mrcharles

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by mrcharles 12y ago
Guessing that someone arguing from an obvious position of privilege is a white guy is only a racist stereotype if you believe reverse racism exists.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
It's a debunking of 'reverse racism'.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
And yet in this case, it's not being bigoted to suggest that white guys complaining that people want inclusiveness is a bad thing is an invalid opinion. It would be like tall people complaining that a Brown's opened up. "Why
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Truly, games are doomed.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
> That's a racist stereotype https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M
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by mrcharles 12y ago
You are right, the only fun games have grimdark bald white guys with stubble.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Privilege does not mean you have had a problem free life. It means you haven't had to deal with certain things that other people have to deal with. If you are a white dude, you've never had a bank officer refuse you a loan for bul
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Platforms have denied games and game content for well over a decade now and games seem to be doing just fine thanks. I'm unsure which popular and lucrative options are being removed though. Could you provide examples of what you think
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by mrcharles 12y ago
When they are arguing from a position of privilege that they should be prioritized against wishes of disenfranchised groups? Frankly, yes. Yes it does.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Well, I'd like you to know that most professional game developers feel very strongly on these topics, and they feel that inclusiveness and diversity are good things. In fact, what leads most of us to losing the passion is making yet an
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Well this statement: "Just make your game fun, challenging or whatever your goal is and have fun making it." Sounds very much like "don't worry about inclusiveness, games should be whatever you want them to be!" Whi
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Good news! No one is ever going to stop a game from being made.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
I downvoted you because you misunderstood the point of that section of the article. It's not about 'offending' people, it's about consistently and invisibly leaving people out. It's easy for us white dudes (as I ass
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Cause he's going to be CTO instead.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
About to go make a Batsh batcher so I can call it batshit.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
This will be a great feature for 2011!
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Pretty neat! I plugged in my rocksmith cable and it just works. One thing though, it needs some kind of calibration. The tiniest bit of string noise and the lessons shoot off without me, even when I have my strings muted.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
[CITATION NEEDED]
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Yup. Unpaid crowdsourced unverified 'news' is all that ireport.cnn.com does, and apparently a majority of the internet can't distinguish that kind of garbage from actual reporting. Maybe it says something about CNN, but it pr
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Unfortunately, that isn't an option at all, because the one time they are skeptical wrongly can result in bad shit. The same way that the fire department has to respond to every single fire alarm, even when they are false alarms. You c
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Poutine is a meal.
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Possibly true in the US; but in Canada where we get stuck paying bullshit exchange rate premiums all the time, I can still usually save a bit of money. Just recently I bought some audio equipment from amazon.com, which, with duties and taxe
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by mrcharles 12y ago
Honestly, Amazon has a lot to offer even beyond "No Tax". And I say this as a Canadian who has had to pay taxes and duties on amazon orders since day 1. People may gripe about it for a bit... but amazon is still the best way to sh
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NSA has co-opted over 140,000 IRC bots.(twitter.com)
2 points by mrcharles 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrcharles 13y ago
It blows my mind that it's 2014 and we can't do this. We are locked behind garbage cable boxes, poorly built custom software, and region locking, all of which is from a different era.
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by mrcharles 13y ago
Capital-I Industry, perhaps. But I argue that it's because it's a lot harder to sell garbage albums with just one or two hit songs when you can go to Bandcamp and find a better artist, preview a whole album, and buy it for $5.
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by mrcharles 13y ago
The biggest hiccup is almost a literal one; serializing large lua structures and then writing them to disk can take a lot of time. But this can largely be mitigated by just saving compiled lua instead of text lua.
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by mrcharles 13y ago
There are ways around it but if people want to cheat their own SP experience who am I to stop them? We'll obfuscate a bit to dissuade casual users but I don't know that I've ever encountered a game that didn't have some
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by mrcharles 13y ago
It can only become corrupted by external factors; a lot of games I've worked on, in-game bugs could lead to corrupted saves being written out to disk. Since in this case we are just serializing lua data, unless the serializer itself ha
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by mrcharles 13y ago
Aware of all the issues and already have a plan. But Lua generally only has access to the APIs you give it; from game code our Lua VM has no access to the OS at all, just game functions, and those game functions are never system related. Th

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