danbolt

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by danbolt 1y ago
I appreciate you voicing your feelings here. My previous employer requested we try AI tooling for productivity purposes, and I was finding myself in similar scenarios to what you mention. The parts that would have benefitted from a producti
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by danbolt 1y ago
I’ll be the first to defend the greybeards I’ve befriended and learned from in AAA, but having seen codebases of that age and earlier, the “meta” around game development was different back then. I think the internet really changed things fo
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by danbolt 1y ago
Watching two people who know how to play Puyo Puyo Tsuu and when to reflect or cancel out the garbage blocks is incredibly dynamic. It’s a bit of a shame Sega/Nintendo chose to localize the first game in the series rather than the se
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by danbolt 2y ago
I found the aforementioned elements of Blue Velvet to be very uncomfortable to watch, but I also don’t think it was necessarily a work of obscenity on Lynch’s part. It always struck me that the film’s violence was intentionally framed in
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by danbolt 2y ago
So for a while I briefly worked the same company as Aaron Kambietz. During my time there, I asked him how the developers came to the conclusion to use a vertex-coloured skybox like they did in the article. If my memory serves, he said the p
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Xbox360BadUpdate: Software only hypervisor exploit for Xbox 360(github.com)
3 points by danbolt 2y ago|0 comments
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by danbolt 2y ago
I’m not a big PG stan, but gosh darn the submarine isn’t submerged here. It’s up in the air!
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by danbolt 2y ago
Semiconductors are a magical thing, and I’ve always felt like their quick obsolescence is a bit sad. It’s really lovely to see that we can keep making them useful and relevant.
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by danbolt 2y ago
I feel like there’s an opportunity to revisit this with those "You wouldn't download a car." jokes.
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by danbolt 2y ago
I really appreciate the seamless rawdogging into C++ that this language provides. It’s the sort of ambition I’m here for. Or, I find a lot of script runtimes in games have a strict boundary separating them from the native code (often for go
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UID changes coming to Godot 4.4(godotengine.org)
1 points by danbolt 2y ago|0 comments
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by danbolt 2y ago
Parent’s call methods on their children, while children use signals to communicate with parent nodes.
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by danbolt 2y ago
Sturgeon's law applies everywhere, so I’d be hesitant to simply suggest that people are just satiated with slop. That said, I do think this is a domestic “regression to the mean” like you suggest. Or, if you wanted to enjoy fun video g
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by danbolt 2y ago
I’m reminded of a 2000s interview I watched with Hideo Kojima, a famous video game director. Kojima’s well-known for being influenced by western cinema, and in the interview he expressed that this is more common for people his age. He said
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by danbolt 2y ago
I think every developer finds footgun issues with various tools for their aims. Or, I know developers that express similar sentiments towards Unity (or Unreal, proprietary engines, etc.). When a game team is successful, it can often stem fr
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by danbolt 2y ago
I think the paragraph after is really interesting: “Also when creating things with nodes, you have to go back and forth between node GUI and code.” You can see Godot’s Node/GDScript setup as a bit of a response to this argument. Or, th
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by danbolt 2y ago
> The parsimonious explanation is that there's a systematic issue in Canadian Healthcare as it's defined or operates across the country. There is! It’s because healthcare is expensive and 20th century social democracy is out of
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Godot C# packages move to .NET 8(godotengine.org)
4 points by danbolt 2y ago|0 comments
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Handheld gaming PCs will come into focus at CES(game.substack.com)
2 points by danbolt 2y ago|0 comments
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by danbolt 2y ago
If you’re a young man in your twenties looking for structure and morality in a setting of first-world postmodernity, TBK is an incredible opiate. Much better than alcohol or Call of Duty. That said, I’m skeptical its wisdom will help us car
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by danbolt 2y ago
I would think that the social policies of the federal Conservative Party place it in Centre-Right to Right. It’d be closer to what you mention if Peter MacKay or Erin O’Toole had no opposition in 2020. I understand that your political views
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by danbolt 2y ago
Yeah, they had nicotine!
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A Game Launching a Launcher After I've Launched It in Steam Should Be a Crime(aftermath.site)
34 points by danbolt 2y ago|16 comments
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by danbolt 2y ago
Personally, I’ve often found cppreference has a bit of a learning curve to it. Or, at first it seems overly verbose and hard to parse. As you get more familiarized with C++’s semantics though, it feels very useful for covering a lot of grou
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by danbolt 2y ago
I’ve used both, and personally, I find a lot of features in C# not necessarily contributing to standing up the gameplay I’m looking for. It has more functionality like you mention, but GDScript integrates with the engine nicely and doesn’t
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by danbolt 2y ago
I don’t claim expertise in AI or understanding intelligence, but could we also say that a pocket calculator really understands arithmetic and has superior intellectual performance compared to humans?
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World of Warcraft developers form wall-to-wall union at Blizzard Entertainment(gamedeveloper.com)
1 points by danbolt 2y ago|0 comments
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by danbolt 2y ago
It’s a bit nutty to think this game was developed over the course of a year given your average big-budget title takes 3-5.
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by danbolt 2y ago
It’s good advice! Especially for the games industry.
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by danbolt 2y ago
Yeah, video games today have improved a lot compared to the 80s and 90s.

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