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Never underestimate the human ability to generate more stupid. It's like a hydra, the more you eliminate, the more that crops up.

Selling property doesn't require a business license, so he's probably able to do that. He'd likely have to go through a third party agent, though.

Well, yes, especially on the management side, but there are levels. Unions have more power in some industries than they do in others and gaming (software in general, really) tends to be towards the minimal end when it comes union power.

The only problem I have with this is that it can cause issues with legitimate uses of AI voice synth in games. Say I'm developing a game that heavily features procedural generation, right down to place/character names and quests. There's no way in the world I could pull that off with a voice...

My fear is that it's too late and I can easily see the executives in the gaming industry simply saying 'we don't need you anymore' to SAG-AFTRA members. The industry is notoriously anti-union as it stands, after all.

Eh, I kinda went full on Linux a couple of years ago. That would require me to either boot back into Windows( I do still have it on a second SSD, just in case) or run it over the cloud. Too much hassle getting those set up for one game from a studio who's previous work has been kinda meh for me.

Nah, we're beyond that now. It will all be Siri level text to speech, either that or every game's dialog will be rendered in Animal Crossing speak.

It's not that kind of crucifixion. It's one of Japanese Santa's kinks. He's into some weird stuff.

I do want to try it. Main thing keeping me from playing it, outside of budget concerns, is that all the other Bethesda open world games looked right up my alley, but never were able to hook me for some reason.

Yep. The trust is gone. Gonna be awhile before it can be rebuilt. Funny thing is the Unreal Engine's current revenue model was put in place specifically to compete with Unity in the indie market back in the mid 2010's. Unity goes and decided to make their royalty model WAY WORSE than...

Well, he's not wrong, in a sense. People don't die as often to hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes as they used to despite those things happening more frequently and severely. It's a STUPID take on the problem, but it is a take. We still have to do all the repairs and cleanup after the storms...

I seem to remember a climate change map suggesting that changes in temperature and rainfall patterns would actually increase the arable land in Canada. One of the few areas that would benefit from said changes. Screws up agriculture pretty much everywhere else, though.

Using Twitter to show your art is about exposure. If I had a game project far enough along and I was proud enough about, you bet I would be posting screenshots and concept art in places beyond the likes of Itch.io.

With the UAW also on strike, we could be getting closer to a general strike. Just need a couple more industries to enter the fray.

So a 16 year old can be forced to work the midnight shift but they want to repeal the 26th amendment to keep 18 year olds from voting... They don't want to take us back to the 1950's, they want to take us back to the 1850's.

Eh, That sort of time-travel wouldn't allow for effective immortality, though. A combination of telomere restoration and nano-tech cellular repair might. If you can somehow manipulate spacetime to that kind of degree, you can likely figure out a way to rebuild telomeres and develop advanced...

One of the potential side effects of exposure to time vortex energy is immortality, though I think it has to be focused in a specific way to achieve said results.

State actors using bots will likely pay the fee anyway, at least as long as twitter remains a viable method to distribute misinformation and propaganda. Granted, tanking the company by implementing a paid subscription across the board WOULD result in the bots leaving, just not for the reason...

Figures, really. Riccitiello used to be CEO of EA. He's using the same anti-consumer tactics at Unity that he did at EA.

Yeah, what little I've seen of him over the past 5 or 6 years seems to indicate he's been slowly going from a little off to full wingnut.