Ryusui @theryusui@computerfairi.es

So everyone's like, don't use github! Get off github, Microsoft is going to steal your teeth! And they're right, they're completely right. But here is the problem: *Basically every time* someone is using a github alternative, if I have an issue to post, I am unable to post it, usually because of problems with their spam detection (must wait 3 days to file your issue so a moderator can approve you, etc)

alright so y'all know how sometimes telegram etc kinda work on airplanes, without paying for the free wifi, but without, say, being able to load media?

has anyone figured out what, exactly, is able to make it through, and how to route a full internet connection through it?

asking on Mastodon because this is where the computer people went

Big, dumb fight with my boss on the genie job over my telling people who ask that the genie operation is run out of Wishconsin.

"C'mon, people want to know and it's so perfect!", I tell them. "The whole operation runs out of Made-a-some, Wishconsin."

"Save that for the Groucho Marx podcast," they tell me.

"Groucho Marx? That's *totally* a Chico Marx line," I protest but the more I think about it the more, yeah, I *can* hear Groucho pulling off that line.

The one piece is stored on treasure planet!

I'd be a lot more willing to believe the whole "what if reality is a simulation?" hypothesis if I didn't know speedrunners.

some people have been going around saying the unity news isn't so bad because "it doesn't affect very many people" and

1. there are plenty of reasons to be nervous about a move like this even if it doesn't (currently) affect you

2. the indie studios that aren't getting millions in budget from venture capital but are still doing gamedev full-time professionally are already squeezed enough without unity skimming even more off the top

some of you are acting like grossing 200k in a year for an entire studio is like winning the jackpot, when in reality between platform holders, publishers, and governments taking their cut 200k what's left could well be far below subsistence wages for team members

so yeah, a large percentage of unity users won't be affected, but a large percentage of the indie "middle class", who make a large number of the indie games most people enjoy, *will* be highly affected. and i don't think that's okay. i think that's worthy of some panic

@dgar

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