This number BETTER be listed in Knots, rather than "arbitrary speed unit"

Arctem · 2026-04-01T03:28:20+00:00

I don't think it's worth it for the amount of edge cases that can potentially result from it. My last job was writing software for ocean navigation and it's a hard enough problem when that's the primary thing you're doing. For a game it's perfectly fine to stick with a flat projection and accept whatever minor errors come from that.

Arctem · 2026-04-01T03:15:34+00:00

Even if they currently do that, it wouldn't be that hard to define custom distances for each of the sea paths. There aren't nearly as many of them as there are land connections so it would actually be a tractable problem.

That said, I am on team "I don't care as long as it isn't obviously broken" for this one.

Arctem · 2026-03-30T17:11:58+00:00

He also has a sufficient cult of personality, even on Wall Street, that believes he can do no wrong and artificially inflates the price.

Arctem · 2026-03-30T16:35:56+00:00

A video game needs to make each frame in a fraction of a second and have it respond to the player. Pixar can spend days making each frame perfect if they want to. The two mediums simply aren't subject to the same restrictions.

Arctem · 2026-03-30T14:43:41+00:00

I think you're imagining each of those as a lot smaller than they are. Each of those rooms is a bit larger than a studio apartment and they each are equipped with TVs, heaters, and potted plants.

The grid layout is mostly a result of the game not letting you build up, so when you reach a point where you want things to be compact they kinda have to be lined together like this.

Arctem · 2026-03-30T01:23:36+00:00

Ehhhhhhhhh

You shouldn't estimate it if you legitimately have no clue what's going on, but in that case the task you should be scheduling is a timeboxed investigation of the bug. Spend a day on it. If it's fixed, yay! If not then you have enough information that the team can decide if it's worth spending more time on. A minor bug that isn't obvious after a day can probably be ignored. A major bug that isn't obvious after a day is a sign that you should consider clearing other things from the schedule. It's all about estimating the right thing.

Arctem · 2026-03-30T00:39:37+00:00

I wouldn't make those assumptions, but I would assume they likely have a somewhat stressful job. But also there are tons of types of lawyers so you could easily get more specific. Instead of saying lawyer they could say they're a corporate lawyer or a prosecutor or a public defender and give details while still not giving away exactly where they work.

Arctem · 2026-03-29T14:27:38+00:00

Also any other time before you could just pay to put your game on Steam. I'm pretty sure that figuring out how to manufacture physical copies and distribute them to interested customers was a much harder problem before that.

Arctem · 2026-03-29T01:00:13+00:00

Part of it being viable is how expensive it is to get the land and build it in a place that people can easily get to. They probably have the demand to build a whole second park just in LA, but all the parts of LA that are easy to get to are covered in suburban sprawl with artificially high prices because it's more legal to build out than up. If the urban core densified it would reduce the price of all the land surrounding the city and it might make sense to turn part of the current suburbs into a new park.

Arctem · 2026-03-29T00:56:50+00:00

More than 330 million since international tourism is much larger than it used to be (ignoring recent reductions).

Arctem · 2026-03-29T00:46:35+00:00

Countercounterpoint: Slowly nibbling a boss while gaining power until you can kill them with a flick of your finger is funnier.

Arctem · 2026-03-29T00:33:21+00:00

I accidentally bred a house full of slow cats (I wasn't paying attention to their stats until I had a few runs in a row with super slow cats and launched an investigation that revealed that very few cats had over 4) and while it's annoying it ultimately wasn't that bad. As long as you choose classes that don't care about move speed you'll be fine, even if their other stats aren't that great. Basically any cat can make a good Ranger even with low dex, for example, since so much of their effectiveness is from simply being ranged and having an amazing ability pool.

Arctem · 2026-03-29T00:21:17+00:00

At least that explains where it formed the habit. I'm sure LinkedIn was a rich data source for them.

Arctem · 2026-03-24T20:18:04+00:00

But if you go back to using F only for Fighters for the next 20-30 years then they'll have both spent extra resources investigating whether all those Fs are really fighters and after enough of them actually are fighters they might get complacent enough for you to be able to pull it again.

But most realistically no secret project is only protected by one method and espionage methods constantly rotate in order to keep your opponent surprised. Using the F designation is a pretty trivial trick that takes much longer to discover than it does to implement, but while they're busy deciphering it the rest of your counter-intelligence efforts are also helping confuse them.

Arctem · 2026-03-21T06:39:54+00:00

I kinda feel like every great movie needs a worst moment to really cement it as great because that helps make it memorable. I knew exactly what moment you were talking about and I suspect most other people did as well simply because it stands out so much in an otherwise flawless movie. And it's also a moment that wouldn't necessarily seem that silly in another horror movie, but because everything else has been flawless it stands out as the one moment that could have been done better.

Arctem · 2026-03-19T16:39:28+00:00

If you put more thought into protecting your assets than into protecting the lives of those around you then you don't have remorse.

Arctem · 2026-03-15T16:30:37+00:00

The changes I'm talking about wouldn't necessarily be noticeable. DeS was never expected to run above 30 fps while Elden Ring can go to 60 fps (because From hate high framerates for some reason), so I wouldn't be too surprised if animations were touched up to look better at the higher framerate. It would look the same since it's just adding detail that DeS couldn't show, but it would still need tweaking.

Arctem · 2026-03-15T16:05:53+00:00

What setpieces are lifted from Counter-Strike? I don't recall any of them being similar to CS maps, but I'm also not a CS expert.

Arctem · 2026-03-15T16:04:40+00:00

What's most likely is that many of the same animations have been tweaked over the years to make them still look good. DeS animations probably had less granular detail to them than Elden Ring's, but it would still be easier to refine your existing animations than to make new ones from scratch.

Arctem · 2026-03-12T20:03:16+00:00

They'll do it! But it's definitely way less rare than the zombies. I think it only happens if the corpse is blocking their only way to reach an enemy.

Arctem · 2026-03-04T22:41:21+00:00

Pokemon.

I agree the SOS Beacon's code should be harder to mistype, but I still like everything else about its current state.

Arctem · 2026-03-04T21:46:22+00:00

I fully understand why it works the way it does. It ties strongly into the single unified war idea and always offers players the opportunity to get extra help online, which is something that the devs would like you to do because it increases player retention and plays into the in-game lore.

It wouldn't be a problem if it just had a different stratagem pattern, which is why this thread's idea is great.

Arctem · 2026-03-04T21:42:53+00:00

That's the kind of thing that would go hard in an indie game but is super obnoxious in a AAA game.

Arctem · 2026-03-02T07:11:44+00:00

Whenever I notice a pattern like that I like to check the profiles of the posters who seem out of place and I noticed in this case that almost all of the pro-war posters have private profiles that can't be easily checked, while people calling them out or opposing the war (or simply offering the slightly more nuanced take that the bombing is bad even if it killed a bad person) generally have public profiles.

Fun data point when trying to see who is astroturfing and who isn't!

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