I believe that in English, “MAGA” translates to “Die in a fire, America.”
old Shuck ate bob_d
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“What’s next? Honoring Jews and referring to all the diamonds they’ve sold over the years?”
Yeah, but procedural generation doesn’t have to be wholely random, though. Minecraft, for example, does use a stupidly basic means of generating landscapes - it’s just 3D Perlin noise (also used by a number of other games). Dwarf Fortress uses a more complex system, but it’s still probably the simplest system in the…
For game developers, that’s always been true - there are always new tools being created which reduce the amount of work needed to do things. Instead of anyone losing their jobs, it’s just meant that the amount - and quality - of work expected from each developer has increased. No matter how much work the computers…
Honestly, this isn’t a big deal. First, this isn’t that huge a leap - a number of tools already exist that do a lot of the work of generating terrains. Doing the work entirely by hand without any special terrain tools would be incredibly tedious (and for larger maps, impossible) and doesn’t add anything - this is…
Yeah, absolutely. Sadly now that the Republicans are trying so hard to disenfranchise Democratic voters, getting these territories statehood has become a non-starter. It’s downright shocking that they don’t have representation (and between that and asset forfeiture practices, the founding justifications of this…
“...Americans from dying on American soil under the watch of its own, indifferent government?”
Oh Christ, this asshole. Even if we accept the idea that more light = more safety (for which, in select situations, there’s some argument), fossil fuels are the wrong solution. We’re talking about remote rural villages, presumably, for which there’s no infrastructure, no power lines leading to central fossil fuel…
I think it’s quite possible that there’s no direct connection to Zinke in making this deal - there’s so much generalized, diffuse corruption in this administration, the fact that the company was a big Trump booster/donor that had a connection to Zinke was likely enough to make other people in positions of power push…
“batteries”
It sounds like that’s also the case here, and yeah, that’s absolutely where most companies should leave things. Trying to also get devs involved is a mistake.
1) Ok, again - devs are rarely coming from degree programs for game developers. Even if they were, again, the number of devs who do this kind of interfacing is relatively tiny, and it wouldn’t happen in a 4 (and especially not in a less than 4 year) degree program. (There’s a reason why teachers do more than a four…
/rolls eyes
/rolls eyes
1) You’re assuming game developers are coming out of game development degree programs. For the most part that’s not actually true, and again, there are so many potential areas that are peripheral to game development that it’s unlikely (to put it mildly) to be covered in an undergraduate degree program.
“Maybe game developers need to educate themselves on a bit of teaching theory”
Also, someone once showed up at Blizzard offices with a gun. Add that to death threats, and...
Friends of mine used to work at Blizzard, and one mentioned a story that I’ve never seen publicly discussed by the company. Apparently in the early days of Blizzard’s fame, after Warcraft/Starcraft and Diablo, a “fan” tracked down and showed up at the company’s offices - despite the fact that they were not open to…
Yeah, it’s a damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don’t situation. They want to see every detail of development, but only if developers can 100% guarantee that everything they talk about or show will be in the released game. And people flip out if the game (or development) doesn’t work the way they think it does (or think…