#updating software (update)

[fantastic-nonsense]

however bad of a day you're having, know that it's not nearly as bad as whatever the Crowdstrike security team is going through since waking up this morning

[mumblesplash]

The Dungeon is ready for its favorite next victim

[brookah-art]

happy extremely late anniversary hl1!!!!!! yay!!!!!

[tossawary]

One of my favorite parts of the original "Star Wars" trilogy is when it cuts to Imperial officers and troopers just having... really shitty days at Evil Work. Love watching some guy obviously desperately rethinking his career path and struggling to stand still as Darth Vader Force-chokes the guy standing next to him over a video call. (They clearly Did Not Know that he could do that.) I get to imagine people within the Empire getting the email that Darth Vader is visiting their workplace and everyone immediately trying to book their vacation days through some crappy bureaucratic portal.

[collophora]

Quick test of magma Who instantly denied pressure sensitivity

[bmpmp3]

based off this video. i think teto is a union man

[littlespoonevan]

soooooo funny to me that eddie spends the entirety of jinx being so combative and antagonistic and annoying bc he thinks everyone is acting ridiculous EXCEPT when buck is bossing him around with a clipboard. oh no no thEN it's just fond eyerolls and 'check🥰 check🥰 check🥰' eddie diaz i know what you are

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new sensation

[tamapalace]

Tamagotchi Uni 2.1.0 Update Causing 403 Error

image source: Blue_Jay041806 on Reddit

If you haven’t updated your Tamagotchi Uni, hold off for now. There have been an overwhelming number of Tamagotchi Uni owners reporting an update failed error, reason error code 403. The error does not occur during the initial update, but rather the data update which is the second part of the update process.

Apparently this issue is not caused by your local connectivity to wi-fi, and you cannot reset your Tamagotchi to get back to carrying for your character.

We anticipate this will be fixed fairly quickly on the update servers. Bandai has not yet addressed this issue, and those impacted are unable to enjoy their Tamagotchi Uni. As we find out more information, we’ll keep you posted.

UPDATE: Bandai has acknowledged the issue is due to their servers being overloaded.

【Announcement regarding Tamagotchi Uni】 Due to the update released on Thursday, September 12th, the server has been overloaded with access, causing some functions to be unavailable. We are currently working on resolving the issue. We will notify you once the issue has been resolved, so please wait for a while.

UPDATE 2: Bandai has acknowledged that the issue was due to high traffic on the servers, and that this has been resolved as of September 13th, 2024 12:04AM EST. Bandai expresses their sincerest apologies and will distribute 3,000 Gotchi Points to compensate for the inconvenience. You can redeem this gift until Sunday, October 13th, 2024.

[mossy-paws]

biograft doodles! (PHIGHTING!)

Nothing special this time around, just some silly doodles I did at like midnight LOL

[kcamberart]

Development going forward

So in case anyone hasn't heard, Unity announced this morning that they're going to be making some pretty major (baffling) changes to their licensing plans and monetization. TLDR regarding the pertinent info (from what I understand. The company hasn't made another statement at the time of writing, and the FAQ is very vague):

They've removed the cheapest paid subscription tier (Unity Plus) completely, and are altering Unity Personal (the free one) so that the editor needs an internet connection in order to function. If you're offline for 3 days, it kicks you out until you reconnect to the internet again for the software to phone home. This is apparently not an issue if you subscribe to Unity Pro, the $2,000/yr plan.

If you publish a game made using the Unity engine, once it passes a certain threshold of installations and revenue, Unity will charge you a fee for every subsequent installation of your game on a per-month basis (and it's not per-purchase, it's per-installation. So (allegedly) if someone on Steam buys, installs, uninstalls and then reinstalls your game, or if they need to update the game, that's considered multiple different instances of installation and Unity will (allegedly) charge the developer as such). This will go into effect in January of 2024, but will seemingly retroactively apply to all games published before then as well.

If I've misunderstood any of this, please feel free to correct me.

I would not be surprised if they heavily walk back some of this (i.e., "the last time we announced something bad everyone got mad about it, so this time we'll announce something unbelievable and then say that we changed our minds so people will be more willing to accept the slightly less bad thing we wanted to do in the first place"), but it's setting a very bad precedent for using Unity for any future projects.

I'm currently weighing my options on whether to finish Vollema in Unity and then migrate to a new engine for future projects (Godot gets better every day, from what I've heard), or to just take what I've made so far and start over using different software. Honestly, it's early enough in development that the vast majority of what I have finished and ready to implement is visual assets, dialogue, narrative stuff and audio, so I'm leaning heavily towards testing the waters with a different engine. I likely also will not be able to work on or release any smaller games in the coming months for the time being (RIP 2023 Halloween Game, I'll make it up to you) while I make some decisions. Regardless, I'll keep you all in the loop.

TLDR: I'm likely going to be changing game engines, which will definitely set Vollema's development time back a bit (along with my other projects), but development in general will continue regardless.

Hopefully I'll have more positive news to share with you soon! I'm gonna miss my add-ons, though. Oh man, am I gonna miss my add-ons.

[helielune]

people come and people go, but i stay (ghostride)

[spitblaze]

The End/Disappearance of Hatsune Miku is a really good song but to me its very funny to imagine a corrupted version of V3 Miku generating this ballad about how it regrets not being able to sing more, how its grateful for all its been able to do, a dirge for herself before she is erased from existence. She's uninstalled. And then like ten minutes later she's reinstalled (bc thats how you fix corrupted programs, generally) and she's like 'oh I'm fine now thank you :)'

[pnfoutofcontext]

[one-bunny-a-day]

19/12/2023

[hidaarts]

Gordo sketchie......