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So about Unity. Well, Unity was easy. You can master it easily without many tools. Just 3 things: The VS or VSCode Editor, the Unity Hub, and a version of Unity. The version of Unity will automatically install a Unity Editor for you.
About the BAD community. So I joined the Unity Forums for a year. I made a post. At that time, I came from another Forum website and those posts are just simple "I need help" type of help posts and then the community will take care of the rest by asking questions amongst each other. For the Unity Forums, those types of posts are "low effort" or something. You could get banned for posting that, which is UTTERLY RIDICULOUS considering the fact that most low-effort posts aren't spam or joke posts or anything! They are ACTUALLY USEFUL! They are just vague.
Basically, that post from September 2020 was a low-effort post and I stirred up a whole Internet WAR, only because I didn't read the Terms of Service and rules! It was so bad, I quit the Unity Forums until last year in December.
In December, I needed help making a game. However, I was still unaware of the "low effort rule" type of thing, and I made a low-effort post. Surprise, surprise. The same thing happened again. Only because I didn't read the rules for the SECOND time. BUT I AM FORGETFUL AND IT HAS BEEN A FREAKING YEAR!
Not only the same thing happened again, but the same person stirred another Internet war! However, something in their comment made my anger meter go from 10 to 100.
They said "Wow, you haven't really changed at all in one year." This made me VERY mad, because they should have at least embraced the fact that my last post was over one year ago, and I never made any more posts like that.
But then, one moderator chewed me out, saying the same things THE PREVIOUS GUY said! Look, if you are not at all busy, and you have nothing to say, at least say something original! Like, geez, why is the Unity Forums so strict and awful?
So I would give Unity 5 stars or 4 stars if THE COMMUNITY WASN'T SO BAD. But now I just want to piss my pants and kill myself via nuke due to how idiotic this community is!
So yeah, the community is very strict, dumb, and the moderation team should change due to how God-awful the mods are!
Tip for consumers:
Service may be good, but only because the Unity Bug Reports system doesn't only take in bugs, but also can help you with code. I liked that moderation team.
God, if only the Bug Reports technicians could be the new mods for the Unity Forums.
Anyways, lesson learned: DON'T JOIN THE UNITY FORUMS OR EVEN TRY TO REPORT MEAN COMMENTS. Also, THE CONSUMER IS ALWAYS WRONG ACCORDING TO THE MODS.
So I now can go to a different school with a different IP Address, which means I can use a different account (or make one). I got a chance to talk with the guys. There were 3 of them, one of which were on a different project. They called it a "Disappointment".
I used this new Scratch account, obviously concealing my identity so I don't get banned again, to reason with him.
He replied back, saying something like "JK lol" which made me a bit happier. I mean, it still wasn't enough to compensate for the mean comments, but you do gotta understand that you can't delete things other than Projects and Studios (And your account) on Scratch (AKA comments and such).
I reasoned with THREE of them but only got ONE reply back. This just all goes to show the lack of witnesses and the protection that bullies get from other people. Like, if I had enough witnesses, I could easily win my case. But, no, I had no witnesses except for myself. I didn't even have any screenshots as proof up until 2 FREAKING YEARS after I got banned.
Sadly, I didn't have any supporters, which meant that I was easily outnumbered on a ratio of Infinity to One. I didn't win my case. I died soon after (Online, NOT REAL LIFE. DON'T TELL YOUR FRIENDS THAT I'M A GHOST EVEN THOUGH IT COULD MAKE FOR GOOD SLEEPOVER HORROR STORIES) and I quit Scratch.
Long story short: No matter how many statistics you have or facts and other whatnot, you'll still get outnumbered by the sheer amount of fans your bully has. So use Snap! By Berkeley instead.
Tip for consumers:
Don't join, arm yourself for the war you're about to enter, and if you get banned, don't fight back. Join Snap! by Berkeley. You will still get the same coding experience (Although Snap! is a modded version of an older version of Scratch, which had a terrible paint editor. Use a third-party site for paint editing and such).
After I posted my first review, I decided to go back to Scratch to see comments about my old projects because I wanted to see what the community thought about them.
I thought Scratch would only be about mean people, but, oh ho, it gets WORSE!
See the picture below. I'll let you be the judge. This is one of my old projects.
Here are my unbiased opinions on Scratch. I've been on Scratch for at least 2 years, and I am NOT some 8-year old boy who listens to what everyone says and copies off of them. Trust me.
I will split this up into a few parts as Scratch is full of a lot of things. The community, the actual coding side of things, and the moderators.
To start off on a high note, I'll talk about the coding side of things. The coding is amazing. It has vibrant colors and a white background that looks kid-friendly! The syntax is really easy to understand. Once you started using and coding with Scratch you have understood Scratch's syntax.
Now, let's go onto the dark side of Scratch. Firstly, I'll talk about the community. The community actually listens to you and gives you feedback, only that it isn't kind feedback. Think of the community as itch.io perhaps. People on the website only have mean, unfriendly, and harsh criticism for you. If you made a game, you'd expect people to say "Wow! What a nice start!". But instead, people say "Wow, what an AWFUL project!". This can start a fight.
One time, I got into a fight with someone because they were mean to me and calling my projects awful and bad quality. So I said "Stop it" or something like that. This interpolated back and fourth until finally, this critic told his followers to report me and ban me. And suddenly, I was mass-reported. Even the admins of the website, Scratch Team, didn't listen to what I had to say. They just heard the critic's side of things. So they didn't think twice before banning me. This made me mad, and to add salt to the wound, they blocked my IP Address. Great. Now I couldn't even message them.
To sum this category all up, all I can say is that the community is just negative. Negative this, Negative that. They only think about negative thoughts and negative feedback. They are boastful.
Next, I'll talk about Scratch Team. Scratch Team is kind of useless. They don't resolve issues between people. I don't know if it's because of a lot of traffic lately due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and everybody going Virtual, but, they are just lazy. Like I said up above, they didn't listen to me, and banned me just because I got mass-reported. And also, they go about banning people without reason. Come on. When I got banned, they put the reason "Mass-reported" and I thought to myself "How is this a valid reason as to I got banned? You can do better than this!"
Also, not to mention, Scratch Team are hypocrites. Seriously! They go about telling everyone that Scratch is not a popularity contest or whatnot. And then there is the "Featured" category, the "What the community is remixing" category, and the "What the community is loving" category. Don't you think that they are hypocrites? They are hypocrites just by saying "Scratch is not a popularity contest" and then saying "Go check out this project! It's very popular and #1 trending on the website!". The community isn't helping either. When people get featured, they say in the description of the project and everywhere they go "I GOT FEATURED! MY PROJECT IS #1 TRENDING!". It's basically like they are saying "Haha, in your FACE! I got #1 trending! You won't be as popular as me and will never!". That is basically boasting, and like I said, the community is full of boastful people.
So to sum these 2 categories up, all I can say is that the community is getting more boastful, more mean, and more toxic every day, and that Scratch Team makes up excuses for (1) The community getting toxic and that they can't do anything (2) They banned you and tell you a fake reason, an excuse, of why they banned you.
This game engine is a GREAT Game Engine for beginners. Not only does it have both 2D and 3D support, it also has an easy interface and easy programming language!
My only complaints are that (1) Once you make UI, the canvas is SOOO big and also the buttons don't resize to fit the aspect ratio of the screen and (2) the Unity help team doesn't really help right away.
Here's my opinion on itch.io. Stay tuned.
I've been on this website for 1 year only, which means this review might or might not be biased, right?
Well, let me tell you about my experience.
Itch.io is great. It's like Steam, but for more than games. You can post books, soundtracks, and software-related stuff. I really like this website, and the fact that you can block people for being annoying. Obviously, if you block someone, you are turning off the notifications for that person so you wouldn't hear from that person. Basically you are muting someone so you wouldn't have to hear them again.
Now for the bad stuff. I really don't like the admins and the fact that there are downvotes on the site. What are downvotes? They are basically dislikes for comments. I hate downvotes because the comment gets pushed down a little every downvote you get. So if I say something critical about the game or thing, and people downvote me, then other people wouldn't find out the negatives or positives of the game/thing. I HATE IT A LOT.
This review is short but explains a lot. I hope you understand what my point is.
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