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  • Unity's New CEO Nets Millions Months After Layoffs and Scandals

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  • Investing in Godot probably has no sizable benfefit to Valve. But it does have a big benefit for gaming as a whole, specifically smaller or newer developers/studios. Meanwhile investing more in Source 2 may have a lot of benefit for Valve, depending a lot on their future plans.

  • Unity's New CEO Nets Millions Months After Layoffs and Scandals

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  • Valve already has a game engine you can use – Source – although outside of their own games, it's not really popular. Otherwise I think it's moreso that making a good general gaming engine is hard. Like, really hard. If Valve tried to compete with, say, Unreal or Unity, (especially with their relatively small team) it'd more likely than not have no chance at all. They'd need a LOT more manpower, a massive budget, and to hope that they actually make something quality enough to actually be a viable alternative. Even then, though, it doesn't have the 2 decades of content and design that Unreal and Unity have, which is pretty important. Although I suppose Source does have a lot of user-generated content.

    It'd be a gargantuan investment, a massive risk that has a high likelihood of not turning out well, and even if it were successful it would likely take many years if not over a decade to actually see the benefit of it.

    There's a good reason most games use an extremely small amount of engines, either that or their own in-house engines. It's a monumental task to make a great, easy-to-use, generic engine like the ones currently on the market.

    IMO Valve trying to enter the game engine market would just end up being either Godot but worse, or Bevy but worse. It'd be far better if they just created a team to work on a pre-existing open-source engine, although I guess there's not any money involved in that unless they for some reason used the engine.

  • It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene.

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  • How can you tell that they're not a 2D slice of life anime character living in the real world with real world problems? You the NSA or somethin'?

  • It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene.

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  • Social jet lag? Wouldn't that just be delayed circadian rhythm?

  • It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene.

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  • I mean ADHD, Autism, Dyspraxia, etc. have a specific set of symptoms and specific treatments, and a large part of the population has those (as well as other mental disabilities like MDD, Bipolar, etc.). Many psychology researchers tackling the subject find that ADHD is severely underdiagnosed in the population (despite popular uneducated belief being that ADHD is overdiagnosed due to misinformation being widely spread on TV shows in the 2000s), with around 20% of people likely meeting the criteria for an ADHD diagnosis (diagnosis rates are usually in between 3% and 10%).

    It's postulated that the high occurence of ADHD compared to other disorders comes from our days as hunter-gatherers – then, many of the behaviours of ADHD would have been extremely helpful, such as high alertness/awareness of changes in the environment such as sound cues and slight visual changes, and impulsiveness/drive to be active to seek out berries and prey and such, making a decent portion of members of a group having ADHD be a huge benefit and boost to survival rates. But most of those useful effects have become quite useless in modern society, and many of the symptoms (like dysfunctional working memory & inattentiveness) have become a massive detriment under industrialism. It is likely that in pre-industrial/medieval society ADHD was still a net benefit, at least according to what little we can ascertain from it there.

    Genes contributing to Autism Spectrum Disorder have also been positively selected for even since before humans came about, since they also brought benefits throughout primate evolution.

    You can really take a lot of common mental disorders and find some sort of evolutionary reason for it; even mood disorders, anxiety disorders, insomnia disorders, schizophrenia, etc. would have had some potential benefits to prehistorical human groups.

    Fun fact, there was a study done on prison populations in Estonia and it was determined that 40% of prisoners had undiagnosed ADHD – the symptoms of ADHD are kind of contrary to the core principles of being a capitalist worker, often with it being mistaken for "laziness" or "lack of motivation" (qualities which bring shame and have, for most of modern history, gotten you shunned from society), so they have a much higher likelihood of falling behind in life without proper treatment.

  • Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes

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  • I like how Olympic-size pool is such a universal unit of measurement lol. I remember looking for the number for how much waste nuclear power plants produce and it was something like the entire US produces half an Olympic-sized swimming pool of spent fuel annually.

  • Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon

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  • Lol what is wrong with you

  • Reddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months later

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  • Never trust a default username

    [adjective] [noun] [3-4 digits] is always a sign of bad news, on social media and Xbox Live

  • what u actually signed up for

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  • A lot of the time it's about being lucky enough be able to have or form connections with rich stupid people. Those kinds are a lot more willing to throw insane amounts of money at someone/some company they vaguely know to do things they know nothing of but hear a lot about.

    Or just working at a company that's well-known in the area and deals with clients very intimately while the product is being created.

    Sometimes charging more for the same service makes them want it more, to them it means it's premium programming (as opposed to the off-brand wish dot com programming). But sometimes they demand disgracefully cheap yet world-class service and throw a tantrum when they can't pay you $5 an hour for a full rebranded recreation of the Amazon web service.

  • World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

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  • More like a symptom of a broken broad economic system. In all forms of capitalism, it is a given that much wealth accumulates in the few. It's a system where resources are distributed based on capital, and capital is a resource, and it's a system where those with more capital have more voting power both economy-wise and politics-wise. There is no such thing as a capitalist economy that has even wealth distribution long-term, it was quite plainly a system created for the sole purpose of keeping those with power in power – this isn't an exaggeration, the guys who basically created/popularized modern capitalism and are the basis for all the writings and philosophy of the "founders of capitalism" were post-french revolution aristocrats who wished to push a system where they could keep their power instead of having it taken while also not having their heads chopped off.

    Even with the best taxation capitalism can offer, there is no solution to the capitalist problem. It's a system that requires there to be suffering underclasses and carefree upperclasses. It requires an immoral social hierarchy to exist. The systems that reduce the damage of this innately bad hierarchy while still maintaining it (welfare corporatism, for example) are incredibly unstable over the long-term and inevitably result in a populace that want to tear it down. The people who receive the most benefits from welfare & social safety in a capitalist society are often the ones that are the quickest to tear it down (them, and the elite) and guide us back to right-wing feudalism.

    Billionaires might maybe go away if we "properly" tax, but there is only so much you can do to patch up a fundamentally broken system. The countries with the most wealth equality and highest wealth taxes also happen to be countries with a ton of megacorporations and/or billionaires... Switzerland, Scandinavian countries, Finland, Germany, Australia all have the highest wealth equality while all being on the top 15 for billionaires per capita excluding extremely small nations. Plus those countries have a tendency for alt-right movements to pop up, a few even more by proportion than the US...

    TL;DR capitalism bad socialism good eat the rich

  • Paradox Interactive says “we have areas where we need to do better” after reporting $44 million in Q1 revenue

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  • Sounds just like Gaijin... although now that I think about it, this sounds worse than Gaijin.

    I love Paradox' games but man, I really hate Paradox sometimes. I bought all the Stellaris DLCs at the time while they were on sale (about $100, I think it was everything before the update that added espionage) thinking I was supporting the development of intergalactic space genocide & intelligent life cannibalism game, but the more I got into the community the more I realize... the devs kinda fuck the community over a lot. I would normally think "wow, they're making so many great hits at the same time, the games might be extremely buggy but they really deserve credit" but as time goes on I start to see them more like I see every AAA studio. I guess that's all you can expect when the company's stocks are public.

    Also imo you shouldn't have to pay $300 to experience the full game god damn it! Although they do allow you to play as if you have most DLC when the host does, so I can't say it's immorally greedy. It's something I can appreciate.

  • I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH UBUNTU 24.04 😡

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  • never thought of "poop os" but I think Pop!_OS is a stupid name, it's the only reason I avoided it and chose Nobara instead lol

  • what u actually signed up for

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  • old

    money 100

    doubt

  • N.C. report finds wilderness camp failed to ensure boy was breathing before he died

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  • ya think???

  • Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature. Biden expected to sign on Wed.

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  • US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

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  • Hey now, there exist international organizations to perpetuate Russian and Chinese imperialism too! Except the Russian ones are always dysfunctional as fuck and never actually work out.

  • US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

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  • Yeah I was about to say. Like Scandinavia has a high standard of living, but it's still capitalist/corporatist as fuck, still has a lot of the problems of right-wing and even far-right ideologies, and is 100% not ideal and probably not sustainable in the modern world (especially considering their welfare capitalism ended up getting people elected into office who are trying to dismantle the social protections and laws that make the countries successful in the first place). Welfare capitalism isn't a good middle ground because it's extremely likely to drift back towards regular old capitalism.

  • US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

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  • He didn't say all nations have the same power in the UN. He said the opposite. Read the comment before you reply to it

    "Like it or not, a UN where Monaco and the US (...) have the same power at the table is a UN where the big players reject its authority and form their own clubs."

  • How do people with aphantasia play chess?

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  • It's extremely funny unblocking his profile once and seeing him on other random posts and replying to random comments threads I'm in, calling video game players mentally deficient, saying the people that are replying to him and downvoting him are bots (people obviously being extremely confused as to wtf his rambling has to do with the thread and scolding him for following users and harassing them), spam replying some random German dude and calling him my alt for no apparent reason, just in general being extremely obsessive/delusional over the comments. His meltdown alone was worth this comment thread lmfaooo. He's paranoid as hell of everyone on the site now and lives in fear that all the users he interacts with may just be me in disguise, it's glorious