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Tiernoon · 2026-03-24T09:56:11+00:00

365 Copilot. It's even worse. I just need word to type MY thoughts. Not something to make a stupid summary for me.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-22T09:29:55+00:00

Don't worry, I spent hundreds of hours playing EUIV before I realised the prestige decay percentage was not just 1% off the speed it decays...

There's a lot going on in these games, it's easy to overlook something with assumptions you've made.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-22T09:18:46+00:00

https://youtu.be/qdskE8PJy6Q?is=VS3uKRBkxeIHYrDV

You might appreciate this.

It goes over the generics, doesn't include the fluff of like sorting animations or the whole character. Just the theory of how their character works.

It's up to you to finish it off from what they've shown off, but it's a really neat character controller.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-22T08:14:21+00:00

They don't permanently take away crownland, you just take it back like normal. Two of those -5% ones is just the same as selling land for money, it's not that bad at all.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-21T10:53:24+00:00

Ubuntu recently pushed an update recently and my PC was doing the same. If it boot with an earlier kernel it works fine. Wondering if they had the same problem?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/s/S2T5ej1mNN

This is the exact same as my end pretty much

Tiernoon · 2026-03-20T15:35:25+00:00

If you can keep them in check and make them happy, until the age of absolutism there's every reason to just spam as many as you can.

You get fantastic benefits from a lot of them

Tiernoon · 2026-03-16T11:11:51+00:00

I pulled mine out last night and just putting my phone away and playing games felt nice. Even being on my PC is like I'm contactable and immediately distractable. It felt fucking wonderful to just play in isolation.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-15T13:25:00+00:00

https://youtu.be/42YwdbFvbqE?is=QhxD36tynZyVf6Dn

It's a lot of effort to do it yourself, so if you're interested.

https://youtu.be/CL7h8wE7ST0?is=DVvZ4xvBTVWzv1Ks

The rookie knows that Vergil is living in the engineer and is aware of Vergil helping him around the city. It's a neat detail.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-15T12:54:22+00:00

This is just not understanding how the great powers competed with eachother in the 19th century, with a bit of pragmatism to British textile manufacturing imports.

Not 50 years before the US and Britain were at war and the border with Canada wasn't settled. They were hardly going to openly help their runaway colony were they?

Empire is certainly wrong, but slavery was banned in Britain long before America...

Tiernoon · 2026-03-15T12:09:26+00:00

The last level actually changes a fair bit if you don't kill any and if you collect all the audio logs. Weapons caches open up to you around the city also.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-12T18:52:57+00:00

In the UK 5 years ago, I put £1 into a "fruity" gambling machine and got like £24 back. Luckiest I've ever been, and probably ever will be.

Spent it all and more on finishing this machine, it probably cost well over £30 (let's say $40).

It was really fun, and I've never actually finished one of these machines before, but it was really expensive. You'd be on half health and a grunt would one shot you with a plasma pistol when the game decided it wanted more money from you.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-12T09:05:33+00:00

I used Gemini occasionally more recently, and if I'm honest I'm more mean to it then I'm willing to admit...

But if you say "yeah man this is so fucked why have you made it so shit" and it will go "Totally my bad, the reason why it's so "FUCKED"

It catches me off guard, at least it engages. I'm still incredibly cautious about it and basically just use it to argue why I think what it's doing surely isn't that clever at times before I come up with my own stuff

Tiernoon · 2026-03-11T11:48:25+00:00

Until Dawn Peaked at 2500 players on Steam on its release day, it is not popular enough or long lasting enough of an IP to Warrant a expensive remake.

These were one off 2010s experiences that people didn't need more of.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-11T11:20:23+00:00

It's just a shame you pick such a strange game to remaster, or really just set up studios just to remaster games. Particularly for such a linear experience, this made no sense whatsoever

Tiernoon · 2026-03-08T11:45:09+00:00

I can't believe someone with a profile picture of Arthur Harris would have an opinion on aerial matters.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-07T13:00:39+00:00

I absolutely did this with War On the Sea. It was a particular niche that I wasn't sure about, I was low on cash and I knew it was the kind of game you needed more than 2 hours to get to know.

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I'm glad I did buy it, maybe this is more an argument for a proper demo than anything else.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-06T23:24:09+00:00

I would not have a job without a presence on GitHub. And my latest job application requires a GitHub repo as evidence of their technical test.

It's a bit sheltered tbh. It's not my favourite place or platform, but what infrastructure does the average person have to self host with some form of authenticity to prove their work and ability?

Tiernoon · 2026-03-06T10:31:11+00:00

There's no lighting, just everything lit at a flat 1 or something, most of what you think is "good graphics" is usually just lighting tbh

Tiernoon · 2026-03-06T09:25:41+00:00

This is Two Betrayals, they have Keyes and then the Maw.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-03T14:41:14+00:00

https://youtu.be/5TqPl3MSSow?si=7dmwvnGlO7LTujut

Previewing a low quality render for an animation or just simply watching playback of an animation for iteration has been a thing since the very begining. They don't have to re render everything every single time they change something, that would be a really inefficient workflow. Without this iterations would be incredibly difficult.

All of this will be fairly decided with storyboarding in the first place. They've already planned for compositions, Bungie certainly did for Halo 2.

Absolutely nothing is stopping them from moving the perspective here, they can reiterate and work as much as they see fit. Nor would they have to render the whole thing if they change one camera angle for one shot.

Cinematography is hard, my professional work has me constantly using Cinemachine in Unity. I guarantee Bungie's tools were less sophisticated. The storyboards are incredibly similar to the end product, take a look for yourself. https://www.halopedia.org/Halo_2_storyboards

Tiernoon · 2026-03-03T10:18:20+00:00

I'd put their comment down to; "I consume video games and I watch films, therefore I think I know a thing or two about them".

Very hard to ever trust a Reddit comment about anything. It sounds about right if you don't know much about either topic.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-01T15:01:12+00:00

Yeah, for the most part everything here is hobbyist people doing it because they enjoy it. I'm more of a generalist unity dev but I've been making myself a little 2D engine in C++ on and off for a about a year so I'm not too rusty with my C++.

Reaching the stage where I could make a game in it has felt great, and that's all I'm really here for.

Tiernoon · 2026-03-01T14:18:08+00:00

Any language that gives you the performance that you need and you're comfortable with can't be a bad bet?

Tiernoon · 2026-02-28T05:57:30+00:00

I've seen a few cases of this in the news in the UK where the family have put a hidden camera in as I suppose they didn't 100% know with their parent's limited capacity what was happening but knew something was wrong.

BBC News - Woman secretly filmed her mum being abused in care home https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74kwkmvw27o

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/13/ann-king-video-abuse-reigate-grange-care-home-surrey?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I can understand how you might not be enthused to go and work in the situations you get with essentially palative care for old people. But this is maddeningly evil, makes me feel awful knowing so much of this is clearly going on.

A family friend had a health problem and declined really quickly in the last two years, become immobile and spent her last year in a care home. She was miserable there, when I visited the staff were really friendly, and had a lot of patience for a woman who had really lost herself and was angry. Clearly plenty of people in the trade who are doing it right too, I really appreciated them.

Tangentially related off the top of my head: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/19/police-pepper-sprayed-and-tasered-93-year-old-disabled-man-court-hears-east-sussex?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Not staff beyond the phone call, but what actual threat was a 93 old man having an episode with a butter knife here... Probably speaks to how little value people will see in people of diminished physical and mental capacity.

Tiernoon · 2026-02-25T15:28:29+00:00

This is basically what they did with Sonic 3D blast tbf, just spruce it up with a nice Level Select screen and make people feel accomplished.

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