how many people have to die from hurricanes and heat waves before these idiots realize they’re celebrating the fucking problem.

and coal rollers, holy shit, these assholes

unreal has, at least since the 2010s, an engine that focuses on AAA looks and advanced features. 5 amped that up with nanite and other gpu stressful tech.

I personally found UE4 to be a bloated dev environment, but ymmv.

lol… do you think that only coders go to gdc?

pfftt…hahahah ah, this is hilarious.

Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon

and btw, jeff doesn’t even work at amazon anymore.

other games to take your attention:

https://thrice.geekswhodrink.com/ - trivia!

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ geography!

interesting points, especially about the evolution in language / perceptions re: dwarves. I’ve heard dragon age being described as ‘fantasy, but more mature’; I played the first game and it didn’t click.

and hilariously, Nintendo uses emulation themselves.

https://gamerant.com/nintendo-emulating-own-games-museum-windows-pc/

Hypocritical fucks

they’re streaming world data. I shudder to think about the size of the entire dataset.

the tech debt effect is hilarious

Seems like the gamergate chuds are trying to make stories happen in a bunch of places.

my understanding from a tech artist friend was that simple things like adding a new shader would take a day to make it into their continuous integration builds, making it ridiculous compared to unity/unreal/etc. this was 2019-ish

Hardly Microsoft alone. Sony sunk billions into Bungie. Around 20%+ OF THE TOTAL WORKFORCE have been laid off at bungie just in 2024.

there is a girl

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Kronos’s openXR is looking great on Godot. They’re making good choices and it’s advancing rapidly on the fronts I care about.

I mean, it only took a year…

oof. what the hell man. meanwhile I moved onto Godot and it’s pretty nifty.

troof.

same with Jaimie Lee Curtis but sometimes we need projects like this to teach us humility.

that’s fair. I suspect their relationship with gamestop, which had it’s own mini-e3 for a while, led to a ton of great content discovery that many journalists didn’t get access to back in the day.

the mag has been a loss leader used to drive traffic into the stores for preorders. it was always pretty slanted, I suspect it’s just been too expensive (as have all printed magazines lately) with too few subscribers to justify the outlay.

a reputable name

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they were wholly owned by gamestop. their magazine was a lever to drive gamestop subscriptions and upsells. y’all worried about kotaku crack me up, if there were real ethics in game journalism a supposedly independent publication reviewing the products wouldn’t be owned by the largest vendor of the products.

Eh… they were beholden to the games industry as much as any publication, and perhaps more due to their ownership.

Hotline Miami

yussss… solid working music too.

yuuuuUUup. both companies had a golden goose, bungie gave it away to pursue the glory that is, uh, destiny… there’s a wizard on the moon lol. ms decided to stick with the IP and start beating that horse to death post haste lol

You seem to thinking I somehow like or whatever Russia?

you asserted complete and utter bullshit that was easily verifiably false. I don’t know what your deal is, but when you walk up and start saying ‘nah the russians ain’t that bad’ you’re fuckin sus in my book hoss.

I am saying this so people remember that most are there for the money, not because someone forces them. Stop letting them off the hook, blaming someone else.

yeah like the migrants the russians kidnap and force to the front, they’re in it for the money?

putin is evil. russia is evil. trying to ascribe rational thoughts to an adversary reduced to throwing meat waves, whos only advances come through absolute destruction of the cities they claim to capture, its a fool’s errand. no troop who walks behind you and shoots the deserters is your friend.

There are no blocking units.

bwhahaha you can’t be that dumb?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67234144

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/russian-soldiers-commanders-used-barrier-troops-stop-retreating

https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-russian-military-shooting-own-retreating-troops-ukraine-media-1806118

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/18/theyre-just-choosing-where-to-die-when-russias-poorly-trained-stormtroopers-retreat-russian-barrier-troops-gun-them-down/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxRr9GiHDVk

It’s not ‘one sketchy video’ it’s reality, Vlad.

But hey, I’m sure idiot waves on quads and dirtbikes is superior russian tactical advance, not just because anything larger gets blown to tiny russian meat mist.

yeah russia’s ability to send mid-20th century mbt’s to ukraine for scrapping by drone has been wild.

my fav is the turtle cage, the gigantic boxes of welded metal where the turret can’t move and they don’t even provide the gun with ammo, just use it as some kind of giant shit troop transport.

I know russia uses blocking units to keep their forces from retreating but they also must have some kind of prodding battalions just to get these poor shitbags to the front line in the first place, there’s no fucking way I’d hop on a chinese quad or ride some battery powered scooter into combat but we’re seeing it every fucking day.

Thanks!

TY!

Thank you very much, I look forward to exploring this!

so I looked into modded minecraft via curse… seems awfully clunky - and so many mods are really compilations of others… can you recommend top few mods?

The only one that seems interesting from a player perspective is trees falling when cut.

their game division has been a fantastic machine for burning loads and loads of money while producing a whole lotta jack shit.

awesome. added to wishlist, hope the product delivers the interactions this trailer shows. would be amazing in vr.

PLIF gets so little recognition or love, yet it was a banger. By far the strangest comic I’d ever read. Only Oglaf and PBF seem to approach it’s depth of madness / quality work combination.

Left unsaid: the developers were starting to ask for more money and creative freedom than MS was willing to give, and had to be taught a lesson.

is there any evidence of this? It would give MS an excuse, which makes me wonder

yes, but also, it explores the universe heinlein created in ways i’m certain he never anticipated (talking heads on TV shows being a great example).

the book is fantastic but doesn’t really emphasize a lot of the fun themes you’ll find in the film. worth a read, it’s short af.

I probably should have been more specific in that I’m surprised it took a studio this long with the Starship Trooper’s license to build something with similar FPS gameplay and mechanics as Helldivers 2.

I know the book (great) and movie (entertaining af verhooven at his best) predate Helldivers.

I probably could have worded things better sorry for the confusion.

This is a co-op FPS with 16-player PvE and by looking at the teaser it also involes base building, so not exactly the same type of game.

spot on

As for the narrative, Helldivers is obviously based on the Starship Troopers movie (the plot, the action, even the “patriotic theme”), which itself was heavily inspired by StarCraft.

!?? I read Heinlein’s Starship Troopers in the early 80s lol, not sure you meant that the way it reads. ST the book and subsequent verhooven movie were not inspired by Starcraft.

Was wondering how long it would take someone to try to replicat Helldiver’s success with this same narrative.

New spells like Morgana’s Mighty Mammary Malice

Use it to find a new job, hopefully swiftly, where your talents will be appreciated.

unfortunately the entire game dev industry has been righteously kicked in the balls, they’re competing against 100,000+ who were let go over the last year.