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bitinn

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Trying my best to talk more about gamedev | currently Tech Artist and R&D at an AAA publisher.

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TIL: Golf is the original mobile game

https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom/112589914786063072

bitinn,
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To be honest, for a certain category of users, video games are indeed in competition with actual golf.

bitinn, to random
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“The Sunday Story: Video Game Economics (It’s Not Play Money)”

https://overcast.fm/+Ys-sr36ts

bitinn, to random
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Tiny Glade does have some interesting idea that I don't see in other building games:

  • it encourages a kit bash approach and auto generate extra details along hard seams.

  • it has some unique roof and building ux that greatly simplifies common PCG tool pains.

basically this is Houdini gamified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFfVutsdos8

bitinn,
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But I guess for every PCG system the hardest balance is "completeness" vs "possibility", you generally can't have both with finite dev time and resources. Tiny Glade leans towards former but offers more variables than, say, Townscaper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0j92C3sKc

bitinn, to random
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“From beef noodles to bots: Taiwan’s factcheckers on fighting Chinese disinformation and ‘unstoppable’ AI”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/from-beef-noodles-to-bots-taiwans-factcheckers-on-fighting-chinese-disinformation-and-unstoppable-ai

bitinn, (edited ) to random
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“So how you relax in off hours.”

“Simple. I do so much overtime that my off hours are essentially bed time.”

bitinn, to random
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Ironically, Tankies are called tankies specifically because they hate seeing pictures of tanks, but only those made in their favorite countries.

glassbottommeg, (edited ) to random
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I just found out about the SQlite code of ethics, and now I'm feeling bad about ever recommending that database to anyone. https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

EDIT: this is a gag, I know you don't have to follow this to use it, I just find it impossibly cringe (and not the bad-good kind of cringe) to find this sitting like a turd in the middle of my favorite solve for SQL DB problems.

bitinn,
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@glassbottommeg 3d coat used to have a similar EULA, they changed it in recent years. Sometimes people grow up, sometimes they don’t:

https://blenderartists.org/t/3d-coat-e-u-l-a-to-put-off-many-users/435847

bitinn, to random
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Honest question about macOS security model:

  • If I am able to enter my admin password and reveal a list of all my passwords in Safari.

  • Why can't I do the same with a purchase on App Store? Why is a touch or face id required?

  • This just forces me to copy password, because human is no longer capable of remembering these auto-generated strong passwords.

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bitinn, to random
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Perhaps a billionaire with 2 ex-wives, multiple disgruntled partners, and 10 children, has no right to comment on whether a politician paying off a porn star to help its presidential bid is “trivial” or not.

bitinn,
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In that it reveals how the rich and powerful really think of marriage and child care:

Something you can pay off.

bitinn, to random
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Low key think when US conservative complain about not being able to get a fair trial in a semi liberal state, it echoes their own ethos of “don’t come to US if you hate its law”.

bitinn,
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Don’t commit federal crime in a liberal state, it’s that easy.

bitinn, to random
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Ok ok now we accept US to be a mature democracy: its due process must be able to hold the most powerful man accountable.

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We don’t know yet how Trump’s conviction will impact the November election

We can be pretty sure of 2 things, though

  1. Tomorrow, the RNC will report Trump’s biggest fundraising day ever, the media will run with that story, and no one will follow up if/when official election filings contradict it

  2. A GOP-sponsored poll will show that Trump's conviction will not lose him any votes, and the media will run with that too

bitinn,
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@peterbutler like clockwork, we normalized the impossible:

“Trump guilty verdict fires up Republican donors, who pledge millions” - Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-guilty-verdict-unfazed-republican-donors-focus-trumps-polling-2024-05-30/

bitinn,
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@peterbutler @bitinn

“Billionaire donors rally back to Trump” - Axios

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/trump-billionaire-donors-adelson-musk-ackman

bitinn, to random
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Lies, damned lies, and algorithms.

https://ipullrank.com/google-algo-leak

bitinn,
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Data is like oil, in that once corporations drilled a hole, they will keep tapping it until it dries:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167407/google-search-algorithm-documents-leak-confirmation

bitinn,
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In a way, perhaps the most powerful law US can pass is an algorithmic transparency act, it will level the playing field much more than a TikTok sale.

It will basically outlaw discovery as a business.

The only problem is: it will hurt US companies way more than Chinese, European, or Japanese ones.

And in a way, centralized services make governing easier (see Chinese intranet), you can tap data from a few sources and have a full picture.

Yeah, dear citizens, we are on our own for this issue.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6DbJldbMR0

bitinn, to gamedev
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Can older gamedev share some wisdom on how crunch manifest in the early 90-00s era?

These days crunch feels like a “feature” of game industry:

  • yes, by market cap we are definitely one of the biggest video game companies.

  • but even within it, your choice is to either crunch to meet increasingly difficult deadline;

  • or see your project cancelled in 2-4 years, then either continue on with other big projects or get layoff.

Are the 90s’ crunch different?

bitinn,
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@BartWronski I am not sure what these companies are looking for at this point, maybe one last squeeze for profit high point, but I don’t see this industry sustaining under such conditions. I certainly don’t want my team to face this forever, even if some of them were ready for this.

bitinn,
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@dotstdy @BartWronski one would think a communist-ran country has better worker protection 🤣

bitinn,
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@dotstdy @BartWronski but to answer your question, yeah overtime are unpaid here (worker cannot claim overtime pay without management approval); this is not a single company having bad labour practices neither, this practice is now common among top game publishers. We are regressing back to 2010s.

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