Agentlien

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by Agentlien 7mo ago
It seemed to be the monitoring side of it which caused a lot of crashes. It was apparently a very common issue in many games around that time.
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
That's a really cool anecdote. The overclock makes sense. When we released Need For Speed (2015) I spent some time in our "war room", monitoring incoming crash reports and doing emergency patches for the worst issues. The vas
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by Agentlien 7mo ago
Six Math Essentials as a title reminds me of Six Easy Pieces. I wonder if that's intentional.
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
I use this a lot when trying different ways of solving things or debugging. Just today I was looking into a bug when I started worrying that it might be caused by a fairly recent improvement I made to the feature. I went to the file in ques
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
I just checked these out and Limelight feels wonderful when editing and reading prose in Vim! I will definitely be using this in the future - especially when writing things for my blog.
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
I've used a few facetious comments in ChatGPT conversations. It invariably misses it and takes my words at face value. Even when prompted that there's sarcasm here which you missed, it apologizes and is unable to figure out what i
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
I remember my father had installed Windows 3.10 (not 3.11) on our home pc (I must have been 6-7 at the time). I complained that it was just awkward to use compared to DOS and all games required you to reboot in DOS anyway. I didn't see
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
As someone with a similar background (graphics programmer) it sure seems like a fun problem. I honestly found the lack of multiplication instruction quite surprising. I did not know that!
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
This was so much fun to read! Very neat solutions using spherical coordinates and logarithms. How did you get the actual idea to do this in the first place?
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
I want to second this. I'm 38 and I used to do some debugging and reverse engineering during my university days (2006-2011). Since then I've mainly avoided looking at assembly since I mostly work in C++ systems or HLSL. These last
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
There's a lot of truth to that. I actually bought Disgaea 5 confident I would love it based on a review which did a really good job describing what the game is like, even though the reviewer didn't like it at all. I also used to l
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
This was a really weird ramble and I find myself disagreeing completely. As a lifelong gamer, it rings false because I've read many pieces of game critique and reviews which perfectly capture a game's soul. As a game developer, I
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
Thank you, that's very nice to hear. :) Every time I hear someone likes a game I contributed to I feel quite happy. After all, giving joy and escapism to people who need it is why I always wanted to make games.
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
Right, which is why I wrote "It wouldn't work well in our specific games." There's an obvious appeal to sim racing for those who want realism and My Summer Car for those who... Well, it's an interesting project whic
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by Agentlien 8mo ago
I had a discussion with my son son about recent (2015-2019) Need For Speed games I worked on. He asked why we didn't include keeping track of fuel and actually stopping to use the gas station like in real life (in game you just drive t
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by Agentlien 9mo ago
I don't think the idea of realistic scale for video game locations is very attractive. You can have vast worlds with huge procedurally generated towns. Daggerfall did this and to me it just felt like boring filler. As did its enormous
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by Agentlien 9mo ago
I mainly want to learn even more about what I've already been working with. I want to deepen my understanding of the AGC API and finally take the time to teach myself Vulkan.
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
I have a few blog posts which have received only about ~250 upvotes across different communities, plus a GitHub project with just 30 stars. Still, both of these were really interesting to my future colleagues (not the recruiter) who intervi
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
My parents reacted in just the same way and the lackluster response really took me by surprise.
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
I just finished reading this article and I'm really impressed. The author has learned a lot in a very short while. And is able to explain parts of it quite well. This is the kind of stuff I always feel I should be able to do, yet it ne
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
As a graphics programmer this doesn't ring true to me. Using more readable names definitely helps during development. I think the cause of this is twofold. First, there's a lot of equations used in graphics programming where the c
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by Agentlien 10mo ago
Interesting that Half-Life: Alyx exclusively in VR wasn't enough, then. I love VR and that game is the best VR experience I've had.
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by Agentlien 11mo ago
The more I hear about other developers' work, the more varied it seems. I've had a few different roles, from one programmer in a huge org to lead programmer in a small team, with a few stints of technical expert in-between. For ea
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by Agentlien 11mo ago
At least to start. Microsoft strongly encourages all Xbox games to also come out on PC, though they sometimes release later. I cannot find any game developed originally for Xbox Series X|S where this hasn't happened eventually (and the
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by Agentlien 11mo ago
There's been quite a few games in recent years where I notice some system and think "ugh, do I really need to bother with this, too?". Especially crafting or skill point systems which feel slapped on. Some games make them a f
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I really hope they release something as well, because I loved their research papers on analyzing how Claude thinks[0] and how they analyzed it[1] and I'm eager for more. [0] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/at
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I'm someone living far off in remote Sweden, could you explain with some examples?
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by Agentlien 1y ago
This game is to Sim City what My Summer Car is to Need For Speed. That's delightful!
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I always get confused around this and it seems to depend on specific keyboard and software. It seems to mostly be Alt, sometimes Alt Gr, and sometimes the Windows key. But I do remember using Meta to mean Alt when I was setting things up in
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by Agentlien 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key But, the meta key already exists and on Windows it is the Windows key. We're going around in circles.

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