Unity’s current CEO is an ex-exec from EA. but at least it looks like in 2021 they got around to replacing the CFO from 2015, who was previously also an EA ex-exec that was hired as such the year after the CEO was brought on board from EA. The hirings coincided with many rapid, scummy changes to their subscriptions and dev support. I expect many lies yesterday, today, tomorrow, and beyond as they now focus on squeezing their non-subbed devs

yes

Them hiring that EA exec as the chief financial officer, and another as their CEO, around the same time they stopped offering lifetime subscriptions near the end of Unity 4, while at the same time reworking their sub plans to pull back support for devs with recently-expired subs, should’ve been a massive red flag at the slippery slope they were aiming to go down

I think it’s pretty difficult to argue that eradicating polio isn’t good.

looks like someone really tried to rise to that challenge, though

fuck ajit pai

being the chairman of the FCC in the US between 2017 and 2021

me, who doesn’t care who’s to blame, wishing the issue was fixed by anyone

to reach there, you have to game the algorithm. to game it to that extent takes a whole lot of viewer manipulation

They behave just like the stack-overflow “elitist”

stereotype 100% established, and it’d be completely understandable for you to want to distance yourself from them asap. It’s already hard enough for any larger body of work to reach any semblance of completion, even without external factors like that acting as motivational vampires eating up your brainspace

apparently some bumbling buzzy body beelined to beeing unbeelievably grumpbee over the buzz beehind this thread.

I could drone on about their crabbeeness with honeyed words, beecause it’s beezarre they don’t beehive themselves, but beevity is the soul of wit.

imagine playing a slot machine, knowing, on the next use, you have less than a 1% chance of winning big, but 5% chance of dying an excruciating death. or hell, imagine knowing beforehand you had a 5% chance of dying if you leave the front door of your house on a specific day - 5% is insanely high for the risk. or your family is in a group of 100 different families, and 5 are chosen at random to experience the most brutally agonizing period of their life that leaves a lifelong emotional scar from losing someone they loved.

I’m agreeing with you, but I feel equating the end result to a tabletop game just doesn’t communicate the appropriate gravity of the situation to others that may be reading through our inconsequential leavings in this digital void.

when you get pulled in deep, no build ever feels perfect, and you keep chasing that dragon

to add to this, ironic jokes where the irony is inside the context of what’s being parroted will mostly get people to jump in with the joke. One where it’s outside of it will get people tired of seeing others pretend to be dumb on purpose, and people that believe they legitimately are, to dogpile on it.

and communicating that irony on edgecases between the two is like balancing on a tightrope

but then I would be all out of fish

this is the type of comment I was looking for ITT. most of the others are just shy people that don’t realize most people would love to have conversations about niche hobbies someone can communicate any passion about.

if you bring this one up, the inevitable followup is either they awkwardly disengage from the topic, or they awkwardly ask to see what you’ve made

the idea of a smuggler physically hauling contraband copies of Firefox into France just tickles me

Not just the last few years, that’s just how the system is set up in general; companies are rewarded for reaching over a wider population, not for the quality of the established coverage. They need to keep growing or die.

It’s more financially incentivized to put time to get at least a handful of new customers onboard than it is to address the grievances of a single customer, so the quality of marketing gets boosted while customer support gets shafted. Any public negative feedback can be drowned out by the larger pool of customers that aren’t involved in any direct interactions with the company, and there’s also the classic astroturfing + plausible deniability combo for good measure to maintain that public trust.

I feel like this should made as a stickied post, from how often I’ve seen the quote come up, and the correction.

edit: or a bot that comments about when the motto was dropped on any post that mentions google.

[starts taking notes]