Furthermore, if the manufacturer wants to pretend that they’re selling you a perpetual license to use the hardware or whatever legal bullshit they came up with on the back of a cocktail napkin between lines of coke then they can’t advertise using the words buy, own or anything similar without explicitly indicating in the largest font that you aren’t the owner of the product.

Because Apple ran a series of commercials comparing Mac to “PC” to differentiate themselves from the rest of the market but didn’t acknowledge other OSs besides Windows in this series.

Those ads played everywhere and now everyone associates the term PC with Windows.

I could have my timeline off but the first time I heard PC to refer to windows specifically was around the time these commercials aired.

https://youtu.be/0eEG5LVXdKo?si=oSGoV2fpgkJ-1BWX

To quote Homer Simpson:

Lisa! If you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.

Honestly at a certain point labels only help when you share a common definition with your audience.

If I call myself a socialist I need to preface it by defining socialism because everyone above 25 still thinks it means autocratic dictatorial regime where the government owns your underpants.

I just tell people that democracy is better than monarchy so we should expand that to workplaces and give workers a vote on the direction of their workplace. Most people are more amenable to this than dropping the S word or god forbid C word.

It’s definitely still pirating. I think the quote uses the term “stealing”.

When my custom character shows up in a cutscene

By Grabthar’s hammer… What a movie.

That won’t make the sex offender registry functionally useless at all… /s

If you ever needed an example of how conservatives don’t actually give a shit about preventing child predation…

What pisses me off about the whole Unity thing is that if Unity makes itself eat shit then it just further consolidates engines into fewer hands. Godot is great and all but it doesn’t have everything Unreal has (I’m not throwing shade it’ll get there dw) and I really really don’t want Epic to have a bigger stranglehold on the games industry than it already does.

Unity had its niche and if the executives could stop fucking around it would be lovely to have as a competitor in the landscape.

Also to everyone saying “just don’t use Unity”: there are a lot of people who have put a lot of time and money and effort into learning Unity and it’s not exactly as easy as you think to just switch to an entirely new workflow. You also have to consider how impractical it is to switch engines mid-development. There’s a reason why Unreal 5 has been out for multiple years and we’re only just seeing games developed with it now. Developers (especially ones with big budgets and all the caveats they come with) don’t want to ship a game with the latest and greatest engine if there’s kinks to be worked out. This is why you still see Unreal 4 in games released today.

Android’s file structure is so incomprehensible. I’m genuinely surprised there hasn’t been any significant effort made to make it more readable. Pictures saved in app directories, downloads, camera, images, pictures, media, DCIM???.