There's this perception that Unity is great as a "first game engine" but that you want something like Unreal once you're serious. They have enough of the market they should be trying to actively mend that perception to avoid bleeding customers.

I can't help but feel they saw every other company out there enacting the "because fuck you, who else are you going to use?" price increases and other money grabs and decided to do their own, but failed to realize it only works if there isn't a good answer to that question.

Release your dedicated server files. Open Source it too. You've decided to abandon the game, so you shouldn't be worried about it siphoning profits from DLC at this point.

I think it'd need a small bit of work considering the integration things tend to have with online services, but if you organize your code right, just don't release those files and let people code their own matchmaking/achievement/etc. service or whatever.

Only buy a game if you're happy with the current release being the last release. Regardless of the size of the company putting it out, you just never know what's going to happen.

And even worse, "preordering" digital games before even a review is out is just a moronic form of gambling.

These proprietary codecs were, until LE Audio, literally the only way to have high quality audio over Bluetooth.

Sad to see a new bluetooth device coming out that doesn't support LE Audio, the new audio standard introduced in Bluetooth 5.2.

Also no support for the various high-quality proprietary A2DP codecs you tend to see on Android like AptX Adaptive, AptX Voice, LDAC, etc.

Only supports AAC and SBC.

If you're on iPhone you probably have Apple's buds. If you're on Android you have high-quality, feature-rich options from actual audio companies for about the same price.

It's cool to have replaceable batteries but the device is already outdated technology-wise. You're going to really have to want to vote with your wallet for this to make sense.

They're targeting SOCs, so drivers won't really be an issue. Most USB things are HID. I guess I'm not sure about printer drivers. If we ever see ARM-based motherboards, it'll get more interesting.

That's exactly the behavior of enum classes in C++ (since C++11).

It is absolutely not the behavior of enum classes, switch, or the combination of the two in C++, though compilers may generate warnings. See example for the problem pattern matching solves.

I agree that in general the Rust community has a tendency to argue from a place of tribalism rather than experience. I don't view this as a problem specific to Rust, but moreso newbies succumbing to confirmation bias or choice-supportive bias and parroting opinions they heard from experts without understanding any of the nuance.

Indeed, it's less "impressive technology ahead of its time" and more "nice idea ahead of the technology".

They were likely counting on AI catching up quickly to avoid having that labor all together. Get the cost of AI mistakes down to less than the cost of labor and you win.

It's probably less specifically about enums and more about pattern matching.

In C++ your enum has 5 possible values. Somewhere in your code you have a "switch" and need to check all possible values. Add a new enum value and you won't get a compile error.

In Rust you use "match", which will cause a compile error if there are any possible values that you aren't handling. Add a new enum value, and on next compile you'll get a nice list of places that need to be updated.

It's unfortunate you interpreted my comment as a dismissal of science.

Yeah no kidding. Everything is amplified. It grabs eyeballs.

She's not wrong about propaganda being more technically advanced and dangerous than ever. I wasn't commenting on that.

I do think she should just stay away from politics near election times. There is always going to be someone more appropriate to say this, who won't add an agenda trying to blame her embarrasing loss on it.

Look, I voted for her.

Her campaign was full of meaningless "it's her time" messaging. The DNC literally conspired to help her win the primary, with Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning after evidence was leaked and then immediately joining Hillary's campaign. As a progressive, I really disliked Hillary.

When she finally faced off against Trump, half the time she just didn't seem to know how to react, and the rest of the time she'd just smile and act "above it all" rather than tackle him head-on. What have we learned since that election about how conservatives react to being looked down on?

Yes, there's been a ridiculous amount of shit flung at her. Biden's been getting the same treatment. But it's not why she lost. That she still comes up for air every now and then just to repeat this dilusion is insane. She was a bad candidate.

In a single player game, I think it's fine. Kids (and adults) will always try to break the rules, and this is probably the safest form to allow them some rule breaking to learn from. Multiplayer is where you need to watch out. I can imagine an MMO being hot garbage with people screwing with bots.

Are you feeling so triggered by being corrected that your only thought is to be dismissive?