Then they pivoted to AI like every other corporate bastard because the essential *meanness* at its core appealed to them in a way that well crafted VR games never could. Stick them all on an Elon Musk rocket and fly it into the sun.
Meta didn't listen to game devs, the made a bunch of boring, soulless beige corporate chatrooms because that's what's in their souls and called it a revolution. Meanwhile, teams like 'Read at Dawn' were creating amazing games like 'Lone Echo' that showed what could be done.
That's exactly what I felt about it - I was genuinely excited by the push for VR - that was nothing but a good thing for the games industry and creative work but they fluffed it by spending billions doing what a game dev team could do in half the time for so much less.
Facebook just blocked my account, absolutely no idea why. Is it a crackdown on people who're anti-trump or left-wing? Was I hacked? Can't tell as its all totally locked down. Has anybody else experienced this?
Oh totally, I've had quite enough of Unity's boardroom shenanigans: they've burned through an awful lot of loyalty and goodwill, it makes me wonder if the c-suite there undersands the concepts. Tim Sweeney is a developer himself and has been there since the start, the difference is obvious.
I think the main thing is having a pressing need to do it - if somebody were to ask (ok, pay) me to do something in Unreal then I'd do a deep dive but so far I've really just tinkered. It's easier than Unity for getting nice visuals quickly though.
I've never got much further than exploring shaders and making test scenes in Unreal. It's on my list of things to learn but that list seems to grow faster than I can learn things.
It's a nice thought but the needs of shareholders and the needs of customers and employees are, in the long run, antithetical to each other.
PLCs are a cancerous way to organise collective effort. They've managed to gain legal personhood but if a PLC has a personality, it's that of a psychopath.
I didn't make a ship a day for #shiptember but I enjoyed making these. The more polished ones are blender + krita, the physical media ones are a mixture of pen & ink, marker, gouache and watercolour (consistency wasn't my goal :D) .
It's not a hard message to understand and it's been shared many times but with less gross genAI, which is a tool the few (those who're rich enough to own data centres running plagiaristic genAI) use to disenfranchise the many (talented artists trying to earn a living).
I'm 100% prepared to accept that trump believes in simplistic fairy-tale mysticism involving going to heaven for "being a good boy, the bestest boy ever, everybody's saying it, it's true" as this is much easier for a simple, gasping, narcissistic moron to comprehend than reality.
It's not either or though, is it? It's cumulative. There are currently around 100-200 rocket launches a year and there are ~2 billion AC units globally.
If you add them both together, you get a big number.
