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If they sold games and were well monetized (not to be confused with heavily monetized), they wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

I meant in the videogame industry.

Because the Saudis leveraged this buyout via a massive loan from JP Morgan, EA's debt is now 10 times higher than it was when it was a publicly traded company: $2.2b to $22b.

Turns out the notion that they wouldn’t need humans to make games and they would use AI for most things was a pipe dream and firing staff to be profitable with the huge loan didn't work.

Now they are fucked.

Every company that spends money to buy up companies died and goes defunct because they keep failing to realize that they have to keep spending loads of money to make money and it doesn’t just roll in after acquiring IPs. Not even mobile slop or live service can save them anymore.

Godot has the Compositor. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/rendering/c...

Unity has little advantage over Godot these days, unless you're familiar with one and want to spend absolutely zero time familiarizing yourself with the other.

A nice, somewhat nostalgic read. I had X-Copy and D-Copy both, although I'm more familiar with the later X-Copy editions that were quite purple [0] [1]. It was also my first contact with the concept of disk defrag.

[0] https://jope.fi/xcopy/releases.html

[1] https://jope.fi/xcopy/img/xcopy/xcopyapr93en.png

Also one of the most controversial translations, if memory serves.

This is actually wrong because most of the A1000s were bundled with an RGB monitor and an optional composite out. The system wouldn't be really connected to a shitty TV until the budget models were released well after OS 1.X color scheme was established.

As far as I can tell the blue/orange scheme was instead aimed at monochromatic monitors.

I'm not seeing it. Sure, the window bgs are gray, but so was 90% the OSes at the time. Everything else is different and even the only things those two have in common, the pseudo-3D on buttons, is applied in different ways, creating different divisions and accents.

That's a whole separate argument you've invented here. And if the capability exists today, why did you talk about some nebulous future?

10 years ahead, but for Irving motherf- Gould wasting it all out of pure greed, even after Rattigan managed to turn things around. AmigaOS 2.X is still a fantastic UI and design language though, especially compared to the ugly mess of 1.X

If you're trying to say that Microsoft implemented a method of delivering specifically malware executables to every PC, I've got a bridge to sell to you.

Let's not diminish LG's part in all this.

Surely you mean Linux security model (not relevant enough to be targeted by big tech)?

It's a complex/murky matter with lots of allegations in every direction that's hard to summarize properly.

The absolute barest bone / neutral summary is that Filian is very popular (3.2 mil subs on yt, 1.3 mil subs on twitch, although she may be retiring currently, or is doing an extensive publicity stunt as her channels and socials are wiped clean). Two years ago, the model's creator announced [0] that Good Smile is making a nendo based off his model for an unnamed vtuber, and that they were not informed beforehand, let alone credited or compensated. They were trying to contact Good Smile and said vtuber to resolve the matter. After a few days Jingo posted an extensive message [1] that the situation was resolved and the parties are cooperating, further noting, among other things, that "free to use in VRchat" does not mean "free to do anything without any credit".

Note that this was not the first time Filian made merch off this model, and it was not stated clearly why Jingo took steps only at that point. Possibly because they never heard about Filian and only realized what's going on since Good Smile is a well known Japanese company.

[0] https://x.com/jingo_1016/status/1809101855655670159

[1] https://x.com/jingo_1016/status/1809811423125729396

It's not 2018 anymore, so that's not quite true. By now free models have been there forever, and indies have been using them for as long. I mean, Filian has already been using one over 4 years ago.

Which caused some problems with merchandising, but that's a different can of worms.

That's a bit... late to the party. I can't find when the article was published, but the phenomenon "went worldwide" several years ago by the means of COVID. These days the vtubing as an industry is in a somewhat stable state, if not a possible decline, going by viewership hours over the same period. Many big EN and JP names have already retired too.

now explain to the class who uploaded it to Windows Update service

The monitor should absolutely take the major part of the blame by being the source of the malware and poisoning the system for everyone else.

The wallpaper is definitely busy, I couldn't say how many people even used wallpapers in that era over flat color.

I mean, "back in the day", I used to set my own custom WB disk to boot in 8 colors on an ECS system, which caused extra lag on many things (visible redraws ahoy), and it was more or less acceptable. Paradoxically, if I actually had one of the beefier systems, this extra lag would probably bother me a lot more than it did.

Nah it was just the default server in the dropdown list. Out of the box it also supported UnderNet, IRCNet, and more.

Apples and oranges.

MSN was aimed at, well AIM, to the point where AIM used protocol flaws to block MSN clients. And it doesn't track that they'd just abandon IRC considering it was a period of absolutely massive growth for the protocol. It's more likely there was no intent to EEE IRC.

To me the pinnacle of icons was always the MagicWB [0] / MUI [1] style, even though I never really had MagicWB on my systems. Maybe strange choice of colors (pale blue, pink, orange?), but nice dithering and color interplay to create neat 3D illusion built nicely upon the OS 2.0 look.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicWB

[1] http://www.sasg.com/mui/preview.gif

So where's the extinguish? You can't stop proving your point halfway through unless you're implying you did not actually have a point.

> Social Media allowed ordinary people to challenge on a global scale the oficially-sanctioned narrative.

Hasn't been true for a while. Now it grants people with money and state actors unprecedented control over what ordinary people are allowed to see and mold them to desired narratives.

These charts are seriously out of date though. Five years in the current economic climate? Might as well be ancient history.

Damn, it's the same as on my luggage!

There's a lot of space in air, and yet we have multiple midair collisions every year.

There's a multitouch function

At least they made the trains run on time! /s