STOP FUCKING TRYING TO MAKE ME LEARN WHO STREAMERS ARE. EVERY FUCKING DAY IT'S SOME NEW ASSHOLE WITH A MILLION FOLLOWERS AND ITS NEVER PLEASANT TO LEARN ABOUT THEM
This project of making machines imitate humanity ever more closely strikes me as an evil and dangerous enterprise that society should at least stigmatize and probably outlaw.
@JasonDClinton@hinapansari I genuinely have no theory of mind for the type of person who could both say something like while believing they don't deserve to be cask of amontilladoed
@ChumHumCEO@jakebrodes Norm knows that, phylogenetically, dinosaurs actually are reptiles, in the same way that birds are actually dinosaurs, but he doesn't consider it worth derailing the discussion over a conversation that ultimately ends in "so wait, aren't we just reptiles to then?"
It's not often I get to feel slightly better about picking Unity as my game engine, but when I do it's usually because Tim Sweeney decided to once again make "unforced error" his entire brand identity
@sean_gause Yeah, that stands to reason. I guess what I don't really get is why a game engine company would be doing what is, essentially, willful brand suicide over it. But i guess a lot of that can be answered by "It's Tim Sweeney"
@sean_gause Very bizarre that this is the direction businesses are going. I can easily imagine an alternate reality where coding agents are integrated into work flows where they fit, helping devs focus on actual challenges, but it's *always* just "Suck my slop, slop piggies! oink oink!"
@IndieGameJoe I decided to jump into indie dev a year ago because navigating publish / get a book deal seemed like a nightmare... unsure if I made an error or not. Time will tell
The black rifle coffee alpha male takes a sip from his thermos and looks out from the bunker to the battlefield, it’s hell out there. “Perfect” He thinks
He adjusts the sights on his custom-built 16-inch 6mm ARC AR-15 with a Proof Research carbon-fiber barrel, JP Enterprises silent captured spring system, and a Geissele Super Dynamic Enhanced two-stage trigger. He picked it because the trigger felt smooth against his $350 carbon fiber combat gloves, and the alloy magazines were 20 grams lighter against his $2200 Kevlar vest.
He mindlessly feels at his tactical pouch, he has a 10 year supply of testosterone cypionate in it, just in case the pharmacies get hit. He smirks, “Daddy needs his combat fuel.” He’s been on TRT for 7 years, his testes have cobwebs on them.
He steps out of the bunker, he’s spent years training for this moment, doing weighted carries, getting “don’t tread on me” tattoos, bow hunting, having a beard.
“It’s fuckin showtime.” He announces.
Just then he feels something lightly tap his leg. He glances down. It’s a 17 dollar drone off temu. It has a decal on it.
“Is that… hentai?”
His legs are blown smooth off.
12 miles away in a disgusting room illuminated only by the degenerate glow of purple LED strip lighting, a 17 year old leans back in his cum stained gamer chair. He’s grown so frail and sickly his friends and family keep mistaking him for Asmongold.
He grabs another 30mg vyvanse and washes it down with a cold chicken nugget.
“GG faggot”
He’s killed 500 men.
Note to anyone in the future: If you can't find a legal means to get my games that benefit me, the creator, then you have not only my permission, but my full throated encouragement to pirate the ✨absolute shit✨ out of it
@BrandonLBradfor Also an easier sell. The "why should I be taxed on money I can't access?" line is unfortunately very effective on normies. I don't see why the immediate rejoinder "then money you can't access shouldn't be collateral" wouldn't work equally well. Fight mediocrity with mediocrity
@BrandonLBradfor Honestly I do think this is just how it's gotta be. I'd love to tax them, but I don't think we'll ever get to the point of actually being able to do that without a fundamental restructuring of the economy. So I honestly think just preventing borrowing against them is the move
@samyam_youtube Very similar to the self published AI audio book slop grift that ran rampant on KDP a few years ago, before Amazon brought the hammer down on that and started banning (the most egregious) publishers. Which I'm hoping is what Steam starts to do
@samyam_youtube Which means that the slopopalypse isn't really an issue for them, in the same way it is for us. Their business model assumes minimal players, because they rely exclusively on churning out crap that only needs to get a handful of buys to have been worth the token cost