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by majani 5y ago
The problem in animations is quick responsiveness vs slow realism. If someone made a game with super realistic animations, it would probably be a niche exploration type game like what Team Ico used to do.
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by majani 5y ago
Wow, yes that's exactly what I was thinking of
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At some point we're gonna need some type of non-profit, open source company that develops massive asset packs for game engines in order to move the industry forward significantly. Companies are wasting a lot of money re-inventing asset
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by majani 5y ago
On a logical level, public rankings are almost always a bad idea because they incentivize hardcore gaming of the system. On an emotional level though, they are a fantastic idea because we're always looking for simple heuristics to make
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by majani 5y ago
Imperfect information games will always have a luck element that gives casual players an edge. That's basically the appeal of card games over board games.
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by majani 5y ago
New Ether gets issued every year
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by majani 5y ago
It is also more practical to aim to be top 20% in many areas than top 1% in one area. There are often genetic barriers and ridiculous sacrifices to being top 1% but top 20% is doable for someone with average genetics who just works hard wit
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by majani 5y ago
Even if you put human editors in charge of a video website, there's very little chance they would approve someone like Mr Beast for example (before he became famous). They would likely judge his looks (innate human bias), plus his high
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by majani 5y ago
On the bright side, the algorithms are way more fair and even handed than the human editors of old. I don't think the majority of YouTubers, Twitch streamers and bloggers would ever have made it past the editorial desk at traditional m
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by majani 5y ago
Telegram group/channel can take care of those concerns
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by majani 5y ago
Yup. I am currently developing a game for African players and I have to build my own engine and do old school tricks to get the game under 1MB on a website. CSS sprites and all
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by majani 5y ago
His ability to hold on to pole position once he gets it is definitely unprecedented, especially in an industry that's known for it's volatility. But in terms of original creativity, he scores extremely low.
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by majani 5y ago
I did the same thing a few years ago, but my usage of FB dropped off a cliff after I cleaned up my feed. I am no longer even a daily active user. I can see why they want it to be an endless quagmire of mental junk. There's definitely a
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by majani 5y ago
Well some of us are pro small government and pro big business. You are on HN, a large percentage of us are business owners and executives
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by majani 5y ago
Board and card games get a lot of joy from using the web. There's a lot of silent giants in that space such as PlayOK
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by majani 5y ago
I'm sure when they were coming up with that statement, they had never in their wildest dreams imagined that a 12 billion dollar offer would ever be on the table. There is not a single human being on earth who can turn down that kind of
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by majani 5y ago
Stock and dividends are two separate agreements. One does not automatically guarantee the other
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by majani 5y ago
I agree on the illegality and taboo nature, but I strongly disagree with the breeding out. Stats show that Western societies are getting taller and heavier with time. All these giants walking around us could easily conjure up knockout power
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by majani 5y ago
Hidemyass was the only one that has nodes in all the countries the entire world last time I checked
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by majani 5y ago
We've had subscription media for a while now and it's shown that that business model has it's glaring weaknesses as well, especially when it comes to ideological pandering
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by majani 5y ago
It's counter intuitive, but the best acquisitions are the ones with little synergy where the acquirer pretty much invests money in the acquiree and leaves them alone to continue as they were, but with a bigger budget.
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by majani 5y ago
The founders weren't really building the company with an exit as plan A, so stock option programs would have been a waste of time and full of lies.
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by majani 5y ago
They will simply force developers to only put payment options at the last step of the checkout process, which prevents any discount offer for one certain payment system
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by majani 5y ago
I trust Apple will force developers to provide a drop down menu of options for payments. I don't think they'll allow dodgy redirects and webviews. That's not in line with Apple's design principles.
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by majani 5y ago
My guess is Apple will force developers to provide a drop down of payment options with Apple Pay as the default
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by majani 5y ago
The most likely move here is that Apple forces developers to put a drop down of payment options, with Apple Pay being the default. Same way Google did when Android was forced to offer a choice of default search engines
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by majani 5y ago
When you consider the Pareto nature of app store earnings, Apple's best move was to wait and be forced to make the change.
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Ask HN: Underage gambling apps now on the Play Store?
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Yup. There are tons of brilliant Eastern European programmers who can testify to this
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by majani 5y ago
You would do well to talk to minarchists, who are libertarians who believe in small governments that only perform a role of setting regulations and enforcing them, rather than governments being active market participants

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