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sinbad

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Greybeard. I’ve made engines (Ogre3D), devtools (Sourcetree, Git LFS), now games, Unreal Engine tools & plugins. Baker, coffee nerd, Cat Dad. He/him

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Yas. It might feature big hulking men with durags, soul patches, and no necks, but it totally surprised me back in the day especially in co-op with its quite different take on shooting monsters in the face and we’ve been fans ever since. Cover systems and horde mode started here. I’m very much in for a prequel https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@djlink/112588224500212373

djlink, to random
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wow wow a new Gears of War, a prequel set in the emergence day events!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC20gLfUHeA

sinbad,
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@djlink genuinely stoked for this. I didn’t play GoW for ages thinking it was too bro heavy and CoD like but I eventually played it co-op with my wife and we loved it, have played and enjoyed all of them

sinbad, to random
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I assembled some parts for a PC I intended to be my Linux test workstation, POSTed fine and then I realised the cooler was too big for the case and I couldn’t get the lid back on 😭 Guess I’m transplanting everything into my even older spare case then

(I can’t just leave the top off, we have a cat who will absolutely eat the cables and in fact did try while I was building)

sinbad,
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Man, this old jalopy hasn’t been opened in a while huh

The last time this was fired up was at the tail end of my tenure as Ogre3D lead

sinbad, to random
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I’ve been slowly working on a second playthrough of Elden Ring deliberately picking up the bits I missed the first time, and found several surprisingly large areas I’d never seen before, some that I knew I’d missed, and some which I accidentally found. Then a friend told me I had to have done X to play the DLC and I’d never even heard of it. One wiki trip later and i found it: an optional area off another optional area, and another few hours of hidden gameplay. What an insane game

sinbad, (edited ) to random
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I’ve been baking with honey instead of sugar lately and it’s surprising how much difference it makes to the colour of the crust on everything. It develops a really deep reddish brown colour and has extra crunch, while not affecting the texture of the inside. I dig it

sinbad, to random
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I've had web hosting for 20+ years and given how much cheaper all the components in the service have gotten in that time (CPU cycles, bandwidth, storage), by rights we should by now all have our own hosting for federated services for pennies or bundled with our internet service. Why is it still so expensive? I used to run databases on a potato compared to now

sinbad,
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@kimau Do individuals really need CDNs? I've never run one for my personal websites. I feel like this is one of those things where "best practice" is often applied blindly regardless of scale.

Virtualised servers is sort of my point - I think everyone should just have some server time for free provided by their ISP, and we should have web software efficient enough to run within that and do all the basic things everyone wants to do. I know it's not as simple as that, but still

sinbad,
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@btsherratt Yeah I feel like VPSs are basically commodity now but a) you have to be a dev to use one and b) web software has grown in overhead to fill the space given to it when it probably could fit in much smaller spaces if it was designed that way

sinbad,
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@kimau to me that's more of a problem of AWS charging models - why does AWS cost you but Cloudflare doesn't? These are solved issues, but somehow we're still jumping through over-complex multi-vendor hoops to solve them

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I'm well chuffed that our dishwasher has been fixed by an actual engineer who knew what he was doing; diagnosed the problem, replaced the part (pump impeller detached through wear), done in less than an hour. I'm a big believer in fixing things (or getting them fixed) rather than the typical throw away & replace culture, and the engineer said the rest of the machine looked to be in perfect nick so hopefully we'll get a bunch more years out of it. 👍

sinbad,
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@toerror everything appears good here, no visible plastics issues, fingers crossed

glassbottommeg, to unrealengine
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Having a heated discussion about C++'s const, and how I think it's silly formalism and simply gets in the way of quickly implementing systems, and it's a bit,

sinbad,
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@glassbottommeg it’s C++, it’s gonna break somehow 😉

Having said thatnot using const on a reference argument fundamentally changes how it appears in BPs so there’s that

sinbad,
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@glassbottommeg having said that I do kinda like const for some things, right up until the things need to do some cacheing and then you’re throwing mutable around and ehhh

sinbad, to random
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Oof, today I’m getting spam from fake HR departments announcing layoffs and “click to see layoff terms”. Obviously terribly bad taste but I guess they’re just riding the trend and hoping to cash in on people's panic clicks😔

sinbad, to random
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Tightened up my melee collision traces, realised I was picking up the character collision cylinder which is much too generous (used for walk surfaces & spacing from obstacles).

So now it's better. Ouch. Not the face!

sinbad,
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Skeletons no longer pop out of existence after you kill them, so that's nice

Video of a skeleton warrior's head with red eyes and a red glow. The eyes and light slowly dim, then the head dissolves

sinbad, to random
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Experimenting with some non-blood hit effects

sinbad, to random
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Microsoft’s “nothing to see here” attitude is beyond galling. Deep in the hole over Recall and just keeps digging https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/06/microsoft_research_recall/

sinbad, to random
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I think I’ve been convinced to install PopOS instead of Fedora when I get around to building that Linux test workstation. Seems quite sane & probably matches my use case (plus I do like apt)

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I sometimes feel bad about joining a Discord server and then hardly participating despite there being interesting discussions there. But the fact is that most of the discussion happens on North American time, which means by the time I check it, it’s now a 12-hour wall of interleaved discussion that I can’t easily catch up on (multiplied the number of servers I’ve joined with good intentions) and it’s probably all been resolved / talked out by then anyway

sinbad,
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Forums were great weren’t they?

sinbad,
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@msinilo I do mute all of them barring one for close friends and for direct mentions because yeah otherwise it’s too many notifications. I try to check in but it’s either A) no messages or B) 2000 messages

sinbad, to random
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Marie’s out so Pip is hot desking

sinbad, to random
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I don't even use Microsoft Edge. 😠

sinbad,
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@psychicparrot42 typical Edgelord

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