nah, it's the other way 'round. at least where i was, the evil jobs don't wait; they come and find the engineers while they're still in school. we had several buildings and events sponsored by defense contractors, and they loved to table and recruit. sometimes, courses would even have guest lectures by industry experts, talking about how we can and should totally use our newfound skills for profitable evil. engineers who end up in those positions usually get grabbed well before they graduate with well-paid internships and opportunities. it's a Whole Thing.

RE: https://soc.kouett.net.eu.org/objects/8ebdf6f3-c896-4d6a-8ab2-abeca6954e0f

squishies always talk about "hacking into" the robot hivemind. they do not understand that there is functionally no difference between "hacking into the hivemind" and "giving the hivemind your computer."

vrchat just announced the impending introduction of an "avatar marketplace" where people can buy avatars within vrchat. i'm glad there will be an easier way for people to buy them, i guess, but i definitely have some concerns.

first, they've made it clear that this marketplace is only for paid avatars - this isn't an avatar search feature, it's a marketplace. they make a lot of hay about making the user experience easier, but what they mean there is making the paid user experience easier, for those who are willing to fork up the cash (laundered through vrc's in-game currency, of course). new users who aren't willing to cough up $50 for a game they've only just started playing have to navigate the same confusing system of avatar worlds as before; the system only benefits users with money to spend.

further, avatars purchased through this system do not come with source files, and creators are entirely on their own if they want to try and provide them. this means that this feature is entirely useless to me and many others, who take great joy in modding, optimizing and adding features to avatars. people are worried (and for good reason, i think) that there may come a point in the future when the 'manual' way of doing things is entirely unavailable.

worst of all, avatar creators only get a 50% cut of the revenue. my cursory research seems to indicate that gumroad takes around 12-15% and jinxxy takes even less. i am aware that vrc is not entirely in control of their fee structure, as other platforms also take a cut; however, regardless of the context, the result - a 50% revenue share - is absurd. even though vrc is only partially responsible for that number, they hold sole responsibility for the decision to implement the system anyway, knowing that the numbers would look like that. organizations love to launder responsibility for the mess they've gotten us all into; i'm not going to continue accepting "we couldn't do it ethically, so we did it exploitatively" as an excuse. make something good (ethical) or make nothing.

Going live! RimWorld was lots of fun yesterday, so i'm gonna do it again today! You can redeem channel points to change the difficulty and/or storyteller!

https://twitch.tv/digimint

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Going live! Time for RimWorld with chat-adjustable difficulty and storyteller settings!

https://twitch.tv/digimint

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