AnyOldName3

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A big part of the reason was that Facebook offered game studios a big upfront sum if they made their games work on whatever headset they were selling at the time in standalone mode with no major caveats. The headset only had an anemic mobile GPU, so was only capable of as much as mobile games were doing at the time. A bunch of studios took them up on this offer, and cut back their projects’ scope to be viable under the hardware constraints, so nearly everything that got made was gimmicky mobile-style minigames, and obviously that’s not what makes people want to drop hundreds of dollars on hardware, as they can get their fill by borrowing someone else’s headset for an hour.

  Mobile GPUs have improved, so standalone headsets aren’t as terrible now, but we missed the expensive toy for enthusiasts and arcades phase and soured most people’s opinions by making their first VR experience shovelware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also doesn’t help that once you’ve paid the large fee for the Pro version, it doesn’t actually guarantee any support if you encounter a bug. You get access to a different issue tracker, and might get a Unity employee to confirm that the bug exists after a couple of months (and maybe close it as a duplicate, then reopen it as not a duplicate when the fix for the other bug doesn’t help, then reclose it as a duplicate when it turns out the fix for the other bug also doesn’t fix the other bug, and at the end of a multi-month process, there still being a bug with no indication an engineer’s looked at it).

  Anyway, I’m glad to no longer be working for a company that uses Unity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garry Newman of Facepunch comments on the Nintendo takedown of Garry's Mod content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can lose trademarks, but this is a copyright issue. You don’t have to defend copyright to keep it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again”⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There were people saying they should keep posting the meme long enough that Sony thought the film was going to do better if they released it again, and then no one should go and see it, and then that’s exactly what happened, so at least part of it was down to people like that stopping once they’d got what they wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So would a fish that’s eaten a device that administers a small electric shock at random intervals and with random intensities. I don’t think that eating such a device made the fish suddenly sentient, but it would suddenly change the outcome of your test.