It’s pretty clear my sources are the gaming industry. It’s your fault for being too uninformed and blind… And especially for being a corporate shill.

Digital Foundry. Would make sense you’re a corporate shill.

Everyone does. It’s just you.

Oh, I don’t know? The past five fucking years!? Every game that has been released using Unreal Engine 5?

You’re asking like you don’t believe snow exists, or the sky is blue.

We’ll all wait for you to cite your source on that one, because, no Unreal does not perform particularly worse then any other game engine.

You’ve been living under a rock.

Nothing else you say matters after this, because good gods, you don’t know anything.

Unreal Engine is a bad thing. Or maybe you haven’t noticed how every game that’s made with Unreal Engine, all the way back since UE4, requires far more resources than is necessary to run what it’s running.

If you support UE5 and Epic you support actively destroying gaming as an industry, and game creation as a multi-faceted art.

If they had even half of Steam’s user base they would be profitable. Their problem is that gamers insist on backing Valve’s monopoly because it’s what other gamers tell them to do online.

Well, see, here’s your first mistake; you think Valve has a monopoly. But they’re just one store out of many, including game console stores. The difference is they’re actually providing a good service.

Yes, it’s shocking; people tend to gravitate towards the service that’s actually good!

And Epic provides Unreal Engine, the gaming engine that powers the majority of modern games…

And what a total shite of an engine that is. It’s actively destroying the gaming industry by emphasising all the worst development practices gamers have complained about for the past 8 years.

… with free and extremely cheap tiers for indie devs…

Just like with their service fee, they’re doing this to completely undercut competitors, to ensure the Game engine everyone used is Unreal.

This isn’t a good thing.

… they provide explicit Linux support…

No they don’t. They barely support Linux with some elements. But Unreal Engine runs like absolute shit on Linux, if at all, and Tim Sweeny infamously hates Linux with a passion. He has some personal grudge against it.

They’ve also used a substantial amount of their Fortnite money to break up app store monopolies…

Because they want Fortnite to be the one game young people play. The One Live Service To Rule Them All. The only way they can do that, to reach the maximum amount of the youngest generations to squeeze them and their parents for all their money, is to be as widely available as possible.

Valve got skin gambling. Epic got Fortnite. The latter involves children and is massively more profitable.

People are still repeating this lie, huh?

But I want to keep using the convenience until it’s not. Nothing lasts forever.

So much money is tied up in AI, that when it crashes you’re likely to end up poor, or worse, homeless, than being able to afford anything.

Enjoy! :D

Or, you could put the resources that went into this thing that’ll eventually become a forgotten novelty (e-waste), and develope a Linux smartphone that is fully open source.

My dad goes to visit Iran (a significant portion of my family is there).

Immediately revolts start.

All communication lost (still haven’t heard from him).

America is deciding to attack Iran again.

His plan was to take a two month vacation with his siblings, but at this point I’m starting to wonder if he’ll even return.

I don’t see the point of this.

A smartphone is literally a handheld computer with more capability than this. Save for game controls, there is very little that a touchscreen doesn’t completely replace with full flexibility (besides, unless it’s the size of a Gameboy, the vertical controller layout sucks).

This isn’t a new concept either, as I’m pretty sure I’ve seen two phones and one whole laptop using this exact drop-in modularity gimmick. They all failed.

Hey, I recognised that reference.

My car drives Arch, by the way.

He thinks he stopped 8 wars? Which 8 wars?

You mean pirated Photoshop, right? :D

… You mean pirated Photoshop… Right? :|

American “reassurance” is a “trust me bro” with no backing and no consequences for them if they break it.

I mean… Palantir showed Denethor false images of doom and despair fed by Sauron. It drove him to become a completely mad tyrant.

I think Palantir is a very apt name. They just don’t realise why.