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by ehnto 2y ago
I am quite interested in how LLMs would handle game development. Coming to game development from a long career in boutique applications and also enterprise software, game development is a whole different level of "boutique". I thi
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by ehnto 2y ago
Oh I totally should have mentioned, I went from two 24"@ 1080p each to a single 34" at QHD as they call it. So a significant real-estate increase was required to manage one monitor. I don't use it like two monitors in one. Us
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by ehnto 2y ago
It's incredible, maybe not for everyone though. It is slow, it takes a few large story beats to really kick off the story. If you are in the right headspace, and are a patient player who is able to sink into the atmosphere, you will be
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by ehnto 2y ago
I built a CNC router table and am enjoying getting a hang of that. I have always wanted to take my software and systems skillset into the physical world. I wouldn't mind making boutique sim racing/flight gear, or aftermarket car p
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by ehnto 2y ago
I don't think they were suggesting that at all. It is not an on/off feature flag, people learn in different ways. People learn in different measures of many ways, even in the one person. School typically only caters to one type of
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by ehnto 2y ago
I went from two screens back to one with a tiling window manager. What I was finding, was each tab/window/screen swap was a chance to lose focus. In practice I do lose focus a lot if I'm switching between screens. I don'
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by ehnto 2y ago
Concur on all points honestly. I will also add that Factorio's setting is pretty bleak, and the game is a bit too addictive to me. It's also harder to just botch things which, because I am trying to have fun and not work, is prett
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by ehnto 2y ago
I appreciate your story, I am curious how you feel about exploiting in games today? I don't want to dramatize it too much since it's pretty contentious online, but obviously, your fun was at the expense of others. So I am curious
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by ehnto 2y ago
My argument is basically, if your game is so good and interesting, would it stand alone without combat? Could a different mechanic have stood in its place for a more interesting, novel game? I have been playing FPS, guns or no guns, for 25
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by ehnto 2y ago
> You mean it has a gun in it, and it's in first person? If that's your gauge for a shooter game then I don't think you're informed enough to have a discussion on this topic. A game or movie with nudity in it isn&#x27
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by ehnto 2y ago
It was lighthearted, not dismissive, perhaps the same cloth. I shouldn't have specified guns I guess, combat is what I find boring, and you'll note the majority of the list of yours is violent games. Again, not opposed just bored.
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by ehnto 2y ago
I am not even opposed to violent videogames morally, I just wish there were more creativity in big budget gaming. One of the most interactive mediums available to society, and billions of dollars each year goes into another set of Shooty Mc
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by ehnto 2y ago
I still have a few of these games! It doesn't capture me quite like it did back then but the art style is still beautiful, and I remember it kicking off my understanding of "AI" as in game AI, not LLMs. Understanding how want
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by ehnto 2y ago
A viable strategy for making money, or providing value to society? I think for some niches, the former can for a brief period precede the latter. But eventually the market catches up and roots out that which lacks actual value. More concret
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by ehnto 2y ago
The "simple" answer is to handle these issues long before bankruptcy, with right to repair laws. It is not actually simple of course. I don't think it would be unreasonable to mandate software for hardware products be pluggab
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by ehnto 2y ago
Agreed, but I also think people just underestimate the breadth of language. I think a common exit point is after feeling like you've learned grammar well through your materials, you hit real world content or native speakers and realise
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by ehnto 2y ago
I had a similar thought years ago. Recently I built a CNC machine and it was a great blend of hands on, practical building work and software work. The software domain being a new challenge was fun too. It felt great to excercise existing sk
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by ehnto 2y ago
I don't think it's about housing in the metro and inner metro, I think it's about commercial real estate and businesses in the CBD areas and business parks. People definitely want to live in the city areas still for the lifes
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by ehnto 2y ago
Interesting! How was Godot for a UI intensive application like this? I have been using it for games and am totally enamoured by the speed, pragmatism and simplicity of the engine. I would totally use it for non-game projects. A small aside,
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by ehnto 2y ago
I prefer the aesthetic of it. But also there are specific tones for me and long term friends, that are not perfectly captured in the myriad different pictures. For example, ;_; and :P from english IRC days, do not map perfectly to the tongu
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by ehnto 2y ago
Oh yeah, you are right. I had recalled it was a contraction of emotion and character. I wonder if the specific kanji for (e) was picked for it's reading, and thus double entendre in English, intentionally.
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by ehnto 2y ago
Start with bodyweight stuff, pullups, pushups, squats, you can look up bodyweight routines online. Once you get bored, if you think you like the strength aspect of it, buy a power rack with a pullup attachment, a bench, a barbell and some w
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by ehnto 2y ago
You don't have to lift, many other ways to be fit. But I have been lifting for over 10 years, and powerlifting is the reason why. I don't think I could do "fitness" weights routines, they lack a lot of challenge, progres
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by ehnto 2y ago
Emoticons was a western word for emoji I think, which originated in Japan. Emo(emotion) Ji (glyph/character). The distinction between one being text and one being pictures isn't a widely used one I don't think, please someone
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by ehnto 2y ago
Brexit was a product of democracy, as sad as that is. Your own country is just barely holding on to it's democratic status, in the eyes of other first world nations. I wouldn't be so quick to throw stones. The US GDP doesn't
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by ehnto 2y ago
It's controversial because not all workers want to return to office. If the only reason they are returning to office is for tax cuts to Amazon corp, that's perverse. Not unprecedented, probably the norm prior 2019. But perverse an
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by ehnto 2y ago
Well said, something I had not yet put to words. It came up on HN recently, about how work is a place where it can be best to leave some things unsaid, because it invites assumptions about your character and capabilities that might not be t
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by ehnto 2y ago
I get the same, it's more like a contented melancholy. Not sad, just locked into the moment, with a certain understated freedom of mind. You're not smiling or frowing, just existing, taking it in.
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by ehnto 2y ago
I think that is the whole sell of 2024? It is still a self guided story but, career mode you have to start as a student, earn your hours and licenses in order to take on bigger and more interesting jobs etc. Eventually you buy your own plan
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by ehnto 2y ago
I don't think that makes the task harder. You should just not do the task at all if the user doesn't want it. Flashback to when apple rolled out their enhanced privacy tools and when I said "that data is blocked unless the us

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