elite are still globetrotting via private jets and superyachts'
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The current trend is to financially punish people, particularly the poor, for their impact on the environment/climate. By that logic, having kids should be brutally expensive, as it's the absolute worst thing you could do for the
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by bluescrn 3y ago
C# support is/was its killer feature. Game dev without the pain of C++, and without being limited to non-standard scripting languages (or worse, visual scripting spaghetti) With Unity, you can use C# for everything, from the simplest &
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Yeah, my last Android experience was a Pixel C tablet, not a bad bit of hardware, but abandoned by Google with broken GPU drivers ( https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/71522801?pli=1 ) (Not a hardware problem, older O
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by bluescrn 3y ago
At this point it's the degradation of the non-user-replaceable battery that's driving upgrades. Having to get a phone to an Apple store, let alone mail it in for a 'battery service' and have no phone for a few days, is a
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by bluescrn 3y ago
You don't need to actually install/reinstall games if you can figure out how the Unity runtime is notifying its servers about this install. You could theoretically write an 'install bombing' tool that sends fake install
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Sounds like it'd be intense enough to illuminate the base of low clouds at night, which would explain (most of?) what seems to be visible in that video.
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"Can you develop and ship a non-trivial game with it, ideally on multiple platforms, without spending loads of time debugging the internals of the engine?"
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by bluescrn 3y ago
They went on a company-buying spree over the last few years Growth of Unity but of questionable benefit to the core product.
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That was a very different time. That era of pushing hardware to it's limits is mostly history when it comes to games. These days, hardware is almost limitless* , the real scarce resource is person-hours of development time. (*Ok, not l
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Ah, wasn't obvious whether it was an || or an && with those thresholds. Not so bad in most cases if it's an or. There were also people who'd read it as a 'per install per month' (e.g. monthly active users) c
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Open source and consoles are a difficult mix, due to NDA issues. Not necessarily a showstopper, though: https://w4games.com/2023/02/28/godot-support-for-consoles-is...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
AFAIK, UE is completely free until you make your first $1,000,000 revenue? (then a 5% royalty rate beyond that). These new Unity per-install fees could hit developers who aren't making money - for example F2P games, free demos, very ch
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by bluescrn 3y ago
They've been trying hard to expand their userbase beyond games. And as a result, losing focus on the needs of game developers.
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There's a lot more indies talking about Unreal, and also Godot. Too early to see how much of that talk will translate to shipping finished games, though. Artists are excited by the potential of UE5, as Unity's rendering tech has s
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The decline of Unity is sad. Unity got so many things very right in their pre-IPO years. They made rapid prototyping and development of 3D games much easier than anything that came before. Being able to develop in C# was a huge win, especia

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