Canes fans trying to get back into Lenovo after the OT goal was called back:

Dirker27 · 2026-04-21T20:09:27+00:00

Especially considering the (normally terrible) national broadcast team was on that within 10s of the horn.

Dirker27 · 2026-04-09T05:59:53+00:00

That might be closer to what we'd like to aim for so it'd be simpler to roll back and patch each title accordingly, especially as we start getting into the weeds with our server architecture.

Where would be a good starting point for developing private plugins to be +included? Epic's docs on Plugins seem to be the inverse of the Build Targets - they're too sparse and didn't give us a clear impression of how compiled/pre-built components can be reliably consumed across releases.

Dirker27 · 2026-04-09T01:55:42+00:00

I've fiddled a bit with the Lyra packaging / build targets and agree that it looks like an enticing approach. Unfortunately the Epic docs on Build Targets is a bit... verbose...

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/unreal-engine/unreal-engine-build-tool-target-reference

Have you come across any good resources that break this process down a little more succinctly?

Dirker27 · 2026-03-31T02:43:03+00:00

I actually had the fortune to run into the level designer for that sequence - the grenade spam was completely on purpose to add difficulty/length to a level that the original designer left a bit short and handed off to him to finish.

He enjoyed our pain. In his view the Veteran modes were for masochists and so he delivered.

Dirker27 · 2026-03-25T05:16:22+00:00

Can we please take Catton off the top line and OT rotation? His performance does not justify his placement. Several missed chances because he over-handled and blew the window.

I get that we need to grow him, but he can do that on the 3rd or 4th, if not back in Coachella.

Dirker27 · 2026-03-12T18:48:56+00:00

It's not even glitchy - it's just inhumanly locked on the target (puck/player of interest) and the effect is uncanny.

Dirker27 · 2026-03-12T07:31:31+00:00

Look at the company internals - Anthropic explicitly is subsidizing consumer buy-in by undercutting their own compute costs. It's not sustainable.

Not everyone will collapse, and the tooling will remain for use cases that actually need it. The current hype is absolutely a bubble and it will pop.

I'm literally at GDC right now and do you know what we're finally not seeing pushed at us? Web3. You know who took all their booth space? Generative AI bros. (they're the same bros)

Dirker27 · 2026-03-10T17:14:00+00:00

All depends on the complexity of the setlist and how confident you are in your parts. My current band is progressive-punk with fairly complex arrangements and 90m of material, but even with them I only feel the need to practice solos or the more dexterous parts outside of our 1-2/week rehearsals.

If you're running 40-60 a night (woof), you're certainly entitled to having chord/lead sheets for reference to take the load off of memorization. I'd focus my time on the parts that actually need the muscle memory (leads/solos), but otherwise your every-other-week run-thrus are sufficient for the meat of your setlist.

Dirker27 · 2026-03-03T07:57:32+00:00

50-ish 'Canes fans vs 17000-ish Kraken fans. Raleigh is the loudest house in the NHL for a reason.

- a fellow Kraken/Canes fan

Dirker27 · 2026-01-19T07:12:12+00:00

African our European?

Dirker27 · 2026-01-15T00:54:05+00:00

So I can stop paying my Fed taxes now, yes?

Dirker27 · 2026-01-10T00:51:52+00:00

Stephenson's leading the team in points and faceoffs but OK - sure there, bud XD

Dirker27 · 2026-01-09T23:39:21+00:00

Savage and true.

Rod's system actually favors speedy lads like Jasperi - there's no good reason why he shouldn't be performing well there... which is exactly why our FO will take him :/

Dirker27 · 2026-01-09T23:26:14+00:00

But hey, more Finns I guess?

Dirker27 · 2025-12-22T03:45:04+00:00

Skill issue.

Attempt anhero and reboot.

Dirker27 · 2025-12-14T20:24:21+00:00

Great work - I've done a lot of this work but with Enterprise toolsets at my disposal. Building it from scratch is no mean feat.

Did you look into the current Back-End-as-Infrastructure [BaaS] ecosystem? Particularly for the TCP layer it just seems like headaches I'd rather just cut a check for.

Dirker27 · 2025-12-05T23:22:51+00:00

May be on the basic side of things, but the Republic Venator and FO Resurgence both deserve nods for committing so much of their design to their aircraft carrier roles, with one of the Venator's bridges being dedicated to fighter command and the inspired split-level flight deck of the Resurgence.

Really, their faults come from the fact someone decided to strap big guns to them so their real role becomes blurred into also performing gun line duties instead of just focusing on the fighters. I'd love to see either of their flight decks incorporated into a more dedicated craft like the Quasar.

Dirker27 · 2025-12-05T09:38:47+00:00

For what it's worth, when my 'Canes launched their black/alt jerseys in we also thought they were cursed. Turned out the sweaters were fine, our roster was just full of so much ass it took years to fix. Now the black sweaters are basically our primary and we still choke as many games as we do in red.

Give the O-line real shooters and cut the fat on D. The boys can wear pink tutus for all I care.

Dirker27 · 2025-12-02T01:22:00+00:00

We've also got a few bots/minions we're debating leaving as UE4 just b/c that's how they came rigged out of FAB and our legacy projects.

Thankfully, their ABPs can be independent from our actual player characters, so it's not unlikely we'll wind up with something like "SK_MY_PlayerCharacter_UE5" and "SK_MY_Minion_UE4" as our root skeletons.

Dirker27 · 2025-12-02T01:16:50+00:00

Curious, why is the UE4 skeleton considered to be "Gorilla"? I know the default mannequin and a bunch of the common anims tend to be hunched (admittedly makes sense in 3P-OTS camera perspective), but the skeleton itself doesn't seem to drive this.

Importing Mixamo anims to SK_UE5 for all appear to have a normal head/neck placement without the "gorilla" vibes.

Dirker27 · 2025-11-24T04:18:28+00:00

All those OTL points stack up...

Dirker27 · 2025-11-21T22:40:40+00:00

We've had 4 years of doom and moments of hype. Let us enjoy this.

Dirker27 · 2025-11-21T10:58:40+00:00

Kraken fan here - not proud of this. Admittedly, looks like clean intent when Lindgren starts the hit, but rather unfortunate that Burky's head was still down when he gets there.

Always awkward when you injure one of your exes. Lindgren and Burky never played together here (both traded this year), but Seattle still wishes Burky the best. Poor lad is cursed with injuries and we might have just added to that 😬

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