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petmac.bsky.social
Staff Engineer at FanDuel, game dev in past life (Ruffian Games, VIS) and spare time, Mac-using snob https://petmac.dev
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The good old days, when your printer had a better processor than your computer
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Happy birthday! Have a good day!
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They should have called it Chinese Whispers. šŸ˜†
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A lot of people know what the monsters look like, but it still feels like theyā€™ve spoiled it for those who are new to Alien
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ā€œDecent courses you can pirateā€, wow.
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Well, those pixels look fantastic!
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I feel the Steam Deck has done a great service here for keeping lower cost hardware relevant and forcing devs to support it.
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Possibly? But anyway, such low quality content is still not worthy of the top few spots in search results. Itā€™s all part of the same selling down the river of the web we dream of and had for a few years.
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Itā€™s a beauty! Enjoy!
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I think the biggest rating WTF Iā€™ve seen is from Apple:
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Windows 2000 was a sweet spot for me. Pro features, non-toy interface, game support.
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For many games, the experience I would have would be much less interesting. For example, bullet hell shmups. I could spend months training to be a decent player, but I donā€™t really want to dedicate the time to doing that.
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Oof. If that wasnā€™t enough of a push to uninstall it and never look back, I donā€™t know what is.
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I bought his courses and was somewhat bummed they donā€™t seem available to download and keep. Not related to what you were saying, but I like him, agree with him on many points, but strong dislike of the thumbnails and video titles.
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I use a 5X Pro with my A1200 and Iā€™m happy with it. I assume the 4K does the same but better.
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MAD has it covered.
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Related to changing industry and single threaded code, but OOP had really taken hold at this point. I worked on 360 and our code had pointers everywhere, deep class hierarchies, and thatā€™s what people knew. Coders learned OOP. Procedural code thatā€™s easy to move around wasnā€™t being written.