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- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 1 day ago:
the interview that was mentioned:
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 days ago:
Doing engineering is more like an any% run to do something that eventually, even just statistically, hurts people.
So. Stop enabling us, scientists :P
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 5 days ago:
I’m working on a game like that, but it’s far from completion.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 5 days ago:
To add to what the other guy said, Supreme commander allowed your units to synchronize shots, for example for the big guns on battleships, useful for punching through shields.
They also allowed you to queue orders, display them and then edit them. So you could set up one big patrol path for 100s of helis and fighters and defend your territory that way, and when you want to expand you can drag the patrol points and all of those 100s of units would automatically adjust.
Also there were heli transports with lift and drop points and you could use that to ferry units quicker than they would walk. So you could set the drop point closely behind the frontlines and advance the drop point with the front line, allowing for quicker resupply of troops.
Quite a bit more advanced than you would see in starcraft or AoE2 overall.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 5 days ago:
Most MMOs are that btw., if you haven’t played any. Lots and lots of minigames.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I mean there are four possibilities:
- you’re making this up
- you genuinely think this happened, but it didn’t somehow.
- this did happen but it was a really odd coincidence, which can happen, we’re 9 billion people after all
- there is a cabal of time travelers who saved you specifically. Which would be cool.
Not that weird all things considered. Don’t worry about it.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 1 week ago:
That looks amazing.
I wish I liked the overall experience. I don’t think you’ve done anything wrong, quite the opposite, it’s just not my genre. I think I got the the first mount & blade on gog and the core loop of the battles just didn’t click for me.
The website mentions:
“Realistic Economy
See the availability of goods ebb and flow in a simulated feudal economy, where the price of everything from incense to warhorses fluctuates with supply and demand. Turn anarchy to your advantage by being the first to bring grain to a starving town after a siege or reopening a bandit-plagued caravan route.”
But it’s relatively hard to find more material online about what that means, what it looks like (UI) and how it works. Can you maybe go into a bit more detail? On the website or maybe a feature trailer or something? Even a recommended creator content thing would be great. I care too much about economy and logistics.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Nothing. Nobody you could reach and tell, would fairly pay you what that info is worth. If it’s a trillion dollar tech, imagine the series of design, approval, oversight people you’re doing free work for.
Like, imagine it’s Lockheed Martin, and you’re giving a free tip that saves the the executive board’s neck. Laughable idea.
Except maybe it’s a medical thing and the “medicine” would a) not work and b) harm people. Then maybe.
- Comment on If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it? 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I’m a big fan of “there are unknowns in the universe”, so imo they found lens, which could be a gravitational lens ;)
Cool nontheless.
- Comment on If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it? 2 weeks ago:
What physicists and astronomers do, is they look at how things work here on earth and where we can observe things.
For example, we can observe that the earth orbits the sun, we know that orbit takes a year, and it’s pretty stable. And from that and the speed and orbit of other planets, we can calculate the mass of each. And with the same math, we can do it for our galaxy.
But when we look way, way deeper into the universe, we can only see: electromagnetic things, that is light and radio. And by observing that or how it behaves, in the case of black holes, we can say where things are, what they’re like and how they move. Including how big they are, how massive, we can calculate how much mass is required to keep a galaxy together.
The problem is the movement we can see, doesn’t match the calculated weight and gravity of the things we can see.
The solution is that we assume that things do behave as we think it does, we just can’t see it. The weight that we can directly or indirectly observe accounts for about 5% of the effect we can see. So we make up the rest. That’s “dark matter”. Not because it’s different from what we know, but because we can’t observe or “see” it, we think it’s there.
Or we’re wrong about the rules that we use to calculate stuff or things are happening we don’t understand yet.
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 2 weeks ago:
Worse, Snowden did leak an absurd amount of gov details and documents and info and it did nothing to stop what’s happening. People barely acknowledged it.
Maybe someone would martyr themselves. But doing it for nothing? Not appealing.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
Very fair, I had a lot of fun with it as a casual game to relax with. Not so easy it’s trivial, not so hard it needs a lot of thinking.
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 5 weeks ago:
Depends.
Birds aren’t real is fake, but pretty popular, because it’s funny.
Flat earthing is also fake but somehow has a huge following.
- Comment on Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it? 1 month ago:
Besides, it’s GTA, it’s not like they’re gonna break much new ground in terms of gameplay mechanics that need to be kept secret.
Why Would You Say Something So Controversial Yet So Brave?
Honestly, I think it’s relatively simple: eeeeveryone and their dog signs an NDA. The people working on it are excited and have to bite their tongue every. single. day. and they are waiting for the release where they can just talk about it.
Then some douche with access leaks it and so all that effort goes to waste, and they still can’t talk about it, because that would make things worse. Also, if someone says something negative, they can’t show the positive and defend their work.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 1 month ago:
Kind of.
Mostly yes. As others have written, it involved some money issues. There were also problems with logistics and agriculture, Rome had an absurdly high population for that time. That stuff just has to be managed and managed well.
And also you had some external factors.
And also the religious shift from the old greek gods to christianity, were suddenly a whole bunch of stuff was “against god” the way you would think it is now. It is unclear how much knowledge was lost and exactly why, but the facts remain that you have relatively skilled military doctors in one century and then that disappearing into thin air in the next.
The thing you can observe at the moment, the question of loyalty from universities, into giving positions to loyal or just compliant people over skilled people is roughly the same process.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 2 months ago:
Information is an abstract thing, like 1+1=2, it doesn’t exist like physical things. Physical things can be arranged to represent it and be used to communicate it, but the information itself is something different and other.
The natural state of things is entropy. Every data carrying medium will decay, and break or die. But if that’s a guaranteed, constant problem, the only way for information, that different, other thing to continue to exist, is to spread. Spreading is easier when it happens without barriers: freely.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
The “tongues have taste zones” thing is the only thing that comes to mind.
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 2 months ago:
And to reward you, we’re giving you 24-hour visibility
(which is nothing special; there are 6 slots available for this visibility every day of the year for various Steam invitations).
He has no clue what he’s talking about Steam in 2021 had 69 MILLION daily active users. WTF do you think is a bigger number 130.000 wishlists or getting even 1% of 69 million people to look at something in the reel?
People don’t understand the size of steam or the value of that space (that one of six slots) sometimes. It’s wild.
And also, THEY noticed, THEY informed him, THEY apologized, and THEY offered some form of compensation, which they legally don’t have to.
I am soooooooooooooooo tired of indie devs blaming everything from the constellation of the stars to the quality of the donuts on a different continent for their game not doing well, except that maybe the game isn’t that good, and also those 100.000 already sold units is the actual size of the market for that game.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 2 months ago:
The thing that always gets me about the renaissance is Galileo:
He did those experiments with things falling down? Measuring speed?
Yeah. Without a clock.
The theory for how to build those came later, based on what Galileo did.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 2 months ago:
First of all, there is the problem of senior editors being in control and if you do anything, they just revert it, or delete it. There are reasons why there are already many different wikis and not just one.
Then as the other commenter shared, they have the goal of a neutral point of view, but that’s an idealistic goal that can’t be reached. The neutrality with which something is presented is sometimes a problem. For example in political spheres it can make more sense to read two very biased articles from opposing sides, than one that tries to present both sides objectively.
So it would be really helpful to see side by side comparisons or disambiguation pages that lead to different perspectives.
And you can sort of do this already, but the point of federation is also that it’s more tightly integrated than “you can have your own forum” which was true before as well.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 3 months ago:
I think it’s fundamentally bad science to say:
Sometimes, however, gamers become fixated, compulsive or — worse — spiral into a full-blown gaming disorder marked by isolation, distress, interpersonal conflicts and severe neglect of responsibilities.
And actually talk about mostly kids.
The abstract of the actual paper is very clear and much better:
Key Points
Question Is preexisting psychopathology associated with subsequent gaming disorder among adolescents, or is compulsive gaming associated with the development of psychopathology?
Findings In this cohort study of 4289 adolescents, longitudinal models revealed that higher baseline levels of psychopathology were significantly associated with an increased risk of developing gaming disorder 1 year later. However, there was no significant association between gaming disorder and the development or worsening of psychopathology.
- Comment on skate. | Early Access Release Date Trailer (September 16) 3 months ago:
Absolutely love the very unsubtle hint that doing this in real life wouldn’t be a good idea. But that it is very fun to do in a video game. Excellent message for the trailer.
- Comment on New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42" 3 months ago:
Who cares. If it does fully release I’m sure plenty of people will give it a proper go, until then it will remain the somehow incredibly profitable meme that it is.
We’re like 10 years after the last date when “it’ll release soon, trust us” deserved any kind of trust.
- Comment on better paying job dealing with egos vs peace of mind job that pays poorly. I'd be taking a 20% financial hit. Worth it? 3 months ago:
Make sure it’s not a “the grass is greener on the other side” situation.
I really hate my job but need the money.
If you “need” need the money, you don’t really have the choice.
Also, it’s turbulent times, it might be smarter to get that bag now while you can.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 months ago:
To people like this, the number in their bank account is like a scoreboard.
It’s not just that.
Besides the humanitarian work that the gates foundation does do “voluntarily”, money is agency, it is power.
There is very little argument and reason to believe that “people” and “countries” would actually be more responsible in spending it.
If there was a big, motivated, carefully planned social movement that had a solid idea and spending plan, things would be different. And such a group could also force them to give up that money to spend it on these things. But such a movement doesn’t exist.
As it stands, the idea that they would voluntarily give up money is dumb. To do what? Feed the corruption and nepo network in their country, that then will benefit only the people that are just like them, but less rich? That makes no sense.
It has to come from public pressure and equal wealth taxes.
- Comment on Non-lethal components 3 months ago:
Good meme.
- Comment on ‘Stop Killing Games’: Demands for game ownership must also include workers’ rights 3 months ago:
The headline is part of the article.
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 3 months ago:
It’s possible you will feel weird about being there and not enjoy it. I was to two concerts of one of my favorite bands and I just didn’t really get it and enjoy it that much, because it was in a big crowd. The “live” thing just didn’t do it for me, so my conclusion is that I just prefer music by myself.
But the mood at the event itself shouldn’t keep you out, you like what you like and if it’s a cool community, they will not gatekeep it.
My wife and I
Showing up alone would be a bit weird. With your wife, nobody should give you a second look.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 months ago:
The concept makes a lot of sense and was really really cool.
I saw a playthrough and I had 3-4 problems:
- everyone seems to be better at colonizing on their own, separate from the home base, whose literal only purpose is to colonize.
- (mechanically the whole colonization thing is trivialized by mary sue story progression and deus ex machina devices)
- all the new aliens are once again roughly 2m tall humanoids
- the ending felt… very “we need setpieces” and “absolutely make it a parade of every minor character we talked to”
ME1 even had Rachni, as non-humanoid npcs, could have something like that…
(And obviously most parts of the art departments did their job well. It’s 99% a direction and writing problem.)
- Comment on What would you do if your gym trainer is 5 minutes late? 3 months ago:
Talk to them. Then if it keeps happening, talk to their manager.
Sometimes life happens, but if it’s consistent it’s annoying, and people have to be professional about it. If they signed up for the job and the job says the gym unlocks at 7, he better be inside at 6:30, get stuff ready and then unlock at 7.