boletus

joined 3 years ago
[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Most people doing the bare minimum are overwhelmed with the pressure of living paycheck to paycheck. Times are tough, especially when you do not have a financial fallback, are ill, and are making Min wage.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I rock the nuphy halo v2 and they're excellent. If you want the thock you probably want to get a full profile keyboard and not a low profile one. Basically whether or not it uses low profile or normal profile switches. I recommend the lemon switches for a nice tactile feel without annoying the office, but they have a range of options you can order on the board.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Try gambling with your friends

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

It is actually a very popular opinion outside of tech circles to think a lot of data is not worth collecting. It's why so many see it as "it doesn't matter" or "I don't have anything to hide".

The reality is all this data is incredibly valuable for market control and manipulation. Yes including your bowel movements. Micro optimising targeted ads is the exact goal. You are not privy to the absolute freak levels of optimising these companies are up to, including actively researching and then ignoring the ethical components. They know you better than anyone else on the planet, at least when it comes to marketing to you.

You are right though. This data shouldn't be collected. But it IS collected, and they want you to think its no big deal.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago
[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I think you are definitely a very small minority in that regard. It's being covered by every avenue of media, and the entire games industry has been fighting to keep up with its release date so as not to compete with it.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 66 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Jeff Goldblum

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on the publisher, but unfortunately there's enough grubby publishers out there that the word is associated with bad execs. I automatically assume a publisher is unethical unless they prove otherwise. Even annapurna showed their true colours eventually.

I have seen multiple instances of publishers actually saving games by stepping in and putting their own devs into the process. One example would be Valve, with left 4 dead.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Most cheat codes got removed because game devs got better at separating debug tooling from game logic, but especially because publishers and console verification are very strict about what games are allowed to ship with. Shipping with debug tooling is one of the easiest ways to fail validation.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Using the thrusters to increase down force is such a cool mechanic

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 weeks ago

The most common practice nowadays is to build it with modular assets, and part of the games build process is to combine static meshes that share a material so it can be rendered more efficiently. This is a oversimplification of a complex topic, and there are far more advanced tools now. Most terrains aren't even modelled anymore, but generated and sculpted in engine using PCG tooling.

Note, this is mostly for the contemporary AA and AAA games industry.

[–] boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Hey! I got all of them working using bottles and the all in one launcher.

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