[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 94 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Here in Europe they're forced to show the lowest price of the last 30 days and I was looking at some games in GoG and for several interesting games their Black Friday "discounted" price is €15 whilst the lowest price in the last 30 days is €10.

So the Black Friday "discount" is in fact 50% more expensive than the previous time that game had a "discount" which happenned not even that long ago.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 87 points 1 month ago

I'm truly, totally, completely shocked ... that Windows is still being used on the server side.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 94 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are no penalties for filling a bogus DMCA takedown and the legal cost for restoring the content falls on the victim of such a takedown: the DMCA legislation was designed exactly for it to be used as Mazda and many other use it against individuals and small companies who can't spend thousands of dollars fighting bogus takedowns.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 75 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

One should be even more skeptical and demanding of proof for wannabe trust-gatekeepers of the entire Internet, than one should already be for single newsmedia entities - the former place themselves as supervisors of trust in the latter and yet have even less proven trustworthiness than them.

So it's curious that the !world@lemmy.world mods keep on pushing for people reading posts on that community to use this specific self-annointed trust gatekeeper who has repeatedly shown that they themselves are biased (quite a lot to the Right of the political spectrum and pro-Zionistl) as their trust-gatekeeper.

I keep downvoting it because such action reeks of manipulation and is exactly the kind of thing that State Actors and Political Actors would do to shape opinions in the this day and age when people can read articles from anywhere in the World.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 128 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There's an anecdote that goes like this:

An important machine in a factory stops working. No matter what they do they can't get it to work again.

So they bring in a specialist to solve the problem, for an agreed fee of $1000

The guy checks the machine over and then goes and presses a specific button and the machine is back working again.

So the factory manager goes: "All you did was press a button! Why should I pay you $1000 for pressing a button?!"

To which the specialist answers: "Well, you see, you're paying me just $1 to press the button. The other $999 are for knowing which button to press".

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 83 points 11 months ago

Oh, look, an open admission of genocidal intent.

Should be useful in the court case against Israel.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

"Do no evil^1^"

^1^ unless we can make money from it.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but because amongst all those people killed by the Israeli army in the very place they told them to shelter, there isn't a nice looking western girl with glamour pictures on social networks, the murder of those people will never cause the same disgust in the West as the plight of the girl kidnapped by Hamas which has been turned into a constantly repeated Israeli propaganda piece (you can tell it's now being pushed as propaganda because it's been repeated well beyond its newsworthiness and always with the same glamour picture).

The gapping chasm in numbers between those murdered by Israel and those by Hamas is inverted in terms of the disgust they cause in the West exactly because Israeli has a vastly superior propaganda machine.

Thinking people would start wondering why, reliably, 100s of murdered palestinians are portrayed with less emphasys than 1 kidnapped israeli-german teenager.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

It's a start.

Now do the Board who chose an EA CEO with his track record to lead Unity and stood behind this until finally forced by the consequences of his actions to push them out.

Certainly and after what happenned, merelly pushing out one guy in the nicest, most career protecting way possible, isn't sufficient to restore my trust in Unity as a platform on top of which to base my business.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago

Way to make everybody believe your government did actually murder somebody in Canada, Modi.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They went for a retroactive pricing change.

Imagine that you start a game project (which will cost you years and a lot of $$$ to develop) and at any point Unity just arbitrarilly changes the conditions (which can be of any kind, not just extra charges) that apply to your game, after you're too far into development to feasibly replace Unity, and do it retroactivelly, so after your game is already out it can still get impacted by it.

Suddenly a totally viable project might become unviable or, worse, an active drain on your company's finances or even your own (i.e. your company and, depending on how you structured it, even you yourself can go bankrupt), and all of that based on the fickle wishes of a higher up in Unity.

At this point it makes no business sense whatsoever to choose Unity: there is way, WAY, WAY too much risk involved by choosing it (new charges that apply retroactivelly as this one can literally kill your company) and at the same times there are viable alternatives out there without such risks.

For any project not yet deeply tied to Unity, from the day they came up with a retroactive change to their pricing, the obvious, clear as day, choice from a business point of view became to not use anything from Unity, even for shitty shit asset-flipping "near zero investment" projects.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They will say of themselves as being Irish/Italian/other-european-nationality because their great-grandfather or great-grandmother came from there.

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