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by danbolt 7y ago
How did you find Promare? There were a few shots that I found a little jarring but I thought they did a good job of liberally making the frames more sparse.
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by danbolt 7y ago
I think if I was told something like this verbally or in email, my internal alarm bells would be going off. Or, being lionized for not being laid off after my coworkers were doesn't give me a sense of pride being at the company. As con
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by danbolt 7y ago
Do you use the Hario Mini Slim [1] as well? One thing I love about it is how grinding a full container closely matches a full AeroPress. Dumping from the grinder straight into the press is convenient and less spillage than scooping coffee o
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by danbolt 7y ago
I love those little ingame props, or they can reflect a lot of interesting nuances and opinions about weapons.
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I think it was the television show 24 where the villains weren't allowed to drive Ford cars.
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by danbolt 7y ago
I think the parent is applying Death of the Author here, implying that what we should make of a work is separate from whatever the author is. After all, Takashi Tezuka doesn't provide any commentary on what Goombas are; although Englis
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by danbolt 7y ago
I have pretty severe dog allergies so having them at people’s homes rather than at offices would be a win for me too.
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I think that’s partially why the market for handheld game devices didn’t get crowded out by smartphones. Tactile inputs let the player’s muscle memory work as a more direct shorthand into the product for a lot of video games. It helps the r
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by danbolt 7y ago
I was born in the early 90s so I don't think I don't think I'll ever understand the earlier 20th century on a personal/emotional level, but do older folks feel that some of these issues are neoliberal attitudes becoming
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I’m okay with that in all honesty, and wouldn’t consider it a market failure. I don’t think the true cost of Thai food to my door during a pandemic is represented in its price.
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I’m not ready for advertising on the internet to be mining social media for producing targeted deepfakes.
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I'd like us to document as much as we can sooner rather than later (and not necessarily dramatized media) as DOOM is incredibly impactful in the games industry and I want us to understand it 200-300 years from now.
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LICEcap is really nice for making itch.io covers. I'm a big fan of it!
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To everyone, it's worth remembering that the Agile Manifesto was some dudes in a room with a whiteboard, and doesn't have to be taken as word on high.
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I have an old HTML5 game I made that stores a high score in localStorage. I might have to figure out an alternative solution later down the road.
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To give examples, Calgary recently voted not[1] to host the Winter Olympic Games when they had been previously known for doing quite well in 1988. [2] When I was in high school we had a substitute teacher from Greece to talked about how he
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Modern Art is a lot of fun, and it helps kids learn about value being a product of the situation around it in some ways.
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Agreed! I think it kind of goes to show that a game often needs a nice cocktail of interesting game state changes (eg: "mechanics") mixed with nice feelings. Audiences vary in how they like the two (eg: Chess compared to Mario Kar
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by danbolt 7y ago
It’s hard not to blame those workers if they’re living paycheque to paycheque. For a well-paid programmer it’s a different story but it’s not hard to imagine the immediate liquidity bieng more valuable when expenses take a bigger bite of yo
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by danbolt 7y ago
Each year Roguebasin hosts the 7DRL challenge where people look to create a finished roguelike in seven days. I participated this year and found it a pretty thoughtful meditation on the genre. https://7drl.com/
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by danbolt 7y ago
I feel really torn about this issue. When I was a child, the web was much simpler and similar to the ideal the author proposes. I enjoyed it a lot and today appreciate a website (like HN!) that isn't an exploding mass of APIs and funct
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by danbolt 7y ago
This is so lovely to see! ZZT got me into programming in a very holistic, human, way. I'm happy that it's being explored.
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Sorry if my tone came off as blaming like you said. I didn't mean to be blaming git or holding it responsible for something. I see a lot of existing inertia for Perforce in the AAA game development industry, and wanted to express that.
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My heuristic is to take a oversimplified idea and express it in an authoritative tone on social/economic/administrative topics. Sign the username with pg and you’re good.
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If you’re eating out or getting food delivered by a courier, tip extra if you can. Food service workers are exposed to many more people and typically lack the salary/benefits programmers get. If they get infected by the virus or laid o
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I think in terms of game production, software licensing usually isn’t the largest cost center for a project. Proprietary software isn’t a concern as much, given that games traditionally are “shipped” and then completed. (Note that this chan
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You’re absolutely right, but larger developers and publishers have been slower to adopt. P4’s GUI/model is also intuitive for non-programming roles to learn and use historically compared to git, so a team with wide skills can ramp up q
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In the AAA games industry git has been a bit slower on the uptake (although that’s changing quickly) as large warehouses of data are often required (eg: version history of video files, 3D audio, music, etc.). It’s nice to see git have more
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I'm not an expert, but I'd imagine they require maintenance and staffing.
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by danbolt 7y ago
A decade ago I got to try a Vectrex at Penny Aracde Expo in Seattle. I was enamoured with it for those few short moments, as it had a unique look and aspect ratio. I’d love to play one again.

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