Software as a Service more like Website as a Scam

one thing that frustrates me a lot about Unity, as someone whose only other experience with game engines is the Source engine, is how complicated and un-abstractable the components are

like instead of telling Unity “I want to make a prop_physice“ I have to tell it

“hi Unity I would like [an entity that contains a mesh and a mesh renderer and a collider and a material for the mesh renderer and a rigidbody]”

or instead of telling Unity “I want a func_door_rotating“ I have to tell it

“I want [an entity that contains a mesh and a mesh renderer and a collider and a material for the mesh renderer and also I’m going to write custom C# code to tell you how to rotate that door when the player presses use on it and also I’m going to write custom C# code to tell you what a player is and also I’m going to write custom C# code to tell you what it means to press use on something]”

like you have to explain everything to Unity from scratch and even after you’ve explained everything to Unity you can’t just abstract that into a neat little box like func_door or trigger_brush you have to specifically open the entity and be like “okay so this has a mesh and a mesh renderer and a collider and a material for the mesh renderer and it has some custom C# code so I think this is probably a func_door?” every single time. infuriating

smol tity is good

big tity is good

but very big tity? hyper big tity? that is not good. too much tity

given that Twitter is transparently a Nazi shithole and Facebook is transparently pure evil incarnate, it’s actually kind of nice that reddit is “only” a backstabbing money-hungry company frequented by lots of condescending insecure cis white men. really puts it into perspective, I guess

I used to be so impressed by how many degrees of freedom (DoF) a spider has in total. like they have:

• eight legs (probably around 2-3 DoF each)
• pedipalps (3 DoF?)
• chelicerae (3 DoF?)
• very complex mouth parts (I don’t even want to guess lol)
• probably some DoF for their bodies too - like where their cephalothorax connects to their abdomen
• definitely some complex parts for their spinnerets

and I always wondered how their brains were able to handle all of that complexity - since my brain certainly couldn’t

but then I thought about it more and:

• 8 of my fingers have an equivalent DoF to a spider’s 8 legs
• let’s say that my thumbs have equivalent DoF to a spider’s pedipalps. that sounds about right to me
• now let’s say that my arms (not including my fingers - I already counted those) have equivalent DoF to a spider’s chelicerae. I actually suspect that my arms have more, but this is a conservative guess
• I also have very complex mouth parts, so we’ll call them equivalent
• my abdomen has plenty of DoF - probably more than a spider’s
• let’s say that their spinnerets are about as complex as my facial muscles. I don’t know much about spinneret anatomy but I have a lot of different muscle groups that I can control in my face, so this seems like a generous comparison to me

so I’ve already counted what I think is a roughly equivalent number of DoF, but I haven’t even included all of the DoF in my legs, feet, and toes (I think this is around 6, or maybe more)

so yeah I think that my body is equivalently complex to control to a spider’s body - if not moreso

obviously a spider’s brain is much smaller than mine, but it seems like brain size really doesn’t matter too much. it definitely doesn’t slow crows down. in fact I think that thought, creativity, etc. are such new “inventions” of evolution that it comes down more to optimization than raw neuron count, and I think that human brains are probably wildly, shockingly inefficient at doing what they do so well

why is it so hard to get basic IDE features for C#, even when I’m using an IDE that is specifically designed to be used with C#?

I gave up on getting a C# LSP to work on neovim so I’ve been trying to use VSCode, but VSCode seems totally unaware of what methods are available, what certain methods do, what certain types are, etc. all it can do is give me basic LSP hints like “you can make this private because nothing has used it”

so I tried Visual Studio instead and that’s somehow even worse

I hate this language so much, and I hate Unity too

my ideal job would be one of those witches from fairytales that gives people ironic curses

like the next time I hear a techbro say “homeless people deserve to be homeless because they probably just don’t want a job” I want the power to instantly transform them into a black trans girl living out of her car

if MMOs are designed primarily to be social experiences, then why have such strict tiers of progression? for example if I’m level 30 in WoW and I want to introduce my friend to the game, I can’t go into their level 1 zone and level with them. I’ll be massively over-leveled and we’ll both have a bad time

and even if we’re both at the level cap (which would require my friend to grind for at least a week, when they may not even like the game), we might have different tiers of raid gear - or maybe one of us doesn’t raid at all. so there will always be a power imbalance that makes things much less fun

the only thing that makes sense to me is that leveling is meant to be a solo activity, and you aren’t meant to bring your friends into the game. but instead you’re meant to reach the level cap and then join a guild, and make new friends that way. which, for me personally, is a very unappealing way to socialize

but imagine telling someone “hey do you want to try WoW with me? you just have to grind for 20 hours and then we can actually play together in-game!” like who would say yes to that