Unity are spending too much money to develop far too little. New engine features are almost universally half baked (DOTS, UI mess). They acquire in demand features from the community just to let them wither (pro builder). The only thing that's consistent between different Unity features is how unpolished they seem.

Notably the mess they have made of DOTS seems to have been partially responsible for sinking Cities Skylines 2.

Just points to a mess at the leadership level. Their failed relicensing debacle shows the poor level of judgement of the C suite.

FWIW https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... is a crowdsourced way to skip past promos (by timestamp).

Or some creators have moved to Nebula, which seems to have less of that crap but IMO a worse UI than YouTube.

I want a co-op RTS and FPS/TP game.

Imagine one player is playing a game like Total War Three Kingdoms, and on the same team your friends are playing something like Dynasty Warriors. So you are doing all the high level RTS control while your friends are actually fighting on the front lines.

There has been games that have come close but all the ones I've tried have really lacked depth on either the RTS side (you only control maybe 30 units) or the first / third person side. The technical issue is you have to create almost two separate games and sync / balance them.

I just think it would be so cool to be playing a game controlling thousands of units and your friends happen to just be 3 or 4 of them. You could make it either Dynasty Warrior style where your friends are far stronger than normal units or something like Arma where you can die from one stray bullet no different than any other AI unit.

Setting could be medieval, fantasy, space, or modern military. Wouldn't really matter to me.

If I CMD+R on Hacker News, it reloads the page. If I do it on outlook.office.com, it starts drafting a reply to the email I have selected. Reload button does the same thing everywhere.

I vehemently disagree that vertical space used is negligible. Due to standard aspect ratios, the vertical space of the display is at a premium. 1920*1080 means you have 840 less vertical pixels than horizontal - it makes a lot of sense to me to try to reclaim some of that space for actual content instead of widgets.

To be fair, it’s not like the GCP APIs are much easier to use. It’s probably the right thing for infra and payment services to have a higher bar for API security, plus they’re hugely complex and usually used as an SDK. That said, I haven’t been very impressed with the Google API dev experience. Example: I was just trying to post some timing data to Google Analytics via Go, and the documented example didn’t work in addition to being very hard to find. I eventually got lost in Firebase docs, which appeared to be wholly unrelated to what I was trying to do, had many additional separate APIs, required that I set up a new project in Firebase in addition to my GA “property”… On top of all of this, the GitHub auto-generated API examples were outdated (used a previous version that referenced deprecated docs) with no hints as to where to go from there.

In the end, I gave up, because I wasn’t willing to invest hours into learning all the idiosyncrasies. Ended up using Influxdata’s SaaS and got what I wanted going in about 15 minutes. To be fair, most of that time was also because their API docs didn’t actually work as posted and didn’t go through properly installing the client lib, which someone more experienced with Go probably would have gotten past more quickly.