also to be fair while he's B-list in Hollywood he's A-list in the hearts of nerds who watched Daredevil, in which he does turn in a great performance.

not disagreeing with your take per se but it's very emblematic of TGA in particular, which, on the whole, represents a less mature, less dev-centric approach to the industry. this type of thing is more of an indictment of gamers than devs, and it's the latter I'd consider "the industry"

yeah that was goons be the other thing I was gonna say, it sucks we have to think about this at all really

yeah that thought did cross my mind, keeping data proprietary gives them an edge. still feels like there's a big risk of them changing business model or getting hacked and data going walkabout though

that said I should really just read the privacy policy of all these companies at some point

mostly vibes but personally I'd swap Google and Microsoft. the latter's primary business is enterprise which can have pretty high data protection requirements, while the former's primary business is personalised advertising, where throwing data around is kind of the name of the game.

dunno if this is a twitch thing, isn't reddit the natural habitat for these types?

of course, in a 0-indexed context, array indexes are just index offsets to memory locations.

for context, Roblox already *has* real-money gambling in the form of a virtual item market, which functions basically like the stock market.

they've basically already implemented that in the form of a real-money virtual item market. it's all so grim.

something that makes me feel insane is how bad roblox is, how every kid plays it, and how nobody ever talks about it. highly recommend everyone watch the People Make Games investigations on them.

great review ash!

or, asking him - the convicted sex offender - for advice on how to deal with allegations of sexual assault lmao

I cooked up my own thing, partly just to do it and partly because I have a custom text-templating system I wanted it to integrate with. Wasn't too tricky and basically just works.