Gee, if only we could’ve seen this coming.

Are we surprised?

I mean… It seems 404 Media explicitly asked Grok about inserting food up your rectum.

America has no concept of “radical left”. I can suggest something mild and end up being called a communist.

Self-serving, and ultimately self-destructive.

Alright. But how do we stop the AI spyware from constantly monitoring our activity?

Might not be an issue for me since I’m using the flatpak of Vesktop, but getting all my none-technical friends to move away from Discord will be pain.

You have ads?

Yeah, so, “most users” won’t have to post video selfies or their ID, but you’ll still have to accept active spyware feeding information to an AI model that checks all your activity.

This is still equally as bad.

“Saying the quiet part out loud” moment, because they don’t feel like they need to be quiet. They’re untouchable.

Broken record.

Huh, I’m surprised to see Spain being so green. Wouldn’t have thought it possible years ago when I lived there.

Nice to see Denmark is basically 100%.

Sad to see Eastern Europe being so red and orange. I got some gay friends there. Was hoping it’d get safer for them as time went on…

Broken record.

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?