SleeplessCityLights
@SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
- Comment on The European Commission's answer to SKG: "The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially." 1 day ago:
What are your ideas on determining an expiry date? A studio has no idea if they are going to be supporting a game for 5 weeks or 5 years. There is no fair number. When you are out of money you are out of money. If you let the studios decide, they will pick 1 day. If you set it at 1 year, only the unicorns and AAA can afford to stay in business. It would probably be more profitable and better for business to forgo the EU release altogether. No exaggeration. It will even save a bunch of money on localization. The studios will weaponized capitalism.
- Comment on The European Commission's answer to SKG: "The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially." 2 days ago:
What does that even mean? Are you implying that you can predict sales numbers?
- Comment on The European Commission's answer to SKG: "The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially." 2 days ago:
You get x amount of money to make a game. When you release, you used all of that x amount of money to make the game. You don’t sell well and did not recoup the cost of making the game. Now you have negative dollars to make any changes in the game. The end.
- Comment on The European Commission's answer to SKG: "The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially." 2 days ago:
They are down voting you because you are the one being reasonable. SKG unleashes the rabid horde of people that don’t understand math or budgeting. Stop Killing Games is actually “Kill All Indie Dev Studios” because only AAA can afford to stay in compliance. Do you people want to only have games from EA or Ubisoft? It sure does seem that people want to play Call of Duty games, because that is going to be the only thing left.
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 3 days ago:
Shit, I forgot part of it costs money.
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 3 days ago:
I had no idea two steam apps could have the same name. It does make sense though, you pay for an app for every prototype and not all prototypes make it to development. There would be a lot of wasted names. I wonder that if you apply for an IARC rating first, it will block them. Dm me if you want to know the no cost, zero effort way to do it.
- Comment on "Go outside and touch some grass"... The Outside: 1 week ago:
If there ever was a single image that defined Boomers, this would be it. This is the world they built.
- Comment on Vote 1 week ago:
Its Billy Ray Cyrus.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
It’s mind boggling how many people don’t know the origins of modern conservatism. The nobles that escaped having their heads chopped off with the king in France formed a political party to conserve the old hierarchical system to retain control of the country. From the start they are only motivated by power. If you ever wondered why they don’t really have any values or moral compass, that is the answer.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
It’s a perfectly normal cylinder size.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
“It’s a meat cylinder”
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 4 weeks ago:
If I wanted to I could do 9h to 17h, but 8h45 to 16h45 fits better with my commute, so I go with that.
- Comment on Language barrier 4 weeks ago:
An Arginine playing in Spain and France, is supposed to find English useful?
- Comment on Don't fuck them 5 weeks ago:
That person will have books, they will be overdue.
- Comment on Science is iterative 1 month ago:
I thought it was more about how complicated and expensive they were to fit in the engine package. For little gains, it was a waste of budget cap.
- Comment on Most could work on anyone really 1 month ago:
I am not your friend, guy.
- Comment on It has what kids want 1 month ago:
If this was the 70s or earlier this is what he would be selling. If his sponsors were big tobacco, he would be pushing smoking.
- Comment on not being able to experience a full-body-orgasm is just another example of the sad male reality. 1 month ago:
Use a wand instead of your finger, you will melt like an ice cube in an oven.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 1 month ago:
To push a release for a game you need to package it. It’s one thing to have no more ci/cd, you could technically build, package, and deploy on a workstation. But without source you can’t even do that because the build system is part of the source code. A game is a few hundred gigs of pure data and it needs to be packed to make it playable.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 1 month ago:
Eventually you will want to change the lighting or fix a high severity bug. You need the source to recompile or repackage.
- Comment on Lmao 2 months ago:
The last 75 years of nothing is because of Neoliberalism. It is not conventially profitable to spend government funds on scientific exploration. Government funds are used to counter tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations. Along with just stealing the money through various means.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 2 months ago:
Fun, I have to change the batteries for my Pokémon gold and silver. Thanks for the heads up, I will use fresh tips and borrow a multi-meter.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 2 months ago:
I was talking to someone and they were saying that the solders on these adapters always suck and it creates more work. Is there any truth to that? I have 6 games I want to do this on.
- Comment on Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated Unknown Worlds CEO 2 months ago:
I started to care far less about typos and spelling errors last year. At least the other person knows you put in the effort to write out your own thoughts.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 months ago:
I never would trust a 70 year old tech bro wearing a leather jacket.
- Comment on Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea Announced - RPGamer 3 months ago:
Since when has the crap games labeled Harvest Moon mattered to anyone?
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 months ago:
My steam account is older than the fresh University grad we just hired.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 4 months ago:
After work do you say to yourself “work work work for money money money”, because those are the vibes you are giving off.
- Comment on Usually a horrible interaction for all involved 4 months ago:
One Friday I had to go into to the office for an early meeting. Walked in the, saw my boss, my boss’ boss, HR, and an owner. I just said Fuck out loud and was immediately reassured that it is not what it looks like. They were laying people off, some of which were my friends. IT will always know before hand, we have to deactivate people’s access in a way they don’t notice until they get their meetings/calls. It does not feel good.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 4 months ago:
While you think sysadmins are your enemy, you are you own enemy and we are just trying to save you from yourself.