Godot’s entire existence is measured in Unity copium.
they’ve been doing this since before 3.0 was even announced.
this “race” has been going on for years, and will never end, because Godot survives solely via online guerrilla marketing.
on paper, Godot is a game engine.
the reality is much more Soviet: it’s an online clout farming operation for a couple of random Argentinians.
Godot may not have a physics engine worth a flying hoot, but you can be sure that they’re getting paid like they do!
it’s a very successful grift, I must say. a lot of faithfuls in their replies, churning mindshare and making it real by fiat. well done.
uh oh, there’s a reality check coming in.
no surprise this one’s rotting on the social media vine.
jeez, way to be a party pooper! who let this guy in? why don’t you have some faith in our amazeballs wonderful developer Gods?
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one of the things that really drove home my conclusion that it’s more of a LARP than an actual endeavour is the discord’s running joke about “when is 3.0 coming out”
being a popular game engine, they got the question a lot. speaks volumes that they created a channel to mock it.
it’s an unfortunate defect of open source: you cannot make the developers care about your legitimate issues. you are not a stakeholder.
they have every legal right to blow all the money you donate on hookers and blow. and if their engine is missing something, add it yourself.
of course, they should care! and ordinarily, with all else equal, they probably do!
but they don’t always, and if something is important to the health of their game engine and they disagree with the public, their word is final, and there is no practical recourse. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
ostensibly, they are creating a game engine.
the truth is subtly different: they are here to get paid to create a game engine via donations.
as long as everyone believes in them, nothing else matters. they can have a broken game engine as long as people want to pay them for it.
evidently, there are a lot of believers in this.
doesn’t make the engine any better. https://t.co/V6VwxhYif6twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
yes, that’s exactly my point.
the fact that pointing this out makes you violently angry is also why I am stoking the fire. it’s not OK.
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I wonder why we’re giving them $14,000 a month if it is a grave social error to even ask them to fix something instead of grovelling and doing all of their work for them.
really activates the almonds, doesn’t it. 🙃
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