Ron || Software Engineer

@K__Med I am a bit frustrated that after 45 minutes i have heard 4 townspeople and 2 guards say the exact same line when I interacted with them. I expected it to be a little longer before npc's started repeating themselves.

Okay, I’ve seen reviewers and influencers saying that a game like Crimson Desert usually only comes once in a generation, so what other game would you compare it to?

@poopswag34 One of the things I am most frustrated with is I have played for 45 minutes, and had 4 guards and 2 townspeople say the exact same thing.

Is crimson desert fun or is it dad gamer assasins creed Skyrim puzzle slop

@DevGallo Monte this is awesome looking!!!!

I’m making a single-player bodycam revenge FPS inspired by 90s Hong Kong action cinema You play as a woman who escapes captivity and comes back for revenge It’s called Better Than Dead and it’s almost ready for release

@P4wnyhof @Dre1970926 @CrimsonDesert_ I was going to say that bro, but then realized there is just no reason to lol.

@Dre1970926 @TheSyntaxJunkie @CrimsonDesert_ Sir you are comparing a show to a video game :)

Someone just told me that iam not allowed to make a Review after 50h of @CrimsonDesert_ because it's "not enough playtime." Sir, if you are unable to form a thought after spending 50 hours with a single-player game. That's a You Problem :S

If you're calling GetComponent in Update, you're wasting frames 🔥 #Unity3D #GameDev `GetComponent()` is not a free lookup. Under the hood, Unity iterates through the component list on a GameObject to find a component of the matching type. For a single call it's fast....but called every frame on dozens or hundreds of objects, the cost accumulates fast. The same applies to `GameObject.Find` (searches the entire scene hierarchy) and `FindObjectOfType` (searches every active object in the scene). These are scene-wide searches and are genuinely expensive....never put them in Update. The correct pattern is to resolve all references in `Awake` or `Start` and store them as private fields. `Awake` runs before `Start` and before the first frame....it's the right place to do self-referential setup (components on yourself). `Start` runs after all Awakes have completed. #Unity #GameDevelopment #IndieGame #STEM

Pizza✅ hot Chips✅ Water✅ Ready To Play✅ 2 and a half more hours until Crimson Desert!! Let's Go!!!!

Game dev is hard, but absolutely amazing at the same time. #gamedev #indiedev

@rodrigofoltz @Critical_Scribe I am absolutely playing it 100 percent at 6 lol I also think people who never played it are coming up with wild reaosns on both sides, reasons its great, reasons its bad, like "relax, you havent played it yet" lol

@TheSyntaxJunkie @Critical_Scribe I'm still waiting to see if for myself, but I kinda expected it to have an MMO feel to it. The amount of systems and complexity seemed very similar to BDO. To be honest I don't think the story will be that bad, just not very important, but I think it'll be a fun game.

This feels like a fair score. Controversially, even as a writer, I’m starting to think that we are weighing storytelling TOO much in objective scoring in video games. Unless your game is wholly about its narrative (Life is Strange, Dispatch, Firewatch, that sort of thing) then at most I will weigh the story as like 2 points out of the total 10 it can earn, if that makes any sense. Gameplay remains king in these evaluations, with performance and visuals coming in second. You can have an outstanding game with a poor story, but if your gameplay and performance suck, then most people aren’t gonna get through your story no matter how good it is. We also have to keep in mind the vision that the game was pushing for in these evaluations. How well something is hitting its goals matters a lot in objective evaluation. Given how little they talked about the story, I don’t think them telling some complex narrative was on the list. Would it have been nice? Definitely. Subjectively? Most of the time I place writing at the top, obviously. Most of my favorite games are absolutely 6/10 experiences objectively but have 10/10 narratives that keep me enthralled. In the case of Crimson Desert? I called it having a poor story the moment I saw it was made by a Korean dev. Some thought I was jumping the gun, but nah, I have enough experience with Korean writing in games (outside of their gachas, which are entirely different beasts for some reason >.>) to know what to expect. What I want out of it is a game that forces me to think and do crazy things, which I think I’ll get. I will of course reserve full judgement until I play it myself, but from the general discourse and reviews I’ve seen this feels close to what I’ll probably grade it objectively.

I think people still heavily underestimate how fast and how awesome C# is.

@rodrigofoltz @Critical_Scribe It also isnt marketed as a sinngle player mmo,

@Critical_Scribe This wasn't marketed based on its story. I followed it knew it was like a side thing. Also I believe some story heavy games could put more effort into making gameplay as strong as the story. I put down some games with story as a 10, but gameplay made me stop playing.

@ItsARP Why no Bigg k?

@Eazyblockcapt Where is Bigg K lol

Where is …..? Nvm

@PlayOverwatch Fix your game for fuck sake, every other night the servers are messing up.

@CharlesHuntNews @krassenstein You are an idiot.

@krassenstein No, what you are doing is crying when Trump trolls you. That was clearly a joke, and you fell for the bait.

BREAKING: Trump just asked if he could start charging people for endorsements, in a speech at the Shield Of Americas event he's hosting at his country club in Doral. "They beg me for an endorsement. I give them an endorsement and they win by 30 points. And I get nothing. If I could sell that? Is there a way I could get paid for that?"

@quizzlogic @THEFAMILY22 How does he got more views than Arsonal?

@THEFAMILY22 Hitman owns Url and Rbe is we being honest. Most viewed on both. Most classics on both

What names belong on these pillars?

@amritwt It would be better if we did not have all the ridiculous hype for it, by people who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

would the software engineer job market be better if there were no large language models?

@LTFS_LU1334 Bloggers and Journalists are just fans as well.

Battle rap is the only place where the consumer can spend money to support the culture, but also stfu about their opinions about it. 😭😭😭😭😭 “Buy your ticket, buy your ppv, pay a babysitter, book a flight, book a hotel, but also STFU and stay in a fans place”

@EHART914 Game devs converse with the audience all the time. So this is not correct.

Battle rap is the only place where the entertainer will converse with yall. SMH Go give ya opinion about the latest movie, album, game, that just dropped and get no response. Yall got comfortable with access. Try it somewhere else then come back 😏

@talantfund @thorstenball No, it won't.

@thorstenball A lot of orgs are still running 2022 playbooks in a 2026 environment. The moment they realize what small AI-native teams can ship, the urgency will arrive fast

Eerie feeling: Talking to people at software companies and getting the impression that they're still acting like it's 2022. Huge teams, roadmaps, product vs. eng vs. design, "haha that'll take a while", AI seen as a "new" thing, no urgency.

If you woulda stayed and contracted with Bullpen, you would not be known now. It is always easy for someone to say something like this, who is in a position like you are tbh. You aren't an up-and-comer anymore. You have privilege in battle rap; a lot of new cats won't get if they sign an exclusive.

This might be a hot take, and I’m willing to debate this on any platform … but battle rap WAS and IS better when battlers are signed to exclusive contracts on certain leagues. I’ll have to unpack this for you to truly understand, but professionally, it’s the answer.