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Do you like games? Do you like security? Come work with me @PlayStation ! We’re looking for staff/principle security engineers to join the console security team. Really cool work and interesting research! DMs open :)

Since my whole timeline is full of people swooning about @dark1x claim that getting from one point of Crimson Desert’s map to another took a whopping 4 hours, let me share what’s going through my mind: I’ve been doing Level Design for 17 years now - I designed most of the levels / world for the Ori games and I’m still supervising LD on Wicked, so I think I can share some valuable insight. I always find it a bit worrying when everyone gets excited about ‘oh my god, they crafted an insanely huge world!’. In fact, I have basically the exact opposite reaction, which is more like: ‘Oh no, they started with a huge terrain, I hope they had an army of level designers to actually create a meaningful world instead of just a procedurally crafted, empty husk.’ I know how difficult it is to design good levels and how much time it takes us to build ours - so just hearing that, I already know that there’s likely not going to be a lot of actual good level design in Crimson Desert. And I actually don’t want to sound too disparaging or ruin anyone’s fun because Crimson Desert certainly looks insane and I can’t wait to play it myself either, but I also know how important and how underrated good level and world design is for a title and what the effect is if you have to OK huge, but empty worlds. I’d say at this point even some of the best studios in the world weren’t able to crack that nut. Even Nintendo struggled for a long time with the world size of Breath of the Wild and ultimately they had to put hundreds of devs on it to fill it up with content, but even their content then mostly consisted of ‘oh, here’s another Korok Seed!’ and other such lukewarm experiences. Since procedural level generation produces pretty crappy results and since we don’t have AI yet that can actually create well designed levels, the only way out of feeling like being in an empty world is to make every inch interactive. Minecraft did that and it was quite genius - but I doubt that’s what CD is going for. I understand the allure of ‘they created an entire universe!’, but be careful what you wish for: In Gaming Worlds, huge usually also means extremely shallow.

The worst thing about dealing with C (and C++ to an extent) code is understanding and debugging macros that you didn't write. Here are a couple ways of how to deal with them!

I dunno if it's because I'm old now, but every time I see "It's X times bigger than Y!!!" I get immediate dread bro I just want a good story I can finish after work, but I'm happy there's a lot to see

@LogitechG reddit.com/r/logitech/com…

Seems that @LogitechG forgot to renew their cert for their macOS app, and now everyone using their mice and keyboards loses all the extra functionality... including me Great, thanks.

that's new. somebody ask me to merge change of CNAME for github page

Saw this talk pop up on my feed, watched it “decomp2dbg is SO COOOOL” Find the speaker’s Twitter Gem after gem after gem Instant follow, turned on notifications

@tiggr_ There's a 10 year old Frostbite bug that will hang GPUs and crash the game. AMD, NVidia, old, new, it doesn't matter. The crash will get you. 38 pages of feedback for you to dig through here steamcommunity.com/app/2807960/di…

Back from PTO this week. I've been digesting feedback, issues & the general state of things (also playing alot to see things from the player POV) - top issues are clear & fixes being pushed into a patch coming your way very soon. But what outside of this irks you with BF6 now?

@IGN what the hell is this cropped video? postage stamp on desktop

Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition features the base game, six official expansions, and more:

@m_franceschetti "When a cloud outage is detected, the incident response team enables Backup Mode for all Pod devices affected" How is backup mode activated if your cloud is down?

Today, we are rolling out Backup Mode: an automatic fallback that lets the Eight Sleep app communicate directly with your Pod over Bluetooth if cloud infrastructure or Wi-Fi is unavailable. When an outage is detected, Backup Mode kicks in automatically, allowing you to open the app and access critical functionalities, making sure your experience is not disrupted. Here is a walkthrough of this new feature and how it will roll out. eightsleep.com/blog/backup-mo…

@fth0mas Thank you!

@byte_how Hey, just wanted to let you know that the code is now available here: github.com/cispa/RISCover

After a long embargo, I'm happy to announce the public launch of our website on our latest finding: GhostWrite. Our research uncovered a critical CPU bug that compromises all security isolations on affected RISC-V hardware. ghostwriteattack.com #GhostWrite #BlackHat #BHUSA

Did you know that when they say stuff like "The A18 uses TSMC's 3nm process" or "announced the 2nm node" The 3nm, 2nm actually doesn't mean anything?! It's just like a version number. They make it up. Literally nothing measures 2nm or 3nm. I certainly didn't know.

@yourkidney Where are you playing it?

deeeeeeep in the ace attorney universe again and so happy to see these three queens back on my screen

@TeamAtlanta24 Was there a recording of the presentation?

Our team’s presentation is live on the AIxCC stage!

@lookoutitsbbear @theo For me, it is/was my monitor, but I still don't know how to fix it. Any suggestions? x.com/byte_how/statu…

@theo did you check the monitor to see if it wasn’t flyback transformer whine it’s bound to be from some power transformer but if you live already so isolated all the components inside the pc case it’s probably some other thing like the monitor or UPS supply or surge protector

Been having PC issues for awhile now. Loud whine sound from my rig when booting some games. Doesn’t happen when running benchmarks. Thought it was the GPU, so swapped from a 4090 to a 5090. Issue persists. Thought it was PSU related (14900k + 5090 is a lot of power). Finally upgraded to a 1500w Corsair. Issue persists. I hate computers so much. I’m never ever building one again. I just want to play some games to relax. I’m so fucking done that I am fighting the urge to throw this $6k+ rig off of my balcony. Is there anywhere in SF that I can drop this off, hand over $1k and get back a working PC?

@graycrawford Looks much nicer than this one I was using. Will give it a go, thanks!

@byte_how Highly recommend the incredible Spectrolite! Seeing the spectrograms really helps identify stuff on the time domain too apps.apple.com/app/id14802401…

When it’s dead silent in my office, I’ve been hearing a very faint high pitched ringing. I thought it was just in my head, but today I have definitive proof that it isn’t!!

I'm still not sure it's the backlight. When I turn down brightness to 0 (effectively turning off the display) I can still hear the ringing

But now, I'm not sure what to do about this other than put on some music and try to ignore it 🫠