#unity drama

[concernedfriend]

Just want to say in light of this whole Unity thing, when my mom mentioned that they were changing the engine that Nancy Drew games were developed in and I heard it was Unity,,, I said they would regret it. Never got good vibes from Unity

[glugglestar]

when a company offers a "compromise", look at it like that's what they were implementing in the first place.

chances are, the company is trojan horsing its userbase - giving them a shit deal and then presenting them with a better one when the backlash starts to come in. The deal will be better, but NOT good. do not fall for this tactic

[captainextremis]

late to the party, but this is your reminder to switch from Unity to Godot Engine

Has GDScript; like Python, so it's easy to learn

Don't like Python? Don't worry, they got C# too

100% free and open source. modify the engine to your heart's content!

losing out on your old addons for Unity? No worries, there's a plugin for that, I bet.

[sp0re-speaks]

Here's the rest of the article

And here's a link to a shit ton of steam and unity games you can download behind Unity's back

[snoleopard7]

brain slipped and i thought it said Helix Technologies

it would still make sense lol

[rebbystuff]

Thank God I'm using Godot for my fan project 🙏

[mizaryrottmnt]

Something is built slowly here...

[daisukitoo]

MegaCrit and the Enshittification of Unity

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification...

-- Cory Doctorow, defining a term that has quickly come into use.

Unity has decided to speedrun this process, which is the kind of thing that happens when you hire a former Electronic Arts CEO. Some quick background to get to the punchline:

Unity is a popular game engine. Game developers use it to make video games, including some very popular ones like Among Us, Pokémon Go, and Genshin Impact.

Unity recently announced a new pricing scheme for using Unity, charging per install of a game and making it retroactive on existing games as of January 1, 2024. (My understanding is that developers could avoid that by never updating the game again, since that version would have been made under the current license and pricing.) This is jumping straight to "abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves."

The game development world reaction has been explosive and unequivocal condemnation, jumping immediately to "Then, they die" with many developers having already announced that they are dropping Unity and in some cases planning to delete existing games. Some have included an "unless this pricing announcement is reversed" clause, others have just said that Unity has lost their trust and is dead to them forever. A quick web search will find you lots of existing discussion.

I am mostly posting this to get to the announcement from Mega Crit, makes of Slay the Spire:

[frary-us]

Toby Regbo as Tom Mitford in Outrageous 1x01

[smilepilled]

this pride month, i hope we can focus on celebrating resistance & survival, existence in a time of erasure, fighting in a time of suppression. all of those things, to be comemorated— and without focusing on pointless questions like "can lesboys exist?", "can you be a lesbian and a gay man at the same time?", "can you use xyz term if youre abc?"

our queer experiences being complex gets us killed. our queer experiences being "simple" also gets us killed. the enemy is not sniffing for who is more acceptable and tidied-up in their identity, the enemy is searching for abnormality. strangeness, out-of-the-ordinary people. queerness.

this pride month, lets focus on what matters. romantic & sexual rights. transgender rights. intersex rights. indigenous queer rights. black queer rights. asian queer rights. their lives, their rights, their existence and resistance. not their labels, their identities, their details. the fact they are should be enough for any fellow queer to support them.

enough of validity olympics, oppression olympics. ebough of trans people telling fellow trans people that their oppression isnt real. enough of white queers inflicting (micro-)aggressions on queers of colour. enough of perisex queers speaking over intersex people (queer or not). enough of the pointless infighting. we can sit and listen to people unlike ourselves. when facing a unknown subject, we should be curious, not aggressive.

happy pride month. remember what truly matters. focus on that. focus on fighting for a better future instead of fighting your own community. we can focus on terminology and pedantics later, when we've earned a spot in this earth. be safe and be queer. stay weird, stay freaky, stay you.

[incomplete-ruler]

THE KARMA TRANSLATIONS ARE OUT NOW OMG

[aspecbuddie]

the dash is heavy tonight and I am emotional about it

[dailynarilamb]

I think I should stop responding to what’s basically a reactionary post urging people to genuinely believe COTL is being deleted. The more I respond, the more the person who @ed me gets what they want in spreading it for “awareness.”

Anyways, fuck Unity for what they’re doing and fuck capitalism. The CEO behind this bullshit is from EA and if that doesn’t explain everything, then…. The fuck am I even alive for.

[nomorewhoppers]

Episode 251: Son is Friend

https://nomorewhoppers.libsyn.com/nmw251

J-j-j-jittery Juugatsu! This month, Alex burns the midnight oil; the pitfalls of finding the right freelance voice work; Unity partially backpedals; pronunciation hang-ups as a matter of course; the Nintendo Museum is open for business; the bizarre reverence of the Zelda fan; Snack Food Copy meets Drink Food Copy!; the rare J-Drama talk; how's that Avatar?; UFO 50 talk devolves into NES insanity; social anxiety in the bar sphere, and learning how to use a camera the hard way! Not liable for lost or damaged time!

==MUSIC== Tee Lopes - Blossom Haze They Might Be Giants - Canajoharie

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[britneyshakespeare]

Cleomena. How do you like this grove?

Thersander. As I do every place you're pleas'd to bless.

Heaven were not Heaven, were Gods not present there;

And where you are, 'tis Heaven every where.

The Young King; or, the Mistake (1679) by Aphra Behn, Act II scene iii

[jk-xyz]

Unity more like Eulogy