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> I admit that I am surprised that I am finding myself wishing that we, the Western world, were poorer again. Luxury belief. Doesn’t it feel a little suspicious that the only peopl…

Car prices are affected by ease of financing and a huge second hand market. The former make it easier to “afford” a fancy vehicle (whether or not you actually afford it is another …

Yeah, this is why neighboring countries never go to war. If anything, being able to just fly over the ugly parts and arrive directly at your plastic wrapped all inclusive resort is…

Realistically “my website fits in 14kb” is a terrible signal because it is invisible to 99.99% of the population. How many HNers inspect the network usage when loading a random str…

> This is why almost all applications and websites are slow and terrible these days. The actual reason is almost always some business bullshit. Advertising trackers, analytics etc.…

There is something deeply disturbing about your attitude towards making mistake. You think you shouldn’t give advice because your feedback is not valuable and may even cause your s…

You think the only game you will lose are generic Unity shovelwares when in reality you will also lose good games made by people with good sense in game making but likely not the r…

Any mature game engine also comes with mature developer tooling. Think profiling, debugging, assets management, map editing etc. That’s a lot of initial hurdles to overcome before …

Given how the UK works, chances are sooner or later they will only teach the answer to the exam in “public”[1] schools. [1] They are actually private and selective.

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I doubt the typical Godot Engine user is in that segment of the game industry but the big players in microtransaction ridden “gaming” are definitely very interested.

> Songs are shorter ( Beatles songs are around 164 seconds long on average. https://www.aaronkrerowicz.com/uploads/6/5/4/3/6543054/durat... An 2005 compilation of Johnny Cash’s gre…

I wish more game developers adopt the “no sales, period” policy of Factorio. Here’s a relevant quote from the developer. > Not having a sale ever is part of our philosophy. In shor…

I remember Firefox crashing on me nearly daily around the time Chrome came out. I didn’t need anyone to push Chrome on me. Chrome was just simply technologically superior. But of c…

Another day, another well-meaning internet community falling victim to the creative writing major testing water on Reddit before trying to make it in Hollywood.

We are not past peak PC gaming. What we might see soon is the end of big budget AAA game production. It’s not even that AAA games are bad, it’s just they require such a ridiculous …

Universal connectivity was the internet’s biggest promise and it turned out to be its biggest flaw. It turns out if you allow literally anyone on this planet to walk up to your fro…

Name change after marriage is not a tradition in east Asia regardless of how they treat families. To this day Chinese and Korean people keep their names after marriage. Name change…

That’s what GP said about “harder to model the editor’s behaviour mentally” though. In a dumb editor you type a quote and you get a quote, in a “smart” editor whether or not you ge…

In Factorio you throw iron ore in an electric furnace and it turns into iron plates. In reality you need coal or coke or charcoal to reduce iron to its metal form. Steelmaking is o…

“College” is underselling it. He went to Harvard. He sold a friendly down to the earth image early one and people bought it. But don’t forget he went to Harvard.

> He was likewise confident that a shooting game would be less thoughtful than a turn-based strategy game because the moment-to-moment decisions were less complex Sounds like a cla…

Validating input and physics is easy and is effective against some of the crazy cheats people ran on eg PUBG. But it’s much harder to “limit information”. For example in CS if some…

What makes you think the PC gamers who do the PC master race things are the same people as the ones playing games with invasive anticheat? Just because they both game on PCs? Your …

AFAIK, HN’s “speed limit” is not an anti bot or anti spam measurement. It is an anti flame war measurement.