midnightclubbed

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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
So the secret sauce was... interesting! Unlike any other company I have seen. Each game team (of which there were 4 who I was there) was isolated from the other teams, only senior management and IT had access to the other team's floor
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Ha! I'm long gone from Rare and was on a different team... lead designer of Banjo and a number of the engineers/artists are still there I believe so who knows. Dream can come true!
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
I worked at Rareware in that same era, similarly ridiculous amounts of SGI hardware in the building. As I recall each artist had an SGI Indigo2 and later on the SGI O2 because the standard artist workstation. I believe our lead artist use
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
The SGI monitors were 4:3 but I don't recall the resolution. I do recall that they were beasts, weight of a small elephant and a not dissimilar size - you needed to pull your desk away from the wall to get any kind of distance to the
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
The days where AAA games dumped the engine between releases are long gone (like Playstation 1 long gone). For franchise games there will be incremental improvements to engine systems; some to support new gameplay features, some to help with
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
US is similar, at least California is. One glass is generally legally ok, two will likely push you over the limit. Obviously the alcohol content varies between beers (but is displayed on the menu) and different people metabolize different
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
I use a Onkyo DXC390 CD player/changer (going strong after 3 years or so). Still available to buy new (albeit at a ridiculously inflated price) but should be available for ~ $100 used. DAC sounds fine to me though speakers but I have
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
They were always mastered, there was just the 90s-2000s race for loudness that changed how they were mastered. There are some genre's that benefitted from that loudness war (pop music sonics changed dramatically) but yeah anything whi
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
For me the ritual of deliberately choosing what I want to listen to from a somewhat limited/curated selection of music is the magic. Although seeing a diamond rubbing over a piece of plastic and knowing that's how the sound is ma
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Really nice used CD players are super cheap right now. Pick a solid model which still has rubber belts available for it and you should be golden:)
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Over the last 10 years people have been trained to stream digital files. I am curious if the digital sales of artists who disappeared from Spotify went up, or if they saw an increase in physical media sales, or neither. I suspect a small
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Adele had a huge album launch last year, and sold very well on vinyl and CD. That one album may account for the entire growth. Maybe her fanbase are of the right age/demo to enjoy or to be nostalgic for physical media, maybe a lot of
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Is there a recommended way of using Inkscape to make it more user friendly? I hear so much love for Inkscape but every time I've tried to use it for laser cutting or 2d design I give up and go back to Illustrator. I feel like I'm
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
As soon as you make the rolling stop legal people will push the limits of that law and drive straight through if they think the way is clear. The numbers of drivers driving through reds (at least here in coastal San Diego) has noticeably in
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
You would need to texture sample the intermediate mip levels separately. All GPUs (that I know of) expect the mips to be power-2 reductions. You are also increasing texture memory usage (storage and bandwidth) by 50%. There is probably som
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Often a game engine will have LOD biasing and filtering settings exposed to the artist at the model and/or material level. It's only engineering time if those settings are not implemented. I would expect/hope that the design
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
While they are also trying to sell you their overpriced insurance I can totally see why they want to check that you have the insurance that covers >$20k of their assets if you crash into another car in an unfamiliar city. A lot of people
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Absolutely agree. Explaining what goes into a game 'engine' is a great thing but this article misses on every front. Calling the math library a 'math engine' more than bothered me, it is just plain wrong. It's jus
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
I wouldn't categorize it as 'very slow', at worse 50% slower than 128bit XXH3 hash (and faster than the 32bit XXH hash). Modern intel processors have the CRC32C instructions and ARM have both CRC32 and CRC32C. There is a rel
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Sometimes those historically best practices become outdated but clung onto as doctrine by programmers who let experience get in the way of evolution. What may have been true 10 years ago may no longer be accurate or important but is still h
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Hero worship because he brought computers to the masses. The cost cutting was the point - there were already computers that cost the same as a nice TV, this was a computer a kid could get for Christmas. For many of us that oppertunity was
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
To elaborate your point every ZX Spectrum came with a detailed manual from which you could learn Basic. And in the back it had a ascii table with all the Z80 instruction codes - so once you had basic down you could try assembly!
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Very sad. For American readers it may be difficult to explain quite how much Sir Clive and his products shaped tech and a large number of British engineers. So many of us found a love of programming from Sir Clive's computers. The be
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Weak argument. Sir Clive's influence on computing, particularly in Britain is enormous. For many of us his products are the reason we are part of this industry.
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
SF housing prices are out of control, because faang can pay 400k per year (plus stock). If you are open to moving away from the bay that 1mil will buy an amazing property outright in most parts of the country, or a really nice home and a b
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Many games do simulate/animate/synchronize doors with their own custom systems because doors are way more complex and problematic than 99% of other in-game objects.
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Every networked game I've seen uses a reliable transmission layer built on top of UDP. Generally there are packets that work as you describe and are fired out to the server (and/or other players) with 'full' state (typi
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Not so much race conditions but the distances doors synchronize across the network has to be really carefully synchronized with the weapon ranges, character rendering ranges and building mesh level-of-detail. If doors synchronize closer tha
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
Nvidia are also leaning very hard into USD with their meta- verse project. In that case USD matches requirements perfectly. glTF 2.0 is widely supported although the quality of that support is variable. The spec is fairly large and every
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by midnightclubbed 5y ago
That's not how the UC application process works. You apply to the UC system but each school reviews applications independently and without knowing which other schools you applied to. It is quite possible (although unlikely) to apply t

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