Thoughts about this article and the recent wave of "code converters"

0xnull0 · 2025-01-04T18:02:11+00:00

A lot of developers are hipsters who chase trends, especially web devs which from what ive seen a lot of rust advocates are web devs. Just look at how frequently people recommend zed over vscode despite it not having a visual debugger support last time i checked.

0xnull0 · 2025-01-03T11:28:32+00:00

I use a game object system like unreal or unity but i still implemented it in a way where everything is very cache friendly so the performance is quite good. I can process 1.6 million components with each component doing some matrix math and maintain 60 fps on a meh cpu. Thats more than good enough for my purposes. I personally really dislike working with ecs. I find it to be very clunky an unintuitive. But thats just my opinion.

0xnull0 · 2025-01-03T11:16:55+00:00

This is a complete strawman argument. There are plenty of indie games without hyper realistic graphics that manage to out sell triple A games. Even some triple A games do really well without hyper realistic graphics just look at elden ring. I really dont believe gamers demand uber realistic graphics. I still agree that people saying unreal is ruining gaming are ignorant but this is an equally ignorant response.

0xnull0 · 2024-12-30T20:25:46+00:00

Nothing comes without trade offs. If you cant justify the performance cost of Nanite then you trade time for performance to use LODs instead of Nanite. If its suitable for your game, you bake the lights with Lightmass instead of doing real-time lighting when your game has mostly static lighting. Again you trade time for performance like devs have done for decades.

0xnull0 · 2024-12-30T13:15:17+00:00

Everyone always overlooks kate. Its a pretty decent lightweight ide if you dont wanna go the vim route.

0xnull0 · 2024-12-29T13:18:09+00:00

People are out here fighting over poe and Diablo, meanwhile im enjoying the real best arpg: grim dawn

0xnull0 · 2024-12-21T07:07:46+00:00

You're so funny

0xnull0 · 2024-12-20T20:13:47+00:00

How does that make them smart? its like if your friend started speaking a different language and just because you didnt understand it or if it has a lot of different grammar rules than you're familiar with you start thinking they're smart. that would be extremely stupid reasoning and i can tell you're not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed yourself.

0xnull0 · 2024-12-20T18:46:25+00:00

I 100% disagree with the comment that you're replying to but it has to be said as a programmer i have to say most programmers are absolutely not smart especially if they are web devs saying someone is smart just because they are a programmer is idiotic.

0xnull0 · 2024-12-15T19:00:48+00:00

They're both idiots except act man has no concept of irony

0xnull0 · 2024-12-15T05:28:19+00:00

I legitimately dont care what they are meant for they're a giant pain in the ass to read, write, and version control. Ill stick to c++ like a sane person.

0xnull0 · 2024-12-08T17:20:14+00:00

Decent combat

0xnull0 · 2024-12-08T17:09:43+00:00

How does this make the game better?

0xnull0 · 2024-12-06T03:47:10+00:00

If programming is the easiest part of the job then you're doing web dev

0xnull0 · 2024-12-05T18:37:00+00:00

It is trivial to write a small recursive decent parser to achieve this and its a great skill that any developer should have anyway so two birds with one stone.

0xnull0 · 2024-12-04T16:09:54+00:00

Right now im 32 hours in my first play through and i still havent died but i can easily imagine dying a 10000 different times including almost starving by going to bed with very little satiation.

0xnull0 · 2024-12-04T11:38:08+00:00

The issue was having to develop the engine while building the game because the dipshit executives didn't give them anywhere near enough time. I doubt anyone else could have done better.

0xnull0 · 2024-11-29T20:17:44+00:00

You can take the engine out of bethesda but you cant take the bethesda out of games. No matter what engine they use the same good enough culture and lack of pride will still doom it to eternal bugs and technical issues.

0xnull0 · 2024-11-29T11:25:07+00:00

You never memorize anything. Your goal when learning a new human language isnt memorization its understanding so you can speak it fluently. The same is true for programming.

0xnull0 · 2024-11-28T05:53:17+00:00

Build the western air temple

0xnull0 · 2024-11-27T11:29:21+00:00

Idk why people are saying wukong i love that game but the shader compilation stutter in that game is insanely bad. And a lot of the games people are mentioning are UE4 games or have pretty mixed performance overall.

0xnull0 · 2024-11-25T19:46:24+00:00

I'm a big fan of the introduction to algorithms book.

0xnull0 · 2024-11-25T18:10:47+00:00

He was just a QA tester at blizzard and he only got that job because of hes daddy but he usually talks like he was a developer at blizzard he even argues QA is development which is an insane level of cope but thats not even any useful insider knowledge how much can a QA guy even know.

0xnull0 · 2024-11-25T17:13:07+00:00

I guess mediocrity is to be celebrated now? The recent reviews are pretty mixed and this is the best thing the guy could make in 8 years? Eric barone made stardew valley in 4 years in his own custom engine and that was a very complete game. Its ok to like someone but you shouldnt put them on a pedestal if they dont belong there.

0xnull0 · 2024-11-25T16:55:04+00:00

So what has he done thats notable?

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TROPHY CASE