#engine bracket

[moriseteam]

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[kinnbig]

Ram + autistic traits

[speakergame]

Hey you mentioned on the update that we should tell you if Gav mentions anyone besides our chosen RO and in every playthrough he tells me to talk to Li regardless of who I'm romancing! I just assumed it was because that was his sibling so I didn't think anything was odd about it but yeah he never mentions anyone else in any of my other playthroughs (none of which has any romance flagged with Li btw!)

hmmmmmmm

that means the code I thought would fix the issue actually broke it completely 😅 oops

I'll keep poking around and see if I can fix that asap. thanks for letting me know!

[bl-bracket]

#1 Himbo Bracket

Round 1

Yai (The Sign) vs Jung Ki Sub (Boys Be Brave!)

Khem (The Sign) vs Haruta (Ossan's Love)

Zhao Yunlan (Guardian) vs Bohn (My Engineer)

Nawin (Laws of Attraction) vs Prapai (Love in the Air)

Yechan (Love Tractor) vs North (Pit Babe)

Xiao Li Cheng (HIStory 4: Close to You) vs Yak (Wandee Goodday)

Neo (3 Will Be Free) vs Choco (Choco Milk Shake)

Cao Wei Ning (Word of Honor) vs Great (Deep Night)

Porsche (Kinnporsche: The Series) vs Tan (We Are)

Hotae (Unintentional Love Story) vs Im Han Tae (Sing My Crush)

Gu Xiang (Word of Honor) vs Xiang Hao Ting (HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count)

Mork (My Ride) vs Yod (A Tale of Thousand Stars)

Pat (Bad Buddy) vs Phaya (The Sign)

Akk (Enchante) vs Jump (Playboyy: The Series)

Palm (Never Let Me Go) vs Ni (Tonhon Chonlatee)

Meng Shao Fei (HIStory 3: Trapped) vs Pol (Kinnporsche: The Series)

[funkylittlebaldcharapoll]

FUNKY LITTLE BALD CHARACTER POLL: BOSS BRACKET, ROUND 1

who's funkier, littler and balder?

[mydotguy]

engie is undeniably a cutie

[mlmshipbracket]

ROUND 1: POLL #21

EngieSpy/Napoleon Complex art by wavycat on Youtube

ROUND 1 POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Spy/Dell Conagher [Engineer]:

Boston/Nick:

They were a disaster of a couple but it was great. They first hook up because Nick was repairing Boston's phone and went through the pictures and then jerked off to one of Boston's thirst traps and proceeded to leave his own on the phone, which when Boston saw, decided he might as well fuck him. And thus began the most emotionally complicated friends with benefits arrangement of all time. in a slight genre shift there would have definitely been some murders going on if we're being real

look this gif set of their first hook up haunts me

also these are quite fun

also this one lives rent free in my mind

[i-know-this-man]

[galinneall-dearg]

I'm not sure if you're taking requests for moodboards for the tournament, in which case that's okay u can ignore this lol, or if you're planning on making one for each ship anyway, but I would love to see one for Rosie x Mavis if you weren't already planning on it 🥺

TTTE Sapphic Ships Tournament by @togetherness23

Hehe Moodboard requests are always welcome!

These two would be incredible together. An unstoppable force! In cahoots! The trucks wouldn't know what hit 'em.

[kingarthurtournament]

Round 2 Side B Poll 8

Thomas the Tank Engine

"From the United Kingdom, has found and bore historical Surdic artifacts such as King Godreds Crown"

Arthur Pendragon

"he's my babygirl and also insane and the most bisexual man ever and stupid and kind and good at swordfighting and has the world's worst parental issues."

[ashlynniis-bracketeers]

(Warning: Cursing. Then again, it's DRG.)

Decided to scribble out a comic in MS Paint of something funny that happened to me yesterday. Will be putting it under a cut.

Also posted to the DRG subreddit.

Context:

The situation happened on Steam. So I was just playing Scout in an IS mission in the Fungus Bogs with a bunch of randos, trying to get through more of my Scout promotion assignment. A big Lithophage meteor ended up falling in the mission, and after Engie called down the Rockcrackers, he decided to put some plats around the meteor (presumably so we didn't burn our feet off when setting up the jackhammers), but when he placed one or two plats the meteor just... vanished. Went poof. Blipped out of existence. No particle effects, and it left behind the Plaguehearts without needing to do the Rockcrackers. Lots of us went "?????" in the text chat, and one of my other teammates, who was using voice-chat (I think it was the Gunner, but I admittedly don't quite remember) just went "WHAT THE FUCK?".

Hey, not like any of us were complaining. Free Plaguehearts! It was just a very surprising bug lmao.

Comic under cut.

[moriseteam]

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[fr-familiar-bracket]

[the-fandom-crossroads]

Unity News Round Up!

So at the very end of last week sep 23 Unity backed off of SOME of the new policy. So my original post about what games will be affected is no longer accurate. Link I am making this post to summarize how things are now and kill a few rumors that are still floating around. So Please reblog this one instead of the older post!

What Unity changed back

Legacy downloads will no longer be counted towards the 200,000 downloads! So older games will not have their downloads counted towards the bill. The 200,001 download to happen after jan 1st 2024 is when the fee will activate.

Cult of the Lamb is NOT being removed from store fronts jan 1st. That was a joke tweet and now it is extremely untrue. But the studio is switching engines for cult of the lamb 2.

Also this fee is not being added to the 2023 version of unity or older nor the Personal plan version. (because a lawyer finally informed the execs that's illegal) It will ONLY affect the 2024 version of Unity. So as long as your game is coded on the 2023 ver and you don't update to 2024 when it comes out your game can be published in 2024 and still not have the fee!

HOLLOW KNIGHT SILKSONG IS SAFE! Seeing as 80 to 90% of it has been coded in the 23 version there's no reason they can't finish it in that version.

But if your game will take longer than a year to finish I still recommend switching engines now. It would not surprise me if in a few years they end service for 2023 or older versions to force people to update to the newer versions with the fee.

Here's a link to the open letter announcing the changes.

Mihoyo/Genshin's connection to all of this.

Mihoyo has not yet made a public statement about all of this. But any change to the international unity tos would not affect them. They are partnered with Unity China which is it's own separate company. Unity China would have to adopt the change for it to affect Mihoyo. Which they have not made any statement implying they would.

The reason Unity China is a separate company is because of China's strict foreign company laws. But convincing the Chinese government to allow even an off shoot of a foreign company to set up shop is hard. Nintendo is still fighting to get their foot in the door. The only reason Unity C got in was because Mihoyo backed them. Unity C owes Mihoyo it's very existence. They are in no position to make demands by changing the current contracts without warning.

There were a few rumors about Mihoyo hiring people to develop their own game engine and that is false. Mihoyo did post 5 or so job listings for folks specialized in game engine coding. But it was clearly for code optimization of their current engine Unity. If Mihoyo decided to start building their own engine from scratch it would require the hiring of at least 100 coders focusing solely on the new engine.

Genshin and Honkai will stay on the Unity Engine. When the 2024 engine comes out Mihoyo might upgrade to it. But they would have a customized contract with Unity China and it would not include the current fee plan.

What about all the other Live Service Mobile Games?

In theory their creators could keep using 2023 and not have to worry about the fees. But as I mentioned I can't see Unity keeping the 2023 version usable past 2025. All of these games will easily pass the download threshold as they are free to download and they will pass the profit cap too.

Pokemon Go, Pokemon Unite, Duel Links, Master Duel, Hearthstone, Fates, League of Legends Wild Rift, and Marvel Snap are all still getting updates and won't be closing anytime soon. I don't know how important updating to the newest version of Unity is for these development teams. But in theory all their parent companies can afford the increased fees, they just won't like it.

With Mihoyo off the table Pokemon GO is the big fish Unity execs are aiming for. It gets a couple million new downloads every year and goes well past the profits cap and definitely isn't made using Unity Personal nor is Nintendo/GameFreak allowing Unity ads to play on their mobile game (those are all ways to lower the bill). Pokemon Go can't be moved to a new engine and has too many current users for Nintendo to risk dropping the app entirely to start over with pokemon go 2 on a new engine.

Nintendo has not yet made a comment, but if they do cave and pay the fees. Then there's no way the middle tier games devs can argue against it. even if the couple 1,000s in fees hurts the indie dev more. Unity can point to the couple million Nintendo is forking over for all their mobile games and say "if they can do it why can't you?"

So keep an eye out for what Nintendo does because of all this.

What about Demos, Charity bundles, or game subscription downloads?

The Updated version described in the open letter mentions the game devs being responsible for recording the number of downloads. Most likely because there isn't a legal way for Unity to truly monitor it and so their numbers would never have been trustworthy. If devs are reporting the numbers it's very easy to say downloads before a certain date are only the demos or keep track of how many charity bundles are sold and not count those downloads towards their total.

For Subscription Services, Unity has started to intentionally keep the answer vague. The first time they said developers would pay it like the legacy downloads. In an interview before the correction letter above the Unity President said the subscription hosts would pay the fee. After the correction letter he clarified that he "misspoke". AKA Microsoft and Playstation said "hell no!" that's super illegal to charge us in a contract we never signed we'll sue you to oblivion if you do that. But Unity is being unclear on if that means developers are back to footing the bill for Game Pass downloads. X

To understand exactly how vague they are being. A Reddit FAQ says developers will not be responsible for the fee of game downloads from subscription services. While the site FAQ section answers the question "Are Downloads from Subscription Services required to pay the download fee?" with "Yes" and Nothing more.

TOS Changes and How bad it really is

So the reason we don't know who is paying in some of these situations is because the final version of the 2024 licensing contract is not yet finalized. All Unity did was announce this new fee would be in the 2024 contract. That is why they were able to so quickly go back on what they said. It's just back spacing on a google doc it's not redacting and adjusting an actual legal document yet.

That means this might not be the only change they put in the new contract. This is just the only one they bothered to mention. most likely to convince shareholders they were going to be boosting profits in 2024 even if 23's Q4 is really low.

There being more unmentioned changes is a bad thing because they removed the github extension that updated you on changes made to the TOS. They argue it was because "traffic" was too low. There reasoning for removing an archive of Legal documents was click through rate being too low. They also argued that the TOS was available the entire time on their website. But please understand that is only their current TOS. So being able to compare changes from past TOS's wouldn't be possible on that page. X

The Possibility of this all being a Stunt

One of the theories going around is that they knew this would go over badly to some extent. Not this bad, but still drop the stock value a bit. Enough that the company would look cheap enough for a buy out from another company. The possible buyer being Apple's Mobile Gaming division. So far Apple has not shown interest in buying them and no solid evidence of this happening on the back end has shown up.

But it is pretty well known that the CEO sold stocks the week before this news came out. Which is called insider trading and super illegal. Unfortunately it looks like he might get away with it, with the argument that the sale of those stocks was scheduled months before this announcement was planned.

But that doesn't change the fact that he's sold over 50,000 shares this year alone. Two other officials have sold 37,000 and 68,000 of their shares this year. It's very clear they see the writing on the wall and are trying to offload stocks before the final numbers for the year reach the shareholders and the value of shares plummets. X

If they truly believed in the chance of a buy out they wouldn't be offloading so much of their stock. Because when they are bought Apple would have to pay them based on the number of shares they have at the time of the buy out. So they don't believe they'll be bought any time soon but they do believe the value of Unity stocks are only going to continue to go down.

Even without this stunt the end of Q4 report would have shown losses and caused the stock value to drop. This was most likely their last ditch attempt to show their shareholders something that implied the possibility of future profits.

That's the important thing to remember. They didn't care about how the devs reacted. They knew there were going to be complaints but they didn't care because they saw how much money they could milk if they charged every game to ever use unity for every download of that game. And they knew that would show profitability and increase the value of the company. They only back peddled when it became clear the news was affecting the stock more than anticipated.

Even then the .20 per download was never removed they just pushed back the cap and the downloads counted in hopes that would shut protests down enough for the stock value to go back up. as of Sep 29 their stock value has still not recovered.

Conclusion

Don't trust Unity. Anything they say now is just PR to try in get the stock value to go back up. They did pull back on some of the worst parts of the original agreement and older and most indie games are now safe. But Mobile F2P games and Game subscription games are still at risk of getting hit with the bill. They have also kept things vague enough to allow them to change things in the future once the dust has settled.

So I would heavily encourage those in the early stages of their games development to look for a new engine. If you have any Unity Stocks and haven't already sold them for whatever reason I'd find the time to start selling them. Unity might recover for a bit but they are not going to last long with business decisions like this and even the board members know that.

Oh wow this got so long I am so sorry. But It's all important information and I tried to link to actual articles as much as I could. As of the end of September this information is as accurate as it can be. Nothing major should come up until Unity announces the finalized TOS rewrite or Nintendo comments on the Pokemon Go fees.

PLEASE reblog this one if you reblogged my initial post about Unity Games that were at risk. It's important for people to know those games are no longer at risk of being removed from store fronts. Oh and feel free to reblog with a summarized version.

[bl-bracket]

#1 Himbo Losers' Bracket

*no fancy photo of the bracket for these guys, sorry!*

Jung Ki Sub (Boys Be Brave!) vs Haruta (Ossan's Love)

Bohn (My Engineer) vs Nawin (Laws of Attraction)

North (Pit Babe) vs Yak (Wandee Goodday)

Neo (3 Will Be Free) vs Great (Deep Night)

Tan (We Are) vs Im Han Tae (Sing My Crush)

Gu Xiang (Word of Honor) vs Mork (My Ride)

Phaya (The Sign) vs Jump (Playboyy: The Series)

Ni (Tonhon Chonlatee) vs Meng Shao Fei (HIStory 3: Trapped)

[byronicherobracket]

The Byronic Hero Bracket: Qualifying Round Batch G #8

Leonardo De Montreal from Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine vs. Ulfric Stormcloak from Skyrim

Reasons under the cut (spoilers for both)

(All sources from TV Tropes)

Leonardo De MontrealLeonardo De Montreal runs down each point on the checklist, to the point where his heroism is at least fifty percent based on how much better he is than anyone else. Raised in an abusive orphanage, suffered long-term emotional isolation, literally and figuratively ripped his heart from his chest, and spent a year at the Bleak Academy (which is a metaphor for bleak enlightenment when it's not a metaphor for death). He avoids sleeping for long periods of time lest his nightmares drip out into the world, requires the Mechanism of Original Sin to have a facsimile of conscience, and is metaphysically incapable of having friends or equals. He gains extra XP for ranting at length about his superiority. On the other hand, he's also personally replaced the source of all light and hope in the universe.

Ulfric Stormcloak:

In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Ulfric Stormcloak, Jarl of Eastmarch and the leader of the secessionist Stormcloak rebellion. A gifted and intelligent man, shrewd in rule and one of the few people to be able to use the Thuum besides the Dragonborn and the Greybeards. Deeply charismatic and able to unite half the country around his ideals of restoring the Nord kingdom to its former glory. A great warrior, generous to his followers yet merciless to his enemies and extolling courage and strength while punishing cowardice and corruption. Also gives a hell of a speech. But also deeply morally flawed (though well-intentioned), controversial among those who are not his followers, and at times even questions himself if he is the right man to lead Skyrim into a new age.