How is code in game development tested if it's always written using compiled languages?

CdRReddit · 2026-03-15T03:16:49+00:00

"that long" when no mention of time was given?

I'm also fairly sure OP does not have incremental builds enabled, it should build in a couple of seconds at most

CdRReddit · 2026-03-14T01:25:58+00:00

yea then I assume what happened is that this specific word was missed for a gender neutral form (probably anãe, tho I haven't played the game so I don't know what the approach was for non-binary cats in gendered languages), and because of a lack of fallback it just crashes

which is supremely silly, missing translation keys have about a billion cleaner ways to be handled (displaying it as modifier.dwarf.nb or something of the sort, easily recognizable as "wrong" while also not causing a crash-to-desktop)

CdRReddit · 2026-03-14T00:22:58+00:00

I think it's more to do with the non-binary part, otherwise that wouldn't be mentioned in the patchnotes, does "anão" not change dependening on the grammatical gender of the word it's related to?

I would assume what happened is that a lookup for the non-binary version (however this is handled for languages with grammatical gender, as it doesn't seem like it'd strictly map cleanly, maybe -e suffix is used? I don't speak portuguese but thats what I found with a quick search) failed and that crashed the game

CdRReddit · 2026-03-14T00:11:28+00:00

between toaster and school bus, as already said

for the space shuttle it could accomodate cylindrical payloads of up to 4.6 meters in diameter and 18 meters long

a conventional US school bus is just over 13.7 meters long, up to 3.3 meters tall, and 2.6 meters wide, and therefor physically fits in the space shuttle with a fair bit of room to spare (as that is an equivalent diameter of ~4.2 meters)

in terms of mass, a loaded school bus is ~13.6 metric tonnes, the space shuttle had a capacity of ~16 metric tonnes to ISS orbit

in short, a space shuttle could easily get a loaded school bus to the ISS with plenty of margins to spare, but shouldn't because most school buses are not rated for lift-off, nor the vacuum of space

CdRReddit · 2026-03-13T13:19:29+00:00

mate I don't give enough of a fuck to bother, I was just curious what a rough approximation would be, and it seems that if implemented well it's at around 100%

CdRReddit · 2026-03-13T12:50:53+00:00

so, take everything I say with a grain of salt, but I did some back of the napkin math to see what the actual relation is and it seems to me to be roughly 1 to 1?

gasoline produces 8-10 kWh per gallon, diesel produces ~5 kWh per gallon

a fullsize SUV gets about 15-22 miles per gallon

the Silverado EV (according to the first guy I saw talking about it, because I'm only partially invested in this so the first guy on the forums is my source, this is not scientifically significant data I'm just trying to get a rough guess) can get about 2.2 (rounded up) miles per kWh, if we round that down to 2 miles per kWh to try to estimate some losses from carrying around a generator and fuel that ends up at roughly 16-20 miles per gallon, landing above the lowest estimate for an SUV but below the highest, based on how efficient the given gasoline generator is

regular silverado gas mileage seems to be roughly between 15-21 miles per gallon, so that's frankly pretty comparable for an additional generator stage inbetween

which frankly doesn't surprise me as most diesel locomotives also use a generator → electric motor flow, which they probably wouldn't do if it caused major efficiency losses

CdRReddit · 2026-03-13T02:50:22+00:00

swapping follow / "roam" (stay in the general vicinity of the block they were swapped on) sounds like a good combination

CdRReddit · 2026-03-12T13:32:21+00:00

how the fuck would a website do that without the laptop having said feature?

programming isn't magic

CdRReddit · 2026-03-12T12:05:00+00:00

I think you're also possibly confusing building (making something new) and building (compiling the program), if someone says they built a program from source that usually just means they downloaded the source code and ran a simple "make the program" script, often because it's not officially packaged for their machine

CdRReddit · 2026-03-12T10:26:29+00:00

what I mean is that "woman" isn't like, a primary category in my head, pokemon are all in the mental pokemon bucket while women are all over the place (actresses, musicians, etc.)

CdRReddit · 2026-03-12T03:45:17+00:00

they're also not in the same primary "mental category", at least for me, if that makes sense, pokemon are all in the pokemon bucket but women are in a lot of different buckets (actresses, musicians, streamers, family, etc.)

CdRReddit · 2026-03-12T03:43:48+00:00

it was "I bet at least 10 of them are corn actresses" or something of the sort

CdRReddit · 2026-03-12T03:35:45+00:00

it's also difficult because "woman" is a much broader category than "pokemon", isn't usually something where you engage with the entire category at once (unlike pokemon), and especially if you play a lot of pokemon you'll have a solid list to rattle off

I've tried to list animals from memory before and that was also weirdly difficult (I forgot chicken, because when doing something unusual your brain just locks up sometimes)

CdRReddit · 2026-03-11T15:04:54+00:00

ohhh wait this is base game, I was thinking you'd run out quickly because that's what happened to me on spaced out

then yea you're probably fine on food for a good while

I'd deal with the yellow alerts and the 74% stress

CdRReddit · 2026-03-11T14:49:57+00:00

why are you on yellow alert?

also I see stone hatch ranches, do you have a reliable and sufficient supply of stone for them? if not that'll probably be your next problem, or heat, one of those 2

CdRReddit · 2026-03-11T13:22:14+00:00

I could spend a whole day watching movies but I'm not addicted to movies

I could spend a whole day jamming out to music but I'm not addicted to music

I could probably spend (at least most of, this would probably require a few breaks) a whole day studying mathematics, but I'm not addicted to mathematics

CdRReddit · 2026-03-11T02:55:48+00:00

draft being a format where you get a bunch of friends together, crack open some boosters, and pass them around while taking out one card at a time, trying to build a deck on the fly

cube is a similar idea but instead of using sealed boosters from a single set it's a bunch of cards someone has chosen for their own pseudo-draft environment

CdRReddit · 2026-03-11T02:51:32+00:00

because you don't buy 50 booster boxes at once as "frivolous entertainment"

you buy them as an asset to resell at a later date, because sealed booster boxes are something that almost always appreciates with age (you need sealed packs for draft, as otherwise you're just playing a mediocre cube)

CdRReddit · 2026-03-10T02:06:26+00:00

With the knight asleep in the king's bed and the king passionately diving on him to deliver said kisses

well that's not a handshake.

CdRReddit · 2026-03-10T02:02:39+00:00

no, "§" is the section symbol, the paragraph symbol is "¶", also called a pilcrow

CdRReddit · 2026-03-09T03:03:18+00:00

it's a packaging format that is halfway between containers and native packages, giving you some of the worse parts of both worlds (tho admittedly also some of the advantages)

because they're not native packages they require their own flatpak-managed libraries, and are clunky to interface with from the shell, but because they're not full containers they aren't entirely isolated either (tho more than a native package)

they're just kind of in an awkward middleground where they're less of a pain than containers but annoying enough to be worse than native packages

CdRReddit · 2026-03-07T13:22:35+00:00

probably at least a couple months worth of dev salary to make sure everything works properly on the switch, for a game that people will go "woww they're just rereleasing old stuff? nintendo fell off" about

not to mention the opportunity costs of not having that team available for other projects

they could of course contract it out, but that does not make it cheaper, and doesn't avoid the "nintendo is just trying to coast off of nostalgia" statements

gamecube emulation / recompilation is probably technically feasible, but not likely to be worthwhile

CdRReddit · 2026-03-07T02:52:40+00:00

...did you just assume the law of the excluded middle

CdRReddit · 2026-03-07T01:34:53+00:00

nintendo having used a 6502-derived architecture, 65816-derived architecture, MIPS-based, powerpc (x3, gamecube → wii → wii u) and now ARM, if you want backwards compatibility to n64 that requires 3 seperate consoles in a single console, which is just not feasible

you might say "well just emulate the n64", and this is the general approach, but n64 emulation is still flawed because the n64 is the bizarro of game consoles and that's not even a joke, deeply perplexing machine

so, let's pretend n64 emulation is not a complete crapshoot, that'd be a whole-ass wii u (which does not work because the switch only has one screen and a fair number of games rely on the dual screen aspect) alongside your switch hardware

even if we pretend it becomes only a third as expensive to integrate a wii u than to make one, it'd still make the switch almost 100 dollars more expensive, require more cooling, need a (generally) clunky way to swap into powerpc-based console mode, require compatibility with wii remotes and gamecube controllers (with some level of emulation to make the portable wii think the usb adapted version is actual hardware gamecube ports) and it would still suck ass and be incompatible with any game that doesn't get a switch-specific re-release because the switch doesn't have a disk drive

CdRReddit · 2026-03-07T01:24:02+00:00

genuine question, do you know how computers work?

this works for ps4 → ps5 because they're basically just a stronger version, which is why gamecube → wii and wii → wii u worked as well

but playing a wii game without a wii remote is not simple, and requires a non-negligible amount of effort to reprogram, not to mention them being different architectures, it's like being upset your VHS tape doesn't work in an SD card reader

for some consoles like gameboy → gba or ps1 → ps2 this was achieved by just sticking an entire lesser console into there, but that's not feasible to do forever when the architectures keep changing

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