WhyIDie

that’s at least a little more than mildly infuriating

there’s literally a sex% speedrunning category https://www.speedrun.com/baldurs_gate_3?h=sex&x=7dgemg72

okay, I’ll concede, my scope also was pretty limited. I still stand by not trusting the public with deciding what’s the best use of AI, when most people think what we have now is anything more than statistics supercharged in its implementation.

I still go back to older consoles/handhelds because of some of their libraries, and, judging from releases, publishers do, too

high fidelity doesn’t equal pretty graphics; it’s just a chosen art style. the problem surrounding all this MK switch stuff is they had to compromise on their art style, and make it much much less cohesive with the original intent, to get it to run on the system. An MK designed with the switch as a high priority would be a very different-looking game

given that, 3/10 is still a meme score meant to drive traffic to their site

you also don’t have to understand how 5g works to know it spreads covid /s

point is, I don’t see how your analogy works beyond the limited scope of only things that result in an immediate loss of life

so that’s what the controller would look like if it wore pants

and, a final thing to add, I haven’t come across any concrete evidence IronSource created malware since being caught, and haven’t seen any concrete evidence of Unity containing malware. I just assumed they merged with them for the spyware and analytics software they fostered since then. Don’t get me wrong, I really don’t like Unity’s business practices, but I don’t want to hate them based on what could be lies spread by motivated actors.

oh, I’m pretty aware of the entire saga up to now. and the malware company created a malware suite in 2010, after which they did the typical PR spin of disavowing personal responsibility for by stating it was bad actors, and has kept their heads low in scummy digital advertising practices for about a decade up until 2022 when Unity brought them aboard to “synergize their tools” (paraphrased by me from the original announcement).

The current CEO was an ex-exec at EA that was taken on board at Unity at 2014, and another EA ex-exec also came over as Unity’s CFO in 2015 (who was replaced for ambiguous reasons sometime before 2020). 2014 was around the time when they made many small scummy changes, like stop giving out lifetime licenses and altering the ToS in regards to existing lifetime licenses, and minimize dev support for recently-expired subs, while at the same time starting their pattern of frequent smaller updates to the engine after moving to Unity 5 - instead of larger, less-frequent ones (to work into their minimization of expired-sub dev support). It was around the time I swore off their engine after spending years of my life on it.

If any of this is wrong, I’d appreciate being corrected with more updated info - The CEO stuff I’m acutely aware of, but the IronSource+Unity stuff was only tangential to that for me, and after I already cut ties. I just don’t like bringing all this up so frequently from how topical it’s become recently; it’s a sore spot.

“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll like it”

reading further, after the knee-jerk:

• “Of the two cases so far this year, one was in a person who tested positive after being admitted to hospital and the other was an asymptomatic staff member of a veterinary practice.”
• “Only one named individual has previously tested positive – Wendy Hayes, of Stoke, who caught it from a pregnant foster dog she took in from Belarus last year.”

half of my loss of faith in humanity from this is restored

had to dig in the article for the means of transmission between dogs and humans, and could only find it from an article linked inside there that mentions “The disease can spread to humans through canine reproductive fluids, but they can be treated with a long, strong course of antibiotics.”

The article here also mentions “two people caught it this year from dogs”
…oh. oh dear

it really is that predictable

I really do like it for something that I want to just add quick/small edits to, or something that can be slapped together quickly. But I do hope this isn’t the start of a trend to bloat mspaint and aim to compete against more robust image editors.

The pessimist in me fears they’re going to, and start slapping on AI data harvesting measures that they’re integrating into Windows, like for training their own AI art generators. But this addition, in a bubble, is a welcome change.