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by soup10 7y ago
Yes what else would I mean? Unity has proven to be very good at enabling amateurs to mass produce shitty games.
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by soup10 7y ago
Unity is great at efficiently producing shovelware.
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by soup10 7y ago
Apple singlehandedly making multibillion dollar chip deals that make or break companies isn't "free market" for anyone but Apple.
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by soup10 7y ago
Really depends, if your a solid game dev and willing to work on the latest Barbie licensed mobile title its not so cutthroat. Profitable indie studio though? Good luck with that
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by soup10 7y ago
No matter how good intentioned if you stir up shit for your employer they are going to want you gone.
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by soup10 7y ago
Blender supports FBX exports so you can bring models from there to unreal, but Maya is the much more popular program with artists for modelling and rigging, there's a whole lot going on with these programs so I doubt its any one thing,
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by soup10 7y ago
As a free open source project blender is always going to be playing catch-up with Maya selling 1K+ licences unless the development is severely mismanaged.
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by soup10 7y ago
The existence of GIMP doesn't really make less people use Photoshop. The same is true of Blender and Maya.
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by soup10 7y ago
most of what you need to know to fix usability issues will be discovered pretty quickly just by watching a single "regular" person use it.
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by soup10 7y ago
AFAIK the n64 emulators don't have any real issues with SM64, this seems more useful for easier rom hacks
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by soup10 7y ago
its cool and all, but i've seen this before with other games and what happens is the people that want to do game development and people that want muck around with old decompiled source code are two different camps of people so I wouldn
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by soup10 7y ago
Even so most people don't bother with standard games online since its way too easy to cheat by mirroring the game and basically undetectable if they are good enough to not play lines that look like "computerish" moves.
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by soup10 7y ago
I got to masters on the 1v1 ladder... there's basically a handful of build orders and tech transitions that everyone does and most of the skill difference is mechanical execution.
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by soup10 7y ago
Honestly don't get the fascination with AI for Starcraft. Most of the skill when humans plays comes down to who has better micro and macro mechanics. It's not really a "thinking" game like chess or poker.
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by soup10 7y ago
We're seeing a new wave of low hanging fruit getting pruned, but complex problems still require complex solutions and no amount of gradient descents will change that any time soon.
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by soup10 7y ago
Java has good concurrency support and scales well.
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by soup10 7y ago
i didn't do the quiz, but just looking at the first question I have run across structure packing/padding issues so its not entirely useless
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by soup10 7y ago
"Busy work" jobs that aren't needed is not good. Investing in technology creates wealth and better standard of living. Most people are smart and resourceful when they want to be. If their job gets automated they should fi
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by soup10 7y ago
In addition to their engineering games Zachtronics made Infiniminer, the main precursor to Minecraft.
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by soup10 7y ago
A certain amount of laziness really is an important skill to have as a programmer, the busy bee will do lots over-engineering over-architecting and wheel reinventing. Where the lazy guy will go out of their way to find and use libraries an
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by soup10 7y ago
even if OP isn't one of them, its very likely they have a team to astroturf and spread disinfo about their operations
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by soup10 7y ago
The news has reported that the NSA gets court orders to install their black box hardware in datacenters and taps fiber cables. What reason is there to believe they've stopped their dragnet operations?
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by soup10 7y ago
Hundreds of people openly selling and shooting heroin downtown and they pass an e-cig ban, what a joke.
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by soup10 7y ago
Large old software companies have hilarious deep layers of abstraction and tooling on top of legacy code from people that have long left the company. Usually getting anything done requires gathering word of mouth arcana from multiple peop
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by soup10 7y ago
Started programming with BASIC on a graphing calculator and it was easy to move on to C and Java from there. The use of english words over symbols and a lack of boiler plate and "concept clutter" is beginner friendly.
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by soup10 7y ago
Crypto is just a very effective security with which to speculate, part of the game is that its not tied to any real world asset so no price is too high or too low. high volatility, low regulation, built in deflation, limited supply(becaus
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by soup10 7y ago
99% of new programming languages are "someone thought it would be fun to make a new programming language" with no real effort to make it genuinely useful and good for real world use
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by soup10 7y ago
E3 is a marketing event for big publishers, if cinematic trailers create more consistent hype than gameplay trailers then that's what they will do. Critics very frequently point out the formulaic, rehashed gameplay of big budget titl
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by soup10 7y ago
The trade war with China is reckless and damaging to the US chip industry. This is a self-inflicted wound that should of been avoided.
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by soup10 7y ago
It helps that epic had 800 employees to start churning out updates after it got traction. None of the previous BR games had studios working at that scale.

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