tomalley8342
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- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 1 week ago:
That’s fair. I am vaguely aware that sim and sandbox games do tend to have mod support. For reference, with a quick search into the 71 games mentioned in the 2025 Game Awards Show, ~5-10 come with significant mod support.
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 1 week ago:
More and more games seem to suck on thier own, but can be great with mods.
What new games with proper modding tools are there? Nobody wants to mod Starfield compared to Skyrim, Most of you probably don’t even know that there are modding tools out for Doom Eternal. There’s gooner mods for Capcom games and VR plugins I guess. Indie game engines ate the modding community’s lunch.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 2 weeks ago:
From what I understand you have to find when the enemy is vulnerable after launching an attack so that you can safely launch your own attacks. Dark Souls 1 and 3 are relatively generous with their safe windows and relatively rigid with their attack combos so it’s a lot more accessible to that kind of gameplay than later games like Elden Ring and Bloodborne.
- Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why 3 weeks ago:
You seem to think I’m somehow making a statement AGAINST ped infrastructure,.
It is probably because you have been using the exact talking points used by people who are against ped infrastructure.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 weeks ago:
Peak players is sampled at a point, the 2m number is probably cumulative.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 month ago:
Do you have an example or a snippet in mind for a piece of modern game engine code that would have been done better in the “old ways”?
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 2 months ago:
Copilot business subscriptions have fairly granular usage tracking, so they’d probably just replace you right away with someone who isn’t quite so reserved. Looking at the comments here and in other places, there is certainly no shortage of such people.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 2 months ago:
Job Requirements:
Active use of AI tools in daily development workflows, and enthusiasm for helping the team increase adoption
Nice to have:
Passion for games and game preservation
AI Mandatory, game preservation optional. Glad they got their priorities straight 😅
- Comment on Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme? 2 months ago:
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 2 months ago:
Based as hell
- Comment on I added new config options called "outline" and "Shadows" for my action roguelite game 3 months ago:
すこれ is pronounced su-ko-re, すこあ or スコア (su-ko-a) would probably be closer to what you want if you want the word “score”.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 3 months ago:
It’s GOG financially viable? Good question, no one really knows.
All CDPR earnings reports put GOG revenue/profits in its own separate section, so it’s actually very knowable: It hasn’t been losing money in the last few years but its profits basically negligible compared to the rest of CDPR studio’s profits.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 3 months ago:
They removed the explicit Good Old Games abbreviation back in 2012. It’s just GOG.com now.
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 3 months ago:
He literally said that it was a great game.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 months ago:
So insane that people have to go back to the primitive workflows of… 2021 🤣
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 months ago:
Yes, like we went over before, it’s literally OK to use AI if the studios that I support use it to generate things that I like.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 months ago:
His grammarly.ai subscription must have ran out.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 months ago:
What AI does here is allowing small teams to get art done what otherwise would eat up their budget, aka they literally couldn’t afford. No artists were harmed in these cases because if AI didn’t exist they simply wouldn’t have been hired.
That excuse can be used by big publishers as well, no?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 months ago:
Right, so the barrier was that they had to pay for this “outsourced bulk art”, and now with AI they don’t have to. It looks like we are in agreement when I say “I’m glad AI is democratizing the ability for the little guys like you and me to not pay artists for art”?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 months ago:
And little tools like that give studios like this an edge over AAAs. It’s the start of negating their massive manpower advantage.
The implication here is that you can gain manpower without hiring more men, no?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 months ago:
100% agree. I’m glad AI is democratizing the ability for the little guys like you and me to not pay artists for art.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I can’t wait for this to finally come out.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’m trying to understand, since it’s DRM-free, can I buy it and share with many people so they can play it on their PC?
You are not supposed to
Or there’s something that prevent me to do that?
Nothing technically
Does it mean that pirating GOG games is easy as transferring to other machine?
Yes
If so, I wonder why pirate sites like FitGirl still use cracked Steam version of games, why don’t just share GOG version?
Repacks are smaller in size
- Comment on AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline 5 months ago:
Idk his render pipeline breakdown videos seem fairly in-depth. Is it just mumbo-jumbo?
Not especially, but it’s deceivingly surface level and doesn’t (and can’t) get into why those decisions might have been made by the programmers. The big issue is that because of his lack of experience and insight into why certain decisions were made, he somehow comes to the bizarre conclusion that there is a set of rendering techniques that are either:
- Being hidden from us by “them” to sell hardware
- Have become lost arcane knowledge because modern renderer architectures are by and large incompetent
Frankly though I think in practice the difference between graphics in 2015 and 2025 is negligible compared to the difference between TAA (or DLAA/FSR/XeSS/FXAA/SMAA) and x4 MSAA. The only that comes even close is Path Tracing in CP2077.
“Modern rendering features are expensive and not worth it” is a reasonable take, but it’s not what he’s pushing.
I agree he seems like a sketchy af grifter, but I’ve not seen a single good rebuttal of his actual points, and even if he was a grifter, that doesn’t invalidate what he’s saying.
The examples he demonstrates in some of his videos are “not false”, at least to the extent that he does click on some buttons on unreal engines and it does behave the way he says he does. So in this way it appears to a casual viewer that his “actual points” can not be refuted. But the grift isn’t in what he shows, it’s in the massive gap between what he shows and what he says afterwards.
- Comment on AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline 5 months ago:
That’s the guy who’s asking for a million dollars to “fix” unreal engine 5 despite having 0 programming experience and sends out dcma strikes for any videos that call him out on it, lol
- Comment on After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0 7 months ago:
They got a forge like level editor this time around
- Comment on After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0 7 months ago:
Although personally I suspect people are going to come up with a better version of the game in battlefield via portal.
every year they come out with a game to dethrone tarkov, and every year the game to dethrone tarkov flops while tarkov keeps going strong, lol.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 7 months ago:
I did not say that kernel level anti cheats makes cheating impossible. The improvement in the experience is not nothing. You would not understand unless you played both for yourself.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 7 months ago:
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 7 months ago:
Yep yep yep, the devs of the FPS game with endemic cheating so horrible the competitive scene had to introduce their own matchmaking system with kernel AC.
