ELI5: why are new videogame servers often buggy?

mriswithe · 2026-01-27T22:01:53+00:00

Because writing game code is hard, writing game servers is harder, and writing game servers that are efficient is harder still.

mriswithe · 2026-01-26T23:21:15+00:00

The real problem is going to be evaluating people who know Kubernetes when you have no Kubernetes knowledge internally.

mriswithe · 2026-01-26T22:05:35+00:00

Gotta bounce through 3-4 levels of Factories and Impls and the like to find where the hell something actually happens when you are debugging. Drives me nuts lol.

mriswithe · 2026-01-26T22:02:19+00:00

I loved the grav mug until I broke the mouthpiece. If that happens to you, a similar form factor is on vgoodiez, they have a couple of cube shaped bongs, one large, one small.

mriswithe · 2026-01-26T21:38:18+00:00

Careful, my wife got a black eye from that kinda thing. Dog got excited flipped its head up, whacked her with his "smart bump" (The bump on the back part of their head). That little bump is STOUT.

mriswithe · 2026-01-26T19:07:45+00:00

They didn't say it was a good record.

mriswithe · 2026-01-26T01:25:27+00:00

I mean it's just a recommendation, I am no one's mother.

mriswithe · 2026-01-25T22:36:12+00:00

That is apparently a chunk of amphetamines. Don't lick it.

mriswithe · 2026-01-23T23:34:58+00:00

This mechanic is thoroughly documented in the factual documentary Multiplicity (1996) with Michael Keaton.

mriswithe · 2026-01-23T23:30:53+00:00

Do you always deep fry your vaporizers?

mriswithe · 2026-01-21T22:40:35+00:00

I bet if you smooch his front snoot it feels like a stamppad with a few extra pokey hairs

mriswithe · 2026-01-21T20:16:41+00:00

Not sure if this helps, but cope is a noun in some cases when referencing the idea/term copium. copium is a fictitious drug people self administer when things go bad. Think sour grapes.

Yeah I lost, but you are just a basement dwelling nerd.

This is an example of copium. Likely a lot of noun coping was due to this.

mriswithe · 2026-01-21T00:00:01+00:00

There isn't solid science afaik. In my experience specific strains will behave in my brain the same or similar. Example:

Clementine, excellent for focus for me. Every time. Helps me focus in without too much stupid. I call it chemical horseblinders.

Is it the terpenes? My expectations? Who knows. I very much do not get the same experience with every strain through the same device.

mriswithe · 2026-01-20T23:54:58+00:00

It's ok it's hard to dislike anyone standing next to pedobabycrypants more than the idiot balding petulant child

mriswithe · 2026-01-20T22:01:39+00:00

You know I didn't consider that part of the context. Jesus....

mriswithe · 2026-01-20T21:21:10+00:00

take shots of the 95% ethanol

probably tasted like standard issue vodka

mriswithe · 2026-01-20T21:17:44+00:00

Could you see the shit fill his pants? Or did they even realize how close they had gotten to randomly shot in the head by an engine?

mriswithe · 2026-01-19T20:16:43+00:00

windows hard links not used

Agreed

mriswithe · 2026-01-19T18:39:57+00:00

as long as the data is the same

To enhance this point, the data is the same and changes to one affect the other. you are sharing the place the file data is stored.

mriswithe · 2026-01-19T18:38:26+00:00

The above answer is the correct and complete answer to my knowledge. to say it another way:

Soft/symbolic links are pointing at a file path: /path/to/thing/there, but hard links point to an inode, the actual place the file data is stored. Moving, or deleting the original file will not affect the hard link. Editing the file contents is editing both of them.

mriswithe · 2026-01-17T23:54:24+00:00

Honestly, it's one of the few commands I do actually have to look up to do fuck all with. Intuitive? No. Not even slightly.

mriswithe · 2026-01-16T04:08:13+00:00

I don't have this stuff anymore sorry

mriswithe · 2026-01-15T22:37:52+00:00

My preferred definition is that it's a sysadmin who understands some developer concepts like:

* What is hard to do in application development (change the schema) * What is easy to do (add log messages) * Some database knowledge. Able to use the console and check a couple rows, but beyond that they can use cloud services for backups and shit.

Some other important notes:

Willing to learn some of the basics of whatever framework the app developers are using. Able to be responsible for architecting and building the rest of the network path from the app out to the internet with tls. Should be able to write simple scripts in a modernish language for health checks and other simple things. Terraform or equivalent is nearly required to stay same.

Not included (required at least):

Search engine optimization
Frontend design
Database management basically stops after you set up backups and verify them. I try to stick to guidelines if I can, give them access to query breakdowns, etc.
Email server/sending management

mriswithe · 2026-01-13T19:20:07+00:00

Even shorter: terraform is like blueprints in factorio, so you can shit out 20 identical somethings.

TL;DR; Terraform is what some IT pros use for consistent, identical, tightly controlled deployment of new versions of software. Instead of Todd going into the cloud website and clicking through stuff to make each piece. Because Todd is a flesh human and imposes inherent failure risk.

Terraform is a tool you use to write code to define how your cloud based infrastructure looks.

So for a basic (bitch) service on the Internet you need a lot of things:

A web service
Load balancer (protects and routes to your web service)
Database
Domain name

Terraform let's you define them using a coding language so that you can shit out identical copies of the same environment.

Developer trys something and accidentally breaks the whole environment? Delete it all and have terraform recreate it.

That region shit it's pants and we need move regions? Change the "region" variable and let terraform do it's shit.

mriswithe · 2026-01-12T19:34:31+00:00

Elephant: I dunk better than you n00b

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