I think it was just one guy, but basically yeah, iirc, he was originally building it in Unity, then switched to Godot.

Yeah see this is my whole main problem.

The writing and story are just… ok?

I could identify the racist tropes and body shaming just interwoven into the whole series before I hit puberty.

Oh then of course slavery is good sometimes actually, here I invented a scenario where this is true.

I got bored of Harry Potter, and just reread Animorphs.

Which certainly has problematic characters and moments and events… but … they are bad things, that the characters have to actually deal with, its a much more complex and engaging story overall, imo, though of course the serial format means that some books are not so great in comparison to others.

Kinda the same thing with Redwall.

It is a name people have.

Like Jesús, or Mohammed.

Yeah, I appreciate those games as technical endeavors… I do not appreciate them as a player, as its very clear that they are essentially designed to troll you, the player.

I’m not that much of a sweat/masochist, christ.

For other genre-flavored Godot fans:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1963610/announcements/detail/538883150377388601

Road to Vostok is made in Godot, just went Early Access.

Godot can do more than cutesy/2D games.

Its somewhere between Escape from Tarkov and Stalker, single player.

Oh, also, at least for the vast majority of the development, if not still currently: Just one dude.

He’s written a lot more on his LinkedIn profile, and he said he was going to do this ~6 months ago, “when it was safe”, so I highly suspect he is lawyered up and has actual documented evidence for a lot, if not all of what he’s saying.

The ‘news’ articles about this are basicslly just random snippets of quotes from his LinkedIn messages… I’m not sure if any outlet has done a total, comprehensive breakdown yet.

Has MSFT extended their gaslighting to include:

Actually, a highly trained, educated, and capable NASA astronaut is just not using our product correctly.

???

It really is farsical the degree to which they act like you are just some kind of idiot if their horrendously designed software isn’t immediately comprehensible and obvious to you.

Possible recovery technique:

“Whoo, too much coffee, I was apparently a bit too eager for this meeting!”

Cheesy as fuck, but at least you are attempting a recovery, and acknowledging what happened.

The strategy to fuck with a class action lawsuit is to fuck with the lawyers leading the class action lawsuit.

… This is how you get another class action lawsuit, which is comprised entirely of lawyers.

Jesus Fucking Christ, these people are idiots.

When you live in a police/surveillance state, you’re a fool to fear criminals more than the government.

My comment got more updoots, but you deserve just as many.

Unrecognized fetal alcohol syndrome.

Her: Please, don’t get testie with me again.

Yeah, it is assinine.

Because really what this all boils down to is an excercise in vanity, in self-validation essentially by force.

You can see this everywhere in society… fucking, Trump is threatening the genocide of a civilization, ultimately, to avoid having to ever admit he was wrong about anything.

What is wild to me is that… you know like schizotypal people get a horrible rap in society, because they’re unstable and dangerous!

Yeah, yes, its tragic when one of them snaps and does something horrible.

But you what is fucking everywhere, so commonplace that its just expected, seen as unavoidable?

Absurdly overconfident malignant narcissists.

They’re very often literally sociopaths, and they very often do nothing other than ruin the lives of those around them, to validate themselves, because they fundentally are not capable of self-validation.

But again this is just apparently so normal, that it only even registers at a social level when it is hyper obvious and extreme, as with Destiny or Thor/Pirate Software.

They’re all the same personality type… never take real accountability for anything, gaslight you into thinking you somehow made a mistake or misunderstood them… when they will and do just say anything that they think will make them more highly regarded.

Its narcissists that are the most dangerous kind of person to human society, but we hardly at all treat them the way we treat a far smaller number of people with overall, far less dangerous neurotypes.

Certainly doesn’t help the field of psychology itself is full of narcissists.

AAA knows that their primary competition is old games, that run better on more hardware, and are just better games.

Via a combination of acting like a cartel in a market, and also personally being basically unimaginably vain… they distort reality around them to the greatest extent that they can, to continue to convince people their overpriced garbage is actually the hottest shit and you’re some kind of horrible bad person if you don’t pay them.

That’s why they have entire networks of access journalists, why they constantly write essentially op-eds that follow the meta, or the meta-meta of the actual video game industry, why AAA games have marketing budgets bigger than Hollywood movies.

It is literally a propaganda machine.

Piracy is morally superior to feeding these nepo baby gaslighting rainbow capitalists that love to pretend they’re progressive.

They’re not progressive, they’re entitled faux nobility, delusional narcissists that live in hugboxes that reward complancency and not rocking the boat.

Lemmy does satire all the time, you’re just not reading it.

The problem that you are trying to identify is that satire needs to actually be satirizing something, ie, the context must be clear, and many people just assume the context in their head is the same as the context in everyone else’s heads.

You can see this illustrated by all the sarcasm that your comment has generated.

Now that the context is clear.

My guess?

NSA is currently figuring out how to insert backdoors into all these things.

You see, the last backdoor they used all the time, well… people figured it out.

So, they had to ban uh, checks notes, apparently all routers, basically.

So, now they need a new backdoor into literally everything.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-iran-national-security-council-statement-ceasefire

…

In this regard, and according to the prudence of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei (May God protect him), and the approval of the Supreme National Security Council—and considering Iran and the Resistance’s upper hand in the battlefield, the enemy’s inability to carry out its threats despite all claims, and the formal acceptance of all the rightful demands of the Iranian people—it was decided that negotiations be held in Islamabad to finalise the details. This is so that within a maximum of 15 days, with the finalisation of details, Iran’s victory on the field shall also be consolidated in political negotiations.

…

Now, the honourable Prime Minister of Pakistan has informed Iran that the American side, despite all outward threats, has accepted these principles as the basis for negotiations and has surrendered to the will of the Iranian nation. Accordingly, at the highest level, it has been decided that Iran will engage in negotiations in Islamabad with the American side for a period of two weeks, based solely on these principles. It is emphasised that this does not mean the end of the war; Iran will only accept the termination of the war once the details—given the acceptance of Iran’s preferred principles in the 10-point plan—are finalised in the negotiations.

These negotiations will begin in Islamabad on Friday, April 10 (21 Farvardin), with complete distrust of the American side, and Iran will allocate two weeks for these talks. This timeframe is extendable by mutual agreement. It is essential that during this period, complete national unity be maintained and victory celebrations continue with strength.

…

If the enemy’s surrender on the battlefield is transformed into a decisive political achievement in the negotiations, we will celebrate this massive historical victory together; otherwise, we will fight side-by-side on the battlefield until all the demands of the Iranian nation are met. Our hands are on the trigger, and the moment the slightest error is committed by the enemy, it will be responded to with full power."

There’s quite a lot more to it than that, but I’ve selected here the parts that make it clear that Iran is proposing 14 days of negotiations (potentially more, if the US and Iran agree they want more time) with the US in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The ‘surrendered to the will of Iran’ type language… they’re referencing how they refused negotiations untill the Americans accept their 10 points as a basis for negotiations, how they refused many earlier attempts by the Americans to start such a ceasefire without consideration of all their terms.

They’re basically being boastful and literally holier than thou, but thats rhetoric.

They at no point mention Israel being present at or party to the negotiations in Islamabad.

They also quite plainly say that they will continue to fight, if this falls through.

So… nobody has actually agreed to any of Iran’s 10 points or the US’s 15 points yet.

They’ve agreed that those sets of points represent acceptable starting conditions for an actual negotiation to begin… and that there should be a ceasefire in effect for the duration of these negotiations, between the US and Iran.

This is how… this kind of thing works. You each start with your sets of demands/conditions, then you work toward something that probably features some of both, some compromises, some concessions of your demands for some concessions of the opponent’s demands… then hopefully both sides mutually agree to the deal.

Again they know the US isn’t capable of reigning in Israel… they’re not stupid, they know Israel will still be attacking them while these negotiations are occuring.

Now, if Iran believes the US has resumed attacking Iran, yeah that could blow this up, but if the US just sits tight, without Trump going insane again, or having another stroke, well, maybe something can be accomplished.

Strangely, I am basically the opposite of this.

No formal training whatsoever, basically only sing in the car, shower, or karaoke bars.

I am nowhere near good enough to be some kind of professional vocalist, but I am usually in the top 3 singers by actual ability to hit the right notes on songs, at any given karaoke / bar outing.

I’ll usually try to cajole another actually good singer into some kind of duet, be it either an actual proper duet, or basically if its like a song from a singer with incredible range in the song, i do the baritone lines, they do the tenor or falsetto, we both sing the mid range, we basically act as live backing tracks for each other.

The Iranians know that Trump cannot actually guarantee that Israel will stop doing anything, that Trump has no realistic ability to force Israel to stop, due to basically lets say, his ties to Israeli intelligence cough cough, and his domestic political situation.

… What they almost certainly actually want from the US is a withdrawal from region, cessation between US+GCC<->Iran hostilities, some kind of recognition of some kind of Hormuz tolling set up (they want that as a UN resolution, revenue split with Oman, the idea is the toll would replace demands for reparation payments), and something approximating a pledge of neutrality from the US in the ongoing exchanges between Iran and Israel.

They want the US to effectively bow out and also admit that the Israelis are insane and the US is impotent to stop/control them.

They will of course act outraged and surprised that the US, under Republicans, cannot actually stop its rabid ally… but they obviously already know that to be the case.

The Iranians are literally the most rational actor in this conflict.

They want to essentially be the new ones to cuck the US.

They do that… petrodollar ain’t lookin so hot now is it?

Anyway, its important to remember that both the US and Iran have stated that they’ve agreed to an outline for negotiating a solid, actual deal, with a 14 day ceasefire for those negotiations to actually take place.

Nobody has actually, technically, said that anything other than ‘lets stop shooting each other for 14 days and hammer out a deal.’

But, because this is being so heavily propogandized by… basically everyone involved… a whole lot of people are not actually reading what people have actually said.

Apparently its very difficult in the Twitter era, for people to comprehend a complex, conditional, nuanced statement.

Hooray for media literacy, which is downstream of just literal literacy.