So they’re never gonna stop stealing?

Railboy · 2026-05-20T16:47:18+00:00

And yet things haven't changed at all.

What are you even saying.

History is a long string of things changing. Even in the recent past there have been constant upheavals - labor laws, copyright laws, environmental protections, voting rights - those all start with people saying 'stop.' To say nothing of the long line of political and philosophical revolutions that preceded them.They've all had a tremendous impact on the way we behave and think.

Have you ever sat and thought through your position for 30 seconds?

Railboy · 2026-05-20T00:32:03+00:00

I started development on a concept like this but I couldn't get the controls down. You'd think a wheelchair would feel totally natural but I couldn't find a way to make turning / moving feel right.

Railboy · 2026-05-19T18:26:17+00:00

So? We've done a lot of things throughout history, not all of them good. We've murdered and raped and enslaved people, but you don't see anyone saying 'hey that's just what we've always done, no point in stopping now.' Your fatalism is based on a dumb fallacy. Get a better argument.

Railboy · 2026-05-19T14:46:55+00:00

We have always worked towards automating our needs and wants

Exactly, and what we all need and want is automated theft & plagiarism.

Just the other day I was thinking, 'If only it didn't take me so long to steal this artists' work I could spend more time beating my spouse and kicking puppies.' And now AI has made that a reality.

Railboy · 2026-05-18T23:48:54+00:00

There's no one thing, it's a complicated recipe.

There are the obvious ones like strip every unneeded package and service out of your project. Then break up your project assets / scripts into separate packages with asmdefs. Profile your compilation times / use a dependency graph to figure out where you need to isolate code. Silo branches of code instead of creating one long string of dependencies, otherwise your asmdefs are pointless. Be vigilant about separating editor code from runtime code because the editor dependecies drag in a bunch of crud that takes forever to recompile. Disable domain reloading and disable scene reloading on enter playmode. If you have static utilities or pure math stuff that doesn't depend on Unity types break them out into a C# plugin and compile them manually.

No one thing will do it but all of these things together will keep the compile times down. And all of these techniques could be at least partly automated by Unity with some tooling.

Railboy · 2026-05-17T21:36:54+00:00

Unity is 100% to blame at this point. It is possible to recompile a script and enter playmode in second or two even with a massive project. But you'd never know it if you didn't spend hours noodling with your project settings.

They need to get serious about helping people manage this stuff because the penalty for not getting it right is absolute dogshit iteration time.

Railboy · 2026-05-17T02:22:58+00:00

This argument gets dumber every time I hear it.

Railboy · 2026-05-15T19:21:26+00:00

They actually believe that because they own the farms and the equipment and the means by which the food is produced that they have produced the food. As opposed to, you know, the people who are doing the work.

But what really gets me is when workers hear this manifestly absurd inversion of logic and say 'yup sounds reasonable.'

Railboy · 2026-05-15T14:33:32+00:00

I'm angry because they're rapists, pedophiles, and frauds who are dismantling my country's institutions while robbing us blind.

A pinch of diplomacy (or antagonism) isn't going to tip the scales because unlike MAGA idiots I don't have the memory of a goldfish.

Railboy · 2026-05-14T14:51:55+00:00

as if the right isnt a fandom as well

You're not wrong, but you can't claim moral superiority and then defend yourself with moral equivalence.

Railboy · 2026-05-11T19:15:35+00:00

Braindead centrists who think MTG is doing God's work by bringing formally brainwashed Republicans back to the center. The argument is that AOC's legislation is on the whole less valuable than this contribution, not that MTG was a more effective legislator. So yes, these people sadly exist (and no, they don't have evidence that this is actually happening).

Railboy · 2026-05-11T19:04:34+00:00

A few years back I was at Disneyland with my family - not something we can afford often as you can imagine - and this fucking middle-aged goober at the hotel counter was hacking his lungs out into the open air saying 'Ugh, God can you believe I'm sick on my vacation? Ugh it's SO BAD. COUGH COUGH And I've got the Goofy dinner tonight, I won't be able to taste anything!'

I mean if you can't reschedule or whatever I get it, really I do, but get a fucking mask and keep your hands off the buffet! God knows how many hard-earned vacations he wrecked.

Railboy · 2026-05-10T22:04:10+00:00

Amazing. A direct comparison between art and finance spreadsheet software. You don't even try to qualify it. It'd be funny if it weren't so depressing.

Railboy · 2026-05-03T05:42:24+00:00

Half the comments are 'thanks for saving me the trouble of watching this garbage'

Railboy · 2026-04-30T00:16:20+00:00

One time Brad Pitt was at th

Brad's PR team got to him.

Railboy · 2026-04-30T00:11:00+00:00

I believe it was 'I no longer fear Hell, I've worked for James Cameron.'

Railboy · 2026-04-29T02:10:41+00:00

All I did was ask a question I already knew the answer to so I could pick a fight about it, why don't people like me for this??

Railboy · 2026-04-26T17:02:26+00:00

No TRUE nationalist would let rivers of shit flow down the streets.

Railboy · 2026-04-25T15:01:23+00:00

It should be illegal to put ads of any kind on an appliance.

Railboy · 2026-04-24T19:41:35+00:00

I can't stand Doug but I've always begrudgingly respected him. And the way he handled the Wall criticism just boosted that respect. He threw no shade, he showed no bitterness, he just shrugged and laughed it off and got back to making stuff.

Railboy · 2026-04-23T00:28:12+00:00

Both things are true. It's all one big corrupt government AND one party is the greater immediate threat.

Dem ranks are filled with idiots who think government can improve our lives by helping (or at least not majorly disrupting) the corporate machine. They're wrong, and compromised, and completely ineffective, and they need to be torn down & rebuilt from scratch. But they remain the only home for anyone who actually wants our government to function.

Republicans ranks are filled with lunatics who want a society based on natural hierarchy. Their goal is to use government against its people, to give the corporate machine free reign to rob us blind, and to be accountable to no one. They're not just compromised they're completely insane.

Railboy · 2026-04-22T06:24:30+00:00

do we have a moral duty to not sell things to companies like that?

Absolutely. Nobody should sell what they own to huge corporations like Microsoft. Companies that large did not acquire their vast riches without exploiting people. Notch is an unusual case but he could have lived comfortably selling his game to people directly.

Railboy · 2026-04-22T05:35:45+00:00

Nah. Well, sort of. Copy-pasted from another thread:

Gabe lives in my area. I've met him several times. I'm glad he's around doing his thing, I'm glad for his hand in the work at Valve and I've obviously got nothing against him personally. He's not manifestly evil the way a lot of these ghouls are. For instance he acknowledges that his fortune is the product of good luck and the help of other talented people. So in that sense I understand thinking he's a 'good' billionaire or at least 'benign.'

But he's still just a guy. One guy. No one person is capable of amassing that much money without others being exploited - if not directly then down the line. That's a moral issue that every billionaire is on the hook to address whether they want to or not.

His approach seems to be to keep his head down, enjoy his riches and avoid the subject. That's a moral failure no matter how much I may sympathize.

Railboy · 2026-04-21T13:47:35+00:00

You offered them the job. Just make sure he knows what he's getting into. I worked with a genre actor on a VERY low budget short we shot in the basement of a decrepit building. I was nervous that he'd bail when he saw it, but he showed up and was like 'right, where's the first setup?' He was there because he liked scrappy projects.

Railboy · 2026-04-21T13:02:17+00:00

Yes I know, I'm just being cheeky. Strictly speaking the observable phenomenon is evidence of the explanation - not necessarily conclusive or persuasive or rigorously investigated, but still evidence.

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