I finally got time to play routine, I loved it more that I was expecting. Easily in my top 3 games of last year. I can't believe the junk some sites held up last year over this, what a sorry state games criticism is in
I'm just self conscious cause youse are right 😁, I am loving the pod btw, was cackling along to the levels draft, for my money it was a tie between you and Dave for the best picks, I have to give you a bonus point for picking a real bad level in that category though
I guess what I'm saying is I'm definitely not one of those assholes but also why should you let them ruin a great game for you, after all, isn't that letting them win? (no)
I honestly play those games because when I entered the igf a long time ago I didn't feel like I got a fair shake and I'm trying to help surface games that deserve more attention, it really is quite a noble and selfless thing to do
They're definitely right, it is really smug and annoying BUT every year I play 48 of the worst games you could possibly imagine & 2 you've already heard of just for that chance of finding that one game to lord over everyone with, I earned it
Listening to the last backpage podcast games court episode & they talk about how annoying people who talked about titanium court are and I'm feeling incredibly seen. This is a terrible idea but I'm going to try and defend myself!
I've had enough of watching IGN strip mine Eurogamer, I'm unsubscribing
Microsoft's pr working over time to throw Sarah Bond under a bus they already ran over her with about 50 times - www.eurogamer.net/xbox-insider...
Sarah Bond is the most obvious example of a fall guy I've ever seen, she appears out of nowhere with a seemingly redundant job and then took all the blame for everything despite not seeming to have any actual power to make decisions
Honestly quite impressive that Sarah Bond conceived and implemented a strategy entirely on her own at one of the world's biggest tech companies even though everyone apparently hated it
This looks exactly what I hoped it would be, it's sad we won't see this version :( www.rockpapershotgun.com/hardsuits-ca...
The other part of it is they don't want to make games like that any more so they have to sell it as a failure even if they don't believe it to be true.
Avowed being framed as a failure is infuriating. Here's an article where it garnered 6 million players in the first month- screenrant.com/avowed-hits-...
The failure was that microsoft gave it away for free instead of charging for it but the blame is being laid at the developer's feet.
This was the standout from the IGF imo, ALL the judges absolutely loved it, get it played!
The amount of times I've accidentally made code unreachable is 0 but I did use it almost every day for debugging, making it an error is incredibly annoying to protect against a purely hypothetical issue
The thing that bugs me about it is it was just the publicly traded companies divesting, there were still plenty of games coming out at those budget levels and making a tonne of cash
Ars' editorial quality has declined sharply lately, their AI advertorials became too much lately and prompted me to drop them, this is a new low however. www.404media.co/ars-technica...
It was never true, it was pr bullshit ubisoft spun out to try and get people to see Assassin's Creed as a Call of Duty level franchise and the press accepted it uncritically.
That creates generations of people who feel guilty for enjoying or making relevant art. The only reason they think this is because they can't get past the end of the English hegemony and the novel was their empire's broadcast media.
I am convinced that the main thing holding England back as a cultural force (After their 1000 year old paedo reich ofc) is that English parents believe it's extremely important for children to read novels and refuse to let them engage with the art forms of their day.
Proton isn't an emulator, it can often run faster than the windows equivalent depending on the system calls involved, but I am certain your code team would not be happy about being asked to support it so I'm not suggesting you actually try it
haha yeah ofc, if someone came up to me and asked me to setup the ci for linux I would laugh heartily
£900 is too high.
Before the current crisis, I was pretty sure valve would target a £400 price point for the Steam Machine. I didn't think the market would bear any other price. I think the fact they haven't cancelled it proves me right, I think they'll target a £700 now & the market will bear that price.
Unreal does support linux, I'm pretty close to making the jump myself, so I'd be curious to know what the issue was?
it's also nice to highlight text on it and not have a 2 second lag from all the javascript adware analysing your every move
I was looking at all the newspaper headlines in asda this morning and all I could see was a pile of adverts for reform masquerading as news. The corruption in UK politics is laughably transparent because they don't feel the need to hide it.
Maybe this post won't age well but I doubt it.
I think most senior coders would agree they spend most of their time educating over programming. AI can generate more code in a landscape where we don't need more & it's limited by thermodynamics as to the quality of that code. I've never once been even slightly worried about being replaced by AI.
