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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t know. As a fan of the genre there seems to be renewed interest from some very grass roots developers. I would have agreed with your take in 2020, but in 2023 we have announcements of:

    • the Riot MMO
    • Ashes of Creation
    • The Ghost studios MMO

    These are all still in development, some still in the very early stages. But I would say there appears to be renewed interest in the genre by developers. These projects are major investments by industry veterans. There is more hope for a major new game.now than there has been in the last decade.




  • I do not think this is a place for consumer action. It is good the devs are running their awareness campaign for gamers. If a dev releases a game made in Unity in 2025 it is because they have made the decision that it is the best course of action for their business. Maybe they have a B2P or subscription model that makes the runtime cost more sustainable over throwing out N years for development effort.

    At the end of the day Unity is a business to business product. The developers are the customer, not the players. If Unity’s new pricing and business practices don’t make sense to developers then developers will no longer use it and Unity will fail without player intervention.

    I don’t think your goal is to further hurt the devs. Boycotting games made with Unity is throwing the baby out with the bath water.





  • That’s the thing though. I think this attitude is incredibly pervasive in tech more broadly. No one hires juniors. They don’t want to train and invest in inexperienced employees. Instead firms will hire seniors, milk them for every hour they are willing to dedicate.

    Those that care give it their all and burn out after only a couple years. Especially when they see their extra efforts go unrewarded. The burnt husk of a human that comes out the other end will usually quit for greener pastures and the chance to start fresh where they are hopefully recognized. They are now someone else’s problem.

    Then you end up with the poor souls that have experienced this cycle 2-3 times, don’t give a shit and just coast by giving the firm the minimum effort to avoid a bad performance review.

    Unfortunately I think the current tech culture is very hostile to anyone who is young or cared.








  • I couldn’t live without one these days. I personally use Bitwarden. I have tried most of the other manager suggested in this thread. They each their own benefits. I would recommend one of the hosted services for most people (1password, Bitwarden, not LastPass). I came to prefer Bitwarden for their combination of features and openness. I have self hosted it in the past, but these days just use their hosted service.

    There are a lot of side benefits to using one besides just remembering your usernames and passwords for you too.

    • It lets you use catch-all emails if you have your own email domain
      • allows you to give services their own address to track abuse
      • makes you more resistant to someone taking your leaked credentials from one site and using it for another
      • easier spam filtering
    • Most password managers support random password generation
    • Saving things that aren’t logins
      • Family member’s SSNs and DL numbers
      • Credit cards
      • Wifi passwords
      • Gate codes
    • Sharing always up to date passwords and other secrets with people (for hosted options)
    • 2FA is easier