#I hate unity

[sanekfr]

friendly reminder to BE MAD ABOUT UNITY AND KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT NOTHINGS GOING TO CHANGE IF WE JUST DONT COMMENT ON IT ANYMORE

[yourlocalautisticmimikyu]

the things i have to do becouse i have school work, i'm only allowed to use unity

[baneshake]

Another post showcasing my options for a YouTube thumbnail test, though this one hasn't completed as of posting since the connected video will not premiere until twenty minutes after this post is made (I reference the option to come see all of these here at the end of the video).

The video is titled "Assassin's Creed was ALWAYS woke" and debunks the anti-woke grifters who are trying to spread bad faith arguments about Assassin's Creed Shadows, primarily since they consider a (historical) black man to be an issue for all of their stupid, stupid reasons. I push back on a lot of those claims, and focus heavily on the fact that Assassin's Creed has been heavily politically progressive since its inception, and why that's a good thing. I genuinely wonder which one of these will win out for the thumbnail test:

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he comes across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt, and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh." Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmare, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[thou-babbling-brook]

Haven’t drawn traditionally in forever but here’s a little Arno and Elise <:( my shaaylaaas

[magichats]

all the news going around with unity's really got me worried for games that are already several years into development like Hollow Knight Silksong and Billie Bust up.

Just rough because I don't suppose a whole lot of games are going to be able to pivot game engines, let alone so late in development. Like it is easier said than done to pivot early in development but i've been following the development of several games that are years in at this point and the fact that they're grandfathering older titles into this is just... it's just bad.

The potential loss of games in terms of archival on such a massive scale....

[ra-vio]

Based on that one Smash trophy

[sunlight-shunlight]

my most toxic trait is that i have like 343546 dumb unfinished interactive fiction/renpy projects, bc i love making little conversation trees and planning out reactivity and things, but then i can't manage doing the art/writing/coding all at once, bc i become Unreasonably Perfectionist on all sides and it takes way too long to finish anything ahah...

so, much like the ancient magisters, i am wistfully pining away with hubris, while looking at the unattainable golden city (the concept of an extremely high effort da fan game that would require at least 10 of me to have enough time and energy to work on it effectively)

[sanekfr]

OK SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK UNITY YOUR JUST DECIDING TO MAKE IT SO THE BIG POPULAR GAMES ARE FREE OF DOWNLOAD INSTALLS BUT LESS RECOGNIZED GAMES WILL BE KILLED JUST FOR A TINY BIT OF EXTRS CASH?? AND YOU THINK THAT BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE FREE FOR IT NOBODYS GOING TO CARE IF SMALL BUT AMAZING GAMES ARE KILLED OFF?!?? AM I GETTING THIS RIGHT??

[deathzgf]

danton and robespierre were the What ?

[elisavi]

recently was having too many thoughts about this hellish duo

[daftpatience]

finally figuring out how to draw my fursona

[crow-talks-hockey]

ok. deep breath, and a word before this game. first off, fair warning that i am rooting for both these teams tonight, however i'm leaning towards canada because of the players and the players alone, so keep that in mind. i'd like to focus on the usa though. i think a lot of hate at least on this site is coming to that team, and i understand it even if i'm not necessarily siding with it. i personally despise talking about politics - as someone who is very moderate and also christian (so i believe in being "in the world, not of it") - but i do know that in times like this they're bound to come up. that's fine. hold to what you want, conservative or liberal or anything; i just want to give some positive outlook because i know that i for one need it. no matter if the US team wins today and what that might mean for the country and no matter which side the players are on politically, this is still america and it's still a place that has as much potential to change for the better as it does for the worse. there have always been problems and struggles, but i like to think that sports have been something that help bring us together. you can root against this team if you'd like (be it because of the players or the things they might stand for) and that's okay too, i just want to say that i still have hope in it all. and i want to go out and enjoy this game shamelessly, without worrying about the social morals behind cheering for either side. also lastly, if usa wins i'm fully taking that as something they did for johnny and matthew. because that's honestly what matters most to me, not what politics just so happen to be like at the time of this game. let's go enjoy some hockey <3 [also please read tags lol]

[selcouthself]

so anyways... maybe don't remake something that is & has been beloved by the masses for generations....

[mayowayo]

@loopydrpeppermeow us as nenekasaa yayyy

[paluwu-joko]

Hi there, game dev student here!

Thought I'd share how much of a clusterfuck this is from our perspective and what the unity debacle will mean for us in the long run.

My classmates and I are about to enter our final year at uni, and we now have years of experience using the weewee capitalism engine. Now I should probably mention that we are SOUTH AFRICAN and most of us were planning on leaving the very second we could after graduation. This is now going to be......... way harder!!!!!

Not only is it going to be nearly impossible to switch engines in our final year, but now we are going to have a big red pimple on our CVs that specifically says UNITY once we're done.

Is it impossible to be hired due to this? Of course not, plenty of studios use their own engines that require training anyway. However, ITS STILL GONNA SUCK MEGA DICK.

Unity has just made the lives of a bunch of nerds who just want to immigrate significantly harder, and I for one am absolutely dreading what this will mean for the future.