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Microsoft's official "Bing Wallpaper app" does some nasty, malware-like things to Windows
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They are trying so hard to push everybody to linux. The only thing that has kept me using windows is game development tool chains, but even that isn't gonna be enough to keep me on windows much longer.
The Godot Engine is getting better every day.
If you're already using a third party engine it shouldn't be as big of a deal jumping to Linux. But if you're doing engine development, the tools on Windows are still superior. There's a big reason why Direct3D is still so popular despite being constrained to only Xbox and Windows. Tooling and documentation for Vulkan and OpenGL are light years behind and it's frustrating to see how vast the differences are as someone who primarily works with Vulkan/OpenGL and haa dabbled with Direct3D as a hobby.
That is until they kicked everyone out for being “nazis”
As a general rule, I support the removal of nazis.
Nobody is against the removal of nazis.
I dunno, your comments seem to have a certain tilt.
Have you asked a nazi about that?
They do Nazi the problem with that.
You realize it's open source and you don't need their blessing to use it right?
You're not entitled to force people to deal with you being a raging jackass.
Yes, everyone knows that. What they did is banned developer accounts, thus preventing you from contributing to it.
There it is. The community of inclusion once again unable to express their thoughts without insulting people. Almost comical, but I guess there’s nothing funny about hypocrisy.
Funny how calling someone a jackass is "insulting" to you, but you treat bigotry like fair game.
They banned "developer" accounts who were being incredibly disruptive throwing a tantrum about the social media account celebrating games with a wide variety of perspectives. I don't think there's any actual evidence for them banning a single person who ever did anything useful, but it doesn't actually matter. They aren't obligated to let you be in their community.
Don't behave like a raging jackass and you won't be called one. I'm not obligated to ignore bad behavior either. It's perfectly OK to call bad people behaving badly bad people.
Sure, if by not doing anything useful you mean donating money to the project, and saying that the project should focus on the project [1].
Beautiful statement.
The fact is the mass banning was not justified, and people were not being “raging jackass”, no matter how many times you call them that. There’s a reason Godot apologized for the incident, yet you fail to see that.
Donating money doesn't give you free rein to be an asshole, and shockingly, their donations went way up when they removed the trash.
They elected to decide that some of the people being jackasses didn't technically violate their community guidelines and apologized, but that doesn't mean that there was a single person who was banned who didn't deserve it. Yes, jumping on a bandwagon of unforgivable horseshit without technically saying a banned thing still makes you a bad person, and yes, everyone they banned should have stayed banned.
If you think he was being an asshole in that sentence, then I guess we’re done here.
Glad you see it as well. It's so fundamental to how they engage online, the hypocrisy becomes them.
Bold coming from someone who recently took a strong stance on support of sexual assault against women.
You mean a few github accounts and a bunch of jerks on Discord, which you are bringing up on Lemmy?
If anything this is just another repudiation of Discord as a whole. I hate how its eating the internet like mad cow disease.
No, I mean titanium level backer of the project. What does being on Lemmy matter?
Yes blocking major backers is bad, I agree with that. The mod behind this kind of sounds unpleasant too.
Discord is like the antithesis of Lemmy, a siloed off, inefficient, unscrapable, private, proprietary and dangerously monopolistic echo chamber. I've seen it swallow too many of my niches, and from my experience, it turns people into jerks.
Hence what I'm getting at is that this may not have happened without all that nonsense in the unoffiical discord.
https://thedirect.com/article/godot-engine-drama-controversy
https://www.techopse.com/godot-engines-reputation-tarnished-as-wokot-initiative-backfires/
So... one article that explains the situation as "Godot said something inclusive, bigots got angry, started harassment campaign," and another full of dog whistles?
Bruh, you a fuckin clown.
Lol, "excessive pandering to LGBT..."
Brave little CIS boi standing up to Big Gay, what a fucking hero.
He's saying they should work on the engine instead of pandering. I feel like that's a reasonable request, especially from a backer
Seriously do you guys read what you're writing after you write it? Is there no moment of introspection where you go "Huh, so they're helping a minority group that is currently being attacked by powerful members of our society... by being inclusive. I wonder if that is a net good, and that helping people under attack is a sign of strength and not 'pandering'?" or do you skip to "People I don't like are openly accepted by others, and their acceptance is abhorrent to my backing of their" (checks notes) "video game engine. I must rage at this horrible injustice!"
The sheer volume of queer people who've made the games you play would cause you to froth at the mouth. Those same queer people can't even be out anymore without being shot at a gay bar by some fanatic, or walk down the street and not get assaulted. The humanitarian actions of a company that accepts donations is not reliant on checking with each backer to ask if they're okay helping people. Fuck them if they aren't.
I think you should take a look in the mirror and think, really think, about if a company helping people is in any way abhorrent to you, and what that says about you. Because I know that you know someone impacted by the opposite of that help, and you know their lives improve every time someone who isn't queer, or a visible minority, or a woman, steps out and says "No, fuck this, we're helping these people."
You can be that person.
They're a game engine, not ABDL or whatever. Why would anyone listen to game engine devs on political matters?
(Quick edit because I can't believe I have to say this: If you think people saying other people are allowed to be gay is 'political' you seriously, seriously need to reevaluate your beliefs.)
I don't know, why are you whiny babies talking about it? Look at the topic of this fucking post. It's about a Microsoft app that's malware.
Yet.. what's this? The people whining about people being helped brought it up, unwarranted, and inserted into discussion. So my answer is to ask your self.
Dude I think they’re just humans trying to be nice to other humans.
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Well said, pornpornporn
If only flight sims and peripherals worked on Linux It’s been the one think keeping me back.
I left a long time ago while they would entertain my classmates of new features I had been using for 4 years. Everyone thought I was embarrassed when the MS rep told me they had to look at legal consequences before adding features that could be patented by others when I asked why they hadn't added a menu of WiFi access points, yet I sat there wondering how our open source community built so much and took care of each other in collaboration. I understood they had to be careful to not get sued, but they also thrived in that world for competition rather than selling services.