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Here's a good article about Unity going down the shitter: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity

The most recent debacle is that Unity announced that developers will have to pay a fee every time a game is installed. This seems to include re-installs or pirated installs as well.

Also, the description of this novel is fucking wild

RIDE THE WORMWAY TO NO-WONDERLAND

The essence of a truly null-Earth logic may never be as clearly defined as in this novel-length package of interplanetary surprises.

Consider this marooned astronaut. His spaceship and supplies are swallowed in one gulp by something from beneath the featureless plain of an unknown world.

The natives are not hostile but they seem incurious. He is welcome to use their free railroad system--the "alimentary express" of a world-girdling WORMWAY. Those he regards as sane are considered to be crazy. The culture techniques he is sure are crazy turn out to be quite rational--by that worlds standards.

He fathers a child without ever touching the mother. It's when he does physically create his true offspring that he gets his most startling surprise.

1960s and 70s science fiction novel cover art was god-tier

Did any capitalist countries at the same time have meaningfully better stances on LGBT rights?

Dinosaurs are liberals

If you read more of Che's letters, you'll see that that one is written in exactly the same style as the rest of his letters, both those intended for only one person and those he knew would be shared. I think you're overstating the nature of Fidel and Che's disagreement; there were some ideological disagreements but I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that Che leaving Cuba to foment revolution had anything to do with his relationship to Fidel

I thought Fitgirl was trans

Do what I do and dunk on them by wearing this out in public

Getting his penis plaque checked is basically getting his urethra roto-rootered

You'd think that at least some of the techno-libertarians would remember that data harvesting is a bad thing.

Reminds me of the graph I saw that shows how five or six years ago, appearances of the term "spyware" basically fell to zero because that's just a fundamental of how almost every piece of software works now

It's slow going since I haven't yet found a laser cutter large enough to accommodate the schematics I have. I have the materials, though. I've never played one

If you know me long enough, I'll reveal my long-standing project of building a hurdy-gurdy