You can’t compress entire game packages. I mean .. you CAN of course, but since the vast majority of the assets (texture, audio, animation, etc) are already compressed with format specific compression, any generalized non-lossy compression algorithm on the entire archive is going to achieve a near enough to 0 decrease…

Yes, people are very judgey about how people who have nothing to lose - a condition people are convinced has nothing to do with them and they shouldn’t have to care about - actually act like they have nothing to lose. But America is really quite enamored with the falsehood that everyone is directly responsible for…

You have a strange definition of recycle. At some point, the lack of more aggressive compression options is unacceptable to you - fair enough - but too much compression is unacceptable to the artists and sound designers who produce the art. (And to some degree the platform owners Sony and MS have a hand in this too…

I worked, long ago, on a certain Indiana Jones game where Lucas Arts was adamant that Indiana Jones Did *rarely* used a gun. It ended up having these pretty long on rails shooter sections peppered throughout. It’s hard to reconcile IP holders’ vision of what their property is with the fact that you’re making .. a game.

I feel that argument is only stronger in a market from the past that no longer exists. Today, multiplayer games are typically Games as a Service, and the offering expected of gamers is that you will continue to add content to the game, until that service loses it’s customers and goes out of business. To wit, CoD is…

Multiplayer games are games of competition. Playing them against other people is what keeps them interesting. Are tennis players easily amused because they keep playing the same game over and over?

What a bunch of boobs.

same

It’s still commoditized drama. Nobody’s going to make a reaction video and go, “Eh, that’s was okay, I guess.” The medium itself begs the maker to lean into dramatizing their reactions, which makes it artificial by nature imho. The presence of the camera and the dynamics of content that generates revenue is at odds…

Nobody writes about a streamer before they’ve being viewed by a bajillion people, and if you think not reporting on POS streamers is going to cause a bajillion kids/manchildren/basic-AFs to stop watching POS streamers - I don’t know what to tell you. You’re wrong. “Ignore it and it’ll go away” is a terrible thing to…

Not really. The people who actually steal the cars are easily replaced. In many cases here, they’re basically young adults who are exploited by money in communities in which the parents or parent - by dint of lack of economic opportunity - have to be at work or asleep all the time just to survive.

It happens all the time, but it doesn’t qualify as news, which is why you don’t read about it. Good old confirmation bias at work. Nor do you read about private projects that go overbudget, because it’s also not really news - in the sense that it’s in the public interest to know about it, and private companies don’t…

I think you’re conflating knowing how to do something and the utility of making a concrete plan for a future time in which conditions are likely to have significantly changed. What are you proposing - that they had designed something back in the 90s, and then just like .. stuck it in a closet until today?…

Uh, no. Nobody is an island, even an unarmored nobody. People make reactions not to run over people, and those reactions can harm themselves, or others. Even somebody who runs out onto a freeway naked as the day they were born is putting everybody else in danger.

man, I came down here to laugh at that but I see it’s already been taken care of

So lightbulb manufacturers entered into a collective agreement

Ding ding ding. I worked on AnyBully (GC, PS2, PC), Happy Feat (GC, AntBully, PC), Transformers (3Ds), Rango (X360,PS3), SceneIt (X360,PS3) ... and others .. I knew this space well. (Now I work on AAA games we all play! A whole different set of issues!)

Jesus Christ, I should start checking what’s gunna be on Gamepass before I buy it (Skylines II)

*watches ramp jumps*

This game is BANANAS good. Good lord, it makes your brain feel SO GOOD.