I generally agree with the sentiment, but what’s your take on Unity using the “democratize game development” slogan for some 15 years now? They recently exhibited rent-seeking behavior too, which they backtracked on, but is that writing on the wall?

- Revive
- Star Realms
- Evenfall
- Anachrony
- Galactic Cruise
- Dwellings of Eldervale
- Dune Imperium: Uprising
- Lost Ruins of Arnak
- Andromeda's Edge
- Stone Age

Temu Edge of Tomorrow.

Yeh, I'm not a fan of that move either, but it's better than paying over a $100/month for a year long Adobe contract with no way out.

And you can just hide the AI studio in Affinity so you don't have to even look at it.

Affinity just went free to use with full feature set, it's a decent alternative for gamedev related graphic design work and combines Illustrator/Photoshop functionality in a single app.

Under quickly rising hardware costs and vendors switching focus to high margin data center products I'm seriously considering this.

I don't agree with anything Rowling says these days, but it's weird to see my positive childhood experiences denied with such zest.

Harry Potter got several generations of non-readers into reading books regularly at a time when screens were already pretty dominant even if they were not straight in your pocket. Kids literally grew up with these books.

what did I miss?

ah, the shuriken

Not being tethered 24/7 has been really freeing in my experience.

I don't have it on my phone anymore, getting messages in the middle of the night or having it be the first thing I engage with in the morning is not for me. And for desktop I have Ferdium where I can choose to enable/disable Discord instance at my own will without the need to re-enter credentials.

I like Ferdium for that - I can right click -> disable service on a Discord instance so I'm unavailable in my off hours. Helps keep me sane.

co-founder still at the helm of Canva. Usually doom and gloom follows when initial visionaries sail away on yachts and parasites come in to exploit the tools to their eventual death.

that's about what I paid for the whole year in two separate payments over here, but it comes with certain 2nd world attitudes and the threat of invasion from Russia.

It's only rare if it's not your use case. For larger collections, it's much faster to use UI. I have a collection of 37 items with custom inspectors - mouse scrollwheel takes 5-7 inputs to traverse it fully. Grabbing the actual slider and moving where I need it takes less time and less input.