apemint

apemint , 9 months ago to gaming in Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs

Unity is so ubiquitous that it would have unimaginable consequences.
For example, 90% of vr games are made in Unity. So that's one segment of gaming completely wiped off the map.

Things are not much better in desktop and mobile gaming either, as Unity has close to 50% market share.
It would be a literal Thanos snap.

apemint , 9 months ago to gaming in Unity Has Apologized For Its Install Fee Policy and Says It 'Will Be Making Changes' to It - IGN

This is a huge opportunity for Unreal as well. I'm surprised they haven't announced some flashy on-boarding campaign.

apemint , 9 months ago to RedditMigration in How I imagine most Reddit moderators look

Pretty much this.

I was asked to help mod a new community, and things were going pretty well for a year or so, but then the sub owner and the other mods gradually disappeared until it was just me and another guy left.

Well, turns out they were moderating/owning 30+ subs on average. We both quit that day.

I just can't understand what kind of ego boost they get out of being useless cunts in 30 places. How can such little power be so tantalizing to some people?

apemint , 10 months ago to piracy in Running With Scissors Studios gives permission to pirate games

Bold of you to assume they even went to business school.
All the big wigs I've met were "self-made millionaires" -meaning assholes that used, manipulated and fucked over enough people to reach their current positions.

Also, tax evasion.

apemint , 10 months ago to moviesandtv in The streaming model is cratering — here's how that's hurting actors, writers and fans

It's infuriatingly stupid. It makes me read the same sentence 2-3 times before I understand what they're trying to say.

We have a well established and clear distinction between 'streaming service' and 'streamer', why fuck with it?

What's more, it's double stupid because now both 'streamer' and 'streaming service' means "a company" AND we don't have a word for individuals streaming on the web.

apemint , 11 months ago to world in UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened

gestures vaguely at everything

apemint , 11 months ago to RedditMigration in Reddit has started assigning power mods to subs they took over.

Bingo.

Few years ago I was invited to mod a small but growing community.
About a year later the sub founder (and other mods) just gradually disappeared.
When I brought this up, the top mod (a month later and without warning) removed everyone and asked to DM him if we wanted to continue being mods.

Every single person re-applied, but the inactivity continued.

When I looked at their profile, it turned out they were moderating dozens of subs, and according to the moderation log, I was the only one who actually performed any mod actions in the last 6 months.

This was when I took my leave.
Again, we're talking about a small ~20k community.
I can't even imagine the kind of clout chasing that goes around in large subs.

apemint , 11 months ago to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

Wallace! Amazon.ca, what's the website for that?

apemint , 11 months ago to RedditMigration in This is the Reddit app. They are making it really easy to want to migrate

I feel your rant, I really do.
You have no idea how disappointed I was after the Wikipedia redesign until I found the full width button in the bottom corner.

Most sites are optimized for mobile and are completely asinine looking on a monitor.
Especially text heavy sites where even a single sentence is broken into 2 or more lines, meanwhile 70% of the screen is empty.
And it's not like it's hard to implement a button like Wikipedia did, web designers just don't give a crap.
I payed for a full monitor, let me use the full monitor!

apemint , 11 months ago to RedditMigration in This is the Reddit app. They are making it really easy to want to migrate

I was thinking about asking them what alternatives they tried, but in the end decided it was not worth the effort.
It was either an AI, or I already knew the answer.

apemint , 11 months ago to RedditMigration in Deleting my Reddit comments was a strange experience.

The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

Yeah, about that...
Let's see what happens when Meta decides to federate Threads with the rest of us.

I really hope you're right because I love this place right now. It's much smaller than other platforms but there's enough content for hours of browsing and the community is leagues above the rest of the internet in terms of quality of discourse.

Outside of the fedi, I don't remember the last time I saw opposing views coexist in the same thread without one being brigaded.

apemint , 11 months ago to world in Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?

It's really messed up how the world can be reduced to binary opinions.

By definition, liberals think more freely and are willing to entertain new ideas. With that of course comes that some of those ideas turn out to be counter productive or straight up bad. Ideally, this is when real liberals acknowledge this and shift to something else.

Conservatives on the other hand see this as a sign of weakness and misguidedness, so they take a stance rooted in what they "know" to be true. When that knowledge turns out to be false, they can't simply pivot because that would make them the same as liberals.

Not to mention, sticking to your guns is so much easier than admitting you were wrong and starting from zero again.

apemint , 11 months ago to world in Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?

I agree that the “it’s too late to do anything” mentality is just as bad as doing nothing, but at the same time I recognize that the scientific consensus is more and more leaning towards "it really is too late to do anything" in the short term at least.

Certain gears have been set in motion that we truly cannot stop, but there are also other things that we can prevent if we act now.

I just don't know where the line between the two lies.

The next 50 years or so are set in stone, of that I'm certain.
But after that, who knows whether the changes we make today will affect the climate in a meaningful way. One can only hope.

apemint , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to RedditMigration in This is the Reddit app. They are making it really easy to want to migrate

Just last week someone retorted to me with "I've been using the official app for 2 years and I'm happy".

I'm still not sure whether I was talking to an AI...

apemint , 11 months ago to world in Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?

The sad part is, no matter how bad things will get, the same people will keep denying climate change. Even as their shoes melt into the pavement.

Looking at the past, I don't have any hope for meaningful change.
Just last year or so we've had people on their literal death beads denying corona is real.