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formerly /u/squirrelrampage on Reddit

  • A "Build a house for your friends" game: Take the construction and resource gathering from a game such as (for example) Valheim and combine it with an Animal Crossing - Happy Home Paradise style gameplay that tasks the player to design houses for various characters.

    This comment is definitely not inspired by spending countless hours building houses in Valheim for purely aesthetic reasons. /s

  • J.J. Abrams: "We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This."

  • The furry community approves.

  • I argue the opposite: If you get rich, becoming a suspiciously wealthy furry is the only ethical choice: You gain riches, you don't keep them, you give them away to the less-fortunate.

  • Yes, of course. The network effect is buoying up Reddit as it is and probably will be until a critical mess of users leave it for good. Besides the obvious truth that Lemmy/Kbin are slower and that's not what Redditors are used to who have learned to expect something new every time they update their frontpage.

  • At the moment my main gripe is that people still refuse to move to other platforms despite it all. I want to scream "It's not going to get better, folks!" at them all of the time. But I am too tired to do it.

  • I hate it too. As much as I enjoy Lemmy, Reddit was my go-to social platform thing for a long time. I hate to see it being mismanaged by an incompetent fool like Spez.

  • Don't forget their plan to allow users kick out mods and then imagine how people with monetary interests will conspire to kick out mods that stop from from maximising their profits...

  • My sympathies. Keyboard producers are really dropping the ball for you guys.

  • A beak or feet work too, but I get your point. Invertebrates obviously have a hard time with typing.

  • Ars Technica has done an interview with Unity's Marc Whitten and Whitten's responses are very, very telling:

    "It was not our intent to nickel-and-dime it, but it came across that way," he said. [...]"A large part of the problem, Whitten said, was that Unity "didn't communicate effectively... There were areas where there was some confusion, and we could have done a better job." [...]"That's on us," he continued. "We didn't do a good enough job... of delivering the information that would help people."

    It shows how dishonest he still is: Of course, they wanted to nickel-and-dime everything. People were not "confused", they were outraged. No matter how much of a mess Unity's initial explanations of the details were, the core message was pretty clear: Unity was aiming to get as much money out of developers as it can and it did neither bother to iron out the details of the changes, nor assess the potential damage their plans could do.

    Rumours from inside Unity said that their own employees warned management, but managment saw a chance to make money and plowed ahead.

    And going by Whitten's statements, they still want to hide behind meaningless corpo-speak and the same people who got their business into this mess now claim that they have changed their ways.

  • Nippon TV has been funding studio Ghibli films since the 90s and also owns (for example) Madhouse. While I am also sceptical of where this leads, I think it's one of the better options for Ghibli overall. At least Nippon TV has shown in the past that they understand what Ghibli is doing and isn't just picking them up because they have the money to do so.

  • It is not the strikes that cost the US economy money, it is the greed of absurdly overpaid executives who want to wring every cent of profits out of workers.

  • Considering that DA veteran David Gaider left ages ago, I do not have much hope left for the next DA game. BioWare may have hung on a little bit longer than other EA studios, but it looks like the notorious mismanagement by EA will get it too.