@EnglishMobster
@lemmy.worldIf you know C++ already, Unreal is a much more natural starting point than either Unity or Godot.
Unreal is what gets used in many AAA shops - it's not a monopoly by any means but it is the most common off-the-shelf engine in the industry. Unity's main edge is that it's easy to learn but if you are comfortable in C++ then there's no real benefit to Unity.
Godot uses GDScript, which is a custom scripting language that's meant to be easy to learn. It's FOSS so you don't need to worry about being screwed over - but it's a lot less mature than something like Unreal which can ship on everything you can think of.
But my advice is to make small things. Don't hyperfocus on a dream game. Just make things that will take a weekend (maybe a week at most). Then move on to something else.
When I was getting into game dev, I made a couple simple projects then jumped into my dream game. I spent so long making that one game that I never finished.
When I got hired in the industry, they cared more about what I released than what my education or job experience was. Because that one big game was never finished, I wound up with my smaller "just getting started" games on my resume; stuff I had made but wasn't proud of. But those games were at least finished and available to the public... and they were what got me hired, not my magnum opus overscoped unfinished indie game I never completed.
One thing I found especially dumb is this:
Jobs that require driving skills, like truck and taxi drivers, as well as jobs in the sanitation and beauty industries, are least likely to be exposed to AI, the Indeed research said.
Let's ignore the dumb shit Tesla is doing. We already see self-driving taxis on the streets. California allows self-driving trucks already, and truck drivers are worried enough to petition California to stop it.
Both of those involve AI - just not generative AI. What kind of so-called "research" has declared 2 jobs "safe" that definitely aren't?
I split my time like so:
Kbin.social: 35%
Lemmy: 55%
Reddit: 10%
I prefer Kbin the most, but Ernest has been slow to update the main site and the mobile API is missing (meaning it's quite bad on mobile, even with the PWA).
Sync works great with Lemmy, so on mobile I use Sync (hello from my phone).
Historically, I've used Relay for Reddit for many years at this point. Relay is the one third-party app that didn't leave. So far, I haven't had to pay anything either, and nothing has broken.
While my Reddit usage is down, I still occasionally go on Reddit both in my browser and via Relay (while it still works). I usually go to Reddit for the WorldNews live threads and to check the Baldur's Gate 3 subreddit.
I do find myself missing out on news I would otherwise have known about. I don't see dev diaries for Paradox Interactive games here on Lemmy/Kbin, for example. This makes me surprised when a patch comes out (since I don't see the dev diaries in my feed). Likewise, there are other niche things that I only find out about way later than I used to, and that kind of makes me miss Reddit.
I also find myself engaging more with other social media. I watch a lot more YouTube and TikTok. My Google Pixel has a "for you" article feed as part of the launcher itself; I used to ignore that but find myself browsing it now. I play more games on my phone than I used to.
It's sort of plugged the hole, but not really. Even when I'm on Reddit nowadays it's simply not the same.
This is my "main" account nowadays; I still keep that older account around because more places federate with Lemmy.ml than Lemmy.world, so it's handy to have accounts on multiple instances (I also have a Beehaw and a Kbin account).
Of the 4, I actually prefer Kbin, but it doesn't have an API yet and thus doesn't have mobile apps. I avoid Lemmy.ml because of who the admins/maintainers are, and Beehaw - which used to be quite good - has gone downhill since they can't keep up with the growth of Lemmy. (Which again sort of adds to my point of "it really depends on what instances you cared about before the migration", which that survey doesn't quite capture.)
This guy is always super duper clickbaity and has this holier-than-thou attitude all the time. Thank you for summing it up so I don't give him the clicks.
I have a Pixel. The Pixel Launcher that comes stock on the phone has a Google search thing that is not removable except via switching to another launcher. It looks like a widget, but you can't remove it. It exists on every "panel" of the screen, below the app shortcuts.
I do use it quite a bit when making searches, but only because it's there already and can't be removed. If I could remove it, I would.
You'd only be able to play with people local to you, in the same Stadia datacenter. If Stadia wanted to minimize latency, they would increase the number of datacenters (thus making fewer people per instance).
PS2 was before the days of internet-based games.
Now a lot of games expect an Internet connection and a store to download things from. When those are gone, the PS4 will be scrap.
I would have tried it if I could trust Google to maintain a commitment to something for longer than a couple years (at best).