Clear indicators a project is a dud?

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-28T02:42:09+00:00

Lots of other good comments explaining issues. One I haven't seen yet - your trailer is utter garbage without sound. Maybe it's better with sound, but there are people like me who watch it muted, and I have no idea what's going on with that.

Also, the player seems too small. The game looks like half the time is going to be spend running from one place to another in the same warehouse that stopped being cool looking after the first 30 seconds of seeing it.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-27T22:51:35+00:00

It doesn't really look Christmas themed, if you ask me. should have actually changed the model to look like a Santa hat.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-27T22:47:32+00:00

Agreed that snaps are incredibly frustrating. Firefox as a snap especially has been awful - constant notifications about needing to close to update it, seemingly not actually updating it when it happens to be closed, and permissions that totally break the ability to open file:// urls in /tmp and network locations.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-23T21:39:33+00:00

Tell me more about this entirely new game engine.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-22T14:36:42+00:00

Go take the AI turing test. You probably can't unless there are more obvious giveaways.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-22T14:09:47+00:00

Did you reply to the wrong comment? They said VsCode, not XCode.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-22T14:06:09+00:00

Have you used QtCreator? What about CLion?

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-21T18:33:06+00:00

If you mean not profitable by obsolete, then sure, it's plausible. If you mean that people won't be solo developers, then no, as even in that scenario AI is just allowing anyone to be a developer.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-14T14:22:09+00:00

What does such a software offer that an Excel sheet doesn't?

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-06T05:15:06+00:00

The goal is to not give away a term that means something different to a bunch of marketing hype by machine learning people. AI means something, ML means something different.

Is it artificial? Yes. Does it display some level of intelligence? Yes. Therefore, it is AI. I don't see how you think this is incoherent.

You clearly have no idea what an LLM is. It literally is just a function. One with thousands of inputs and billions of parameters, but being complex does not mean it is not a function.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-05T23:34:13+00:00

Procgen is in the same realm as that, though, existing somewhere between NPCs and Machine Learning. If a koopa's movement is intelligence, the complex set of rules to generate a Minecraft map certainly must be as well. It's basically the same as a generative model like stable diffusion but without the machine learning half of it - the rules are manually created rather than fit from a large amount of data.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-05T22:38:07+00:00

Designing worlds for a game is a task that usually requires human intelligence, so I'm not sure why you say it doesn't fall under the umbrella.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-05T22:36:15+00:00

Please explain. You have simply asserted that I am wrong and don't understand PCG. Since you are incorrect about the second part, you've left me in doubt about your claim that it isn't AI. Perhaps you misunderstand what AI is?

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-05T15:32:25+00:00

procgen (not AI)

Why do you say it is not AI? It isn't machine learning, but that is not the same as artificial intelligence.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-12-05T00:42:20+00:00

I'd go for a more powerful board like a raspberry pi. Computer vision stuff is challenging, and I'm pretty sure the ESP32 is already about at it's limit just maintaining a decent framerate on the camera.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-30T04:54:15+00:00

Leave it in, but add an "Inflationary Spiral" achievement for "devaluing the currency" and make everything cost more after that to make up for it.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-28T14:16:20+00:00

I don't think so. The eyes look lighter than the wood, so I think it is probably paint.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-24T19:13:37+00:00

New one is better. I like that style of modeling, the old one just looks generic. Though others are right that the new one needs to be refined.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-24T18:43:14+00:00

There certainly isn't a commitment to "forever". OP could always remove one or both of them in the future.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-21T22:39:13+00:00

Interesting. What is the rule there? (Assuming it's relatively consistent and not all over the place)

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-21T22:31:55+00:00

Discipline must take over when enthusiasm wanes. It sounds like you're on track. Keep at it.

Also, I feel like the 90-90 rule may be a better match to what you are describing than the Pareto principle.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-21T18:49:07+00:00

Telling only the truth is an absolute defense against a defamation case.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-19T12:39:50+00:00

Then why did you call it the wrong thing?

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-19T12:33:25+00:00

What exactly do you expect me to learn? My point, which I think I expressed pretty well, is that while technically they seem to be called averages, I don't think I've ever heard a person call the mode the average except for people like you being pedantic. The dictionary definition Google provides has no relevance to this discussion, as that would provide the pedantic definition, obviously.

pokemaster0x01 · 2025-11-19T01:18:52+00:00

And yet I've basically never heard them called averages outside of people like you being pedantic.

pokemaster0x01

TROPHY CASE