• 1 Post
  • 327 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

help-circle

  • If you watch the youtube series doublefine has on the making of Psychonauts 2 (I’ve actually never played it, but I’m a hobby game developer and found the whole series a fascinating behind the scenes for how established studios do game development), they had a project lead early on to the Psychonauts dev cycle that pushed for things like “blood gates” where you had to kill enemies to progress, and more challenging combat and more traditional sort of “God of War” style gameplay mechanics.

    The core devs, UX, animators, level designers, etc. all sort of rebelled against him and went to Tim (the President of DF and the writer of it) and complained until he sorted things out.

    So not having these challenging combat pieces was 100% intentional by the dev team that built both Psychonauts 1 and 2.





  • Tyfud@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemy gleeby deeby ass
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    7 days ago

    I’m not OP, but my guess is they’re referring to the Intel math bug that some i5’s had. I’m struggling to track it down, but it’s basically an issue with doing long division where the floating point math would produce a very wrong result.

    You can see more here at least for the bug/issue that existed in the 90’s here




  • If you’ve ever been camping at RV parks, there is limited privacy and especially if you have kids, if two campsites are next to each other outside, they are absolutely going to be listening in on each other, because there’s not much else to do.

    Also same with watching people pull in to their spot. As someone who regularly RV camps, everyone watches everyone pull in and also pack up to see how efficient they can do it vs themselves. It’s like a pasttime, especially if you get lucky and catch someone who has to try 10+ times to line up the RV correctly, because you know they just rented a bunch of equipment and don’t really understand how to use any of it.

    TL;DR; it feels like you’re complaining about someone being thoughtful and wanting to pay it forward at an RV park by telling someone else, one father to another, that they’re doing a good job at life. Guys don’t get positive reinforcement a lot, so I bet this meant the world to the father who received the note.




  • Surround yourself with groups of people you like hanging out with and admire in some way. Look at them as ways to learn and grow yourself.

    Others in here have suggestions on how to meet these sort of people, but you’ve gotta pick the right ones. It’s ok to make some mistakes, that’s life. Just be willing/ready to cut out toxic people in your life quickly or they’ll poison the sort of person you’re hoping to become.

    There are lots and lots of great people out there. I received almost no support from my family growing up or as an adult. My friends were my family, and I’ve learned everything about who I am from them.


  • Why is this man being downvoted? He’s correct. That is the historical reason America got involved.

    There were tens of millions of Americans that supported the Germans/Nazi party, and the rest basically didn’t want to get involved on the world stage again.

    The real evils of the Nazi regime weren’t realized until the last year or so of the war when we pushed in through the incursion areas and saw the camps and horrid treatment/deaths of the “undesirables”. Then it became a true moral outrage that brokered no dissension. Until then, it was because we had 4billion+ in loans to Germany they were repaying us after our costs for WW1, among other financial incentives.

    Claiming otherwise is whitewashing history.

    America has never been a particularly great country. Don’t let the school propaganda fool you. We’ve done things nearly as bad, and in some cases worse, than the Nazi party in our past. But nobody started a world war about it because we kept it within our borders (e.g. the Native American genocide, slavery, etc.).

    I think the individual people who went to war from America in WW2 were doing the right thing, and believed in it for the right reasons. But the people at the top pulling the strings? Financial justifications all the way down.



  • Tyfud@lemmy.worldtoSysadmin@lemmy.worldServerless runs on servers
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    14 days ago

    I don’t know what you’re referring to. Most serverless requires docker, like Fargate ECS. You can even run docker in lambda now.

    It’s literally the convenience of not having to manage the hardware and pay per use, rather than always on hardware.

    Same with serverless PaaS options like Aurora, Dynamo, Rekognition, etc.

    That’s worth a lot to a lot of people in the industry. Sure, you can save more money by running it on hardware you reserve and maintain, but that’s the cost/benefit analysis you need to make on a case by case basis.