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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A highly compressed, global base map at 1m resolution is somewhere on the order of 10TB. MSFS is probably using higher resolution commercial imagery, and that’s just the basemap textures, most of which you’ll never see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MSFS implements optimizations on top of that (progressive detail, compression, etc), but that’s how almost all map systems work under the hood. It’s actually an efficient way to represent real environments where you don’t have the luxury of procedural generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cleanroom RE is how you prove that’s what you did to a court. The point is to avoid into a courtroom with Nintendo at all, making the point moot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I make games and this literally happened to me this morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, steam’s market dominance is one of user choice rather than anticompetitive strategies. Steam doesn’t do exclusives, they don’t charge you for external sales, they don’t even prevent you from selling steam keys outside the platform, or users from launching non steam games in the client. The only real restriction is that access to steam services requires a license in the active steam account. Even valve-produced devices like the steam deck can install from other stores.

  Sure, dominance is bad in an abstract theoretical way and it’d be nice if Gog, itch.io, etc were more competitive, but Steam is dominant because consumers actively choose it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oregonian driving⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever taken the coast starlight or the Cascade trains? Last time I took the former it arrived 14 hours late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ive bought two⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried plugging it in first? Machine kneading is usually faster than hand kneading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can pry these high voltage lines from my sizzling dead fingers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The CSB doesn’t regulate and it can’t issue fines. They also don’t show up unless you’ve already had an incident. When they do show up, it’s simply to document and investigate the root causes, so they can issue recommendations to one of the regulatory agencies that actually enforces things. You need to have really fucked up for an agency with literally 40 staff overseeing one of the largest industrial economies in the world to notice you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every game developer company should be like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Larian has an actual QA team. It’s just a big, complicated game.