julianh
@julianh@lemm.ee
Game dev and Linux user
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Sir this is a Wendy’s
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 4 weeks ago:
or gender bose-einstein condensate?
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 5 weeks ago:
If the entire list isn’t outer wilds its bs.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 5 weeks ago:
don’t ask about ladybug georg
- Comment on Outer Wilds' Community has been AWESOME! 1 month ago:
Man I wish. Those puzzles are ingrained in my skull forever.
- Comment on Krillin 2 months ago:
I like rice but kind of like how I like bread. It’s carbs that you put with other stuff give it more substance. On its own it can be OK (since its carbs) but pretty bland.
- Comment on Risk of Rain developers join Valve, announced in a twitter post. 2 months ago:
Dont forget cs2, plus the short (but very fun) Aperture Desk Job)
- Comment on Balatro: Friends of Jimbo – Reveal Trailer – Nintendo Switch - YouTube 2 months ago:
Wow it evolved from an Empoisoned game to a Swumbles Big Jumble game.
- Comment on a new paradigm 2 months ago:
I feel like this isn’t exclusive to indie games.
Empoisoned games: Forespoken, Bloodborne, Metal Gear Rising RevenganceSwumbles Big Jumble games: Assassin’s Creed (plus subtitle), John Madden Football (and other similarly titled sports games), any legend of zelda game.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 2 months ago:
Yeah I agree with you there. If you’re gonna just give two or three body type options and no other customization, there should be an androgenous option or at least they should all be generally androgenous. I think the issue with runescape probably stems from how the game was before.
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 2 months ago:
I agree with what others said that more customization is generally good, but not all games really need that level of customization. For something like animal crossing, I think the body type thing is fine, since the designs are more neutral unlike what you’re describing. I think what could help is a third option that’s a more neutral body type. Or maybe if it’s not relevant, just don’t have a body type option.
I also don’t know much about runescape, but I assume this was an update that just changed the names from genders to body types, so adding other options might have increased the scope of the update. I think at least uncoupling that from gender is at least an improvement over before. Plus, I kinda disagree that people would only pick the corresponding pronouns. Plenty of people have a gender expression that doesn’t necessarily match their gender identity.
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes [BBC] 2 months ago:
I mean, that’s not cruelty free. Someone’s still gotta animate that. And most good animators either act scenes out beforehand and/or use reference footage.
- Comment on Does anyone here play tf2 or dark and darker? 3 months ago:
So many games focus mainly on competitive play. Tf2 is the only multiplayer fps where I feel free to relax and goof off.
- Comment on Arkane founder says Prey and Dishonored fans ‘will be happy’ with his new game [VGC] 3 months ago:
I’m interested.
- Comment on I can whistle at the speed of sound 3 months ago:
Wait until they see the speaker that makes noise at the speed of sound.
- Comment on Reject reality 4 months ago:
Oh my god
- Comment on Reject reality 4 months ago:
Someone I know misheard “Tenth Avenue Freestyle” as “Tell the devil you freestyle” and honestly that’s a much more interesting song.
- Comment on Progress happens with every death 4 months ago:
Also a ton of discoveries and inventions are on accident while looking for completely different things.
- Comment on Speaking of controllers: What's your favorite WEIRD controller? 4 months ago:
I’ve played lot of slower paced first person games with them. It also feels really nice in games with inventory screens and other mouse-focused ui. I never really tried to get used to them though, they just kind of clicked with me.
- Comment on Speaking of controllers: What's your favorite WEIRD controller? 4 months ago:
The steam controller was (and still is) fantastic. I once got a comfortable binding for the original System Shock, which already has a pretty untenable control scheme with a keyboard and mouse. Also its haptic feedback can play music.
- Comment on Anon reflects on e-sports 5 months ago:
Oh neat, thanks for the explanation! That makes sense as most of my crt exposure for the past 10 years has been classroom TVs and museum exhibits.
- Comment on Anon reflects on e-sports 5 months ago:
Idk if it’s just me but I have pretty good hearing, so I can hear the high pitch tone CRTs make and it drives me crazy.
- Comment on How do I make an image (or video) safe to post online? 5 months ago:
You’re right - most media formats have support for metadata, which can include all sorts of things depending on how the image is created. For instance, most phones have an option to add location data to photos.
A lot of identifiable info like location data is usually an option you can turn off. And there are a lot of tools to remove metadata from files. A quick search brought up this, which seems fairly reputable (and open source, which is usually good for sensitive stuff like this).
- Comment on Gottem 5 months ago:
Make that doubly avenged science.nasa.gov/mission/dart
- Comment on Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st 5 months ago:
No reason really, there’s just no point to set a super high limit if your save file is a 5kb text file.
Also valve does review the game and might not like an absurdly high limit, but I don’t know if they actually care or not.
- Comment on Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st 5 months ago:
Yeah devs get to set the limit. (Source: am a dev w/ a game on steam)
- Comment on The Indie Chat & Recommendation Thread 5 months ago:
Distance is a criminally underrated racing platformer cyberpunk horror game. Worth it for the campaign alone IMO but there’s also multiplayer, a level editor with workshop support, two bonus campaigns, car customization, and a track generator.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Half-Life 6 months ago:
Half-Life and Portal had a huge impact on my life. In high school I was in the source modding community, so I’m probably too familiar with valve’s engines and games. I made a few mods, the most well known being hl2 classic, and it kinda got me into game development.
But needless to say, it’s a fantastic series. I had a chance to play alyx and it was nuts. It’s crazy how influential this series and its technology is on gaming as a whole.
And a fun fact: quake had a feature where level designers could make a light flicker with a pattern of brightnesses. There were some premade patterns you could select as well. These made it into the goldsrc engine, then source, then source 2 - so Alyx, Quake, HL1, HL2, Portal, Portal 2, and more have lights that flicker in the exact same way.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Half-Life 6 months ago:
The thing with pushing stuff and it moving really fast was actually a bug in the steamb release. It finally got fixed last November for the 25th anniversary update.
- Comment on Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell 6 months ago:
They’re not interactive but Spec Ops: The Line’s loading screens stick out to be. They start out as pretty standard tips and lore info, but then starts giving you stuff like the definition of ptsd, a fun fact about increasing suicide rates in the military, or just telling you you’re not a good person. Occasionally the normal loading screen is entirely replaced with a ghostly image.