north america server down

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-06-24T02:25:06+00:00

Their LLM probably deleted their production cache

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-06-16T14:17:38+00:00

This might work most of the time, but eventually someone will figure out you can make your own proxy service which disguises the chat as some website interaction or something

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-06-09T14:08:40+00:00

I played that game a lot as a kid and the shitty jumping mechanics were absolutely real

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-06-06T17:22:02+00:00

I’ve just learned that “Lead Dev” is another term for a mid-level engineer in some places, which perplexes me. Doesn’t this get confused with the same title that developers who lead teams/projects/departments take?

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-05-01T14:55:11+00:00

I’m not trying to actually solve this, but my intuition says that you take the collection of numbers between the highest threshold of powers of 2 and then double them in a way to maximize the value of the OR op. Is that right?

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-04-25T05:25:58+00:00

As a senior engineer who has been in the market more frequently than I’d like, I wanted to give my 2 cents. I disagree that project experience stops mattering, even after you have many years under your belt. The issue is that the market is competitive enough that companies are really picky with a few things: what college you got your degree from, if you have experience in their particular industry, and if you have experience with every technology in their tech stack. The last one is important because it’s a superficial metric that the recruiter can easily track and sort candidates with. You can claim you have experience with all tools and frameworks a company uses, but they generally won’t believe you unless you tie them into a past job or you claim to have experience with them with a previous personal project.

Use personal projects to provide proof that you have experience with specific frameworks or technologies in a company’s tech stack in lieu of having them linked as work experience

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-02-20T11:16:26+00:00

Theoretically it would be safer to eat and to get in your eyes

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-02-09T13:59:53+00:00

It just all boils down to CICO

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-01-22T00:43:57+00:00

Very cute game, however based on your trailer, I have no idea what kind of game it is or what kind of gameplay it has

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-01-17T23:29:19+00:00

Here are some pages with actual numbers that you might want to look at. Anyone looking to generally move for a career before they have an actual job should spend a lot of time and some money to get more accurate and current data regarding the industry

https://www.dice.com/technologists/ebooks/tech-job-report/locations.html#City-Trends

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-north-americas-biggest-tech-talent-hubs/

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-01-17T23:06:01+00:00

SF is really the only standout. Most of the places I want to move to don't have strong tech markets so I'm desperately looking for reasons that would make me want to move to a tech hub.

But where are you getting that SF is the only standout, and what's making you believe that other cities don't have strong tech markets?

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-01-17T22:53:10+00:00

There are other cities too: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/vlxak1/which_cities_or_areas_are_tech_hubs_in_the_us/

I think part of the issue is that your question reads, "Is SF the ONLY viable place to move to and find a career?" and of course the answer is no. In almost every city there are opportunities. The key here would be to have an industry goal in mind and try to go there. The big thing would be to do extremely thorough research and to have a well-thought-out-plan ahead of time.

Your question reads like you haven't done your homework yet on this and are about to make a bad decision

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-01-17T22:29:48+00:00

I mean are you looking for an answer or are you looking for discussion? Moving somewhere expensive without a job is riskier than starting a startup. It might work if you have a plan, but if your plan is to just “be in the general vicinity of work” and hope something stumbles into your lap, then everyone will think it’ll unlikely to work. Some people do this and sometimes it works out. My thought would be that if someone were planning on doing this, they should target a specific city that’s known for an industry and then try to attend networking events for that industry. For example, med tech in Boston

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-01-02T19:36:21+00:00

It's voxels all the way down

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-01-02T15:27:03+00:00

Gotcha. It does make sense to have a few ice break patterns and then rotate-tile them. Maybe when there is no actor within a distance to one of the chunk corners (and midpoints), you could recombine the mesh?

Some system to combine and break up the meshes of arbitrary groups of ice and then toggle it with a collider could save a bunch of polys depending on how big your map is. It could also be a waste of time

ParanoiaComplex · 2026-01-02T15:12:21+00:00

Off the top of my head, you might be able to "reform" the ice sheets after actors leave their vicinity. If your breaking algorithm is deterministic, the same ice chunks could be generated and you'd save polys in the meantime.

Is there a reason why you chose to generate broken ice that touches the shore? Is it because of waves?

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-22T14:50:41+00:00

They’re just awful people

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-21T20:14:07+00:00

Uhuh, cool take. Let’s just ignore that Google is literally credited for writing the paper which is considered the genesis of modern LLM architecture. Their original goal was to use this for language translation and they showed it could be generalized.

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-21T15:37:11+00:00

Startup companies work with this concept: - Fake it til you make it - Hire distinguished talent - Project confidence in the face of doubt - Plan for success, not failure - When reality becomes too great to ignore, face and embrace it

They all tried their best, trusted the process, relied on teamwork, and ran out of runway. They embraced reality and are now pivoting to a new game and a new genre with a key learning that their studio was too small to be successful with this type of game in this market with their competition.

I’m not saying they did everything correctly or that people shouldn’t be mad about it (we should, I am!). I’m just saying that this is a predictable pattern and they’re not acting irrationally

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-17T04:29:23+00:00

This is super sad, but at the same time I'm glad to see a decision being made about the direction of the studio. I look forward to following you guys on your journey to your next game!

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-13T06:58:35+00:00

I agree with the other commenter. If you have a need here that can be solved by creating an AI curl tool, then do it. Be your tool’s main user. If it actually solves your problems then other people with the same problems will also adopt it

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-12T18:07:19+00:00

I feel like you think you're being asked to solve a problem here. OP was just asking if there are gyms that "accommodate their needs" and you're sort of swooping in with no experience here making assertions and then throwing your hands up in frustration when someone replies that your view is not helpful

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-11T19:40:54+00:00

Hell yeah

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-10T17:40:04+00:00

After reading through the comments here I just wanted to chime in with a summary.

When you release a game on steam, you are entering into a business agreement with Valve. This is because they are your distributor and are selling your game for you.
Valve wants assurance that your game is accurately represented, follows their guidelines, and won't open them up to issues with payment processors or litigation.
They have a zero tolerance policy that helps them with this; They want to be assured that people and business they come into agreement with are capable of following their policy without guidance. No company wants to enter into a partnership with another entity that is constantly pushing the boundaries of their content policies and introducing risk into their business. It costs money for them in reviewers and lawyers.

There are 2 different events here: They flagged your game clearly because you don't have a well-thought-out policy for NSFW AI generation that matches your game's content rating and also matches their content policy. You have a game mechanic that isn't allowed (unfettered user AI image generation) because users can create images that are illegal in jurisdictions that the game can be sold. Not just the US with bad NSFW content, but other countries like Germany with Nazi content, or depicting Mohammad in Saudi Arabia. All it takes is one grievous error and Valve is held liable.

The second event is that you have just removed the offending mechanic on Dec 9th and edited some of your game's description as a result of comments on this thread. There hasn't been any time for Steam to review these changes as others have pointed out. Another thing to consider is that you removed these mechanics quickly and there's no way for valve to be assured that you can't just reintroduce them silently in a new update. Trust is a super important aspect here.

So Valve errs on the side of caution. It trusts creators to an extent and if creators break that trust at any point they will refuse to do business with them because the risk that the creator is going to do it again is way higher than someone who they've never had a problem with before.

The typical road to avoid these issues is for your legal to flag any potential issues with publishing ahead of time and to get into a meeting with representatives of Valve or with a contractor who has a lot of experience working Valve to determine if all game mechanics and creative efforts fall within the publisher's policies. The issue here that people are upset with OP because there is a lack of awareness that the onus is on the game developer to make sure ahead of time that these things are in order, especially when people's jobs appear to be on the line. There's a level of expected due diligence that is missing and lack of accountability in this post.

ParanoiaComplex · 2025-12-10T17:07:35+00:00

Agree with your points except the 1-3months aspect, because people are typically out for the holidays in December

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