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  • Do you agree that retrievers are bred to retrieve things?

    Do you agree that herding dogs are bred to herd things?

    Do you agree that pointer dogs are bred to find things?

    Surely you’ve been around these kinds of dogs before. It’s not something that they learn; they are specifically bred to do a job and they will do that job even without training. You’ve seen or heard of how a sheepdog will herd small children, I’m sure. It’s why the breed exists; they are specifically bred to do a certain thing and genetically their instinct is to do the thing that they were bred for over the course of thousands of years. You can remove them from their mom and not give them any training and they will naturally do the thing that they were bred to do. You don’t have to train a golden to bring you back a ball.

    So is it a surprise that a dog bred to kill things will want to kill things?

    That’s not simply because of “a poor owner”, although the fact that people refuse to train their killer dogs to not be killers is part of it. It’s because their dogs are genetically predisposed to kill, just like a pointer dog is genetically predisposed to find things.

    It is absolutely a bad breed. Killer dogs should be banned worldwide. Every single pitbull, rottweiler, etc. should be spayed/neutered and the breed should end. They’re too dangerous and dumb owners have proven that you can’t rely on humans to keep them under control.

    It’s not the dogs’ fault, mind - it’s their instinct. But that doesn’t mean that future generations should have to deal with it.


  • English Mobster@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerulenity
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    Unity is a game engine that is frequently used by mobile app developers and indie gamedevs. It’s lightweight and easier to learn than its main competitor, the Unreal Engine.

    Sometime within the last year, Unity adjusted their terms of service. It used to state that you were only governed by the TOS for the version of the Unity Editor you used. If you disagreed with a new TOS, you could use the older terms as long as you didn’t update the Unity Editor. This clause was silently removed a while ago, without replacement. Nobody noticed.

    This week, Unity announced they are changing how they charge for the use of their engine. It used to be you had to subscribe to Unity’s developer accounts monthly if you were selling your games - this is how Unity made money. Unity has changed it so that you still have to do this, but they are getting rid of the cheapest plan (now the cheapest plan is $250/month) and Unity is now charging $0.20 every time your game gets installed. This is applied retroactively, to every game that has ever been made in Unity.

    So if someone buys your game, installs it, then reformats their hard drive and installs your game a second time. You now need to pay Unity $0.40.

    If you are selling your game for $1, then you effectively pay $0.30 in platform fees and $0.40 to Unity, meaning you only made $0.30 yourself. There were open questions about how this would work with GamePass, Humble Bundle, etc. - Unity has said they’ll just charge Microsoft (or whoever is the distributor) instead, without giving any details as to how this works.

    This also means if you sold your game in 2012, you are now paying Unity $0.20 any time someone decides to reinstall your old game - even though at the time you were bound by a different EULA, which Unity now says is invalid and they can retroactively change the terms of.

    People are saying this isn’t legal, but indie devs don’t have the money to throw at lawyers. Bigger corpo places do, but they also likely have a special contract.

    People are understandably upset by this, as they are now going to be on the hook for money they don’t necessarily have. This is a threat to their livelihoods and many games are just going to remove their games from sale rather than risk losing being on the hook for a bunch of money. This means you won’t be able to buy a lot of indie games in the future.





  • Hey, that happened to me, too!

    I got scheduled for a mandatory meeting with 1 hour notice. During lunch.

    I asked my boss what it was. He didn’t know either. I joked that it was us being shut down.

    Sure enough, 1 hour later we were both writing LinkedIn recommendations and helping each other find jobs after it was announced that our whole studio was being shut down by corporate and myself plus all my coworkers were all now jobless.