Which I get - I'm starting the candidate gathering stage for a fairly senior role and the pool of candidates I have to choose from is already quite small given the requirements and niche product and of course I am going to defer to those I have worked with in the past as I know what they can do. I just find it funny that when faced with a very specific issue that unity picked someone who has a track record of fumbling that exact issue

It's just funny given the community backlash both companies have faced in recent days

Nobody's dumb enough to employ Huffman except Reddit.

It's funny you joke about Quibi because those people all went over to Airtable and what do you know, they have turned a great product into a loser because they have no idea how to get their shit together and actually go public. They're past their series F - they've got nowhere to go and the CFO only knows how to fund raise and she gutted their finance department that was actually working to get them compliant enough to go public. A couple years ago or so they fired their controller who specializes in taking companies public and it's been downhill since.

Sorry for the rant but this is the world and people I work with and have had a front row seat to the shit show (well, more like a few rows back)

Yeah a few steps ahead of you bud, neck deep in openxr on godot now.

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tho thanks for the smarmy 'you're addicted' - you realize people have projects in progress? that swapping engines isn't trivial?

thanks for your silly concern tho. perhaps work on the way you talk to folks.

"we should switch engines and impact morale and throw out all that money, were 90% from releasing with the last non-ass LTS release"

That's what you sound like and I am a Godot advocate.

"Introducing the X Engine (XE) - the free-speech, anti-woke gaming engine formerly known as Unity! To show our dedication to anti-wokeness we will only allow String and Long variable types, and to show my dedication to being a free-speech edgelord, functions will now be referred to as fucktions. Professional access to XE will be $420.69 monthly, with additional fees added on based on the success of the product you created."

You know what, I'm all for it. Nothing would sink Unity faster than whatever they pulled last than to appoint Elon.