danbolt

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   by danbolt 7y ago

   I'm not an economist or a laissez-faire capitalist, but I don't think that's the ordinary mechanism of market pricing. My understanding is that the individual actors on the market independently price their goods in competitio
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   by danbolt 7y ago

   Not to mention a large amount of the artifacts involved to play those games aren’t necessarily documented or accessible. The Nintendo 64’s CIC chip was only reverse engineered quite recently and required a serious reverse-engineering effort
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   by danbolt 7y ago

   Nintendo (or better yet, and indie developer) remaking EA's public domain works into better products would be a great thing.
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   by danbolt 7y ago

   I would kill for anime studios to reinvent A New Hope. The plot and the characters would translate to anime tropes really well.
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   by danbolt 7y ago

   Doesn't copyright usually start from date of publication? It changes a bit for unpublished works, but otherwise a long gestation period doesn't eat into the duration of exclusivity. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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   by danbolt 7y ago

   I'm sadly not particularly knowledgeable on US game development salaries. I can imagine it varies a lot by company and region. I work in Vancouver, Canada, and a large portion of its industry is due to Canadians commanding lower wages.
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   The Mystery of Charumera Zelda No Densetsu(gamingalexandria.com)

   2 points by danbolt 7y ago|0 comments
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   by danbolt 7y ago

   Game development has a degree of notoriety for its working conditions and I’ve noticed a similar management style to yours appear subtly in certain teams here and there. The turnover is much lower, although the work tends to be less glamori
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   by danbolt 7y ago

   I haven't researched it, but I'd assume that Donald Trump had a blue checkmark back when he was widely known as a media personality and landlord.
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I feel the bank should be liable for stolen funds or information in the case of a security breach.
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I didn't crazy care for my time in Las Vegas, but I loved Valley of Fire park. It was incredible seeing the martian landscape and petroglyphs of ancient peoples.
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    For about six months I lived in Japan in an apartment in the suburbs. I was a homemaker while my partner worked in the city. I would frequently take the train with large bags to Costco and stock up on bulk purchases such as rice, oatmeal, a
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    Part of me wonders if it was a request from Disney, given that the value of the IP being emulated in an unlicensed product would be undesirable to them.
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    Making Halo in a Distributed Environment – A Co-Development Story [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by danbolt 7y ago|0 comments
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    This might have changed with more recent updates, but I was under the impression that the Mono garbage collector in Unity was a bit dated and not as up-to-date as a C# one today.
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    Does anyone know if Randy Pitchford has is a Stakeholder for Fig? I know he's a member of the "advisory board" and company also owns the rights to the Homeworld IP. [1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles&#
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    If you find yourself porting to another platform that’s less PC (eg: smartphone, game console) that’ll serve you well. Wren has some really interesting design choices so I feel like it’s a good fit for performant embedding.
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I make games as a hobby and I've thought about a "lighweight Wren framework with C++ modules for rendering" has been in my mind for a while. I'm so glad someone's thinking the same!
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I agree. This strikes me as a Motte-and-bailey attitude towards LGBT acceptance in society.
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    Sorry if my wording was confusing; when I wrote "They start dating" I meant to imply a romantic relationship and not friends or roommates. I didn't mean to conflate the two, but my writing was meant to ask the earlier comment
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I think I understand your analogy. An individual LGBT person might not feel represented by elements of LGBT activism in the same way a worker might not about communism. I'm having trouble extrapolating that to what is/isn't i
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I think you’re absolutely right here. The reason people often dismiss garbage collection in game programming is the pauses, but if the pauses aren’t noticeable then the reason to dismiss goes away. Computer performance gains over time can t
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    How do I determine what is “ideology” and what isn’t? If a person is LGBT, is their behaviour considered ideology? When does something simply being LGBT also become ideology?
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I write C++ for video games, and garbage collection is often shunned in performance-critical systems since it's often nondeterministic and GC pauses can become too long. I think garbage collection could work in games, but it's com
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I came of age in the late 2000s, but “flame wars” were already a thing then, correct? I think the big thing that’s changed is that internet access and computing’s audience has increased a lot over the past two deceased and it includes peopl
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I work as a programmer in the games industry and I’ve noticed that frequently as well. Commercially successful games aren’t always a strong indicator of code quality and often it tends to be that the bad code “luckily didn’t matter” in case
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I'm curious who gets to decide what's synergistic and who gets to decide what's exploitative.
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    I was a bit saddened when Sony showed off the PlayStation 4 (as well as later slim versions of the PlayStation 3) and took out the little coloured logo. I loved how it also could be rotated for the upright orientation too. It helped instill
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    A quote from Steve Jobs on the design of the NeXT logo: "Most companies have their logo as just a logotype. And every once in a while a company has a logo that's sort of a little jewel, a symbol, that can be used independently of
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    by danbolt 7y ago

    In my current situation I don’t always agree with my tech lead on design decisions. Sometimes I can feel a bit stressed about the tasks I’m assigned too, since I have this sinking feeling where they might end up down the road. Still, the ex