Unity was used for visualization during production of Lion King, but none of the final shots are straight out of Unity.

If it’s totally automated (target date fund or the like), yeah, just ignore it. But if you’re self-managing at all, you should go in and rebalance your ratio of stocks to bonds on a regular basis, regardless of current economic conditions.

To be fair, if this happened in any other context you’d probably wouldn’t hear about it, so there’s potentially some sampling bias going on.

As QA, you’re very aware that you’re the most easily replaceable members of the team. It’s really easy to think “This seems iffy, but also doesn’t seem like an accident and I don’t want to pick a fight”. At Volition we had a way to anonymously send feedback to the diversity council for exactly that reason, but I don’t…

There are absolutely situations with informal, but strictly enforced, rules for fighting. If you get in a fist fight in a rowdy bar, people will either stand back or try and pull you apart. If you try and gouge someone’s eye out, a whole lot of people are gonna gang up on you.

And even without outside intervention,…

I don’t see any benefit to setting a top of the range. What I said when I was interviewing for my current job was “It depends on benefits, bonuses, and the exact nature of the position and project, but the minimum I’d consider is $X”. That’s enough to establish we’re in the same ballpark and don’t waste both our time…

The difference in budget between the higher end of the AAA and the lower end has gotten large enough to make the term less useful then it once was, but I’ve never met anyone in the industry who doesn’t consider a forty million dollar budget AAA.

Game design is absolutely a specific job. There are dozens of designers working at the studio with me. Most are further specialized, level designers or system designers or so on, but they’re definitely all designers. You might be thinking game developer, which is just a catch all term for everyone who works in games.…

That last paragraph is the most important one. Speaking as a professional in the industry, there are very few, possibly zero, degrees in game design I’d feel comfortable recommending to a student. Getting into the industry in general is extremely hard, and design in particular suffers from a brutal “need experience to…

As long as it’s an airport and airline that flies internationally, I doubt the flight attendants are checking your itinerary.

It’s possible that average prices have dropped because a bunch of new small condos are being constructed. The actual price of any given home is still trending up, but the average sale price of all homes is going down.

The trick to living happily in LA is to accept that you’ll spend most of your time in one chunk of the city, and treats drive across the city like you would inter-city trips in other parts of the country.

All of these seem like just small population states, as opposed to states especially off the beaten path of tourists. You’re not gonna feel like you’re on the road less traveled at Yellowstone or Glacier during the summer.

While I’ve never seen a structured advancement path that lead out of QA, I’d guess a third of the production and design team, along with a few artists and programmers, at Volition started in QA.

Honestly, with the exception of the last couple, those prices seem pretty damn reasonable. I’m not big on public proposals, but if your partner is a sports fan who loves being the center attention and you’re very, very sure they’ll say yes it could be money well spent.

The exact numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, but it’s hard to believe China is successfully hiding millions, or even hundreds of thousands, of covid deaths from the world. I could easily believe the actual death toll is ten times what the CCP claims. I don’t think it at all likely that it’s a hundred times…

Depending on your interests, you could potentially go a lifetime without baking anything that requires real vanilla. Any time you’re making something where vanilla is the main flavor you should use the real stuff, but for something like chocolate chip cookies where it’s a secondary flavor the difference is barely…

Stuff not loading in time when you’re moving too fast isn’t a “technical hiccup with the new engine.” It’s a fundamental limitation that every open world game needs to balance against. The more stuff you’re loading in memory the more time you need to load it, and thus the slower you have to limit players’ top speed.

Let me put it this way: studios that use Unreal generally prominently mention that fact in recruiting emails, because it’s dramatically more pleasant to work in than most in-house engines. It’s not a magic bullet, and high graphical fidelity always comes with a lot of work, but there are a lot of time saving features…

Not really, no.