EarthLaunch

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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
Is it so important? I think this made the community and game world more interesting. It's emergent behavior. As a game developer, I hope I can make things complicated enough to have emergent behavior, even if that's just from m
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
Why does weighted randomness seem so difficult for games? Are there any libraries that simplify this? I couldn't find any for JS. So I created my own "algorithms" for things like randomly choosing which type of plants spawn
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
They don't really make them anymore, but you can still get m.2 form factor Intel Optane SSDs in the 900/905P series, example[0]. They have insane endurance specs. Their performance is also still awesome, especially for random re
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
Same experience. I have turned $100k-300k contracting projects into multimillion dollar successes in a short time. But those ones had a good business plan, and were hands-off on technical matters because they were semi-technical themsel
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I looove this. I agree with the other commenters that this has a special feeling. And that the future for web games is bright. (For as long as Google is spearheading features with Chrome.) I guarantee this game wasn't built with Uni
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I'm more worried about PFAS in pizza packaging [0]. It's used to make papers more water-resistant. Including some pizza boxes, or the paper they put between the pizza and the box. My favorite places use thin aluminum foil instea
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I finally got a chance to try this, and I'm impressed. I love the interactive examples right on the site. I'm coming from Mermaid[0], which falls more under 'pure diagramming', where as this is...systems diagramming.
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
A company without customer support is incentivizing everyone to blare every single problem to the largest possible audience. The overall impression is that the company's products are unpleasant and dysfunctional. It's the opposi
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
It's much better that commenting is open, so that people thinking these things can express themselves, and be exposed to different viewpoints, resulting in more thinking and shared knowledge. Without that, an opinion can fester in some
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I was thinking to do this in a non-pressurized Instant Pot. Between the cover and the insulation, it might not use much power.
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
You can use it online to shorten the names of top secret projects, but then they are no longer secret, and you will lose your job if/when your org works with OpenAI, which they should be. Until it’s offline, sadly, I can’t even use it
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I think it's a funny example of great UI discoverability still having failures. I say great because having the tilt keys adjacent to the paddle keys seems like a setup for accidentally hitting tilt in a moment of heat, thereby leading
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I want this for git commit messages.
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I read an epic space opera [0] on Wattpad where the baddies are like this. > What if a thought could get you cancelled? What if a thought could get you killed? What if everyone could peer inside your mind and judge you? > Welcome to t
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
> My name is - yanagamiyuki This one is incredible! It's like rap+vocoder. I listened to all of these and loved it, thanks!
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
> Will we all just become a meat shell of fried dopamine receptors, with various AIs and algorithms dictating every facet of our lives? I've been thinking about this lately, in terms of dopaminergic activities like advertising, drug
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I've switched back and forth over the years. Sometimes 1 laptop, sometimes a desktop and a laptop. It's just easier to only have one computer. Even with cloud, synching, dropbox, etc. Having a single machine is just easier. Y
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I liked your original comment, not because I agreed or disagreed with the utilitarian angle, but because it raised the most interesting emotional aspect of this story. Thanks for making it.
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
How cool, I’ve been wanting to try just such a conversation between two of my characters. I might give this a try! That conversation will relate to my own project, in which I’ve lost the fun aspect of working on it. There’s something impo
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
I realized this maybe four years ago. Since then I've just been waiting for the big companies to catch up. But I've literally never seen this mentioned, reading all comments on related stories. I read way more than I write, whi
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Click timing should be based on intent, not reality
11 points by EarthLaunch 4y ago|4 comments
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
In my opinion it's because games are art, and art is about feeling. I made a browser game, and recently optimized it heavily. Now it loads a game and huge 3D area in 2-3 seconds, faster than most mainstream websites. Like grandparen
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
> There's a comedian who does a bit about how humans might be the bad guy in horror movies made by aliens, because we can scar in situations that would kill other animals, and we can run in intervals for far longer than most other m
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
Thanks! That JS file is the whole minified application. The application is what knows what needs to be loaded - so I would have to move that logic out into the page. It would help but I am not sure it's worth the cost of maintaining
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
HTTP/2 Server Push being impractical matches my experience on getting my game client[0] to load quickly (2.5 - 3.5 seconds via Starlink, for cold - warm cache). What slowed it down: 1. Fetching many resources simultaneously, 162 resour
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
You are. Each person is individually.
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
What are some examples of the more expensive type of registrar? name.com?
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
That incentivizes customers to shift to a significantly different alternative. For instance, a less car-centric life. In a way, forcing cars to be bearable helps reinforce their influence. (Quality road repair, extra consumer protection, n
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
The mobile builds are its killer app, in my view as a gamedev. Unity has lost the plot in many ways. Desktop builds are important too, but there's competition there if you consider browser/electron as a desktop platform, plus Un
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by EarthLaunch 4y ago
Thank you so much for your work on Godot. You are right, though I think all three can be compared, depending on the type of project. Unity is on the decline and I would be happy for Godot to become the future for those types of games.

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