echodot

echodot, 11 godzin temu

I have an issue with the idea that Borderlands is dominating gaming news. I didn’t even realise it had launched so I wouldn’t exactly call it popping off the shelf.

echodot, 8 godzin temu

I thought steam banned those kind of games.

echodot, 5 godzin temu

Yeah but I would have known thwy had released because they would have been advertising or something. I don’t feel like anyone’s spoken about Borderlands since that comment about how it should be $90 or whatever.

echodot, 10 godzin temu

Will probably have an actual galactic empire before this game releases. Assuming they never does release because I’m not convinced that the guy isn’t totally in on the idea that it’s a scam.

echodot, 2 dni temu

That isn’t the problem.

Copyright law does run out after a while it’s not immediately upon the holders death but after their death there’s a grace period and then the copyright runs out.

The problem is the likes of Disney get special treatment. Their patents should have run out long before any of us were born and yet they didn’t.

The problem isn’t the system itself, the problem is the abuse of the system.

echodot, 2 dni temu

People need to be compensated for their work, that may end up being an awful lot and probably in excess of what they need, but that’s how it has to work. Any other system would just disincentivize people from putting in the effort, in fact it would force them not to because they would have to do something else in order to earn enough money to live. The precise opposite of your desired outcome would happen, the rich would produce endless amounts of content just to more money, and all the smaller artists would have to go and get a job in Costco or something.

The only way your idea would work is if we completely change the economic system and got rid of money. Which I’m all in favour of but I suspect is probably outside of the scope of copyright law.

echodot, 3 dni temu

Just because it can load in high quality assets doesn’t mean that everything has to be 4 billion polygons. You use it sparingly for where it will make the most impact. That doesn’t mean that a mountain in the background that you’ll never get near has to be of the same quality.

I don’t think that’s really the engines fault.

echodot, 3 dni temu

Well you can do that but then it isn’t going to run on a steam deck, whether or not you as a developer think that’s a problem depends on what hardware you are targeting.

But you’ve still got the problem of file size. I’ve noticed that if the asset is really big you actually run into streaming issues when loading it in. It looks fantastic, but you probably don’t want your rock to take 10 seconds to load in. If you go look at the matrix demo you’ll see they have a lot of asset reuse because of that.

Nanite isn’t magic it’s neither going to enable you to just throw in 16k resolution textures and just not worry about it there’s always going to be a trade-off. But it’s insane to say that it isn’t a useful feature or that you should never use it.

echodot, 3 dni temu

But ot does work with foliage though.

Maybe they think they can do a better job, but it definitely does work with plants. It didn’t used to, when it first came out it was limited to just static objects, and it didn’t work on terrain at first which I was thought was a weird restriction, but it works on pretty much everything now.

echodot, 4 dni temu

Well he’s right.

Until the invention of video games no one ever killed anyone ever. Then pong came along, and it was mass murder every other day.

echodot, 4 dni temu

Well what is the saying, free market for everyone else, but socialism for themselves.

echodot, 5 dni temu

That’s nothing. My parent covers thinking of already long established ideas, then claiming them as your own. If you do that, I’ve got you.

Apple are doomed.

echodot, 5 dni temu

I won’t mind sommuch, If their games were even remotely worth $80. But they’re not, let’s face it, if it’s a competition between yet another mairo cart and a steam deck plus a few indi and AA titles, it ain’t even a competition. The high cost of the steam deck is offset by the low cost of the games.

echodot, 5 dni temu

This is US law

On September 2, the Japanese gaming giant was issued a U.S. patent that covers a somewhat broad implementation of a system for summoning characters into battle. Identified by patent number 12,403,397

Absolutely ridiculous this was even granted. What is the point in the system if people are just going to be allowed to patent general ideas and vague concepts. How about I got patent my idea of a gun game. See you in court every game with guns.

echodot, 8 dni temu

Right so it’s not really proof of anything.

echodot, 8 dni temu

What has fascism got to do with any of this?

echodot, 13 dni temu

Oh God the thing he does where he just draws random circles in ms paint drives me mental. I was trying to watch some of his videos in order to be able to form my own opinion of him, and that tendency drove me mad there’s literally no point to it.

The problem I have with him is that he just announces things, like with the stop killing games movement, he just said the movement is bad and he doesn’t support it but he never explained himself. Even to this day I don’t actually understand what his problem with the movement is. He isn’t a publisher, so I don’t understand why he cares.

echodot, 13 dni temu

I think the movement stumbled into two potholes almost simultaneously and everyone bashing on him got it out of both of them. His discrediting and rejection of the movement didn’t help but in my opinion the far bigger problem was just the lack of advertising.

Until all of the controversy I’d literally never heard about the petitions, nor had I ever heard of anyone involved with it. I was aware of the lawsuit around the shutting down of the crew but I believe that was the extent of it. Even the likes of Lewis Rothman weren’t talking about it until about 2 months ago, so how’s a random person on the street going to know about it?

echodot, 14 dni temu

Yeah I hate this trend of you have to subscribe in order to not be tracked. I just agree to the cookies and then block them at the OS level. Get to have my cake and eat it too.

echodot, 14 dni temu

Personally I agree. The problem is then you have to declare it and the way that steam currently handles that declaration is literally the worst possible implementation of the idea, - all games just get dumped into the same category of “uses AI”. I would actually prefer them to just take the tag away, then keep it in its current dysfunctional state.

It’s just a tag that says that AI was used in some aspect of making the game, but there’s no breakdown of how the AI was used, did it author code or did it design background elements that no one will really see, because there’s a huge difference there, and the distinction is important.

echodot, 14 dni temu

That’s like saying that colonies on Mars are the future. In the future colonies on Mars will be the direction things are going, (assuming we don’t global warm ourselves to death first) but we’re not there yet. AI have yet to prove themselves.

echodot, 14 dni temu

Except typographers still exist, we need them to create fonts that aren’t comic sans.

echodot, 16 dni temu

Yeah bikes were really useless in GTA V because even the narrowest alleyway could be driven down. Hopefully they have some narrow alleyways that you might be able to skip down to avoid the police.

echodot, 17 dni temu

Well there hasn’t really been any good games for it. I suspect it’ll be like that until GTA comes out next year. Everyone was holding off in releasing until after that as they think I’ll cost $90 and that’ll open the flood gates

echodot, 17 dni temu

He’s not a dictator (yet), if the republicans face a lot of backlash for this they might feel the need to rain him in a bit, give him some Xanax and a fidget spinner or something.

echodot, 19 dni temu

Unemployee in a local second-hand shop that was telling another customer the reason they have loads of switch 2s in is because there is basically nothing to play on them. You get it play the limited number of games that Nintendo have made and then does nothing else to do. So people sell them.

echodot, 22 dni temu

It’s an interesting game and it has some good ideas, but it’s incredibly janky. I’ve seen single devs develop games in less than a year that have better animations.

But despite it’s rather dated look and it’s clunky controls it does have a very large map and a large play account per map. That’s quite attractive to some people.

Although personally I suspect people are going to come up with a better version of the game in battlefield via portal.

echodot, 22 dni temu

Star citizen isn’t an example of an open beta that got stretched out. It’s an example of a scam.

A game of similar scope to star citizen is starship simulator, except that isn’t a scam and, oh look, it’s making surprisingly better progress (there still isn’t anything to actually do in it yet but it’s much further along in much shorter period of time). You can tell it isn’t a scam because people aren’t being asked to pay extra to access some more unfinished content.

echodot, 22 dni temu

Well this would be a mod not a game so it doesn’t have to be hugely successful.

echodot, 23 dni temu

I don’t think you’ve got the hang of this social media thing.

echodot, 23 dni temu

So they’re not actually checking the review for the language used. So they must be storing a tag with the review as to what language that reviewers steam is set to. I can see problems with this right there, a lot of people will have steam in whatever their desired language is, say German, but will post reviews in English. It seems like these reviews won’t be taken into account because they’ll be incorrectly tagged as German.

echodot, 23 dni temu

They really don’t seem to understand that for most of the world we don’t care about China one way or the other. Much in the same way as I don’t really think about Argentina. It’s out there somewhere, but other than acknowledging its existence I don’t really care.

echodot, 23 dni temu

To be fair there isn’t a lot of use for cryptocurrencies for legitimate purposes for 99% of people. Given its niche use case it’s talked about an awful lot.

I’ve been in countries whose economies are so bad that you need 10,000 of the local currency to buy a loaf of bread. Even they don’t use cryptocurrencies, they just deal with it or they use the US dollar unofficially.

echodot, 23 dni temu

What.

This updated doing exactly what you want it to do, what do you complaining about?

echodot, 22 dni temu

But why sell out? They had a guaranteed hit on their hands why did they need to sell the IP to a publisher and not just any publisher but one with a history of ruining good projects.

echodot, 22 dni temu

That’s a fairly standard thing.

That’s why if you are ever developing anything you never do it on company computers, it’s always on your own devices and on your own time. Yet time and time again supposedly smart people load up their side project on work computers.

echodot, 29 dni temu

Which was what was done with the weather mod. Mojang didn’t like it because what people really want for weather mod is hurricanes, mojang don’t like anything too destructive like that which you can kind of understand, you can’t really do a normal playthrough with it on.

It makes it a totally different game.

But I don’t think anyone really cared and I don’t think it’s had a particularly adverse effect on the mod developer, they’ve got plenty of backers I doubt there’s any interest in suing mojang over it.

echodot, miesiąc temu

I definitely wanted larger ships that would take several weeks to break down.

echodot, 30 dni temu

What is with these people?

They are CEOs of company’s, yet they don’t seem to understand how capitalism works. What’s something is worth is depending on what the market will bear. If the market won’t bear a $90 game then it isn’t worth $90.

It’s a double edged sword

echodot, 30 dni temu

Part of why steam is so successful is because they regularly do enormous discounts.

People come to steam because of how good the deals are but they end up buying quite a lot at full prices as well.

echodot, 30 dni temu

When I first started working it was still back in the days where you were given cash in an envelope. After we were paid we always used to go out to a pub together for a few rounds, I rarely used to get through all of the change I’d been given, I never got into the paper money.

You used to be able to get a pint for silvers, these days you need to give them folding money for a bag of peanuts.

echodot, miesiąc temu

I’m kind of hoping that the 28 years later movie is filmed in 1080p or something.

echodot, miesiąc temu

I remember when FPGAs were prohibitively expensive.

echodot, miesiąc temu

Web developers work this out years ago. If you want to put content behind a paywall don’t do it client side because it will get bypassed.

This was me working out of a tiny office. Yet apparently I was more advanced than AAA game developers.

echodot, miesiąc temu

It’s not even a good game. It’s not significantly improved from previous titles why people paying microtransactions for this let alone buying the game at all

echodot, miesiąc temu

There’s already a value recent theme park game, and of course you’ve got things like planet coaster.

echodot, miesiąc temu

There’s lots they could do to minimise cheaters that they’re not doing. The main one being not sending the cheaters information in the first place.

The wall hack cheat works because for some bizarre reason the server sends players information about the position of other players they can’t possibly see, players on the other side of the map for example, there’s no reason for the client to have that information. The cheaters cannot access information that isn’t given to them.

echodot, miesiąc temu

It will result in cheaters getting instantly identified and banned so then it’ll be less fun for them, and they’re less likely to do it.