John McDonald

I don’t like blocking anyone on Twitter. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and I don’t really like to dictate how they can or cannot express those opinions, or what channels they can use to give me feedback.

@ZPostFacto My basement flooded in the one hour I was out taking my daughter to dance class. 😭

Just lost power at my house. Wifi down. Phone battery draining. Please send help.

@FitWaveNL Are you referring to the case where you jump and bump your head during the jump? That case is indeed a little inconsistent. Is there a case where that is relevant to gameplay? It could be made consistent but it would cost fps that I suspect users would rather have.

@basisspace Are you just gaslighting? If there's some authoratative 'reality' that cl_showpos just 'misreports', then the end-position would still be the same regardless. It demonstrably isn't.

Best analysis I’ve seen of subtick movement here, worth a read if you have concerns about movement. reddit.com/r/GlobalOffens…

@Bobby_Anguelov A bunch of us play regularly, you should come join us! We are all old.

Trying to get back into CS, but solo queuing is absolutely awful. Also I'm old and my mechanical skills are not as great any more but I really struggling to play at lower elo since people dont communicate and do random shit all the time. 10K elo is easier for me than 5K, wtf...

@cl_minmodels Honestly—I didn’t play 1.6. I played original CS, but I wasn’t very good. I was a Quake player through and through and didn’t start playing CS seriously until I started working on it ~7 years ago. Now I have a few thousand hours. I’m basically a newborn.

@basisspace 😭😭😭😭😭 you failed me Thats how it was in 1.6

This is how I call it. Oh no am I calling it wrong in my games?

Is it St Patty’s Day already?

This owl stole a kid’s stick-horse toy and has been riding it around town in true Halloween spirit

@Abzol @Masterkrombi @GustavSterbrant @b3agz @andytouch I’ve literally improved performance in shipped video games by removing useless LOD systems that didn’t buy them anything but cost them time on the CPU—which was where their bottleneck was. Oftentimes it’s worth it to do more work but much more efficiently.

@Masterkrombi @GustavSterbrant @b3agz @andytouch On paper these are all fine ideas but holding the "never assume, always profile" as axiomatic means that i can tell you "a possible way to increase performance is to add 20,000 extra triangles to all meshes". Profiling is good, but its not like intuition is useless because of it.

Mike Pence should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.

@gu3st Lolwut

I do not follow college football, but I am watching the huskies play Stanford now and I have a couple questions: - how can a team be 7-0 but ranked 5th? - how can a team that is 7-0 struggle so much against a team that is 2-5?

100% this. This may matter, but it may absolutely not matter at all.

@BattleAxeVR I love this picture. And I agree that process is much more important than degrees or titles.

This is what happens when you hire non-technical managers and they start to micromanage. I would've quit. In fact, I have quit working at two studios due their CTOs being complete morons.

@BattleAxeVR The question there is necessarily “does this cost any perf?” The answer may surprise you! We have to measure things to know what they cost—not in a vacuum; in situ.

@basisspace To quote you, John (and I agree w/ most of your points), the main question is: does this game (or any game) benefit from rendering individual teeth for far off pedestrians? It answers itself, even for non-game developers, hence my comment stands that the person responsible=moron

@BattleAxeVR In a city builder, like Cities Skyline 2, if the game paused simulating and was totally smooth while panning the camera around (like it ran at 120-240 during that time), stable 30 fps the rest of the time probably would be completely fine.

@basisspace I'd be very surprised if Unity didn't have any kind of automatic LOD generation tool, in which case, not using it is an own-goal, and this company rightfully deserves the L for hitting < 30 FPS even on modern PCs. The problem's also related to "30 FPS is totally fine" mentality.

@BattleAxeVR Mostly I find it disappointing to see devs bag on other devs. The work is challenging and everyone operates in their own environment with their own set of tradeoffs. To my knowledge no one has yet ‘solved’ fun, so every release comes with risks.

@BattleAxeVR LODing may be beneficial; it generally is and for a city builder (or GTA V, like you worked on), I would definitely expect it to help. By comparison, on a game like, say, Diablo or DOTA, I wouldn’t expect LODs to really help at all. But LODs wouldn’t have reduced overdraw.

@0xgaut Bagel skin. 🤮

Scooped bagels are the talk of the day. If you're unfamiliar, it's this monstrosity: