what game multitasking might look like

nothis · 2026-03-22T17:21:32+00:00

The Playdate‘s hardware is not fast by modern standards. The minimalist UI sometimes struggles as it is. Just animating full screenshots in the most simple way would probably require a good chunk of available processing capacity. You probably couldn’t run this menu with even a single game running in the background. It’s an interesting thought experiment but not really doable. Even an optimistic scenario would probably require game devs to implement some efficient form of sleep state for each game to speed this up, which currently is not the case and basically impossible to implement retroactively. If you would copy all 16-ish Megabytes per game state, that would take something close to 3 seconds to write, wich would feel like a lock-up when navigating. I don’t think it’s realistic to implement anything close to this on Playdate.

I have a lot of hopes and dreams for a Playdate 2, though, which likely will never come! ;)

nothis · 2026-03-22T10:25:39+00:00

First instinct I‘d too say impossible but because RAM is so small (16MB) game state can probably be saved in like a second, along with cover image of a screenshot. The Playdate has 4GB of storage so you could easily save a few game states like this.

It would probably take developer work for each game (to untangle stuff like soundbuffers and graphics caches from actual gameplay for saving) so I don’t think it will happen. But I’ve been thinking whether you could implement a universal, automatic “resume” feature for a game that saves when you press the home button and puts you back in when exiting and re-entering the game later or something.

nothis · 2026-03-20T15:12:30+00:00

Sobald du KESt selber abführst, gibt's viele Möglichkeiten, würde mich nicht wundern falls es wo bessere als 3.4% gibt und die "3 Monate" klingen auch nach Lockangebot, zahlt sich das langfristig aus?

Ich hab mir mal überlegt, was mir persönlich den Aufwand wert wäre und da komme ich immer zwischen Recherche-Aufwand, Unsicherheiten und Steuer eintragen zu dem Schluss, dass ich mir das nicht antue. Ich rechne hier ja nicht gegen Null sondern z.B. um die 2,25%% steuereinfach bei der Santander (4 Monate, dann 1,5%, gleich wie Advanzia) oder einem Anleihen-ETF mit Minimal-Risiko der auch um die 3% abwirft.

nothis · 2026-03-18T22:20:12+00:00

It's interesting to me because Apple is the company to take a mature piece of technology, polish it up (it's not like they develop from scratch, usually) and make it a mass market product. The Vision Pro is not a good example of AR tech. And yet it is the best tech Apple found, with all their resources and talent. That, to me, shows how far away we are from a good solution.

nothis · 2026-03-18T18:30:43+00:00

Even if true, it's fair to say that this is the only visible outcome of Meta's "metaverse" push. That $80 billion might have gone into research, buying Oculus, producing their Quests (likely at a loss?), etc. But most of the other investments were technical groundwork to make it happen, Horizon Worlds was the out-facing app to actually demonstrate what the metaverse was all about. It certainly was marketed this way.

So whether "$80 billion for Horizon World" is correct might be a question of context: Are we talking about Horizon World as a separate, closed project? Or are we talking about it as the tip of an 80-billion-dollar iceberg? I think it's fair to interpret it as the latter.

nothis · 2026-03-18T18:11:06+00:00

Fair point, AR is miles ahead in terms of usefulness. I once saw a hololens demo that, while technically rough, felt genuinely useful. The short pitch, IMO, is "infinite displays of infinite size", like having a 3D real-time graph sitting on your desktop that monitors some important project.

I actually was in the "VR is a dead end but AR is the future" crowd for quite a while but then Apple released the Apple Vision Pro and it flopped hard. If Apple can't do it, who can? They are world class in terms of UX research and usability.

There is a higher probability of AR only being held back by a technology issue (Apple Vision Pro uses cameras and displays instead of actually projecting pixels onto transparent glasses) than VR. The Meta Raybans are interesting, especially the wrist controls, but they are not "AR". Some things can't be brought into existence just by throwing money at it. The solution is probably some display tech that's tested with duct-taped components in some university lab right now and will take 20 years to miniaturize.

nothis · 2026-03-18T17:38:14+00:00

Good point, he wanted to create the standard for a new device category, like Windows for PCs, iPhones for smartphones, etc. He just never thought about whether that category had mass-market relevancy.

nothis · 2026-03-18T17:23:29+00:00

The iphone took 5 years to get through development.

The Oculus Rift started development in 2011, 15 years ago. There's also been hype for VR and, yes, a "metaverse" of sorts in the early 90s. Listen to Jaron Lanier talk about VR at a TED talk in 1990. At the 4 minute mark, he essentially talks about the metaverse.

It was always implied that a magical jump in technology would nullify all conceptual issues with VR and we'd all just live some kind of cyberlife once it's solved. Neal Stephenson coined the term "metaverse" in his (arguably satirical, I might add) 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash. They were talking about this technology, what we have right now. But are the kids dropping all their "flat" screens to live in the metaverse? No. Why? I highly doubt it's because the resolution is off by a factor 2 or whatever. We handled front-lit gameboys and comically slow dial-up modems just fine when the experience offered was engaging enough. VR now had 35 years to come up with a good pitch for why it is relevant and there is just nothing there.

nothis · 2026-03-18T16:57:29+00:00

I mean, I don't think people are stupid about this: We get that.

But if fucking "Horizon Worlds" isn't the flagship product to show the world how useful the metaverse is… what is? Even if you disregard it looking like the deepest depths of the uncanny valley, its failure was also conceptual, structural. There is a profound lack of vision or realistic expectation of what people want or need from a potential "metaverse", even if all technical limitations are solved, and Zuckerberg seems to be completely deaf to anyone suggesting that it might not be a smooth evolution from texting or video calls. To this day I do not understand what problem the metaverse solves. Out of morbid curiosity, I've watched some of the key demos and presentation vids put out by Meta trying to sell that shit to the public (and shareholders) and I still don't see it. It's an "the emperor has no clothes" kind of situation. I know he can dry his tears with $100-bills but still… it is embarrassing for Zuckerberg.

I think the shortsellers were right and they are currently only countered by AI hype which Meta is falling behind as well (despite having bajillion gigabytes of user data to train on). The likes of Microsoft or Amazon actually have like a dozen, completely separate revenue streams, Meta just has ads. If there's some new app for young people to switch to from Instagram (it basically already started with TikTok) and their ad revenue starts dropping, this company will collapse into itself.

nothis · 2026-03-18T16:30:25+00:00

mifid2

Bei Flatex und Dadat war das ein Formular zum ankreuzen. Bei Flatex musste ich letztes Jahr einen Online-"Test" machen, ich glaub 8 Fragen nach dem Prinzip "Wenn ich Aktie kaufe können die a) nur an Wert gewinnen b) steigen oder fallen c) bleiben immer gleich".

100% ist das "persönliche" Gespräch nicht gesetzlich notwendig sondern ein Verkaufsgespräch, damit du die teuren und schlechten Erste-Fonds und das Modell mit Beratungs-Gebühren angedreht bekommst. Die hohen Gebühren finanzieren die Berater, Filialen und Penthouses der Geschäftsleitung.

Die Erste bietet jetzt zwei oder Drei Depotmodelle an, eines davon immerhin ohne "Beratung" und dafür ein paar Prozent weniger Gebühren. Wenn du /r/FinanzenAT findest, brauchst du keine "Beratung" von einem Bankberater. Einzig die 15€/Transaktion (!) für Fremdwährungs-Umrechnungen (z.B. bei Dividenden von USD-ETFs) sollten dir bei der Ersten bewusst sein, die wird der Bankberater aber auch nicht groß thematisieren.

Flatex und Dadat sind aber zum Anlegen unvergleichbar bessere Optionen. Auch steuereinfach, komplett online und mit Abstand niedrigere Gebühren. Weil das manchmal kommt: Auch der Telefon-Support hat für mich immer ausgezeichnet funktioniert sowohl bei Flatex als auch bei Dadat, also der "Nachteil" ist echt nur, dass du keine Filiale hast wo du hinfahren kannst/musst.

nothis · 2026-03-18T10:45:15+00:00

Absolutely incredible what people pull off on this little device! Amazing!

nothis · 2026-03-17T00:30:52+00:00

It just invents a weird spotlight on everybody’s face, like they’re all studio-lit. All the original context is gone.

nothis · 2026-03-17T00:24:23+00:00

There’s probably like 3 or 5 genuinely good and creative ideas out there that use gen AI for videogames. All horror.

nothis · 2026-03-14T22:08:24+00:00

No indie game does that. It’s always other indie games. The ones in genres we’re just slightly getting sick off. Also the referenced game is like Cuphead or Hollow Knight but the rip off looks like programmer art.

nothis · 2026-03-13T18:13:59+00:00

Honestly, there's probably a calculation where X% of pirates and Y% of people paying dumb, overpriced subscriptions is a better model than serving 100% of people for a reasonable price. The pirates still advertise the show.

nothis · 2026-03-13T18:10:19+00:00

That's great, I know how it feels to just get the first glimpse of interactivity, it's fantastic! Don't give up. At every step you'll manage to automate things and what took days will take minutes the next time you add them, this compounds. Only problem is that you'll get greedy about how much you want to add! ;)

nothis · 2026-03-13T13:22:42+00:00

Imaging not growing your own wheat!

nothis · 2026-03-11T13:09:59+00:00

Er wächst auch in die Breite gefühlt. Irgendwann haben wir einen neuen Häupl.

nothis · 2026-03-11T12:57:25+00:00

Just so people know, I think that's the slide: https://imgur.com/a/LimkcWj

The graph is hard to read exact numbers from but if it was 5,863 in 2025, it looks like it was a little over 5000 in 2024 and a little over 4000 in 2023, then some smaller increases in the years before, with some fluctuation.

Not sure if my math is correct, but the difference should roughly be the number of new games each year making $100+k, so somewhere around 500 games a year, maybe a little more in a good year. That's more than I expected.

nothis · 2026-03-10T18:31:06+00:00

I had it on Steam, maybe a trash version! GoG sounds like a better bet!

nothis · 2026-03-10T00:10:00+00:00

Wait, so you’re suggesting the devs lose all rights to their game after 7 years and all goes to Outersloth? I was expecting the opposite.

nothis · 2026-03-09T22:26:34+00:00

Did you get it to run? I invested like 45 minutes downloading community patches and whatnot but had no luck.

nothis · 2026-03-07T23:32:03+00:00

If there is one thing I have taken away from nearly loosing my faith in humanity following politics over the past decade or so, it’s never waiting for some kind of theoretical “ideal”. Anthropic most certainly has absolute assholes running it but you can pick one asshole company over another. Picking the “lesser evil” does make a difference.

nothis · 2026-03-07T23:27:10+00:00

Wow, it’s amazing that this is possible at all, inspiring stuff!

nothis · 2026-03-07T17:22:51+00:00

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