You’ve asked the right person. I’ve been programmer on console games on everything from the PS2/xbox/Gamecube generation up to today’s generation of consoles! Yes you could. It’s just not worth the additional complexity (I’m not saying it would be the most complex thing in the world, but it’s technical complexity none…

“developers should be willing to say”

lol there’s always one “genius” who thinks this point is salient

As long as games are going to ship on PC and your game doesn’t mandate Direct Storage support (which is effectively the windows/Xbox version of PS5s HDD -> VRAM dma transfer, which itself is only supported if your storage is MVMe /w GPUs that support directx12 and shader model .. 6 I think?) games still have to…

That would be a misnomer - Uber has never turned a profit.

“Why do you misframe things, AV Club writers?!”

It didn’t blow up any week at the box office but it was on the top ten for months.

BFBC2 was flippin’ fantastic and I know I’ve had some of my favorite BF’ing time in it (and the great Vietnam expansion). That said, I recently played it again for the first time in a loooong time and it’s kind of amazing the number of quality of life improvements in the genre today that we take for granted. Today it…

In a perfect world, a judge would read out his sentence, pause for effect, and finish with “not in Minecraft”.

in the trailer, he tries the faucet in the bathroom, and it’s clear the main is shutoff, so even with a toilet you couldn’t flush it (even manually because you don’t have water)

In countries in which it’s harder to obtain a weapon legally, it is harder to obtain a weapon illegally. This is a real blind spot in a lot of Amerians’ reasoning about gun control laws, which amounts to a claim that “there would be the same number of murders whether or not murder is illegal, because people who murder…

Yes. One might say .... Lilith fair.

Why that is, I’ll never understand

“They will be provided 60 days severance”

It’s a society that’s economically and socially constructed around the ideal that if you have the money, you should be able to get what you want, when you want it, as soon as humanly possible.

It’s not a ******* FPS. Frankly, I think it’s a big reason why it resonated with so many players, many who might have bought it out of marketing obligation, and then came to terms with the fact that it’s .. Metroid, all the things that makes it good, but in 3d. An exploration game with shooting mechanics, 2d or 3d,…

“I walked out of my Marvel general [meeting]”

If physics IK (for producing reasonable animated simulations of movement in games given arbitrary surfaces and attachment points as in AC climbing) is AI, well .. I dunno, everything is AI.

I guess that’s one way to try and establish a position that he’s 0.006% less of an asshole

The thing is, AI doesn’t draw hands. It draws parts of parts of parts of datasets. There’s no top-down decision making that says “this is a hand, let’s draw one”. It’s merging content together from multiple sources of data in a non-trivial way. It’s mapping text you enter to tagged data and applying mathematical…