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by auto 1mo ago
As a lifer of gaming (with a wife with similar tastes), prior to having kids my friends and I would have the discussions about "raising our kids right on the old games". I can't claim to be some classic purist, my last 25 ye
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by auto 2mo ago
It’s funny, I had the same experience, and my stepdad told me recently that they close to buying me one, and eventually decided to just do a full upgrade of our machine instead. I’m definitely thankful we got a brand new machine instead.
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by auto 2mo ago
Just as good a time as ever to post one of my favorite classic deep YouTube video's, Hurra Torpedo's cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Slightly NSFW, some plumber's crack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys
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by auto 2mo ago
Complete gut reaction to your first question, my preference would be two fold: 1. An option to start the game in timeless mode 2. When I fail a word, prior to showing me the word, give me the option to enter timeless mode for the rest of th
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by auto 3mo ago
In high school and college I worked at a Christmas tree farm, and eventually was also a landscaper/hardscaper, caring for, digging up and planting trees, and building retaining walls and patios. At the time it made for good motivation
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by auto 3mo ago
The emergent behavior is very much our end goal, it’s the reason everything is very systems oriented, and we’re trying to put as much control in the players hands as possible. One of our biggest remaining efforts is adding the depth to the
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by auto 3mo ago
It’s such an untapped domain, and despite the consoles being more tightly integrated this generation, we’re still mostly using the horsepower for traditional AAA realism-focused graphics, as opposed to this whole new world of computation av
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by auto 3mo ago
Two months ago I went full time on my indie game after just under a year and a half of part time work. I’ve been prototyping in Godot for about 6 years now, and finally had a game that my business partner and I were really interested in and
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by auto 4mo ago
Not sure to what extent you're looking for a reboot to be representative of the original, but I've been following the development of this indie spiritual successor for some time: https://store.steampowered.com/app&
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by auto 5mo ago
Because I don’t believe 50% gross margins at face value, as being discussed in this thread I think the economics of all of these things are far more complex than that. For what it’s worth, I haven’t staked my investment portfolio on there b
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by auto 5mo ago
I’ve been a copilot and ChatGPT subscriber for probably close to two years now, give or take a couple of months, and I had a trusted friend telling me for months to give Claude a try. It took about two weeks of really running it through its
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by auto 10mo ago
I'm not sure I've ever read something from someone so high up in a company that gave me such a strong feeling for "I'd like to work for these people". If job posts could be so informal and open ended, this post cou
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by auto 1y ago
Once I gave this sometime I actually enjoyed the concept quite a bit. I think it's a novel twist on the bullet hell genre, and I'm a sucker for single button/input style games. I'm playing on a mouse, specifically a Lo
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by auto 1y ago
> Frustrated by the constant intrusions of child care and housework — “the back half of life,” as she called it — on her creative ambitions, she resolved to simply turn the work into her creative product. “Clean your desk, wash the dishe
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by auto 1y ago
I'm in the depths of optimization on a game right now, and it's interesting how the gains I'm making currently all seem to be a matter of scaling the concept of lookup tables, and using the right tool for the job. What I mean
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by auto 2y ago
This mimics my experience. I bought the absolute bottom barrel M1 when they launched to replace my 2014 MBP, 8gb RAM and 128gb of space. The HD space is annoying, but otherwise this machine is untouchable. I do game dev work bouncing bet
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by auto 2y ago
Is there a reasonable pivot for someone well versed in the software engineering space to get in, or is it still the playground of relevant Ph.Ds and the like? I've been up and down the stack from firmware to the cloud, going on 14 yea
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by auto 2y ago
The comments here are pretty funny, and do almost nothing for me more so than highlight the subjectivity of musical taste. I'd never claim to be an authority on music, but as the child of a professional musician and with chops of my o
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by auto 2y ago
I've read so many flavors of this sort of exploit analysis over the years, and if I get to read 100 more I'll be all the happier for it. Great article!
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by auto 2y ago
For the climber, I thought the final solution was going to end up being rails that just pushed a weight further out from center mass at the top of the tower. The ball pendulum was cool nonetheless!
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by auto 2y ago
I went down this path and tried various vertical mice, and settled on the MX V for a few months in the pursuit of reducing wrist pain. After about 4-5 months or so, I started getting strong wrist pain again, and switch backed to a standard
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by auto 2y ago
> "software that sparks joy" I too put Aesprite in this category, but the big one for me is Godot. After years of from-scratch OpenGl projects and dabbling with Unity, I leaned into Godot 100% around 2020, and ever since it ha
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by auto 3y ago
This is incredibly cool!
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by auto 3y ago
I had the same feeling, and I think along with what the other commenters have said, the bit rate of the image contributes to it as well, you can see the grain in the light background where it doesn’t have the practically infinite color spec
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by auto 3y ago
I’ve noticed something similar, just a half hour of noodling on the guitar/bass while working in the middle of the day and I type way faster and correctly afterwards.
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by auto 3y ago
I feel like this is a fantastic example, as it’s one of those things a computer should be able to do perfect toy at scale, but for a quick and dirty solution on a smaller subset it’s something humans are really good at.
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by auto 3y ago
What an incredibly pleasant channel/video, thanks for the link!
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by auto 3y ago
No, definitely not the sentiment on HN, more so the gaming circles I find myself in on the broader web.
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by auto 3y ago
Honestly, I want to say it was your twitter ads that caught me? I'm pretty entrenched in the indie scene on twitter, so it was either an ad or just a post that got in front of me.
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by auto 3y ago
It's funny how divisive the graphics for Factorio tend to be. As someone who was a kid in that "golden age" of mid/late 90s isometric sprite based PC games, not only does the game have a nostalgic charm to it, but there

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