ido

47 ms·

661.
by ido 4y ago
The lifetime of the universe is so long that it's hard to reason about intuitively. Saturn's rings were formed about 100 million years ago, which is cosmologically speaking a blink of an eye. 1 million years ago is 1/14,000th
662.
by ido 4y ago
I've also on multiple occasions had to send pitches to upcoming games while we were still a year from shipping the current game (as it takes a while to actually get money, if you want a smooth transition of team members you have to do
663.
by ido 4y ago
You prototype a lot but a promising prototype doesn't always turn to a good (and original) game. Not every game is fun in prototype form (think for example of SimCity or Civilization - you have to have a certain level of complexity bef
664.
by ido 4y ago
Sleepless nights in the summer heat in Vancouver? Was this during a heatwave? Because average highs in July-August in Vancouver are just 22.2c: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver#Climate
665.
by ido 4y ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure it is - I'm 39 (so a bit younger than you) and for me "everyone played" Half Life and Starcraft! When I graduated high school at 2001 I played a lot less for quite a few years.
666.
by ido 4y ago
I believe what they are saying that the US is less likely to risk war with China to protect Taiwan if they can get chips sources domestically.
667.
by ido 4y ago
It's a classic undergrad CS textbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms
668.
by ido 4y ago
It's harder than you realize to make good games! And a lot of good games suck until very close to the end where suddenly everything clicks and they become amazing. It's not really a very predictable process & at the end of the
669.
by ido 4y ago
I want to mention that the person you reply to didn't seem to write it as a judgment of one's moral fortitude but just as an observation; I've observed the same in myself while acknowledging that it was indeed a tradeoff for
670.
by ido 4y ago
IBM? Oracle? SAP? BTW did you know the above are the number 2, 3 & 4 largest software companies in the world respectively[0]? Also I suspect "doing nothing" is a bit of an exaggeration and/or OP isn't 100% privy to w
671.
by ido 4y ago
Or...A job at an office?
672.
by ido 4y ago
It may not to you, but your unpaid vendors would know to not wait on you hoping you'll pay up at the end & try to figure out a backup. If I was providing services to a company I'd much prefer they tell me they're unable t
673.
by ido 4y ago
How do you know you will actually have money in a couple weeks?
674.
by ido 4y ago
I want to highlight this paragraph: Freeze all payments that would not result in an outage: rent, non technical vendors, professional services, etc. You’ll get back to them in a more discriminate way in a couple of weeks
675.
by ido 4y ago
I would hope to be like that myself, but looking at my parents they did basically nothing after retirement (especially my father, my mother kept an active social life).
676.
by ido 4y ago
I think for retired people, there mostly isn't all that much other stuff to do.
677.
by ido 4y ago
I’m pretty sure you can be paid handsomely for being an above average accountant or plumber in a decent location (and mid sized or bigger city in the developed world for example)! Being above average at playing the guitar, not so much.
678.
by ido 4y ago
Can nukes have their explosion shaped to be directly downward to dig this far?
679.
by ido 4y ago
Even if they'll get stiff competition, facebook/google et al can also simply buy the promising upstarts with the mountain of cash they (still) have. Like they have been doing for many years now.
680.
by ido 4y ago
since anyone can band together and raise VC money As someone who keeps wondering why so many of my friends (some of which I consider more skilled than me) don't start their own companies while I did (and tried multiple times
681.
by ido 4y ago
It's not just "here" though, birth-rates are dropping worldwide with economic development.
682.
by ido 4y ago
I would imagine nvidia and AMD are pretty high up there as well.
683.
by ido 4y ago
You can say that because we don’t have an agreed definition of a puzzle game. For me it’s as much a puzzle as chess or go, which is to say it isn’t. For my definition having only 1 intended solution is what separates abstract strategy games
684.
by ido 4y ago
I live in Germany and have lived in Austria before (I lived in the German speaking countries since 2005). I have 2 native born Berliner children who speak German as their mother tongue. I speak German just fine for my day to day interaction
685.
by ido 4y ago
There’s also a lot of resistance to digitalization- for example I work with some government organizations (both federal and state) and they’d often require me to send some documents printed out and signed in the post. There is absolutely no
686.
by ido 4y ago
I think maybe you didn’t see why it’s a big deal because you’ve never done it somewhere where it’s a lot faster/smoother? I run a UG here, it took about 3 months to set up because as a first time founder I messed up some of the weird a
687.
by ido 4y ago
Yeah that's fair enough! The strategy-part is pretty minimal (stuff like choosing/upgrading your pilots and mechs).
688.
by ido 4y ago
Sure, it also feels closer to Sudoku than to Tennis. But I think it's closer to a "traditional roguelike" (like Jupiter Hell: https://store.steampowered.com/app/811320/Jupiter_Hell/ or Brogue:
689.
by ido 4y ago
It’s not a puzzle in one critical sense: there is no single set solution to each level. I would say it’s an abstract, discrete (both turn- and grid-based) strategy game.
690.
by ido 4y ago
Because instead of assuming the game is correct and assuming their understanding is wrong, they would complain the game got it wrong.

More ›