LarsDu88

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by LarsDu88 3y ago
You still can. You just need to play online matches of Rome Total War, which is where I learned the vast majority of my classical historical knowledge, lol
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Heh, obvious a cultured man of knowledge (or anyone who watched the movie 300 and read wikipedia) would know that these are major leaders of Sparta Grant, Sherman, Meade Churchill, Roosevelt, De Gaulle It's to filter the cultured elite
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Take a look at this entrance exam to Harvard from 1869: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvarde... Good luck finding high school students today who could get a good score on this test. Th
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
It depends on the type of game, but 360 raycasts per bot is definitely a code smell that warrants a closer look at how the game is being architected.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
It's hard to evaluate this without seeing a screenshot of your game, but 360 raycasts per bot per frame for a basic 2d game is INSANE. It sounds like you are trying to query every angle in every direction for every character. This is m
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
"Good raycasting should be sublinear" yes, but some folks like to stick 100 raycasts on every character which will kill the performance regardless of what engine your making your game in.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
It's hard to tell without seeing a screenshot or video of the game in question, but there are almost certainly ways to optimize this problem. If there are on the order of even several dozen enemies on the screen at any given time, you
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Somehow, I feel like reading that article diminished the original critique, however, inefficient raycasts aren't some sort of pathological edge case. Raycasts are the most commonly used spatial queries in a 3d game. Hopefully this disc
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
This is seriously a terrible take. If you want to look at centrally planned economies, you need look no further than the Soviet Union, post WW2 china, and post-partition India. Soviet Union make 85,000 T-34 tanks (with a large amount of ind
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
I'm making a VR combat flight sim (of sorts) https://roguestargun.com I went into it thinking I needed a bunch of ECS multithreading to make it run on an Oculus Quest 2, but honestly, it's completely unnecessary. Vanil
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Godot
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Among Us can't easily be ported to another engine? LOL I've been making a Unity VR game, and I can assure you, with a bit blood, sweat, tears, and some ChatGPT assistance, it can be done, especially for the vanilla 2d games which
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Just if anyone didn't notice the top reply is from Elon's ex-wife Justine Musk, and here response is point on. You become a billionaire by accumulating wealth. What is wealth? Wealth is something that other people want! It could b
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
This is why I feel an engine like Bevy will one day beat them all. ECS, rust, memory safety, thread safety. It just needs an editor (or even a gameplan for what an editor would look like), animation, halfway decent rendering pipeline... it&
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Compared to Unity DOTS and Bevy, Godot's architecture is not scalable to multicore architectures. For 99% of games and hobby gamedev's though it's good enough (just like Unity). Given enough time and funding Bevy will get the
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
I am into Rust, and I did check out Bevy. I made a little demo WASM game called StarRust which you can play at the bottom of the page: https://dublog.net/blog/rust-2/ TLDR: Bevy is in no ways ready for prime time.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Switching to Godot, even though I'm a hobbyist who will never hit those thresholds
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
And then you setup the forward rendering pipeline, and the programmable shaders, and the skeletal animation system, then the inverse kinematics for procedural animation, then the asset pipeline for publishing to different platforms, then th
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
What product-market-fit does Unity have left? If you're an indie studio making small 2d or basic 3d games, you will use Godot If you're a big studio looking for AAA graphics capability you will use Unreal. There is no other reason
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Boy, this is demoralizing. Unity needs to make money, but they just gave folks a great reason on the lower end a reason to switch to the completely free Godot which: - Will soon reach performance parity - Now supports C# - Is less bloate
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
The simple answer is that most of the folks who have more kids will give rise to a generation of have-nots, and they will be on the unhappy side of an ever-widening gap between the super educated elites, and the merely educate plebes. It&#x
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
As economies get more advanced, people begin to realize they don't or can't have kids who grow up to become farm workers or blue collar laborers. To raise a kid to become wealthy and white collar requires immense resources -- two
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
BRICS countries want to become less reliant on the dollar, but lack the main things propping the dollar up which are lack of corruption and overwhelming military might.
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
The book Loonshots by Safi Bahcall describes this phenomena quite well. There's a "phase transition" of incentives at around 150 people that can be fatal to many organizations. The secret sauce is how a startup goes past this
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
If this thing really was super conducting, they should be able to rotate the sample upside down from flux pinning right? That's why this thing is probably just a magnet and not a superconductor??
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
Chinese balloons get shot down over the US and 2 months later a bunch of randos pop up talking about UFOs. If I were to guess, the Chinese intelligence agencies are simply doing active measures to cow the American public after embarrassing
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
I may be out of the loop, but can't schools just install Linux mint on these things and use them to teach kids python and *nix?? A Chromebook hardware wise is still eons ahead of what many older software engineers grew up learning on
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
That website still exists? I haven't used it in over 20 years!
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
It'll go in stages... First customer service, Then replacement of call centers. LLMs will then be incorporated into videogames... NPCs you can actually talk to who will address you by name Then there will education... A well tuned LLM
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by LarsDu88 3y ago
It's glad to hear that children will no longer have an admissions edge at these schools. I thought it was absolutely ridiculous how they were letting 8 year olds into college campuses.

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