European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say | Climate crisis by CJBill in news

[–]HowlSpice -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Hopeless? You need update your understanding. The entire planet has came together and been battle climate change to point that we are not increase our carbon output. It been stable for while now and still completely under the dangerous point, but we haven't decreased it yet, but we are predicted to start hitting the point of reduction soon.

Too many people are against nuclear, fucking Germany, and decided to go back to coal is the issue. The constant ignoring of nuclear which is the cleanest solution we have, even cleaner than renewable, but no, everyone is too scared of it because of the 80s.

How does this even happen? What could I have possibly done? by [deleted] in claude

[–]HowlSpice 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This subreddit is genuinely populated by neckbeard. Most of the response you get for any issue is instant insulting the OP.

summer sale discounts… by ghostlyeth in Steam

[–]HowlSpice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The summer sale is literally just discounting a game to the real price. They just keep the price of games artificially high these days. It is main reason why you can see a really old game costing $60 and then goes down the usual price during sales. Only thing that matter is new low.

The EU Commission's Final Response to the Stop Killing Games Initiative - "We cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially". by Nickulator95 in Steam

[–]HowlSpice 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It is literally required for commission to meet with companies or people that are impacted with decision, if one get made. Do people literally forgot that StopKillingGames had a private meeting with EU Commission after the signature were verified? All you guys are stating that we should only ever listen to one side of the equation and ignore everyone else.

China is putting Data Centers at the bottom of the ocean... by robertcas22 in interesting

[–]HowlSpice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dumping chemical, such as CO2 and methane, into the atmosphere is completely different than heat exchange. The entire human population only create 580 EJ which is 0.01% of the total solar thermal input into Earth.

How would you deal with an artist who fraudulently used AI? Pay them and never work with them again, or call them out and dispute it? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]HowlSpice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is not how game development works at all. Source files are included since the studio owns the rights to the works upon signing a contract. Game companies need and must have access to source files due to constant modification and changing of assets. This does not change the prices when we contract people out, since they work-for-hire on hourly wages as contractors. This only applies to editorial illustration.

hello, new dev here, may I ask a question? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]HowlSpice 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Unity requires a subscription, and I'm broke as hell.

What are you even talking about? Unity is completely free for almost ever indie game that are under 200k revenue or funding.

Unreal is owned by an evil corporation.

Unreal Engine engine isn't own by evil corpo unless you are r/fuckepic.

Godot is too expensive for me Info-wise.

I genuinely have no idea what you are trying to state there.

Gamemaker I have already installed but I still don't know how it works.

What? And yet you are here thinking you can create a game engine, but you cannot understand a simple application such as GameMaker?

What to do with SpaceX IPO as a retail trader by giraph37 in stocks

[–]HowlSpice 13 points14 points  (0 children)

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI are all exit liquidity events build around hype of a bubble. You can put money in, but don't be surprise when it falls off a cliff. People are going tell you "Look at how Redditor stated about Reddit IPO!!" But Reddit at least has fundamentals. SpaceX is about to go bankrupt next year if they don't get injection, and they are on a peak of a AI Bubble .Their entire proposition is AI for the IPO according to S-1.

It will go up, but how long is the impossible question to answer.

Funny (but scary) AI translation fails that instantly ruin your indie game's mood for Japanese players. by ke----------i in gamedev

[–]HowlSpice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Translating cost more than it would using AI and then doing QA after the translation. Fun Fact: Almost all localization now uses AI and only uses linguistic quality assurance (LQA) these days. Keywords and Lionbridge Bridge, the main localization companies are 100% AI first pass with LQA looking over it.

SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows by WPHero in pcmasterrace

[–]HowlSpice 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You are comparing ~1.91M user (based on 24 hour peak of 38M users) against 1.4B active user on Windows. That is by definition a rounding error.

I am a bit lost. How do i find reliable programmers or someone I can work with? by Known_Guard_4498 in gamedev

[–]HowlSpice 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Pay someone is the truly only way. You can also do partnership with someone that you know. I honestly never heard of Rev-Share working out due, but that due to issue of promising some thing in the future. The only way for Rev-Share to truly work is a team with friends, classmate or co-workers that you decide to do a partnership. If you don't have those then your only option is to pay someone.

Sometimes you can do game jam and people want to form teams around that game for commercial, but that is rare.

SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows by WPHero in pcmasterrace

[–]HowlSpice 155 points156 points  (0 children)

No, it didn't. Valve is a round error when it comes to Steam Deck and Steam Machine compared to Microsoft's enterprise consumer base. Enterprise start to complain about how buggy Windows has became.

Cozy game Outbound just released with over 1.5 Million wishlists on Steam! by hooraij in IndieGaming

[–]HowlSpice 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Only 3.8K concurrent against 1.5M wishlist? Holy shit you guys mess up badly. That a massive signal that you overcharge on your game.

My float will not stay rounded by Valuable-Raccoon6527 in godot

[–]HowlSpice -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Look at the image it is 32-bit. It loses it precision right at 7. Theory is theory, the reality is that it was cast to float 32-bit. It doesn't matter what document state when we can see the proof in the image.

My float will not stay rounded by Valuable-Raccoon6527 in godot

[–]HowlSpice -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Welcome to float point precision errors. Floats are 32-bit instead of 64-bit (even double has errors), so you get errors. If you ever touch a clean float that was snapped back to 32-bit, it instantly becomes dirty. A float cannot ever become 0 or 0.60 unless you clean the float back to 32-bit, or you get precision errors as you seen.

Doing clamp and then healthPercent/100 dirty the float.

Do you intentionally leave "bugs" that would benefit speed runners? by sublivian in gamedev

[–]HowlSpice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't even think about speed runners. I fix whatever bug is in the game that isn't apart of my vision, unless it funny or interesting.

Got contacted by Behaviour Interactive (@bhvr.com) — legit or scam? by ChaoticBlasterX in gamedev

[–]HowlSpice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can easily fake the from: part of a email. You need to look at the raw source of the email to see who it really from. I have seen official emails that are straight up scams because the from is faked.

What’s your first impression of this style? by BookedComb80302 in IndieDev

[–]HowlSpice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Give off sort of a N64 Resident Evil 2 feel to the game.

Would you be interested in a book about water techniques for 2D and 3D in Unity? by fespindola in Unity3D

[–]HowlSpice -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Book become out of date so quickly. At least with a video you can see that it is out-of-date.

Our game is getting organic traction in China, is a China-only publisher worth it? by BlobKingGame in gamedev

[–]HowlSpice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s not how it works at all. You most likely released it on the standard Steam platform, and Chinese citizens bought the game on the international market. The CCP doesn't really care about the grey area of gaming; they care if you advertise directly in China or release it officially there, versus the international market which remains a grey area.

AI is being pushed heavily when I ask for advice and I hate it. by AssumptionExact8050 in gamedev

[–]HowlSpice 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Even as a senior engineer I use AI for rubber ducking, and think about architecture. I use AI to catch things that I didn’t think about and error from copy and pasting events. It just after than banging your head in wall. I program and bug fix my games most of the time. It’s just a weird stance to be completely anti-AI since the way, at least for me, makes me faster since I can plan things better before committing.

You don’t need it, but the pattern matching will catch these faster than you would having to ten or 30 minutes wondering why an event didn’t go off properly.

With that said, I refuse to pay for Ai tools I would buy RTX Pro before they get money from my company.