Watching some of you fully cook your brains to no benefit has been a fucking journey.
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Assigned problematic at birth. Making fanboys-and-girls weep forever.
"Why don't you post on Mastodon more?" ^ that's why. The brains be crispin'
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A fairly large portion of what we think of in public as 'creativity' is really just ultra-linear thinking paired with the ability to produce.
I don't think this is a bad thing, but I think it might be healthier if we had a little more clarity about what we're praising there.
Aaand Unity just shot themselves in the cock again: https://www.reuters.com/technology/unity-software-cutting-25-staff-company-reset-continuation-2024-01-08/
They're not calling this a death spiral, but the lack of planning and no stated clear direction suggests that this is being driven by rolling budget shortfalls, so that's great.
If you have projects in Unity right now, think very hard about how to migrate them if that's at all possible for you. You may not get a chance to if things *really* go south in a hurry.
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⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧I appreciate Kickstarters with simple campaigns (See anything by The Merry Mushmen) and it surprised me when Mythic Bastionland launched with only two rewards tiers (pdf & physical book) and no stretch goals whatsoever.
I firmly believe that stretch goals have become a poisoned fruit on most KS, hindering (their deliver) and undermining (their profitability) them for the sake of FOMO and prestige.
You know what's the prestige I respect more?
Actually delivering on time!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bastionland/mythic-bastionland-rpg-before-into-the-odd
Most consumers are innately predisposed towards many of the arguments of the FOSS extremist crowd, the problem is that the software is confusing, bad, or lacks crucial capabilities that we need to do our jobs/work on our projects.
B2B is even easier, because we don't care so much about a frictionless experience, but the flip side is that the tool has to be incredibly powerful and include a shit-ton of extremely unsexy features, some of which categorically cannot be free and open to be useful.
But again; if the end product does the job? You're golden.
The thing that's trivially true outside of FOSS extremism and inadmissible to the point of anathema inside it is that consumers actually really like walled gardens as long as those walled gardens are smart enough to offer a frictionless and pleasant user experience, because your average consumer is not a software or hardware hobbyist.
If not-a-walled-garden can simply... offer as good a user experience, they'll flock to it!