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donrobo
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donrobo
@FPRobber
I love games and coding
Graz, Austria Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@PhantomZer013 @RobertAnim8er I get it. It’s hard to believe. Just sit back and watch the show.
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All true. A studio’s location also heavily influences hiring. When Bend laid me off, 3 studios wanted to interview me. CD Projekt Red, Naughty Dog and VOID Interactive. The first 2 located in the most expensive areas in the country. 2 studios I would have loved to work for. But in the end I chose VOID, an indie studio that allows me to work remote anywhere in the world. Which was a huge perk for me and sealed my decision.
Del@TheCartelDel
Yes. Most of gamedev costs are the salaries, which must match the local cost of living. Oppressive rent prices make it difficult to make games in many cities, but if that game isn't a fucking hit, it's often enough to destroy that studio outright now. No misses allowed anymore. Uncharted 1 didn't sell amazingly. Nor did Demon Souls. Red Ded Revolver and the first Yakuza also suffered from lukewarm sales. Imagine if those studios never had a chance to come back stronger because the sheer financial stress of cost-of-living-matching-salaries wiped them out.
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@BraddrofliT Credit all deportion related costs to the Biden regime that not only let them in illegally, but aided and abetted it.
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The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M of our tax money, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes, plus another 530 with minor traffic violations.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two civilian deaths.
Your tax dollars hard at work 🙄
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A guy tried to replace % 2
with 4,294,967,296 comparisons
> 330GB C source file
> 13,439,706+ lines
> Compiler line limit exceeded
> Compiler out of heap space
> 40GB raw machine code workaround
> Memory-mapped execution
> It still ran
This is what happens
when you ignore Big-O
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@87xysr @KobeissiLetter Indirectly, yes. You can use the loss to save taxes on your gains
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@KobeissiLetter So if someone loses money will the government cover 36% of the losses?
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BREAKING: Netherlands’ House of Representatives has approved a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains.
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@dsonoiki @shabbatvampire This being Twitter there's a good chance you're dead serious. What the fuck
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Tom Holland is dating a 29 year old
There is a 3 month age gap between them—over 90 days. they were not even born in the same fiscal quarter (June 1, 1996 vs. September 1, 1996)
Hollywood normalizes this
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Don't fall for this snakeoil. Using LLMs (which are universal function approximators) to approximate GCC, while impressive in a perverse way, is not the same thing as what they want you to think.
Ok, LLMs can produce a very poor implementation (of zero commericial value) of a very well understood problem while burning through a lot of tokens. Why am I supposed to be impressed?
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
New Engineering blog: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel. Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development. Read more: anthropic.com/engineering/bu…
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@RipleyLizard @gabefollower Half Life 3 confirmed for third half of 2026!
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Valve just confirmed this information in their new Steam Hardware FAQ
"Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed. But we have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of those things can change. We will keep you updated as much as we can as we finalize those plans as soon as possible."
Gabe Follower@gabefollower
During the earnings call today, Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO, shared that Valve is on track to begin shipping its AMD-powered Steam Machine early this year.
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@STreffi @DrFuturo_ @SebAaltonen Wha.. thats not.. What the fuck are you talking about? It generates videos.
Video games despite the name are not videos
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@DrFuturo_ @SebAaltonen And you really think that it's absolutely impossible for Google to let it produce any asset in the future? Come on..
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I have seen a lot of walking simulators made with Genie 3 recently. Zero games with actual game logic. Super boring, just like the "Unlimited Detail" tech demo.
Lots of fakes too. People engagement baiting and telling how game devs are doomed. Too bad all of these lies actually affect game dev investors. Less money to make good games in the future.
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@Gov_Milledge @FeralHeather If it's years ago and they fell out of love later on, I doubt any reasonable person would care.
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@FeralHeather She probably found out about the proposal at some point. I can’t think of a wife who wouldn’t react similarly
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randomly remembered how my 1st BF kept a mannequin “Woody” in the front seat of his tiny red car. “Why?” “So people don’t break into my car.”
2006. We were at a concert in Bigfork, MT. 100°F. Lights & sirens in the parking lot. Many firetrucks. Ambulance. The music stops (1/3)
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@TimSweeneyEpic Maybe if you had fees on EGS you could afford to have more people work on it and make it compete with Steam in terms of user experience and features. Not just by being cheap
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Steam’s rules do explicitly prohibit games from steering players to competing purchase methods, forcing everyone to pay 30% to Valve.
Apple and Google did the same until the court explicitly found this practice to be unlawful. Now they don’t!
Ryan Fleury@rfleury
If Valve’s 30% transaction fee is so outrageous (it’s not), then others can simply provide alternatives and charge less. If players still don’t want those alternatives, it’s for a reason: the higher prices they see are worthwhile for the various services involved. So, the alternatives need to also compete on quality. That isn’t an “unlawful monopoly”, that is a competitive service provided at an acceptable rate for developers and players alike. A competitor can undercut that price, but they have to actually do a good job providing an alternative. It is completely absurd to involve the government to punish Valve.
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@Tyler_McV Probably like 500€ which sadly isn't realistic with how fucked the supply is. But anything more than that and I can just stick to streaming from my existing gaming pc to my shield TV
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Is $800 too much for the Steam Machine?
What price, knowing everything we do now, is the highest possible price you'd pay?
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@GrantSlatton The public post lockers are a great example of how it should work. You get a physical piece of paper. You walk up to it, the screen tells you to scan the code and a box just pops open. My grandpa could do it
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Just helped an 80 year old man get a package from an Amazon locker at 7-11, Amazon should be absolutely ashamed of the UX they’ve built
It’s one of the lockers with no built-in screen, you have to use your phone to open it
The man is on the Amazon website on his phone but can’t figure out how to open it
Apparently you can only do it on the Amazon app, not the mobile website
We download the app, nothing renders correctly because he has his system font size set to max for his bad eyesight
On the order page it says the order is at the locker, but there’s no button that indicates it can open the locker
After much experimentation, we discover you have to go into “track package” — not intuitive because the main screen already says where the package is! We don’t need to track it!
Then inside track package you click another button, and then another button to finally connect via Bluetooth to the locker
The connection is terrible despite being 1 foot away, it takes 6 connection attempts
After 10 minutes I finally get this poor man his package, he vows to never do this again
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@TheCinesthetic I watched both Terminator 1 & 2 some time in the 2010s when I decided I should probably have seen those classics. I knew about Terminator 1's story but somehow completely avoided all spoilers for T2 by pure chance. My mind was blown
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Imagine seeing Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) completely cold. No trailers, no expectations, no idea who the villain is. That early reveal lands like a thunderbolt.
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@1brandiesel @AngryJoeShow Read your own post again and think about what point you're trying to make please.
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@AngryJoeShow Terrible he got killed but if he didn't get involved, he'd be alive. I blame the media and government for making regular people think its okay and necessary to get in the way of ICE. Propaganda is a bitch
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New 4th video seen more clearly. Alex Pretti (a registered ICU nurse) is seen here assisting a woman who had been sprayed, tries to stop an ICE agent from aggressively shoving someone else to the ground, Alex then gets sprayed for that. He's restrained. beaten. His LEGAL carry firearm is removed at 0:26. Then they kill him. Don't let @StephenM lie to everyone. He wasn't there to "assassinate agents" you POS, your label-everyone-a-domestic terrorist strategy isn't going to work here. You've been Exposed. Question is, will you get away with it?
Chronicles of Civilization@ChroniclesofCiv
New Clearer video of gun taken away from victim
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@GlobeEyeNews Makes sense, health is not exactly important for the wellbeing of people
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BREAKING:
US officially leaves the World Health Organization.
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@TimSweeneyEpic Please reinvest in the epic game store itself. It's still only got like 3% the features of steam
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The more telling number is monthly active users, where Epic Games Store is 55%-60% the size of Steam. We heavily reinvest back into engaging users through the Free Games Program, putting our revenue back to work for developers in a way that those yachts and diamond teeth don’t.
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Epic and Steam compete for each customer and each sale. On some transactions, Epic wins. On more, Steam wins. But one thing is constant on every transaction: gamers and developers win by having more options and better deals.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
According to New Blood's CEO, Epic Games Store’s free giveaways cause a huge spike in Steam sales. The game sold 200% more copies on Steam that day than usual. He called the EGS giveaway great advertising for Steam sales.
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Ben Affleck: “AI can’t make film that is considered art.”
AI-generated short film of Harry Potter during the Vietnam War riffing on Apocalypse Now: “Hold our beer.”
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@TimSweeneyEpic @SteamDeckHQ That's funny because that's the same list of people who love Adobe
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@SteamDeckHQ Here’s a group photo of all the people who love both Linux and Adobe:
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Newer Adobe software, such as Photoshop, may soon work on the #SteamDeck and Linux thanks to a fix in the works from GitHub user PhialsBasement:
steamdeckhq.com/adobe-software…
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This meme is a 4chan-style greentext parody. "Chud" refers to a stereotypical right-wing conspiracy theorist (from the movie C.H.U.D.). "Branch predictor" is a CPU component that guesses code paths to speed up execution.
It mocks doomsayers by having the "chud branch predictor" shut down a "what if" worry with "it won't," implying overconfidence or denial in predictions. Classic internet humor blending tech and politics.
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I am so excited! Our trailer for Masters of Albion is out and I can finally show you all what wonderful work this amazing and super talented team at 22Cans has been working on for so long. I really hope you enjoyed the trailer, and if you’d like to see more of the game, then I’d love to see you join our Discord, where we will be diving into the game in depth.
discord.gg/mastersofalbion.
store.steampowered.com/app/3165650/Ma…
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