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 I did a quick calculation and I've spent close to 98,000 hours making video games. Making video g... 
 Kinda baffles me when a restaurant has bad acoustics. You want people to sit and eat here, when I... 
 @6b550892 there's a reason 9/10 restaurants fail 
 @eb948c00 out of curiosity, what's the low level, high performance way to draw a ton of sprites?

Usually the answers to these things are "get the hardware to do it" but if the hardware is expecting textured triangles in 3d space, is that really the best way to do things? 
 nostr:npub12tsj0kj5e8v4y495g7f6yzc509nhgs322rk2ycg9z27r8l3ea7vsv26z9k I agree. Though I hope more... 
 @1d22b61e well every time they do something stupid they lose more people, so it may be a slow decline but it's a decline 
 I’ve worked in Unity for over 10 years both at the indie and mobile AAA levels. Given the backl... 
 @1d22b61e even if they back off, they've burned all trust

There's nothing stopping them from doing something equally bad in the future