shawnshitshow

joined 1 year ago
 

IIRC, Microsoft paid 5 billion USD for Mojang several years ago now. They've added tons of mtx to bedrock (and neglected Java because it's harder to monetize I guess)

Then there's story mode and dungeons.

But 5 billion is/was a lot. Do you think they've brought in that much since taking over?

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 230 points 9 months ago (16 children)

1.5 years of learning unity gone down the shitter. here I come, godot

even if they backtrack, trust is ruined at this point. this only makes sense if you're trying to destroy the company intentionally and short your stock on the way out. what the fuck

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 28 points 9 months ago

from the article:

"To be clear, the end of servicing applies to drivers provided via Windows Update. Manufacturers will, according to Microsoft, "need to provide customers with an alternative means to download and install those printer drivers."

so no, this is click bait for what amounts to a nothingburger

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

not sure how it works really, I had to create an app API key and input that into revanced and it just worked. I just followed the steps it was pretty easy.

can't log in, but participating there is pointless anyway

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

yes, without an account just for local/niche subs that don't exist anywhere else

and that only because I have rif working via revanced.

if I am ever forced to see their shitty ads I'll stop doing even that

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 54 points 11 months ago (20 children)

despite what "free speech" absolutists would like to believe, the vast majority of the world does not wish to tolerate hate, racism, and bigotry. refusing to accept these is not suppression, it's maintaining healthy and welcoming communities.

it's no different than swimming pools having a basic "no shitting in the pool" policy. if you want to shit in the pool, you are going to have to go swim with others that are ok with swimming in shitty water.

with that said, I hear exploding-heads may be what you're looking for

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it took me awhile to find the actual unsealed records since this article and many others didn't link to it

Here they are for anyone interested:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.39513/gov.uscourts.cadc.39513.1208541751.0.pdf

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago

" Rumble Inc - Class A (US:RUM) has 182 institutional owners and shareholders that have filed 13D/G or 13F forms with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). These institutions hold a total of 22,622,139 shares. Largest shareholders include Cantor Fitzgerald, L. P., Vanguard Group Inc, BlackRock Inc., VEXMX - Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund Investor Shares, Geode Capital Management, Llc, VTSMX - Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Investor Shares, Sacks David O, NAESX - Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund Investor Shares, Susquehanna International Group, Llp, and National Asset Management, Inc. "

continue submitting to your corporate overlords

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

" Biden's war in Ukraine"

"Collapse of US Hegemony"

"CIA covertly overtaking Hollywood"

lol gtfoh with that bullshit

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't dealt with crypto in years, so I'm not really the best source for some of those specifics.

As I understand it, the Monero protocol doesn't maintain history between transactions, so it's very much like electronic cash. if I were to go the exchange route, I would convert to XMR, send it to another exchange, then back to BTC. it doesn't really matter where you buy it if you go that route. those transactions do have a cost however.

as I've said it's been years and the crypto world is loaded with scams so I have no idea which if any of those are legit, sorry.

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

You aren't going to be able to mine more than a few cents of Bitcoin a month without specialized hardware.

As mentioned, Monero is best for privacy.

If you must use Bitcoin specifically, one option is to "wash" whatever you buy by using an exchange that allows anonymous account creation, then converting it to XMR and back before using it. You can also find someone to trade with in person for cash. There at least used to be localbitcoin to help facilitate that, if that's even still a thing.

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Unity is not the easiest engine to learn by a long shot, I was really just using it as an example because they have a very good (and free) "learn to code in Unity" program.

It sounds like others have given some better starting points for you to look at for what you are looking to do, Unity seems a bit overkill.

[–] shawnshitshow@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

What are you trying to make? I'm not aware of anything open source.

I think short of using rpgmaker (not open source) or something like it (that makes a very specific kind of game and you are really just plugging in content) you aren't going to get very far into game development with no coding at all.

Unity (again not open source) allows you to do a lot without coding, but by the time you learn how to use Unity you may as well follow their provided education/classes and learn to code while you're at it.

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