hildegarde
@hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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- Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games 1 week ago:
Its not a quick cash grab, the remaster was in development starting in 2021. This release had nothing to do with tarifs.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
$90 to replay a 8 year old wiiu game. Why would anyone?
- Comment on Anon appreciates Chris Sawyer 1 month ago:
Assembly was the language you used to write games back then. Most 8 and 16 bit console games were written in assembly. They needed low level code for the performance.
If you played sonic spinball on the genesis/mega-drive, you played a game that struggled at 20 fps because the developers chose to write in C instead of assembly to hit their deadline. Most games were coded in assembly in those days.
Sawyer started developing games in 1983. He would have learned assembly, and continued using the tools and techniques he was familiar with his entire career.
Assembly was pretty uncommon by 1999. RCT is uniquely made, but not because Chris Sawyer was a unique coding genus doing what no one else could, but because he was one of the few bedroom coders of the 80s who held out that long.
- Comment on Tried to order a part before the tariffs 1 month ago:
The doctrine is called force majeure. Most contracts have a force majeure clause.
If an external factor makes a contract impossible as agreed, the contract can be made void under force majeure. This is very common, and suddenly applied tariffs would likely be covered by a force majeure clause because neither party were responsible for them.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
I work for a union that predates the NLRB. And it will continue even if its gone. Unions did strikes when they were illegal. The law just makes strikes more peaceful, which is generally better for everyone involved, but it’s not essential.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Get ready for 2028. That is the year, right?
US laws offers enough protections for legal strikes that unions follow the law so they can’t do solidarity strikes. UAW is aligning their contract renewals for 2028, so it can happen then. But also if they repeal the nlra there will be little incentive to not start doing solidarity strikes.