philipbak.bsky.social
Programmer | Fortnite | Epic Games
Thanking the bus driver since 1994.
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I think the NDA lets me say, 'might be'. Everything builds super quick with this many cores though. Temperature aside, it's great.
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Gah. It doesn't work. It's going back. The sweating continues.
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A LinkedIn (soz) cheers to you super generous buggers here who helped out. Such a worthy cause, thank you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA-T...
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Lovely in January when I'm not allowed the heating on in the day. Not so in June heatwaves.
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For the 3 programmers who'll get it...
(pretty sure our artists don't need to worry about their jobs with me around)
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REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)
Dir: Darren Aronofsky
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
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For sure. There's plenty of clever code that never shipped because the money ran out.
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I think where the code sits in the project matters too. I like to imagine it like a tree. The bigger the branches the stronger the code required. Looser fast-written code is more acceptable on a leaf system. Easy to replace if needed. But those core systems near the trunk better be solid.
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It's a balance isn't it. Hack away on day 1, you're soon dead. Apollo mission precision in the last month, you'll never ship. And what happens to the code once done makes all the difference. Standalone one-shot swing at keeping a studio alive is worlds apart from an ever-updating live service beast.
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Trimmed the pack, lost a few fears, now a sub 5.5kg (~12lbs). Extras include a bum bag for bits (fanny pack for my US fam!) and this hefty iPhone.
Light load, light road, happy knees, breeze and ease, Camino please.
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Thank you. Yes, it feels like if I win the feet battle everything else isn’t too scary. Cheers for the donation.
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It was such an exciting time to grow up in, watching that technology evolve and literally alter the way modern pop music sounded.
The difference between the early 80s and late 80s sound was entirely down to those machines. Magical era.
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Maybe it was a typo in a story about an earthquake during dessert and it was actually roof.
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Never leave the house anyway now I work remote. Colleagues will just think it's an amusing Zoom filter.
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Biggest dilemma since, "would you rather have a nose for a nob or a nob for a nose?"
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No passion killer like Rigor mortis.
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Each day it's getting harder not to jump in and order this. I thought I was doing so well resisting too.
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Don't worry I'll never make you go to LinkedIn, I posted this on there and because I know donations have come from these waters too I wanted to echo my thanks here.
The generosity of others has truly flawed me. Times are tight. But it's a great cause, thank you so much.
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bsky.app/profile/phil...
I don't remember where it came from but this is my favourite gamedev tip:
"If you've decided to add multiplayer at the end of your project then, well done!, you've just decided to add multiplayer halfway through your project."
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Ah this is the full quote... and the "an educated one" bit is the extra leverage we get from learning from failure.
It's still a guess but we're learning the hard way some right and wrong things to do, e.g. when to add multiplayer.
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The Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman famously wrote, "Nobody knows anything", back in the 70s and that was a good 100 years into the medium.
We're only (roughly) 50 years in with video games so we're still very much at the cave painting stage. Exciting times!
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The Litoral Route is less marked than the main path so I'm making a google map from gpx files of those who walked before. Looking forward to the morning where I take a 5min boat across the river into Spain and have to put my watch forward an hour.
Messing with time like I'm in a Chris Nolan movie!
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Of course yeah. I only speak of the work itself.
Employment and terrible management practices are separate.
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The important thing is to keep moving and enjoy the ride as much as possible. If you keep moving failure won’t be for long. If you keep moving success won’t be either. But it doesn’t matter because you keep moving.
Still water grows stagnant fast.
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Antarctic boffins adopt a dog, discover it hosts an aggressive team-building workshop in identity theft, frostbite, and flamethrower etiquette.
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Like the best games, Mario Kart is simple to pick up and hard to master. There's a ton of systems there you can use in different ways. That said, blue shells can still fuck off.
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Understandable. I've worshipped lesser gods.
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I find the "it's evil with no use" line unhelpful to combat those who enthuse about it transforming humanity.
And "it's a clever search that'll take us to mediocrity fast" is much more funnier (and accurate).
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Ah RIP. Growing up as an 80s synth kid Nitzer Ebb were the band all my heroes wanted to be.
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The big problem and real danger, aside from the theft, burning the planet and VC grifters, is that if you're not careful you easily end up outsourcing your thinking to it.
Like most things, eg alcohol or fire, it'll end up being a good servant and a very bad master.
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It has to be the worse named technology in existence though. It's a search through unordered data. That's all. The output nothing smart or inventive. Certainly nothing intelligent.
When that data is stolen it's a crime of course. When not, it has uses, but it's just a search, albeit a clever one.
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But for getting from mediocre to good, great and then onwards to fantastic. Well, it's not very good at all for that. In fact it's pretty bad.
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Just to play devil's advocate here AI is great because it lets you reach the level of mediocre instantly. For people below that level, it's a huge upgrade. I can't write Python build scripts. It wrote one for me (personal project) and it worked. Yay. I don't have to learn all that.
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has someone been bad again? good old games industry
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Ugh Bluesky, drag and drop gifs properly already.
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Work has me fully converted to 10X editor now. The searching options (and speed) is phenomenal. Without trying to break any NDAs it is the only option for navigating the immense .sln here. My whole team use it.
There's a 30 day trial but be careful because, if you catch the bug too, it's not cheap.
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John Steinbeck was the king of great titles. Although I remember being disappointed when I first learned it wasn't a hard hitting story about wine drinkers.
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Yeah. I paid £80 in (IIRC) 93. Every single penny I had at the time. I loved everything about the SNES. I wish Nintendo never abandoned their "Super" naming. "Super Switch" sounds loads better than "Switch 2".
Hmmm I guess SS is a bit dodgy. Certainly "of the times" though, lol.
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My guess is PGCE students there used first prototypes in schools around Derbyshire, if it came from nearby Notts, then that developed into a Fernleaf title later.
When I did my Maths PGCE in 97 I took my SNES in with Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Not sure of the educational value but the kids loved it.