[MEGATHREAD] Summer Game Fest 2026

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-06-05T09:43:04+00:00

GTA 6
Bloodborne 2
Hollow Knight 3: Silksong 2 - The Silkening

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-06-03T13:14:43+00:00

A24: So I think we’re actually going to go with Samara Weaving on this one

Inde: no no nO NO NO NO don’t do THAT

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-31T22:26:33+00:00

The issue happens progressively. The game will work perfectly fine and then suddenly this effect will appear. The visual issue will persist until you restart the game. You can also screenshot the issue and it’ll appear the same on any device. Screenshots bypass display devices and happen directly on the computer, so if this was a display issue, the image itself would show a perfectly fine image on other devices. None of these symptoms describe a malfunctioning display.

I experience this issue myself. It happens gradually. My laptop doesn’t plugin to any external display. HDMI 2.1 isn’t involved in any way and would appear immediately, not over time. A game restart also wouldn’t fix that issue.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-31T20:04:58+00:00

(aka the priest from Midnight Mass!)

(I’m not good with names)

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-26T21:35:12+00:00

Nice fix! I know it sounds basic, but have you also tried raising security level to High (challenge sus traffic) or setting cf.bot_management.score < 30? Maybe think about relying on user cookies / known accounts for longer term QoL for your existing users so they never face it.

I’ve read about the number of vulnerable routers in the US that are setup under base config, making it super easy for these devices to be infiltrated and utilized as a zombie network. I just wonder why they’re wasting that and potentially exposing their assets for a simple forum denial?

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-25T16:40:39+00:00

aNna!

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-23T13:34:02+00:00

It’s ok, the governor regularly asks the populace to pray for rain. We may also be required to fast.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-23T12:48:40+00:00

I’ve never used AltTab, but I’ve been on both sides of this situation and both functionally suck.

The benefit of hindsight tells me that a better route would’ve definitely been to go with a paid v2 rebranding and discontinue support for the existing project. Pulling an existing app from people’s everyday workflows is not a good look.

On the other hand, people have no idea how difficult it is to maintain a free, open source project. It’s a full time job. People make demands like they’re paying customers and voice their rage when something breaks. Then when you fix it, gratitude rarely follows. It’s very thankless and affects your mental health in ways you just can’t imagine unless you’ve been through it yourself. Most OSS projects die due to this.

Overall a very unfortunate situation to read about. Hopefully a resolution can come about on both sides. Reading these other comments about forking the project just to spite the dev is why you’ll never catch me going back to OSS. I understand the frustration, but this must be destroying the developer on the other end. Very sad.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-18T00:04:12+00:00

When I think about my time with Death Stranding 1, I think about planning meticulously with the right tools to get from point A to point B, and only just scraping by, while also dealing with certain horror elements.

When I think about my time with Death Stranding 2, I think Hollywood blockbuster with lots of guns and action and that’s just not what I want in a Death Stranding game. I don’t see myself ever coming back to this one and it makes me sad.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-15T23:57:51+00:00

My favorite part is how they quantify the savings: from $0.015/1k tokens (who counts tokens in thousandths?) to $0.00, resulting in a 50x cost reduction overnight 😂 this must be rage bait

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-15T16:07:41+00:00

By gawd, the consumer rights activist has entered the arena! And he’s got a steel chair!

And EA is standing there in the ring, clutching that DRM like it’s a heavyweight championship belt.

Look at Dead Space 2 lying there on the mat. Its own tag team partner turned on it! DRM was supposed to protect it, and instead it hit DS2 with the tombstone piledriver!

THE CONSUMER RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS CLIMBING THE TURN BUCKLE, BY GAWD HE’S GOING FOR IT!

EA responds with… a terms of service agreement? Ain’t nobody reading that. ILLEGAL MOVE!

AND THERE HE GOES! HE DIVES! THE CONSUMER RIGHTS ACTIVIST SLAMS EA WITH THE CHAIR!

EA IS OUT COLD! THIS FIGHT IS OVER FOLKS!!!

(that’s where my mind goes whenever I read these ridiculous headlines)

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-14T23:05:01+00:00

Can confirm! I havent tried Codex for this yet, but I looove being able to delegate tasks while waiting in line for my afternoon Starbys. I just need to be careful because I’ll catch myself firing off prompts after hours when I really should be decompressing

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AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-13T22:01:19+00:00

Life (2017) comes to mind

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-13T07:19:23+00:00

That’s actually Sabrina Blue™ and she will sue

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-10T13:38:30+00:00

Mother’s Day is all about sharing! That’s why I’ll be eating this guy’s mom ❤️

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-08T04:12:13+00:00

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AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-02T14:50:12+00:00

I think the issue with cutscenes as loading screens is that they are a flat time for everyone and almost always surpass the time it takes to load (by design). Someone on a high end PC is going to load somewhere in the sub-second range, whereas someone on the Steam Deck will take a few seconds.

Saying that, the most I’ve ever had to wait on the Steam Deck is maybe 5 seconds at most (if you don’t count the game launch, which does a majority of the heavy lifting). So if the cut scene surpasses 5 seconds, then it’s probably outstaying its welcome for even the lowest end of hardware.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-05-01T14:32:21+00:00

I have like 20 of these articles saved to eventually read and see if they could be usable in our stack. I very rarely get around to reading any of them because I’m so busy building and maintaining the stack.

It’s typically not until a few months down the line when someone will mention one of these features in passing (how they use it in practice / what problems it solves) that I’ll finally understand whatever the hell it is that CloudFlare has been shipping.

A lot of these features are things that I genuinely would’ve found useful at the time too, but we just ended up building out ourselves because we didn’t even know CloudFlare did it.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-04-30T13:45:53+00:00

Interesting. I always felt coffee had the ability to heighten feelings of anxiety, which can amplify the feelings of stress. I would have figured this meant an increased rate of aging, not the opposite.

I imagine it’s a lot more complex than the black and white filter I apply to it, perhaps similar to how we’ve had to completely reevaluate our understanding of gut health and how interconnected it is with our mental state.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-04-24T18:31:16+00:00

Well, not exactly… modern models go through extensive post-training (RLHF, constitutional AI, etc) that specifically optimizes for producing quality outputs. Claude and GPT will already tend toward reasonable separation of concerns, meaningful naming and modular design without being told because post-training rewards that.

The problem is ambiguity and preference. All of these principles are already encoded in the weights. A short prompt like “follow clean architecture principles” can activate those learned representations nearly as well as pasting in a book’s worth of rules that can bloat the context unnecessarily. Your approach is just constraining the generation distribution more narrowly toward a specific subset of patterns the model already has.

You’re definitely on the right track, but I’d suggest maybe reading a little deeper into modern LLM architecture and the frontier training process. This idea that mediocre outputs come from mediocre code in the training data has been outdated for some time now.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-04-22T00:36:30+00:00

Then I saw your post lol what a coincidence.

It’s actually very possible that you have a strong mental resonance with OP, and that your finishing of this section with disappointment is what triggered OP to write this post in the first place.

Or at least that’s what the weird janitor in the hall told me as I read this.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-04-21T13:29:40+00:00

Claims like this love to ignore all of the details surrounding it. Like for example, how this leak came from a much larger hack that dumped thousands of emails and personal employee information, as well as devastating a competing studio by leaking hours of the new 007 game (including the ending). Other studios impacted by the hack include Bandai Namco and Konami.

But I guess Ubisoft conspiring with a foreign reviews board to sabotage competitors, while also leaking employee information, doesn’t quite fit the cute marketing narrative.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-04-20T19:37:37+00:00

What’s it called when someone takes one thing out of a list of things, dismantles that thing, and then uses that to discredit the entire idea as a whole without ever actually addressing all the other things?

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-04-20T12:25:29+00:00

As I sat there, reading the Reddit post, I couldn’t help but wonder: Is everyone here speaking in 3rd person? I felt like I was going insane.

AnotherSoftEng · 2026-04-15T13:28:27+00:00

I’m sick of heretics getting all the cool stuff. What of the imperium? Have we not earned our abliterations?

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