LetMeEatCake

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[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mine was never stolen, to break your streak. I had one of the little 4GB ones.

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But did you ever stop to think about how Italy's system impacts the most important among us: the wealthy shareholders? A truly humane system would prioritize them at all costs.

/s (should be obvious, but I'll put it there to be safe.)

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

That and the EGS seem to be where Epic funneled all their profits from the height of Fornite. That neither has worked out puts them on shakier ground. How many billions of dollars has been spent on EGS with it being way behind their revenue targets?

As things stand, Epic has very little in the way of a next big revenue source when Fortnite starts to fade as something new takes its place. That (probably) isn't right around the corner but it will happen eventually. Their bet was on running major digital storefronts; that hasn't worked out. UE will continue to make good money but not anywhere near enough to sustain the company as it is. UE is simply far smaller than something like FN.

This is likely them realizing this in conjunction with what you said. They need a new big revenue source in the pipeline, since digital storefronts won't be it. Whatever that next thing is will need lots of money.

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Curious why everyone in the comments (as of my own comment) is happy about this?

Sure, he exudes C-suite personality and doesn't act like he's a gamer. But that doesn't matter. He oversaw Sony's rise to dominance in the console market. That dominance is built on the foundation of their first party AAA games — which is a less than ten year old change for them. Sony porting their big games to PC was a project that was fully embraced under his leadership.

Point being, as a gamer it seems like he's done a fairly decent job. I don't care how boring his interviews or speeches are or that he looks and acts like he belongs in a board room — they're all like that anyway even if their public persona says otherwise. I care about games and treatment of consumers.

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

People underestimate how much production other countries are capable of. Of course, China does dominate the manufacturing game, especially mass production.

There's no shortage of alternatives all the same. Vietnam in particular has been doing quite well taking manufacturing work that companies are moving out of China so as to diversify their production chain. India is rising on that front too. Not to mention that the west truly does far more manufacturing than people give credit for — I've found that nearly every category of general goods that I try to buy will have some US made options. That's not even touching the rest of the west. The big exception being electronics, but those have Vietnam and India as growing alternatives, with Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore all as solid players in that market.

The overall point being: it's entirely possible to remove China from the manufacturing chain if there's enough money behind the push. The US economy is probably large enough to do so with some meaningful struggle. The US and major allies could do so more easily. The difficulty is more political and temporal. Getting everyone on board and committed plus going through with the multi-year long process.

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kissinger is 100. He can't last that much longer... can he?

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago

Unity cares. This whole fuckup is Unity trying to further monetize mobile games and get a stranglehold on mobile game advertising. Console/PC games are just collateral damage.

If this costs Unity enough money it might work. I'm not holding my breath but stuff like this has a better chance of working than PC indie devs abandoning Unity does.

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

Based on their comment, I don't think they're the person deciding what engine is used. They work for someone else that has already selected an engine. They need to keep their skills employable first and foremost here.

Hopefully Godot takes off a bit here, I think there's good room for it to advance with indie devs and maybe use that growth to be able to be more of an alternative to UE sometime afterwards.

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the point here is that this feature would presumably allow you to just download the map at will. Regardless of what it thinks about reception at either end of your destination.

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder what the practical implementation would be here. I assume current water infrastructure is two sets of pipes, one for clean water and one for wastewater. Would the solution here be to add a third parallel set of pipes for greywater?

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

This doesn't need to immediately lower housing costs to have a positive impact.

Hypothetical numbers... If housing was going to go up 5% in the next year and this change causes that to go down to a 1% increase, it will have made things better. Of course, we'd all like to just go straight to lowered housing costs. But individual changes can still do good and bring us towards that goal without strictly accomplishing it.

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That depends on how long FCC is able to keep it implemented for, IMO.

Something that gets lost a lot in policy discussion is that once you implement a business regulatory policy like this, you create a constituency for that policy. It's an advantage in preserving hard fought gains but that also means the timelines need to work for it. The problem net neutrality faced the first time is that it was (a) late in Obama's presidency, (b) held up by court cases, and (c) reversed early on by Trump's FCC. There wasn't much time for the internet business community to build a business model around it.

If net neutrality is regulated into existence for 5+ years, at that point businesses will have come to rely on its existence. Taking it away will be harder, especially for a big pro-business party if it's getting an earful from megacorporations that want things to stay as they are.

Of course, I do agree that legislating it is the most robust option and would be the best course of action. I just don't see legislation as the only option with any longevity. FCC rules can be that if the timelines work.

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