Dudewitbow

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Kojima is an example of giving dev too much freedom that its basically further putting you into the red had he been strung along for the ride during metal gear solid 5’s development and the money spent optimizing fox engine. Theres a fine line between endless crunch time/micromanaging, and letting your devs do work.

  to put up a few examples, The upcoming Metroid prime 4 is an example when a company gives devs too much freedom. The original japanese studio didn’t know what hte fuck they were doing, so Nintendo pulled them off hte project, and gave their project to retro, who was working on the “Project harmony” game, which looked very bad, to the point that nintendo was fed up with the hands off approach and Kensuke Tanabe reinserted himself back as director to get prime’s development back into production getting Prime 4 out later this year.

  Part of the reason for the huge microsoft layoff that happened a few days ago is mainly because of microsofts more handsoff approach they gave their developers. they gave ninja theory 5 years to develop Hellblade 2 (which is a relatively long time). They gave Compulsion games 5+ years to develop South of midnight. neither game remotely probably paid of their development cost, in juxtaposition to a studio like Obsidian, who has in the same time frame, released 5 different games, some arguably more expansive than the previous 2 studios games, due to being well managed.

  and I’m not really pointing fingers here, but keep in mind, its not solely due to unsustainable growth/enshittification and treating devs like shit and endless crunch time causing this problem. It’s mainly lack of better people/resource management because there are countless numbers of studios who get significantly more time than they should on a project with not much to show for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, but tweaking whatever engine they have, still uses a lot of the underlying engines code, which more freemarket devs will use. There’s a huge reason why a lot of the companies who build engines in house are in japan, because labor laws in japan makes it so developer retention is usually very high.

  Kojima and fox engine is an example of a well designed and optimized engine, but konami didn’t like it because of how much millions kojima spent developing both it and MGS5 hence the bad blood between them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  its harder to hire new devs if engine is built in house, because no one outside the company understands how to use said engine unless its open for the public to use. thats the biggest drawback of in house engines (other than the increased develepment life cycle to develop one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the mindset that I buy one for the lowest firmware, because nintendo always has people trying to hack it (successfully). Nintendo has very low investment in actually trying to get a proper OS engineer design their OS security. Youd basically have to go as far back as the fucking virtual boy to look for something non exploitable, and thats just because no one bothered with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ai pcs are actually being bought. most of the pcs being used for local AI purposes are fully rammed out mac mini/studios or strix halo desktops, which are almost solely sold by smaller oems and are backed up.

  most AI pcs arent the ones the large oems clamour about (basically unused NPUs, and to a lesser extent, nvidia based computers with high vram gpus)

  the latter doesnt offer the vram required for the people who want to do in house Ai.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are we eatings shrimps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry thats already reserved by tuna

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo hasn’t really C&D any of the previous decomps. they can for people who upload the whole precompiled executable, but none of them that requires actually ripping the original assets yourself to create the required game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  then you gain the extra potential illegal action due to forgery. so its a game of risk management for the drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon considers LASIK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon is tyhe type of guy who looks at a California Prop 65 label and believes the worst in everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes a modern game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  bloom was major between like 2005-2009ish maybe, coexisted right before the piss filter of the console generation.

  currently tech wise, the current joke trend is blurry TAA caused by the switch to deferred rendering in order to get better lighting. TAA was a stop gap AA to replace older AA methods that are less compatible with deferred rendering. It’s why things look like shit(blurry) ontop of performing like shit (lighting/shadows/raytracing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Executive Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Founded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i think the funniest part is ontop of bad acquisitions, Microsoft was only able to buy blizzard activision partially because sony had a history of making non PlayStation versions of games inferior to the PlayStation version.

  had Sony actually played fair ball, none of this would have probably happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gains M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  a handful of sandy/ivy bridge motherboards already had community made bios updates that enable said feature. I personally had it on a asus z77 matx pro board as well as a gigabyte h77 board (albeit ivy bridge, same platform)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way… not all vons work in china

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they didnt need upgrading because they sat mostly still till amd caught up.

  they intentionally made the consumer platform stay with quad cores for over 8 generations till AMD came around with Ryzen Gen 1 to be remotely competitive.

  theres a reason why 5% per generation was a joke for almost a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the NFL draft day so "special"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  preview on the teams potential future.

  its also like a graduation where theyre celebrating the class who basically worked their ass off for at least half their lives to get to that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  according to my friend who uses it, some went to 8chan (4chan but can create new communities in the same vein of reddit), and the more extremely ones would go to soyjack or kiwifarms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Nintendo games were affordable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  theres also the chance that at least for TTYD, that was a players choice version of the game, which retailed for 20$ new. since its 2006, on the wake of the Wii

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i typically do not have auto correct on because i tend to type on a lot of tech oriented sites which tend to have a lot of acronyms i dont want autocorrected.

  while typing this, i had to correct 3 words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i typo a lot on mobile because small phone and i tap to text and not swipe gesture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  outside of the official service, there is actually one other feature that people forget exists, and would be relevent to the resell of the key.

  updating by local user (no not the recently announced game sharing stuff, but the ability to update a game via just being near a device with the update)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its worse than comparing it to physical media that has all content on media, but better than display boxes that only has a digital code in it.

  digital key carts are more replacing the latter (which is better) but there will definitely be a few devs who will opt out of physical media storage costs for the key card

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no, using sony as an example. all sony consoles are hackable despite effort to stop it. nintendo is the same situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youd be suprised. all of Sonys consoles are hackable, despite efforts to stopping it. willing to guess that another SD express exploit will be found, as one was already found late last year, and the switch 2 is one of the devices that uses it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  besides the lower bar of entry due to being free, Midias research has shown that yhr younger generation prefers online multiplayer, and as you grow older, you start yo favor single player games more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  one example of a steam onteractive event was when valve was actively giving viewers who were watching the game awards through steam a raffle to get a free one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teletubbies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ask if you can find them on the discovery channel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  someone shouldn’t have to handle the fallout for an action caused directly by someone else handing it off to them, when she could have easily sent that text to them instead. Sibling in this case is being used because sister doesn’t want to face the arguing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  being smart at something doesn’t mean youre smart at anything. not that im saying that jobs was smart, but its not a given. e.g how there are scientists who are anti-vax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean kinda generalist there? are you using any piece of hardware that has an engineer as a ceo? (e.g nvidia, amd qualcomm all have ex engineers as CEOs)