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Comment · 11 months ago
Source2 is the giant legacy codebase I was referring to.
Comment · 11 months ago
I don't understand what they got basing off the Source engine. Maybe it made sense when they started 6 years ago - to allow using Hammer and such. But at this point they've made their own editor, networking, scene system... why is it still attached to a giant legacy codebase.
Comment · 1 year ago
A multiplayer survival game based around voxel physics.
Can be described as Astroneer-like setting, Teardown voxel physics, in a Valheim-like online multiplayer survival game.
Game isn't really announced yet but I've shown some videos of the tech: https://x.com/Alientrap/status/1909316208563732866 (On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWISaUmvit4 ) https://x.com/Alientrap/status/1918024969939808654
Comment · 1 year ago
Been arguing for this for years now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33415400
The main argument against it seems to be that a browser forces standards - while really the the strength of this approach is that standards will naturally evolve, rather than forced by 2-3 companies
Comment · 1 year ago
I Expect You To Die, Among Us VR, Until You Fall. All good stuff
Comment · 2 years ago
There is zero chance this is what you meant, but I wrote a short story with that concept in 2013: https://www.3delement.com/?p=309
Did you end up finding what you were referring to? None of the other comments actually match that
Comment · 2 years ago
It's amazing to me how little moderation they do for Ad content. My Instagram ads are constant crypto scams. Maybe there just isn't the same incentives to moderate companies paying to scam your users, as opposed to free users posting their political views
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah - there really is a opportunity now to rethink browsers as just sandboxed rendering windows using WebAssembly + WebGPU.
Could still have typical DOM rendering handled with Webassembly delivered by the web sites (ideally cached). The challenge is though still having standards and accessibility options. That VeryGoodGraphics example allows for no text selection - and doesn't at all handle zooming. Still though it'd be a good bottom up way for a new browser to disrupt Chrome
Comment · 2 years ago
No - this is the graph: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GO1eps3WgAEzQYa?format=jpg&name=...
Immigration is the only thing providing GDP growth. Otherwise the Canadian economy is clearly broken
Comment · 2 years ago
Blaming 'corporate greed' is a easy thing for politicians to do. It's then not their actions that are causing prices to go up.
Easy to point at things like 'record profits' of Loblaws, without looking at if their margins have changed (they haven't). If you keep the same margins and have the amount of business with inflation then of course there are 'record profits'.
Comment · 2 years ago
Git LFS is a giant hack ontop of Git. Most game devs I know moved away from it over time (back to Perforce or SVN). It might seem okay at first - but deep into a project you'll want to rearrange/rename folders and keep history logs, and discover that Git LFS doesn't actually work like normal Git and your file history wasn't kept. Only once you start dealing with issues will you find all the weird hacks Git LFS does ontop.
I'd say Git not working well for game dev isn't a pitch that Diversion needs to make, because it's already clear to most game devs.