alex_lav

> Not at the cost of harming people,

What defines harm? Or more specifically, who?

Shame I had to scroll this far to get to this comment. I have absolutely no idea why, in 2024, people still think we should let the government decide what is good/what we can see/what others can say.

This post is so interesting because it highlights the people that don't know anything about the requirements or state of cheats/anticheat. What you're describing is 10 years out of date. Every modern cheat has a toggle, and (almost) every modern cheater masks augmented behavior with misses/native behavior.

Unsure how true that is, but I certainly never did.

Rider is better either way, but definitely better than alternatives on MacOS.

Rider is by far the best C# IDE. Especially if you're not running Windows. It was a real lifesaver while working with Unity.

So 0 real examples have been provided, either by a commenter or via the link.

Exactly as expected.

_yet_

> Some games you have to pay to unlock gear or xp boosters to make it really playable.

Again, can you provide an example? Also

> Any multiplayer game is competitive to some degree

Is just blatantly incorrect, unless you just mean "One player is further in the game than the other", in which case literally all games are "competitive", including single player.

1. noncompetitive game

2. mobile game

3. mobile game

4. not actually pay to win.

5. noncompetitive game

6. mobile game

You see where I'm going. You can't relate "has microtransactions" with "is pay to win". They're different.

> Seems like most multiplyer games have some sort of "pay to win" (or pay for an advantage) scheme in them

Can you share an example of this outside of mobile games?

> Twitter, before Elon's takeover, was a crypto-obsessed political echo chamber.

Pretending a platform as large as twitter was/is "one thing" is silly. It may have been that for you, it was not that for many.

> Platforms like Mastodon are great, as long as you don't rely on likes and reposts for dopamine.

As long as you're willing to post to no one, sure.

You can either take the route of doing financial software, data science, ML and web dev _for a game company_, or you can start making games in your free time and then attempt a pivot.

I think the first path is probably easier and more lucrative, but will have a much longer time difference in terms of getting you where you want to go.

A place where you don't complain every day about hating your job?

> I don't believe they can actually do anything about it as this "culture" comes from the very top.

The employee can do something about it by leaving.