This Unity shitstorm is an interesting thing. Like, I have never seen a company set itself on fire like this before, at least one I am partially invested in. What’s funny is a lot of people also don’t understand why Unity set itself on fire, it actually has a good reason. Y’know, despite it doing the dumbest fucking thing imaginable. A lot of people also don’t understand where they stand in terms of Unity’s interests. Nor do they understand why Unity doesn’t give a shit about them, it does have a reason to not care about you. I know this sounds like I am siding with Unity, but I’m not. What Unity did was fucking retarded and I do not think they will fully recover from this, if they ever will. What surprises me the most is how many studios/teams insist on relying on others for tech instead of making their own so shit like this can’t happen again. (Ed note: This was delayed due to a few injuries)
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Recently I watched a video that awoke some deep forgotten memories I had. It’s hard to think some of my teenage years are now deep forgotten memories, but that’s besides the point. The video mentioned how people used to make fake manufacturer coupons on 4chan. At the time I didn’t know they were fake, so I used them. This then dug up another memory of mine. When I used to get free beef jerky coupons from Jack’s Links in high school from Jack’s Links. These were because my school kept selling expired bags. I’d buy $2 of beef jerky from my school and get a coupon that gave me up to $10 in beef jerky. It was a nice way to “make” money. Thinking about it now, who paid for the coupon? In fact, who pays for any coupon? Like when you go to Walmart and you use a 30 cents off coupon. Who paid for that 30 cents? How the hell do coupons work?
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This was honestly a surprising read/review for me. I went into Isom thinking I would 100% hate it. In fact, I went in thinking I would somehow find a way to demand my time back from Eric July. While I would not recommend anyone read Isom #1, at its current price. If you can snag it for around $20 I can recommend it to people who are more forgiving to first issues. I can’t say I fully hated it. The hate is at about 80-85%. That means I liked it 15-20%. Which is slightly below average for any first issue of a new comic. This was a huge surprise for me. I read a lot of reviews about Isom #1 and was expecting a glorious train wreck, but I was instead greeted with a mismanaged idea. An idea I wound up being interested in. The TL;DR for my review is this: I don’t recommend reading Isom #1 if you don’t want to be greeted with Marvel Cinematic Universe-esqe teasers. I would instead recommend waiting until issue 5-10, choose a number, and start there. It’s really hard to judge a new comic since every comic sucks until issue 5-10, except webcomics taking until page 30-45, but this one wasn’t the worst issue #1 I read, nor the best. It’s about average, and held back because of weird choices.
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There’s always been one thing that has confused me since I was a teenager: Why do people conflate money with intelligence? I’m unsure when my eyes were opened to the fact that rich people aren’t geniuses but I remember it happened pretty early in my life. With that said, I do know what opened my eyes. All of the rich kids in my classes were fucking retarded. I was confused by this pattern for the longest and I am unsure when the connection was finally made, but it was. I feel like there’s one acquisition that proves it: Disney buying Lucas Films. Ha, you thought I was going to say Musk buying Twitter. No, Disney managed to fuck up something more than Musk did, but no one talks about how badly Disney fucked up.
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Since I am doing my best to give up on social media I decided to look for news sites to read. This would give me different sites to check and let me stay informed. It would also save me the hassle of filtering out bullshit from people pretending to be others by paying for Twitter Blue. With that said, I am having an issue where every news site kind of sucks ass. I know I can just use Google News, but my Google News keeps showing me celebrity news and other things I don’t care about. It seems like a glitch when it shows me a news story I am interested in. I am also trying to ditch Google News. I want to help lessen Silicon Valley’s control on the net. The problem with that is news media groups are making that really fucking hard to do.
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Every now and then I peep at social media to see what’s going on. I’ve not interacted with anyone, but I do this just to stay informed with the happenings. Today was one of those days and what I saw floored me. People are spreading this weird lie that AI is killing Stack Overflow. Then I am seeing posts about people being sad over the demise of Stack Overflow! Why!? Stack Overflow is quite literally a forum full of those Linux assholes who ruin any chance of there ever being a year of Linux, but instead for every programming language possible. I am happy Stack Overflow is dying. Yes, I will explain why I, and quite a few of my friends, have all stopped using the site and are waiting for the day where we can say, “Rest in piss”.
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When you become a teacher people will often ask you, “Why did you become a teacher?” When you’re a teacher who is seemingly good at lots of things, and other people consider you smart, you hear that question a lot. The truth is I stumbled onto teaching. Even before I officially became a teacher I was teaching people random things. When I first started I was pretty bad at it, but my pupils still learned. There was a lot for me to learn about teaching, especially since I started teaching around the age of 14. I can’t remember when my first time truly teaching someone something was. However, I do remember the first time teaching someone something earned me respect.
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I hate smartphones. I fucking hate them. I hate apps. I hate how apps and smartphones ruined the internet. The truth about apps is all of them fucking suck. I just bought a new phone because my old phone was dying and finally I replaced it. I am currently locked out of quite a few very important apps on my new phone. In fact, for some of them I am locked out of them on both phones. This always happens and it’s fucking annoying. For security reasons, I can’t specify which apps, because apps are such pieces of shits when it comes to basic security that mentioning what apps you’re having login issues with makes you easier to hack.
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I used to subscribe to Scott Falco. I loved his animations. However, as he got more and more into streaming he was focusing so much on his ToonTuber plugin that he stopped animating. Then when he made animations again he was relying on the ToonTuber plugin. It just looked awful/lazy. Sure it works for a stream, but not an animation. The main reason I unsubscribed from his channel wasn’t because of the ToonTuber, that was just a negative that popped up from him focusing on streaming. No, the reason I unsubscribed is because all he focuses on is streaming. While he is a funny guy, and a good gamer, I don’t care for streams. I just want to see his animations. I’m sure I am not alone in this because since he’s started to focus more and more on streaming he’s complained about his channel losing subs and views. FlashGitz had to learn this the hard way too, Scott. We just want you to make the content we enjoy.
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I promise you, unless something weird happens, this will be the last “modern internet sucks” post for a bit. I can’t promise a while, but I can promise at least a week and a half. I’ve started to play Battle Bit Remastered lately. It is an insanely fun game, and has sold really well. Today there were over 40k people playing. I bring this up because the way the devs communicate to their audience is fucking retarded. They seem to post their roadmaps and every bit of dev diary-like info in Discord. Discord fucking sucks and if you post it there then it is locked off from the internet, unless people join your server. This makes it impossible for someone to simply Google this bit of information.
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