Hugo Cortell

Good on them for making an open source engine. With that said... Deferred rendering and C++? I might as well stick to Unreal, if I'm being honest.

I'm tired of ghosting issues, boss.

Nichean slave morality-ass behaviour

This one is soothing

Throwback to a week ago when I inadvertently create a negative "time-to-penis" time by being the first thing I thought of constructing as soon as I added turn rails, #gamedev

About time. Hope it applies to the website too!

Primitive Society Simulator on Steam A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among anci...

The games on Steam China are surprisingly few, and of surprisingly poor quality.

One of them did stand out though, 大荒先民.
It's apparently also on regular Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1876880/...

Reminds me of @foxyvoxel.bsky.social

Macron is very pragmatic, he could see where the winds were blowing and decided that joining Spain would be more beneficial to his career in the long term.
I don't like Macron *at all*, but I'm glad that he's smart.

Probably panic attacks, but worthwhile going to the doctor to ensure it isn't an early sign of some kind of organ issue.

This is cool, if entirely useless.
Assuming this is cheaper (big assumption consider it has to compete with existing chains), this will still mean having to re-tool factory lines.

Won't quickly be implemented widely without government intervention. Which unfortunately Germany isn't keen on.

Unironically has a point.

Cars have roofs, bikes do not. Why is it that bike racks at stores NEVER have roofs, but car parkings at stores do?

Sucks to go shopping and come back to a soaked bike seat because it rained.

A little disappointed that the article didn't go into more technical depth, but it's an interesting read none the less.

It's quite simple, but the player's role affecting the lens through which they understand and empathize with each character and their explicit flaws is quite neat.

The House of Gaming Lords shut down the bill proposed by parliament. Same guys that decided ROG computers should have non-replaceable CMOS batteries.

The ROG really needs to update its political system smh

I would disagree, I think it's fine to have a curated selection of critics to follow. There's ultimately little difference in between game critics from ye olde magazines and the ones operating on online video platforms today.

It's always better to form your own opinions. But critics are fine.

Obsidian Canvas - Visualize your ideas Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.

obsidian.md/canvas hold on what the fuck this is already 70% of the work done.

I wonder if I can host this on a server for multi-user operation...

@obsidian.md please save project management from subscription services by making an alternative

Really wish there was a #FOSS alternative to Affine / Heptabase.

It really feels like the best way to handle documentation when it comes to highly agile design processes.

But I sure as hell won't deal with a subscription service that could screw me over at any time.

I don't think bombing the detention center is the right approach.

Mostly because inside would be the detainees, they'd be the ones whose flesh calcinates as the fire consumes them while they are still locked in their cells.

If #VintageStory had steam engines, could you use whisky as a working fluid? I've tasked Tavish Finnegan DeGroot with finding out.

A fun little modding side-project that I've been focusing a little too much over the actual game I'm developing.

The first thing is to know that these are *not* a replacement for high end CPUs. If you can afford a threadripper or something, that'll always be better since they feature much higher single clock speeds and bus widths (avoids microstuttering in real time tasks). However, these are great if you are on a tight budget and need a lot of raw multithreading performance for tasks (like rendering or compiling). Here's what to be on the lookout: * For motherboards, you generally want the "X99" label ones, and you'll want to make sure they're LGA 2011-3 which is great for dirt cheap xeons. I buy MACHINIST brand ones, personally. If you need ridiculous amounts of power, you can look into motherboards that support multiple CPUs (and newer xeon chips like the gold ones I mentioned). * Keep in mind that like one in 5 boards will come dead on arrival, these are (genuinely) hand manufactured in Inner Mongolia. Aliexpress is generally very good when it comes to returns as long as you buy them through their "Choice" program (Brand+ might work too, no idea). * Nearly all of these boards do DDR4 (which might be a deal breaker if you need breakneck speeds for your RAM, personally I prefer this RAM since it's cheaper and hasn't been a bottleneck so far). * Make sure to get one that actually supports NVMEs. A handy way to tell how relatively powerful a CPU is (again, ignoring some important technical details like bus width and cache type/size): * More cores is good, same with threads. Get as many as you can. * Clock speed is very important to single threaded performance (but that only matters if you care about that). My personal recommendation (the CPU I use on my machine, and am quite happy with): E5 2690 V4. This one is on the more expensive side as Xeons go ($30), but it has 14 threads, 28 cores, and 2.6GHz. Another tip: Xeons are well known amongst very broke third world gamers, you might be able to guesstimate the performance of a CPU by watching a video of it online. Cheers!

For learning more, there aren't many (up to date) sources left.
But as for prices, Aliexpress is the best (and essentially only) place to go.

When it comes to learning:

The first thing is to know that these are *not* a replacement for high end CPUs. If you can afford a threadripper or something, that'll always be better since they feature much higher single clock speeds and bus widths (avoids microstuttering in real time tasks). However, these are great if you are on a tight budget and need a lot of raw multithreading performance for tasks (like rendering or compiling). Here's what to be on the lookout: * For motherboards, you generally want the "X99" label ones, and you'll want to make sure they're LGA 2011-3 which is great for dirt cheap xeons. I buy MACHINIST brand ones, personally. If you need ridiculous amounts of power, you can look into motherboards that support multiple CPUs (and newer xeon chips like the gold ones I mentioned). * Keep in mind that like one in 5 boards will come dead on arrival, these are (genuinely) hand manufactured in Inner Mongolia. Aliexpress is generally very good when it comes to returns as long as you buy them through their "Choice" program (Brand+ might work too, no idea). * Nearly all of these boards do DDR4 (which might be a deal breaker if you need breakneck speeds for your RAM, personally I prefer this RAM since it's cheaper and hasn't been a bottleneck so far). * Make sure to get one that actually supports NVMEs. A handy way to tell how relatively powerful a CPU is (again, ignoring some important technical details like bus width and cache type/size): * More cores is good, same with threads. Get as many as you can. * Clock speed is very important to single threaded performance (but that only matters if you care about that). My personal recommendation (the CPU I use on my machine, and am quite happy with): E5 2690 V4. This one is on the more expensive side as Xeons go ($30), but it has 14 threads, 28 cores, and 2.6GHz. Another tip: Xeons are well known amongst very broke third world gamers, you might be able to guesstimate the performance of a CPU by watching a video of it online. Cheers!

For learning more, there aren't many (up to date) sources left.
But as for prices, Aliexpress is the best (and essentially only) place to go.

When it comes to learning:

Q: Xeon chips are chips designed for server usages, am I right ? A: Yeah, which is why despite having something like 5 times as much raw power as consumer chips, they quickly go from like $2000 to $50 in a couple years, because these hyperscalers and mega server farms change all their chips every couple years, flooding the market. Of course, Intel does not want you buying perfectly good second hand silicone that'll still perform well for years to come, so you can't really get a server motherboard anywhere... Except from the Russians and Chinese, they basically hack together broken gaming boards with server chips. It's a thing of beauty to see a server chip on a gaming board, even more so because some of the older chips (like mine) were never even designed to handle NVMEs or newer DDR RAM, yet the Russians figured some way to make it all work. [... Section Removed Due to Bluesky Limits ...] My current workstation can compile a whole Unreal Engine game in like ~14 seconds, when it used to be a dozen minutes or so. That Xeon gold I was talking about has an MSRP of $2600, manufactured in 2017 (still fairly recent), EOL 2023. 20 cores, 40 threads. 2GHZ. For reference, an i7-12700K is $450 MSRP, 12 cores, 20 threads, 5GHZ. The Xeon is now re-sold for $20-50 bucks, the I7 is still $250. The price difference is insane. Again, it's obvious from the specs that single threaded stuff (like many older games) will perform better on a proper gaming chip with such a high clock rate, but the Xeon will still hold its ground perfectly well, and it will demolish the I7 on anything that uses multithreading (be it productivity software, compile times, or newer games that have proper multithreading).

Why I use a server CPU for my workstation instead of a gaming chip. Reddit hates me for being correct on this.

TL;DR: Server chips are significantly cheaper, silicone does not degrade with use (used chips are as good as new), and multithreaded performance (like game dev) is greatly enhanced.

"past redline" "the water is on fire" "we are about to explode"

Having fun writing "uh oh" moments into my steam engine warning system.

I hate to say it, but no discord replacement will arrive.

1. No competitor comes anywhere near feature parity. Discord has some pretty damn cool stuff, like the forum channel type.

2. Legislation is currently being pushed NOW to make privacy-conscious online services literally illegal.

In all honesty, I've just accepted the death of the internet.

In the meantime, I guess self-hosted services via element or team speak. The issue is that soon they'll change the law to make server providers liable for user content, which will any non-corproate social network/forum.

Something I'll note is that NARAKA: BLADEPOINT was not quite the first game to implement ML voice-driven teammates.

Fortnite did it earlier (and just to brag I'll mention that half a decade before Fortnite, I had already kind of prototyped the concept during my university years).

If I VPN into China, some sites do start working, but many seemingly still have very aggressive blocks in place.

I would not be surprised if all of China works on a whitelist rather than blacklist system.

I have been trying to research eastern games these past few days, but it's quite hard due to the great firewall.

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