Probably not in the direct sense, given that he uh 'used to work' at Blizzard.
As a game tester.
By that metric, I am an ex MSFT employee, because I did that routinely as well.
(I then went on to actually work for MSFT as a database admin/dev, but you get the idea)
He's is an extremely useful and extremely idiotic useful idiot, like uh, Tim Pool.
Put him in a ponytail, bulk him up a bit, de-age him a decade, and you've got a theoretical physicist with an penchant for crowbar related mayhem.
The big corporations do what they do because of consumers like you and me
Which is why they run a non stop barrage of advertisemenr campaigns to brainwash the consumer into...
Oh. Wait. No.
That would mean the corporations basically tell the consumers what to do, and they basically listen.
Well, dang, thank god it's not like they bankroll politicians to the point of individual citizen campaign donors being largely of no effectiveness whatsoever in the vast majority of...
Wait, whats that Jamie?
That is how shit works...?
takes long toke
Fuck.
Maybe not specifically this comm, but I had been sporadically arguing with people on various places on lemmy about SKG before Ross even dropped his 'SKG is probably dead' video that (re)ignited this whole thing.
A whole, whole lot of people I talked to basically had the same talking points Thor initially did, a lot of them were dedicated to various facts that were simply wrong, rhetoric that was either bipolar/hypocritical, or just ultimately nihlist (nothing can be done).
I was actually very relieved, initially, when Ross made above mentioned video, simply so I would no longer have to keep explaining all the various intricacies... Ross had addresed all this stuff before, but you'd have to watch about 2 or 3 hours of videos to truly get it, in all its detail.
The 'SKG is probably dead' video did a good job of doing both a broad overview, as well as going into detail with the more common, in-depth misunderstandings... which were pretty much all popularized by Thor.
I completely agree with 99% of bigger tomatoes, but... I evidently just cannot forget those few, exceptionally good heirloom tomatoes somebody had grown back in the PNW a decade ago, hah!
Could be worse, don't take a bite out a ... tomacco.
Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.
That seems right to me, the... what is that a lower case sigma?
iirc, thats the sort of... rolling 'zh' sound I was going for...
... though I think maybe we just have a natural dialect difference for how how to pronounce vegetable, as you've got the same vowel sound for the last two syllables?
But anyway, yeah, I think I came up with 'fruigtable' almost 20 years ago, upon first learning how much overlap there is due to all this linguistic silliness... so i choose chaos, and decided to add to it, and now I finally have a relevant time to use the nonsense/compound word, woo!
I am 100% with your well written explanation here!
Just one 'nitpick', that isn't really even a nitpick because you did qualify the relevant part with 'tend to be':
A properly grown tomato absolutely can be so flavorful, sweet, tangy, varied, complex... that you could just eat it like an apple.
Not as sweet as most apples, but way, way more sweet than the typical mass produced tomato you're likely to get in the US.
I've been to a few farmers markets where... a couple of smaller farms were growing just absolutely stellar quality tomatoes.
...
On the other hand, squash and zucchini, even the fancy ones from farmers markets?
Main difference I noticed was basically perfect ripeness, they still just taste like nothing.
(I guess I should also point out this was from 10ish years back, sadly, a lot of farmers markets now have a lot of people basically just reselling some particular, slightly higher quality but still mass produced fruits and veggies, than aren't even local)
...
Finally, to throw more insanity on this terminology dumpster fire...
Corn.
Corn is arguably, from different domains of technical or colloquial meaning... a fruit, vegetable, and grain.
After millennia of us artifically selecting (and then just outright genetically engineering) what was originally, basically a kind of grass, we now have something that is now so sweet, that the US uses it to make HFCS, a cane sugar substitute... and then we jam that HFCS ... into bread, soda, everything.
So... ketchup... is then roughly a tomato/corn smoothie, made primarily from two... frui-getables.
Yep.
Fruigetable.
(froojzh-tah-bull)
((im too lazy to look up IPA symbols))
You're welcome, bwahahah!
True, they are related, but Redhat has a bunch if stuff that Fedora, and thus Bazzite, does not.
This can matter a lot if/when UE5 is dependant on something that doesn't exist in Bazzite, or that is configured in a completely different way, such that to make UE5 work with Bazzite, you basically have to break have of Bazzite with that reconfiguration.
I mean... the FBI and INTERPOL/EUROPOL routinely do things like infiltrate dark web black markets for physical things, services, hacked data, hacks themselves, that exist mainly or only on a .onion site, then honeypot the users for 6 to 12 months, then crackdown on as many as they can at the same time.
They also go after rom hosting sites, they go after the sites that host torrents and trackers...
Sure, call those 'Law Enforcement' agencies instead of 'Intelligence' agencies if you want to, fact of the matter is they often collaborate and share methods, practices and just direct intel.
Kinda like how US police have largely militarized after getting all the surplus guns from Iraq 2 and Afghanistan.
...
Have you never seen a website with a:
"THIS SITE HAS BEEN SEIZED AND SHUTDOWN"
Banner replacing the main site?
If not, you must not have been pirating anything for very long, or even just following that genre of news.
Happens all the time, and its often a big smorgasbord of collaborating LE/Intel agencies with their logos on the banner.
Typical car brain behavior.
Rudisill (the bicyclist) said he steers clear of cycling on roads as he feels road cycling is too risky, however, cyclists have the same rights as drivers.
Yeah those rights exist in theory, but in practice, carbrain hates you and wants you to die, because your existence cannot be allowed to become normalized, the fumes must be huffed, the automobile must remain the dominant species of transit options.
Bazzite is a great general use/gaming linux OS / distro...
But in particular, getting UE5 set up and working on it, as a game development engine, is actually very, very not fun.
It is much easier to set up Godot or even O3DE, or Bevy. Those are all fully open source, and also totally free to use, no liscensing payments for making a game with them.
Uningine is a seemingly little known, closed source, but much more generally linux compatible game engine, that imo rivals UE5 in terms of features and capabilities, and also Flax Engine exists, is uh, 'source available'.
Both of those have something like a 'pay x% of your game revenue per time period after it exceeds $y per time period' model, similarish to Unity... and they also have better, more broad native linux support than UE5.
...
But uh, why aren't UE5 snd Bazzite a good fit?
Well, for starters, UE5 officially supports Rocky and Redhat linux.
You may note that Bazzite is not, nor is based on either of those.
Bazzite is basically a customized version of Fedora.
Further, Bazzite's whole paradigm is that of a sealed off base OS, and then everything else is run or installed in atomized containers, use flatpaks as much as possible.
Generally, this is great for stability, gaming, and being able to rapidly update and improve the OS...
But when you are running a game engine for development, especially on linux, you will often need to download and install all of its specifically required dependencies, and Bazzite, by design, is geared toward you not doing that.
It wants you to use distrobox, podman, distroshelf, etc, to set up essentially a containerized, near approximate of a more standard linux setup within Bazzite, and then do any real development work within that... and this can lead to various weird, esoteric problems, that there isn't really anybody with guides or documentation on how to handle, because setting up a game dev engine in this way is extremely uncommon.
(Especially so if you want to actually do some kind of customized build of the engine from source, because you need or want some existing, additional, but non standard capabilities)
(Though of course that doesn't apply to UE5, they are not open source)
This makes it more complicated to set up a properly working game engine, especially when native linux compatibility is uh, advertised, but not well documented, updated, or fully working in practice.
...
UE5 is also very, very much just offering 'linux support' as an after thought.
UE5 + linux + containerized, atomized linux = you're gonna have a bad time.
If you wanna go with Bazzite, and a totally free and open source game engine, I'd suggest Godot, Bevy and/or O3DE, roughly in that order of increasing difficulty of getting them to actually work properly.
You could also maybe consider Raylib/RayEngine, though I don't have much experience with it.
Second of all, I am reasonably confident AoC has more toes than MTG!
...
Wait, wait wait, this is not a foot fetish thing:
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-feet-three-toes-photo-1784369
... well, ok, maybe it is a foot fetish thing, if you're into neanderthals who've been wearing horrendously fitting shoes/sandals for so long they've deformed their feet.