minfapper
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- Comment on 'None of these people have ever made a game,' BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: 'They just don't know how it works' 5 days ago:
I used to think that would be the best approach, but then I watched Star Citizen’s development. Without the pressure of a publisher, the creative leads got to focus 100% on their vision.
Turns out that means unbelievable (to us) scope. creep. Creative visionaries are great at their creative vision, but not so much at managing schedules and running a business. They need to butt heads with someone that cares about the money so that they compromise ends up being the masterpiece we all love.
- Comment on These gas station pills are getting sketchier 1 week ago:
Nope, being labelled a supplement not only lets you bypass approvals, but the FDA legally can’t inspect or investigate your product until after people start getting sick.
All 50 states.
- Comment on Cry 2 weeks ago:
Most of them. One of them is going on a cross-country road-trip vacation with his dogs, another quit his job and bought a giant plot of land in the middle of nowhere to focus on gardening, another is finishing up her training to become an airline pilot (I should give her a call - haven’t hung out since we got our private pilot’s licenses together).
But the point being is that as people get older they have other things going on that keep them busy, even if they haven’t chosen to start a family.
- Comment on Cry 2 weeks ago:
Being told this all through my 20s I was terrified of getting older and being super lonely.
What those people didn’t tell is that as you get older, your desires change. Like… it was fun hanging out with my friends playing games and chilling all day during school/university. I wouldn’t trade those memories for anything.
But these days I’d much rather spend time with my wife and son. And I suspect it’s the same for my old friends, which is why we only hang out once in 6 weeks.
- Comment on Impressive 1 month ago:
Can someone be kind enough to explain to old person what sounding is? The youth’s lingo moves to fast for me.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t that cause some hygiene issues?
- Comment on Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox 2 months ago:
Now I’m actually curious about how things would work in your perfect world.
The current gaming industry in the late stages, so it might be more productive to discuss the mid 2000s.
The vast majority of platform exclusives were made by studios/publishers owned by the platform. Exclusives were in turn a very big part of the value proposition of consoles, causing people to buy them in the first place.
If that had been outlawed by then, who would have produced the iconic games of each platform?
- Comment on Take A Picture, It'll Last Longer 2 months ago:
Man I really hope that’s an actual ad that someone paid to have posted on a real street
- Comment on culture 2 months ago:
Well, I’m glad I didn’t read the book then. I watched it with no expectations going in and had a great time.
- Comment on Love Wins 2 months ago:
I mean, generators exist and you usually need a male to male cable to plug into your house
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 2 months ago:
Microsoft focus entirely on business customers. Xbox doesn’t align at all with any of their other business strategies.
I’m sure they’d love to sell it off, but it’s like one of the biggest (if not the actual biggest) publishers in the world so I don’t think there’s any company that can afford to buy it.
They could split it up and sell it off in pieces, but they’re not sure if Wall Street will reward them for it. So the best bet for them is to keep it as a buffer for layoffs whenever they need to raise their stock price.
The bullshit part it that our current economic system makes this the most logical path.
Instead of blaming Microsoft for doing layoffs, maybe we should be asking ourselves why we let 3 trillion dollar companies exist in the first place
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 2 months ago:
what we actually have a shortage of is the underlying memory chip fabs. That is, the machines that can take the silicon and stamp them into DRAM/HBM/whatever else you need.
So, once the bubble pops and enough of those free up to (potentially) resume manufacturing DRAM sticks at the rate they were back in 2025, we’ll get regular inventory again, but there won’t be a surplus.
You can’t pluck out the silicon from an already built chip and shove it in another, unfortunately 😅, and I don’t think anyone will be able to build an adapter that lets you plug HBM into DRAM slots because they’re architecturally just different enough for that to be infeasible.
So that will leave all those AI machines as scrap the hyperscalers have to deal with, but won’t help the rest of us.
- Comment on Source: Trust me, bro 3 months ago:
Legit I don’t think I can recognize any of those characters, and I thought I was a pretty big weeb.
- Comment on Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search 3 months ago:
Eh, it’s less about defeatism and more that I’m watching a fight between two assholes so I’m finding it hard to empathize with either side.
Like… Publishers regularly screwed over consumers, content creators, and tried to break the web multiple times. They can bleed for all I care
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, we’re not going to get an over supply of DRAM once the bubble pops.
Most of the current production is HBM, which is just architecturally different enough from DRAM to not be useful for desktop computers
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 3 months ago:
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Just make sure you don’t store any personal data on those devices. They become useless because they slowly turn into a security nightmare
- Comment on Xbox Player Voice Quickly Reveals What Players Want Most 5 months ago:
I work for Microsoft, and a lot of my former co-workers are still in the Xbox org. And can assure you they absolutely don’t have the ability to fake any of that.