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Croteam is such a talented team of game developers. I really enjoyed the Talos Principle (1 and 2) and they were some of the early pioneers of a completely custom Vulkan game engine for the first game.
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Yes. Both are “deterministic lockstep” systems. Many many games have used such a system over the years. Although it’s probably less common these days for a variety of reasons.
Is this due to the heterogeneity of client hardware?
It's possible to write fully cross platform deterministic code today, but it's harder to do and uncommon in libraries.
Writing state synchronization and using client side prediction is generally easier. Determinism is only necessary if there are bandwidth constraints.
Is this the same idea as "1500 archers on a 28.8" for Age of Empires? https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-...
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I think "immunity for brainwashing" is the wrong term. Back in the simple days people got less exposed to, how ever you would like to call it. The first ever printed western book was the f'ing bible and people in the 2000s thought the internet would spark a new era of education, you know, printing press 2.0 and such.
Ok, enough OT.
Is this the same idea as "1500 archers on a 28.8" for Age of Empires? https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-...
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As in traditional societies that burn scientists for suggesting earth revolves around the sun? This is why it’s important to learn history instead of just making things up in your head.
I agree.
Which traditional societies burnt scientists (plural) for suggesting earth revolves around the sun?
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The history of religion contradicts your point. Judaism emerged in the most illiterate area of its time. I think "immunity for brainwashing" is the wrong term. Back in the simple days people got less exposed to, how ever you would like to call it. The first ever printed western book was the f'ing bible and people in the 2000s thought the internet would spark a new era of education, you know, printing press 2.0 and su…
I'm pretty sure Australia was way more illerate at that time - plenty of cave and rock art going on for some 70K years prior, sure, but no written language at all even by 1788.
Croteam is such a talented team of game developers. I really enjoyed the Talos Principle (1 and 2) and they were some of the early pioneers of a completely custom Vulkan game engine for the first game.
Croteam is such a talented team of game developers. I really enjoyed the Talos Principle (1 and 2) and they were some of the early pioneers of a completely custom Vulkan game engine for the first game.
I found devastating that in The Talos Principle 2 they had dropped their own engine and used Unreal Engine instead.
Is this the same idea as "1500 archers on a 28.8" for Age of Empires? https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-...
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1. they were already brainwashed to some degree. In the sense that someone made them believe things that were objectively either not true or arbitrary ("our rabbit god against their duck god")
2. these societies did have no mass media. Reaching many people of the society was only possible through elaborate structures and later the printing press, hence the influence of the back then most elaborate brainwashing structure there was: the catholic church. And even they had a lot of work to make this count as many people could not read the books they were printing.
The bible is a perfect example for how those societies in fact were very unprepared for being brainwashed. The fact that mass media didn't exist just meant the whole thing was much more time- and labor-intensive than a similar thing would have been today. Although I argue today the challenge would be to get as broad of a movement — because people were more isolated back in the day and therefore more scared to deviate from the perceived norms.
Hence why today's brainwashing movements, cults etc. always strive to isolate their followers from the rest of society.