My company is using this in production to stream messages/online presence to our Unity game clients and it works very well.
Which is it? Sounds cool.
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That's unfortunate, I guess it makes sense that Godot was used then. Tight budget, and it shows :(.
It’s incredible really that these guys are talking about using Godot on consoles when it is in such bad shape.
Even if it’s a bait and switch, and they spend 100% of the funds on just like, making the engine better, $8m isn’t going to get you to 1/20th of Unity or Unreal. It is an insurmountable niche.
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I've been looking for something Twine-like, but with non-HTML output. Does anyone know of an alternative tool that can output structured data, like JSON or XML?
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an_opabinia commented on A Victoria man has gone two decades without money capitaldaily.ca/news/penn... · Posted by u/8bitsrule
He wants everyone to suddenly stop using money. If that happened, who would wash the dishes?
Many communes have failed over this exact issue. They go on for several years with several people, usually women, making the sacrifice and doing what needs to be done. But eventually, the people who do the dishes get fed up and stop, or leave. And then the whole thing collapses.
The alternative is for the leaders to have some type of power to compel people to do the dishes, and some type of punishment to mete out.
There are certain tasks in society that no one wants to do. In order to get them done, you have to choose the carrot or the stick. Money or punishment.
If the society has no money, there's going to be a whole lot of punishment going on. It can work in theory, but in practice, a society based on punishment tends to snowball out of control, with the people in charge of punishment going too far. The people in charge make a small mistake in the size of punishment relative to the transgression. With money, small mistakes like this happen constantly, and they are constantly being adjusted by changing prices and salaries. The garbage man makes a higher salary than other manual laborers. But without money, the process has more steps, and is harder to get right. People protest, the leaders listen to the protests, go through the rule changing process, and eventually adjust the punishment to fit the transgression. Without money, more people are involved in the process. Some are removed from the actual issue. It takes longer for the adjustment to be made. With only the tool of punishment available, it's more difficult to fine tune every mismatch. In practice, it's really, really hard to get a punishment based society just right.
The Victoria man is a radical, he's there to start an interesting conversation, he's succeeding.
> power to compel people to do the dishes... and some type of punishment to mete out.
Moneyed, Adam Smith style capitalist economies still had slaves, colonies, wars of plunder.
It's tough. I see from your other commenters you're rooting for the guy. The mainstream opinion that executives should be paid less, that the lowest wages should rise, these are freebies and could be implemented in an afternoon, with no consequences. All the changes in a person's day to day life would be for the better. Mainstream people advocate against inequality not the elimination of money, but yes, there is a transfer, a "handout," as part of those goals.
an_opabinia commented on A Victoria man has gone two decades without money capitaldaily.ca/news/penn... · Posted by u/8bitsrule
Rising inflation says otherwise. Worst effects may be yet to come.
The USA was a fine place to live, many people happily gainfully employed, many investment accounts booking gains, labor and capital coexisting in harmony, when inflation was double what it is now.
an_opabinia commented on A Victoria man has gone two decades without money capitaldaily.ca/news/penn... · Posted by u/8bitsrule
This might had been the case in only low density areas (same as in all other continents), the majority of indigenous Americans did not live in classless societies.
Nobody said no classes. There wasn’t money like there was in Europe. There were by some intellectually honest estimates 50m people living in N and S America at the time of arrival, a huge number of people were living day to day without money.
an_opabinia commented on A Victoria man has gone two decades without money capitaldaily.ca/news/penn... · Posted by u/8bitsrule
I’m not sure living in the city off handouts, charity, and free tax payer provided facilities exactly promotes his no money philosophy. His life relies on the things he despises, if the economic collapse he predicts comes he will be among the first to starve to death.
Go into the wild and grow/hunt food or trade some skill - the post money society doesn’t need philosopher poets scavenging cigarettes from trash cans
We could probably 10x the number of “handouts” as you call them, at least in the US, and nothing would change.
We’ve auditioned it already: $4T in stimulus, the $600/wk employment checks, etc. What negative negative impact really did that have on an average person’s day to day life? “Handouts” made pay rise for the first time in decades.
Even the landlords. I don’t know any landlords who are on the street because of the rent forbearance and eviction moratorium - and I don’t even agree with those policies.
an_opabinia commented on A Victoria man has gone two decades without money capitaldaily.ca/news/penn... · Posted by u/8bitsrule
Are there examples of that in groups larger than Dunbar's number?
Indigenous Americans, prior to colonists’ arrival.