OP actually has hundreds (thousands?) of comments over the past few years, but all but the most recent are listed as deleted by creator. I won’t speculate as to the reason for this, but just note that their current comment count doesn’t reflect their historical contributions.

I’ll also just leave this quote from one of the comment chains they’ve recently commented on:

@[email protected] I just want to say thanks for posting quality links so frequently. You’re one of the few who isn’t posting click bait junk like Raw Story and Daily Beast.

I don’t personally keep track, but it seems some others do feel they make valuable contributions. I for one don’t want to see anyone too quick to torch the relative few individuals putting content on Lemmy.

Inside Number 9. I don’t hear much talk about it, but for me, it’s up there with Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, etc. for a series of short stories with twists.

Halifax is one of the cheapest places globally to rent office space and employ talented software developers with a CS degree. I am skeptical that it was on the chopping block before now.

Original: The layoffs across the video game industry are getting started early in 2026. Ubisoft has announced the closure of Ubisoft Halifax.

The closure will see 71 people lose their jobs.

The news of the studio’s shutdown comes just days after it was announced that 61 of the studio’s employees joined the Game & Media Workers Guild of Canada, Local 30111. The certification for the union came on December 18, 2025, and was branded as the Ubisoft Workers of Canada, Halifax.

In a statement, Ubisoft says that decision comes after two years of “company-wide actions to streamline operations”.

“Over the past 24 months, Ubisoft has undertaken company-wide actions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs,” the company said. “As part of this, Ubisoft has made the difficult decision to close its Halifax studio. 71 positions will be affected.

“We are committed to supporting all impacted team members during this transition with resources, including comprehensive severance packages and additional career assistance.”

The decision, Ubisoft claims, was made “well before” the staff unionized. Ubisoft added that it respected its employees right to join a union. Insider Gaming has reached out for a statement from members of the Union. Should that be received, it will be added to this story.

Prior to its closure, Ubisoft Halifax was working on mobile games for Rainbow Six and Assassin’s Creed.

My bad. A few years ago I looked at getting Tile for my Dad and decided not to when it mentioned a recurring subscription. I didn’t realise it had a decent free. I also assumed Apple would be even worse for rent-seeking because, well, it’s usually a safe assumption. My bad for assuming so much!

Honest question: why cross post to two communities on the same instance. Isn’t this just splitting the comments without really inceasing exposure?

Is there any variation of these that doesn’t require a subscription? Even if it means it only works around th house (e.g. on wifi)?

This is the sort of thing that causes people to lose whatever faith they may have had in the justice system and start taking it into their own hands.

They could have easily implemented autosave and versioning on your local machine. They chose to gate it behind keeping your documents in the cloud for profit-motivated reasons.

Here’s a few words for their post that you can borrow: whataboutism, propaganda, tu quoque, bad faith.

That dissonance has a name! Gell-Mann amnesia. You aren’t alone.

The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!

No Egress

A good decompiler and an auto-formatter might leave them with a nicer copy of their source code than they had in the first place.