maxlin

Nah. Making things great again will continue till greatness improves.

You are troll, No I will not elaborate, I don't feed fakers

Very interesting readup! I have some C# projects I've had in mind to try to compile to AOT. Quite different for complex programs of course, but the perf being very close to C is a great motivator.

Projecting? As I pointed out, Your other comment is literally unrepliable-to. I don't think I've even seen such cratering on this site before. Hell, the site's CSS makes your message almost impossible to read without copy-pasting it somewhere else first.

My messages are fact-based, I work in the industry and everything I create is of universal value. You instead just spam bullshit and slop links. YOU saying I don't argue in good faith is hilarious; but that doesn't mean I keep my standard merely _above you_, given how far down you've gone.

I don't need to follow your crazy tangent-driving and Buzzfeed-tier spam and attacking everyone capable of validly criticizing you. What you talk about has no grounding on how things get done, it's just a crazy man's collection of news clippings as if you were a fanatic fan to some singer. You are the kind of person who'll never be capable of creating value, just at best transferring it, with great loss in efficiency.

I'd tell you to leave the industry but I'm happy no notice that you already haven't been in a position to destroy more good work in a long time. Pie menus as one's life's work, LOL

I think you proved yourself wrong by saying "appealing to a subset of people, is NOT universal". (Though, "appealing to straight people" isn't an actual thing, as there's hardly anything that gays dislike that straights like. There's no things one could break universal appeal with by putting in things that straight people generally like.)

Exactly. You can make a game with cars in it, with jumping in it, with nice pastel colors in it, and there's no large group in the world that will decidedly dislike those. But when you start doing woke catering of whatever minority themes for example, as you said, the game loses its universal appeal. Often, to even those minority groups too, as such forcing is almost always extremely inauthentic, patronizing them and insulting their intelligence. The obtuse Veilguard clips being shared recently really drive this home. Game might as well make you play Hitler "correctly" at that point, a total universal appeal suicide.

Before you say "but I don't like those men/muslims/women/terfs/gays/dog eaters/dog loving people!!!", that kind of argument is EXACTLY what disqualifies something from universal appeal. This is not hard.

That's like saying the only way to experience happiness is to cut your leg off because someone somewhere has a fetish of wanting to live in a wheelchair.

No. Universal appeal means that something is liked by generally everyone, obviously without having issues that make it disliked by a ton. Like, idk, Mario Bros. Or water. Very few people dislike those. Basically everyone likes them. Straight people, gays, women, old people, young people, etc etc. Obviously your "but no it has to be gay and yellow and have a MAGA hat on and speak in tongues" kind of line of constraints only reduces the size of the group said thing appeals to.

Good thing is that in real life, universal appeal is also good business. And many companies doing stupid shit because some loud idiots that might not even be interested in the product itself told them to make it x

I so wish they didn't. We got plenty of forest, but them having acted too fast here will just lead to more irrational anti-datacenter sentiment.

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Damn. I feel bad for a guy who has dug himself in such a deep hole they can't even hope to see the light ever again. Just Putinist tier firehose non-arguments one after each other. Like blaming firemen for fires. The point where a game developer starts blaming gamers, you know they have nothing positive to contribute anymore.

Now he got downvoted so hard I can't even reply to him directly. Maybe that's for the better. I tend to always put effort to responding to effort, even if said effort is unhealthy, but not even temporarily vouching for him will make his comment repliable now ...

You're talking about this like it's a programming problem. I work in games, and I can tell you it absolutely is not.

What do you even think I mean with "breaking teams" ? Harmony is hard to get back.

I work in games and have enough eye for things that are put in to fit, and what things are forced in, in the way I described.

I think you know and just play stupid.

The worst thing a developer can do is to take a side, then change it. It would be REALLY naive to think they'd just get back to zero doing that.

No. That's why serious studios put serious effort to try to avoid politics by a country mile.

I didn't support my country joining NATO either. Even voted against the president we had for 8 years for his 'strategic ambiguity' on it. But now that we've chosen to join, it's obvious we can't really change the situation or go back neutral, even while Trump is doing breaking ranks doing deals with Putin, which makes the whole NATO situation look silly.

Tell me you don't know what the word means without telling.

Love the power button nubbin doing the hard work

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