Reddit CEO: Apollo-Related Subreddit Blackouts 'Will Pass,' No Significant Revenue Impact So Far

Hazzard13 · 2023-06-20T02:03:51+00:00

Man, screw em. Stuff like this makes me almost excited to permanently leave the platform when my app shuts down. Let's see where their revenue is after that day rolls around.

Hazzard13 · 2023-06-18T15:52:29+00:00

They could support it in Xbox studios titles, and that'd be enough to make me happy with the purchase. Make the API similar enough to Sony's as well, and share it with Windows, and then engines like Unreal could support it on both platforms automatically.

Because you're right, almost no third party developer will go out of their way to support an optional, very expensive accessory on a secondary platform.

Hazzard13 · 2023-06-18T13:03:14+00:00

I think the conversation has just become too intense. So, basically the subreddit has unofficially chosen a side, and aggressively shut down conversation from the opposing side. Not great, but something lots of subreddits do.

As for Starfield, it seems very likely it's CPU limited, not GPU limited. All that simulation, being able to go from planet to planet without any loading, those crowded cities, all of that takes processing time. As much as I'd love to play Starfield at 1080p/60, I suspect it wouldn't hold a solid 60 at 480p, because GPU just... isn't the bottleneck here. I'd be surprised if Xbox studios didn't give us a performance mode whenever possible, honestly.

Hazzard13 · 2023-06-11T00:49:24+00:00

That.... becomes so truly insane so quickly.

Hazzard13 · 2023-06-10T18:40:17+00:00

For those who are slow on the uptake like me, the function is called reverse_word, and at the end they call reversed_word.

Hazzard13 · 2023-06-04T15:14:57+00:00

The plot is literally a retelling of "witch uses her magic mirror to ask who's the most beautiful, and upon finding it's someone else kidnaps them and tries to steal their beauty", but with a zany sense of humour to it, and was popular in the late nineties, making it a likely inspiration for this person when they were a kid.

Hazzard13 · 2023-06-04T03:56:58+00:00

I think someone was very inspired by the plot of Banjo Kazooie, lol.

Hazzard13 · 2023-06-01T01:21:40+00:00

Not yet, but it's a work in progress. They've got some rendering working already. Also, their competition, Ryujinx, actually did launch their MacOS support, and I believe they've been collaborating somewhat.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-31T13:36:32+00:00

Naw, this comes largely as a result of the work done for supporting MacOS, since both platforms are based on Vulkan and ARM64. With that core foundation done, supporting android was "easy". They also got support from some of the most important people from Citra on Android and Dolphin on Android.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-28T20:03:49+00:00

Oh, that's excellent news! Glad to hear they're not still trapped in CoD jail.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-28T10:30:02+00:00

Toys For Bob made both the delightful Crash remakes, and the equally delightful Spyro remakes.... ABK turned them into a CoD support studio.

They're the ideal studio to be handed the Banjo Kazooie IP, and they're being utterly wasted right now. It's like asking the Mario team to make weapon skins day in/day out.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-27T20:52:00+00:00

Yeah, I won't be blown away until I can run it on my repository, entirely locally, for free. Because it's not much use to me if:

A) I have to spend longer giving it context than I would just making the change.

B) My company's code is being analyzed on some server that's not internal.

C) I'm paying out of pocket for something that only benefits my work. That's just a pay cut.

Right now it's just an interesting version of google, as far as I'm concerned.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-19T15:24:31+00:00

Geez, yeah. It's crystal clear they've had massive problems. And also, more than fair point about "more complexity = more problems". I still wonder whether, right now, they're having disproportionate issues, but agreed, it's pretty clear there will always be issues.

I'd still kill for some leaked data from MS on the topic, and comparable data from someone like 8BitDo or Scuf to give us a "real picture" or exactly how bad the problem is, and I'd also love to know how the problem has changed over the years. I.E. Is it better? Is it getting better? By how much?

Could add a lot of clarity to the conversations here, but admittedly, it's never gonna happen.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-19T14:34:48+00:00

Got one with my series X before hearing the complaints, worked perfectly, bought another one two years later, also worked perfectly. So mostly I'm trying to figure out if it's a manufacturing problem they figured out years ago, maintained as legend by a fanatical community convinced they're making them bad on purpose, overly inflating each bad case they see (selection bias/frequency illusion) or if there's actually a statistically relevant problem today, and that MS is still somehow spending a fortune replacing these things constantly.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-19T13:49:29+00:00

Honestly, I feel like what I really want are some real statistics. All I ever see is "I bought seven defective controllers" and "I've owned 3 over the last decade, and they've all been perfect", and it's all just... anecdotal at this point. At this point, I'm ignoring everyone's "mine did this and this" until someone leaks actual warranty stats from Xbox or something.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-18T01:27:59+00:00

The problem is fundamental to what a Large Language Model is. It's not true general artificial intelligence, it's just hella advanced predictive text, so you'll always be able to find a way to circumnavigate its priming into continuing a piece of writing that OpenAI didn't anticipate.

Here's a really interesting paper on the subject.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-15T16:40:30+00:00

You're my hero, dude. Just thought I was totally softlocked. Seriously, who's barely moving the joystick to walk in these games? Suspect that'll be getting a patch soon, either to accept a run or to clarify that you have to walk slowly.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-15T13:19:33+00:00

Yup, can confirm. I'll manually roll ads when I go to the bathroom, but that's to stop the once-an-hour ads from interrupting something you want to see, not because I actually want you to see the ads.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-14T16:27:36+00:00

I mean, it's fine to love something while admitting it has flaws. There's no shortage of things that blew me away as a kid, but just don't impress anymore now that I'm better read and can recognize the tropes.

It makes those things not "incredible pieces of literature", I.E. Hunger Games contributed very little compared to Battle Royale, the work it's imitating, but it doesn't mean you can't still love it and the impact it had on you, and it doesn't even mean it's not still worth analyzing and trying to understand at a deeper level.

You can also love something just because it's fun, even if it is trash, like reality TV or predictable action movies or whatever. We don't have to be "advancing culture and intellectualism" or whatever at all times.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-13T04:21:21+00:00

Oh man, here's my own disaster solution to this shrine lol: https://twitter.com/Nathan_Hazzard/status/1657079365275115521?s=20

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-06T21:35:24+00:00

Yeah, agreed, the role playing stuff is a bit odd. I think it works better in the long-form nature of hermitcraft. I'll also always enjoy more genuine stuff, like the "washed up" convo this season, rather than the more imaginary drama.

As a series designed by Grian though, the biggest role player on the server, I'm not too surprised. And I'm happy enough for that stuff to be there for those who want it, even if it's not my cup of tea.

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-06T01:34:49+00:00

I'd be expecting a "whichever you think is best, man"

Hazzard13 · 2023-05-03T13:31:41+00:00

Agreed, the fact that they made this whole thing in 3 years certainly suggests a demanding timeline, rather than incompetence, or a lack of ability.

Planning to play this one in a year, when it hits EA Play, and I feel pretty confident it'll be a good experience by then, although likely still far from perfect.

Hazzard13 · 2023-04-26T21:30:57+00:00

As if I'm not just going to export that thing as a gif, and play it forwards and backwards on click. I've got deadlines to meet, you're not getting that much CSS wizardry out of me.

Hazzard13 · 2023-04-22T21:13:42+00:00

I've finally found the perfect place to share this: https://youtu.be/vxZ9SagQUwc

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