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by dkersten 5y ago
I mean that whether or not the studio closes is at the parent companies whims. According to Wikipedia, Bioshock Infinite sold 11 million copies. If your development is so costly that 11 million sales, vastly higher than most games sell, isn
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by dkersten 5y ago
Its worth keeping in mind that typically those huge budget games spend approx half of their budget on marketing. For example, Red Dead Redemption 2's budget was US$ 70–240 million on development and a further 200–300 million on marketi
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by dkersten 5y ago
The big publishers (EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Zenimax) have had numerous record years. Irrational Games has been a subsidiary of Take Two since before Bioshock Infinite.
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And money. Lets not forget the trend of paying their top executives big bonuses while laying off the staff. For example: https://www.ign.com/articles/activision-blizzard-has-reporte... (yes, yes, that bonus was part of
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by dkersten 5y ago
> Anyone solved this before? Sure. Take a look at EnTT[1], a popular C++ ECS library. It comes with two main tools to deal with this: Sorting[2] and groups[3]. EnTT gives you a large spectrum of tools with different trade-offs so that yo
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> sustainable The popular AAA games have been making record breaking amounts of profit in recent years before you even include the microtransactions they've been adding. The market is bigger than ever. This is from the earning repor
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I wrote the top of my comment before realising that the points were points and bot circles with a radius.
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Encircle yourself with the circles? That would be finite and if you're thin enough, might even be minimal? Certainly easier to find the configuration than the actual solution. (ok ok, it looks like the blockers are point-size, so this
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by dkersten 5y ago
> It turns out that when you do this simple find and replace, we get equally as factual statements. Only if you ignore the known facts. We know that covid-19 originated from wuhan, we know that the wuhan institute of virology was studyin
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Completely agree.
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The claim isn't that it was engineered, just that it escaped the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Besides, reports from China predated any from the USA, so for it to even be in the USA, CCP needed to have failed in containing it. I'm
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by dkersten 5y ago
So they're still retaining the ability to look on users devices? I have nothing against them looking at the abuse material, I have a problem with them having power over my device, which could be piggy-backed on by state actors (or othe
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There's no evidence for the counter argument either, but to believe that we have to accept the big coincidence that it happened to start in the one city where they were studying that exact virus. I'm not saying that this means it
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by dkersten 5y ago
I'm unsure what your point is. Care to explain? Is that meant to be a counterargument? (just because the USA downplayed it doesn't make CCP's doing so better, especially since they had advance knowledge and could have potenti
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> But in carpentry you also have to practice physical skills In programming you have to practice mental skills. That is, abstract problem solving, logic, bigger-picture-how-things-fit-together. There's a reason many beginners strugg
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My problem with the non-lab-leak story is that CCP went to great lengths to cover up and downplay the virus in the early months, largely contributing to its global spread and a bunch of coincidences would have had to line up just right for
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by dkersten 5y ago
Citation needed? I have a not too complex but definitely non-trivial editor I made for a little toy game engine and the Dear ImGUI code and related UI logic runs in under 1/10th of a millisecond per frame. My past Qt applications perfo
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by dkersten 5y ago
Since I'm a non-believer, my feelings on religion is similar to that of aliens: I'm not discounting the possibilities that its real, but I've seen no evidence for it and see people picking and choosing what they attribute to
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by dkersten 5y ago
I think that's a bit too bunt. I believe that aliens might exist, somewhere out there. I do not believe they have ever visited earth if they do exist and I think the liklihood of us finding any, in our lifetimes, is also pretty close t
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I'm reminded of an amusing thing that happened some time ago (either last year or the year before, I can't quite remember): My brother was telling me that he was awoken at night by a very loud bang noise. He looked out of the wind
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He confirms that he wrote an inadvised email. We still do not know the actual content or context around the email, so we don't know if it was malicious, abuse or simply somewhat inappropriate but otherwise malign. We know she felt unco
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After spending the last day watching my two comments here bounce between positive and negative karma, without a single reply, I have to ask the people that silently downvoted: Do you have information I don't? Have you seen the email? I
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by dkersten 5y ago
> To be clear, referencing such things in a written work email would be regarded as grossly unprofessional no matter what the circumstances, but Laura being 17 and working for him at the time makes it quite outrageous. I dunno. Ill-advis
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What was in the email? I didn't see it posted and the short quotes she wrote didn't really have anything in them. I mean, inappropriate, possibly, but not on its own evidence of malice or predation. People say dumb shit all the ti
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I think it also dosen't really matter, in practice. While it would be nice to have a language where, if it compiles, its provably correct (for some definition of correct, defined by whatever the language states, I guess), we don't
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Oh, I see. The other exchanges were much worse so BitMEX couldn't be shadiest and scummiest around. I stand corrected.
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Bybit? Their derivatives fees are 0.075% for takers just like Binance (and maker is -0.025%). Spot trading is 0.1% (and 0% maker fees). https://help.bybit.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039261154
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by dkersten 5y ago
Unfortunately the problem seems to be with the Ontario Securities Commission, so the exchanges don't have much choice. No idea how Binance gets around it.
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What has that got to do with BitMEX? The question that was asked was: >> They [BitMEX] have consistently been by far the shadiest and scummiest 'exchange' around. > Can you provide some context for people who's not i
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> In really complex systems, there's the ugly case where some middleware needs to fetch something from another service to start up... and then that fetch times out. So the middleware ends up in an invalid state. That's no longe

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