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New comment by DannyWebbie in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

DannyWebbie — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:27:07 +0000

Afaik Vanguard (Anticheat of League of Legends, Valorant, other Riot Games titles) requires secure boot. This is pretty quickly getting to where mobile phones are today when it comes to disadvantages of opting out of trusted computing.

New comment by DannyWebbie in "VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use"

DannyWebbie — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:15:04 +0000

Primary IDE for Unity and Unreal. Microsoft has been extending beyond Microsoft platforms, so I imagine a decent chunk of Visual Studio use is for cross-platform development.

New comment by DannyWebbie in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

DannyWebbie — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:46:47 +0000

It was changed to being able to keep the old license if you don't upgrade to Unity 6 or beyond. They added 2.5% revenue share as an option to the flat runtime fee to make sure you can't end up in a situation where you are losing money per user just from the runtime fee alone. Unity by default charges for whichever ends up cheaper.

https://unity.com/pricing-updates

New comment by DannyWebbie in "Paying for Cloud Storage is Stupid [video]"

DannyWebbie — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:06:57 +0000

ZFS misconfiguration IIRC. My understanding is that they are knowingly keeping the raw project files of finished projects on a relatively weak setup because they don't believe the data to be important and don't want to pay a lot to keep it. Actually important data is likely handled with a bit more care.

New comment by DannyWebbie in "Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine in C#"

DannyWebbie — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:43:50 +0000

Unity is leaving quite a bit on the table by not being on a modern version of .NET. Unity's C++ side seems to have (or had) assumptions about the garbage collection. Progress and challenges on .NET in Unity can be seen in this frequently updated forum thread https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-future-net-development...

Unity's long term plan appears to become more tightly integrated with .NET and to avoid maintaining their own .NET stuff.

New comment by DannyWebbie in "Simulation Islands"

DannyWebbie — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 23:16:50 +0000

Curious looking new setting in Unity alpha seems to suggest that swappable physics engines for GameObjects might be coming.[0]

Swapping physics engines for Unity's ECS world should already be very doable, but people understandably aren't leaping to it.

[0] https://forum.unity.com/threads/multiple-physics-options-for...

New comment by DannyWebbie in "Show HN: Classic Video Poker"

DannyWebbie — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:12:05 +0000

Maybe, but Godot does particularly poorly in this area. Unity can go below 3MB out of the box and that is with bunch of engine systems in use.

https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest

New comment by DannyWebbie in "How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?"

DannyWebbie — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:16:33 +0000

Unity can hit below 3MB[0]. Afaik Godot builds are a bit larger due to limited code stripping and builds not being compressed out of the box.

[0] https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest