danbolt

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   by danbolt 5y ago

   I think games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake III Arena are reflections of a different market. Production costs and expectations around sales/RoI are a lot different from the late 90s.
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   by danbolt 5y ago

   There’s traditionally a milestone during production called “vertical slice”, where the developer would present a segment of the game that’s meant to represent the final product. They’re not necessarily considered best practice, since a deve
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   by danbolt 5y ago

   There will be rare in-game items until Windows Update affects compatibility with the game’s Unity client and the developer is out of business.
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   by danbolt 5y ago

   Sometimes; I find it can depend on the project in mind. I think if a decent number of people try to scope for a certain timeline, you can get interesting discussions on what's achievable within the timeframe. Maybe a bit like schoolwor
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   by danbolt 5y ago

   I feel like I get to enjoy the works of great authors at a distance. Most of them won’t be managing me at work.
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   by danbolt 5y ago

   Who are “elites” in this case?
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   by danbolt 5y ago

   I think the federal government is responsible for acquisition and logistical delivery to provinces, but not the administration of vaccines.
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   by danbolt 5y ago

   Perhaps something similar to the Xbox’s UWP mode might be nice. The owner can run their own computer program on it, but opts out of Xbox games and services.
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   by danbolt 5y ago

   I think what's interesting about this approach is that the act of creating the game is the educational work, rather than consuming the product.
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    This was an interesting read! Video games tend to be known as entertainment products, but here we see the creation and evaluation of one as an educational goal. I feel like this pushes on the boundaries of the medium in an interesting way.
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    I don’t know much about League of Legends or its architecture, but I could imagine they were making tradeoffs at times for the product’s sake. I think they hint at this with `std::string` usage in their tech debt article. [1] It’s been said
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    So, you worked on a video game. You might not appear in the credits(washingtonpost.com)

    4 points by danbolt 5y ago|0 comments
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    I’m hoping it encourages game developers to spend a bit more engineering time on optimizing their games for a lower minspec. Or, knowing that users won’t be purchasing new computers at as fast of a clip will encourage software made for a wi
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    My guess is that as time goes on Taiwan will see itself more and more as Taiwanese than Chinese. Much in the same way that many French-speaking Canadians do not see themselves as necessarily French.
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    Fraser Canyon museum awarded for preserving early history of Chinese Canadians(cbc.ca)

    1 points by danbolt 5y ago|0 comments
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    I think you've touched on the spirit of the game's (unexpected) popularity. A lot of younger audiences might have only played more conventional AAA games beforehand, so this might be their first taste into something that's mo
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    Are you familiar with Twinbeard's Futiltris ? You'll need Flash to play it these days, but I always found it really entertaining. [0] http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris [1] https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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    Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017)(platinumgames.com)

    154 points by danbolt 5y ago|76 comments
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    I have a beta MNT Reform 2, and the laptop falls in the "just works" category. It gives a bit of bulk and the setup wouldn't work for everyone, but I downright love the user-replaceable standard batteries.
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    Do you think there'd be a good time to draw a line? I can't really see the need for 25+ without a fee.
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    by danbolt 5y ago

    ChakraCore was a cool JavaScript engine as well. I miss it being actively developed!
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    by danbolt 6y ago

    I think Instagram can usually figure it out from the Minovsky Particles given off by your PC for that short bit of time.
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    by danbolt 6y ago

    I think for a lot of our communications, elements of 4th period math have now moved to a group chat.
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    by danbolt 6y ago

    What would you like to see done differently in the Canadian government?
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    by danbolt 6y ago

    In Canada, what the government deems appropriate is under a version of the Sword of Damocles known as the electorate. A government can lose confidence of the house at any time in the way we know it. We can start to see this with a polarized
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    Kaze No Notam(hardcoregaming101.net)

    2 points by danbolt 6y ago|0 comments
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    by danbolt 6y ago

    Can you imagine the positive spin on the patch notes when pre-2030 tokens get deprecated? It's certainly going to be due to technical debt on horse armour or something like that.
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    Voxel Space: Comanche's terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code (2020)(github.com)

    366 points by danbolt 6y ago|71 comments
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    by danbolt 6y ago

    That’s interesting to hear, given I’ve just watched Ms Kapelos grill Ng on vaccine shipments and Garneau on Chinese-Canadian relations the per week.
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    by danbolt 6y ago

    Funny enough, I’ve never considered the CBC an “elite” source of media and didn’t get that impression from the CBC itself. Maybe you could explain a little? I want up understand what you mean better.