Yet almost every os in the world relies on some sort of “hobbyist” updates. Including windows.

Yeah I definitely know what you mean though, but I think that’s a problem with really large scoped games that rely on proc gen. Obviously star field isn’t out yet, but I wonder how they’ll break it. I imagine they’ll have some sort of landmark on each planet where they’d want to draw you to. Then that’s where all the handmade stuff is. The rest of the planet will probably be boring proc gen stuff and there’s only so much you can do to make that interesting. NMS at least fleshed out their systems more with time, so I don’t know if Starfield will have that as well, or if majority of it is going to be just story and exploration like traditional Bethesda games. It probably will.

idk if you’ve played No Man Sky, it’s still going strong. It just released another massive update and has been releasing huge updates for 7 years now. It is a much closer fit for the exact fantasy you’re describing. Thing is, once you realize proc gen is most of the content for planets, it means you’ve basically seen it all. I don’t have any hype for the game, but NMS gave me hundred of hours, and judging by you implying the game is somehow negative, you probably still have the opinion from it’s initial launch. The game is really, really good now.

GDC is always exciting because it’s a big conference of devs, mostly AAA devs, telling the technical details of their algorithms and systems. It really helps the game industry as a whole.

Would really be cool if the devs did a tech talk on some of the techniques they used. They’re definitely ahead of the industry in a lot of the areas.

They’re easily triple-A size without a single launched game lol. Yet despite the budget and expense of a AAA studio, they’ve put out less content then an indie studio. So what are these developers actually even doing

Hey give them a break, they only have a small measly $600 million budget and have been in development for a short 11 years.

How the hell are they still getting money, and where does it even go

I have like zero hype for this game, and absolute bangers of games have dropped recently. I’m definitely going to put this on the “maybe” list and let other people test it out for me, I’m in no rush.

Has combat, must be Elden Ring like.

Android is an OS on top of Linux lol, and none of what you said is true.

That’s not how that works. There’s special access to some apps that get unencrypted right at boot. That’s how your phone can reboot in middle of the night and your alarm will still go off despite you doing the initial unlock. Find my device also has that ability.

See the “ACTION_LOCKED_BOOT_COMPLETED” permission for how it works.

I play almost every game genre, but mechs have always had zero interest to me personally

It wasn’t. Nostalgia is hell of a drug

2013 was 30 years ago 💀

We’ve learned well at this point that LLMs are not replacing search engines.