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by sosodev 4y ago
Two things can be true. Fallout 3 is poorly optimized for sure. The steam deck’s CPU performance also sucks. I’ve had this issue with plenty of games.
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by sosodev 4y ago
For those who don’t know, plagman is a Valve employee and the creator (?) of gamescope. Cool to see you here. Gamescope is awesome.
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by sosodev 4y ago
I’ve found that forcing games to run at above native resolutions can help quite a bit. The aliasing that happens at the native res can be pretty bad even with high AA settings depending on the implementation. Also, the deck tends to have GP
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by sosodev 4y ago
Wow I’m glad somebody is finally quantifying why the steam deck has terrible CPU performance. I thought it might be the tiny cache. Many older games struggle to hit a consistent 60 FPS due to CPU limitations. With some testing you can usual
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by sosodev 4y ago
They built one of these near us (years ago) and never opened it. They recently announced that it was going to remain unopened indefinitely.
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by sosodev 4y ago
Same experience for me
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by sosodev 4y ago
Yeah, it's a shame because multiplayer was an afterthought for the current major engines that you listed. Off the shelf multiplayer can work really well if the engine was designed for multiplayer. The Source engine always comes to mind
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by sosodev 4y ago
How is this not a recruiting thing? It's promoting your supposedly superior hiring process.
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by sosodev 4y ago
That's even worse than my experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34523227 I'm pretty skeptical of these hiring challenges at this point. It seems that they often require more time than the traditional mod
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by sosodev 4y ago
How do you figure? She worked for Google for nearly 15 years before becoming the CEO of YT. If anything it sounds like she was peter principled.
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by sosodev 4y ago
The thing that irks me about incremental releases is that they charge full price for every new release AND include micro-transactions. So we end up in this situation where to be consumer friendly they should either adopt a rolling release F
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by sosodev 4y ago
I think there's a huge opportunity for indie developers to clone popular games and make them more consumer friendly. It seems like a lot of huge corporations will blindly chase profits with zero consideration of what their fans want. I
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by sosodev 4y ago
Even that requires significant effort that companies are not willing to invest. They'd have to scrub the server of proprietary code, like integration with an account server, and update the client to work with the new system.
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by sosodev 4y ago
The quality of developers in game dev has not declined. Studios grew and merged into massive companies that follow the established pattern of profits over people.
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by sosodev 4y ago
You might be surprised how many of us were obsessed with Boxxy lol.
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by sosodev 4y ago
My severance was only 2 months of normal pay. So it’s not contributing anything at this point.
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by sosodev 4y ago
This argument is so tired. It’s not okay for every tech company to lay off 10% of their workforce. It does not matter that their headcount is still higher than it was a couple of years ago. This argument also completely ignores the fact tha
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by sosodev 4y ago
I was laid off in early December. I applied to a couple hundred positions, interviewed with around 10%, and received two offers at the beginning of this month. The market is pretty rough. I had a lot of good interviews fizzle out into rejec
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by sosodev 4y ago
What are the limitations of the free hosting? Surely I can’t deploy once and scale infinitely without paying you, right?
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by sosodev 4y ago
Why would I use this over fly.io? It seems to be very similar at first glance
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by sosodev 4y ago
How can you say Discord has the worst software engineering when they serve millions of active users with little downtime?
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by sosodev 4y ago
"We didn't tell you you weren't good enough for a junior position." Not explicitly but isn't that the implication if I applied to a position open to levels 1-3?
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by sosodev 4y ago
"If you didn't clear the platform code challenge, leveling didn't come into it." How does that make sense? I was told that you got a ton of applications and that I didn't meet the cutoff for the pool. Surely you can
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by sosodev 4y ago
I recently did the hiring challenge for the platform role. My solution worked really well and I thought the code was clean but they told me that I didn't score well enough to move on to the next round. I asked about leveling since the
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by sosodev 4y ago
Seems like managers are often asked to stack rank before layoffs...
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by sosodev 4y ago
Safari got WebGL 2 support not long ago :) the future of web gaming is very bright
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by sosodev 4y ago
That's not really true. Many websites version their API and/or release new features without providing support (at least initially) via the API. That's the route Reddit has taken. There are several features that only work thro
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by sosodev 4y ago
Do you think so? Sure, it's usually a dismissive remark but criticism is usually equally low effort. I believe our world would be better off if the millions of critics actually tried to do better than the things they criticize. The vas
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by sosodev 4y ago
Excellent presentation Joe. I really wanted to be a Rails dev when I was in college. I eventually changed paths because I just couldn't find any junior opportunities. I did have one company offer me a Rails internship abroad but they w
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by sosodev 4y ago
You'll say this until you are the one let go. Companies are irrational and layoffs of this scale are not capable of targeting the poor performers.

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