What about affording any of that? OR a home… or getting time off work for the 100th time this year.

Life is often unkind to those who need a bit of kindness the most.

The worst part is when people call somebody lazy or make other assumptions about them cause of their lack of wealth or expensive things or tidy hair. Some people never grow out of that schoolyard shit.

The only thing more pathetic and limp than this law is the men who wrote it.

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I was quoting Doctor Who ;)

Don’t you think he looks tired?

Good luck getting the Australian government to do anything. We might have the most embarrassingly ineffective government in the western world.

I like the idea social media is for kids only and adults are banned. If that applies to advertisers and bots too then it could be a winner!

Check out the Mistborn and Wheel of Time series for books that are waaay better than Harry Potter. Anything by Brandon Sanderson and Neil Gaiman is a good time.

Also highly recommend any comics by Moebius and/or Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Neil Gaiman. Some incredible mind altering works to enjoy there like The Incal and Sandman.

I think the games industry will start to use open source tools like Blender and Godot more and more. These options have really matured over the years and compete on features and productivity with commercial options.

From a business POV - open source makes a lot of sense when you need a guarantee your investment won’t evaporate because a vendor has cancelled a feature or API your game uses. With open source, if you don’t like a path the upstream code is taking you can fork off and make your own!

Part of the dynamic is also how people are inspired and learning skills. You can learn how to do very advanced stuff in Blender for free on Youtube - why would you pay some private college thousands of dollars to learn an expensive program like Maya to do the same thing?

Here are the number of hours I’ve spent on indie games VS AAA titles, according to my Steam library:

• Indie - Valheim - 435 hours
• Indie - Space Haven - 332 hours
• Indie - Satisfactory - 215 hours
• Indie - Dyson Sphere Program - 203 hours
• AAA - Skyrim - 98 hours
• AAA - Control - 47 hours
• AAA - Far Cry 6 - 29 hours
• AAA - Max Payne 3 - 43 minutes

If we’re talking about value - the amount of playtime I’ve gotten out of games with simpler graphics and unique ideas blows the billions spent by the industry out of the water.

My biggest gripe with big tech is how governments of the world encourage their worst behaviours. Governments and businesses have failed to maintain their own level of expertise and understanding of technology.

Today everything relies on tech but all the solutions are outsourced and rely on “guidance” and free hand outs from vendors like Microsoft. This has caused situations where billions are poured into digital transformation efforts with fuck all to show for it but administrative headaches, ballooning costs and security breaches.

I’m so tired of silicon valley frat boys being the leaders of our industry. We need to go back to an engineer and ideas led industry. Focused on solving problems and making lives better. Not making bullshit unsustainable business monopolies with a huge pile of money. Right now big tech is the embodiment of all of capitalisms worst qualities.

P.s. apologies if my comment is a bit simplistic and vague. didn’t want to write a 10 page rant but still wanted to say my 2c about the state of things.

Ah yes, the original unviable silicon valley businesses! I love how they used their VC money to undercut and kill small businesses all over the world.

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I remember very well. We also went from investing in fibre internet to calling the first female PM a witch.

Australia is basically Tatooine at this point, ruled over by mining industry titans like Gina the Hutt. Supported by creepy private school kids in board rooms.

All that matters is the sponsorship tier - will you be flying the judge out to a vacation? Buying their mother a house? The outcome is solely dependent on your investment in the court. Justice.

No sane court? So it has a real chance of being decided by The Supreme Court…

One is a work tool and for men, the other one a toy and for little boys.

Its the alien vents that lead back to the Primary Containment Facility.