Doc Blaze

awkward teenage white girl twerking

🤢 ah yes, nothing like having all the thickness and curves of a tiny palm tree but still for some reason all the enthusiasm of a Labrador on bath salts. it’s more vertical vibration than twerking if you look like a bleached light pole.

they were kids having sober, abstinent fun, nothing scandalous about it, and this Jesus shit needs to stop. I wish the international atheist society started a charity to get her scholarship money replaced, I would definitely throw in a few bucks.

cut those people out of your lives forever!

sorry mom and dad, kick the iPads or I’m not answering the phone anymore

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Well it does seem a little hypocritical, no? I don’t hate any tech company, I’m heavily skeptical of them having our best interest, but I see value where value exists, if there’s a way to extract it/partition it from the company that makes it. Whatsapp for example, is still a decent app even though Facebook is awful. I even begrudgingly use Meta VR for stuff I can’t find on steam.

Exactly, and I don’t think Google really gives a shit what you do anyway, they just want to shelp your data to their ad partners. But any free open source software or hardware has value independent of the company that creates it. Degoogled chromium, FOSSized android rom Pixels, YouTube in browser with ublock, it’s not hard to remove Google/Microsoft etc from the equation and get a useful product if there’s one there.

many of you hate Google yet I’m willing to bet most of you flashed a custom or foss android rom like lineageos to your devices.

I’m not just taking about epic, there were layoffs in basically every gaming company that exists the past few months

see this for more: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/2907340

unity, naughty dog, Ubisoft, EA, Amazon games (twitch) and much more.

bit of a strawmans argument you’re refuting here.

unnecessary

I hate to have to justify layoffs but it’s at least true that lots of studios are unexpectedly (from a couple years ago) hemorrhaging cash right now. anytime inflation is so high for so long, discretionary spending on entertainment is near the first to get cut from consumers budgets. people aren’t sitting at home like we were in 2021 only buying digital entertainment anymore.

I’m okay with this. I’d play with them constantly.

As the old saying goes, give a man a fish he gets a titjob for today, but teach a man to fish… 🤭

The CEO is the founder and majority shareholder and epic is privately funded so probably not gonna happen

Evidently, all of Epic Games’ business had been “heavily funded by Fortnite” in the last six years, and different parts of the company became “disconnected” from their revenue streams.

Wait, so youre really telling me me Epic giving away a ton of free games on EGS every single month and free unreal engine marketplace assets to devs as well as regular epic megagrants was never a financially sustainable move?

Psssh. In other news, salt is salty. 🤭

I honestly believe Tim is not going to f–k this one up though, as a former one he clearly cares about the game dev community and as majority shareholder he isn’t needing to be driven by profits as much as publicly traded Unity head John Riccatello is.

Plus, fortnite is still a goddamn cash printer, just not printing as fast as they expected.

I don’t wanna degenerate into one of those tin foil hat people but holy goddamn how are they implementing this and where is it going in 10, 15 years? Biometric IDs, seriously?? Why don’t they just make drivers licences electronically verifiable, like debit cards?

what I mean is that, connections that are private and secure in the current day, may still be logged since everyone is so data hungry to train their AI, because even though it’s not currently readable, those past messages will be tomorrow, even if the encryption of the day changes. it only protects the things under the current standard. that’s sort of unsettling to me that nothing is truly guaranteed safe for even 5 years, despite how deep the key space goes.

starbreeze: payday 3 sucks donkey balls and nobody’s playing it.

naughty dog: okay, but we’re actually having to lay off people now.

epic games: sure, but so are we AND we’re also selling Bandcamp.

unity: whatever amateurs, I’m the one having the worst Q4 2023!

Ubisoft: snickers oh yeah? hold both my beers AND my shot glass.

part of the issue is that just because something is secure now doesn’t mean it will still be in 5 years. so with quantum algorithms no doubt going to improve once the tech matures, and moreso with companies hoarding everyone’s data until that time, it’s only a matter of time before all that stuff is entirely breakable. so even if we keep up with the times it feels like a losing battle.

stop it both of you I’m drowning in irony and since it’s also water that’s ironic making me drown even faster