This is probably it. Unless you’re using a pretty sophisticated physics engine, it’s difficult to do variable frame rate updates without introducing weird, hard to test bugs. Many, many games lock their physics updates to some consistent rate (often 30/60/120 updates per second) and it’s pretty easy from there to just…

Oh my god that is not the point. The point is to replace the millions of tiny engines (cars) with a few big ones (power plants) which then greatly simplifies the problem of reducing emissions and converting to clean power. Yes, you’re right that the electric car is not a complete solution, but it’s one hell of a big…

You know, you’re absolutely right. I had this encouraging tone in my head when I wrote that post, and it came off a little harsh. I was meaning to lift the OP up, and encourage them to try anyway, even if they don’t have the know-how yet. After all, what better way to learn? If you want to do something, by golly just…

You don’t need the know-how, or the skill. Just the motivation, and some ability to pick up parts. It helps that the Raspberry Pi is just $35, so it’s quite approachable as a starter development board, and its GPIO pins are decently easy to interface with. But mostly, it’s a matter of deciding what you want to do, and…

I thought the point he was trying to make was that Mario 64 and Sunshine were the last two truly open ended, exploration style games. You entered the world with a brief hint, and could mostly collect the stars in any order after that, with some exceptions.

Funny you mention Squash, because Stardew Valley just came out on switch, and I have no shame. I will catch all the fish!

I suspect this is a Windows API and stability thing more than anything. I’m not sure how Steam actually performs this allocation, but I’m pretty sure it goes something to the effect of, 1. Open a file, then 2. write zero data to all of it, in one go, to make sure that file is ready to accept arbitrary seeks, reads and…

I’ve been doing this ever since I stumbled on the feature. It’s more reliable and better looking than any remote desktop solution I’ve tried, and is particularly nice in our living room where we have a large projector hooked up. Even outpaces our Chromecast for video streaming quality due to it being on the wired…

So, this very much depends on the game, the release cycle, and the development teams.

Probably not! But any studio worth its salt that charges that much has already done trailers, gameplay demos, and often pre-release reviews to outlets like this one. Studios trying to get by on word of mouth post-sale (with no marketing) know better than to charge high prices, for fear of setting the bar of entry for…

The price of games really needs to be more fluid. I’d gladly pay $80-$100 for an epic adventure like Guild Wars 2, and I did exactly that. But I certainly wouldn’t have bought Minecraft for more than $15. Both games were priced reasonably for the market at the time.

I remember struggling in my 1st grade class with reading hour. I could legitimately complete most books very, very quickly, and did so. The teachers got annoyed at how quickly I would walk (I thought calmly, I was like 7 though, who knows) up to the chalkboard to exchange my now finished book with another one on the…

Dictionary attacks are usually going after low hanging fruit. It’s quite common for a dictionary attack to not include the entire dictionary, but simply the most common 1000-2000 or so words that people are using in their passwords, based on leaked data. Anything at all you can do to not appear on those lists is a…

In short: networking is hard, game development is hard, and small plucky teams of new developers with over-excited marketing teams tried to move way too fast.

“We turned on a hygrometer to measure the humidity. Then we waited.” -> [End of Article]

I have so much respect for the writers not identifying as queer, and trying to write an inclusive story anyway, admitting their mistakes, and being so incredibly open about things.

I had issues even with the Wii U version of Splatoon until we upgraded our router to something significantly more beefy, and well suited for our house. Gaming over wifi is really never pleasant though, I suggest strongly picking up a USB Ethernet adapter for your Switch dock, and hard-wiring the thing. That should…

I was about to say, this is not something you can just do on the fly. I’m almost positive they recreated an approximation of the PS1's much simpler physics engine in something more modern, which means there’s going to be little differences here and there. This looks like a weird edge case with corner resolutions and…

This extension is the *sole* reason I use Firefox on Android. Sure, Chrome may be faster on paper, but Firefox doesn’t load all the obnoxious garbage; it’s faster in practice.

IANAL, so I’m really curious: what’s the justification for going after Zenimax here, and not Universal? I must assume that Zenimax / Bethesda got their publishing permissions from Universal for using the song in the first place, so it seems like the actual wrong done here was Universal’s lack of due diligence during…