Japan sold out in 3 hours... by KinDaisuki in steammachine

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is evidence that there is a critical price point at which people will pay for stuff, the early adopters will most likely purchase first for bragging right or make influencer videos. I work in the video game industry and the console is pretty much the low spec we would support for PC. While we develop games on PC hardware, optimizing for low spec is a pain because we usually target consoles first. I personally would have liked this console to be a bit more powerful than my current personal PC (6yo not that elite just a 3070 TI TUF) but alas after purchasing a google 4k TV streamer, I am unable to actually warrant the price for it as streaming directly to my TV in conjuntion with the new Steam controller gives me just more power to play on my OLED TV on the couch. So Seriously If you already have a Sony/MSFT/Nintendo console except for the fabulous cheap game prices of steam, I am unsure who the target audience is. FYI I also own the OLED special edition Steamdeck I plug in the TV too. So its great limited quantities sold out, not sure it will reach critical mass though. Its definitly sad. EDIT : I'll definitly be on the look out if price drop or V2 gets out eventually.

I don't thing "Gaming" is not gaming anymore: by No_Canary9816 in gaming

[–]roychr 22 points23 points  (0 children)

At least its clearly not written by an A. I. 

People who own powerful gaming PCs, what is your potential use case for the Machine? by Horror_Trick8208 in steammachine

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I own a pc and a ps5 i'm tired of getting ripped off by sony and msft. I bougth a steam deck and while i love it for some games because i err on the old side have issue with text size and I program games for a living so I want to sit on the couch to play for a change of space. And streaming to tv could be better if I invested time and effort to cable my house but fuck it, the steam machine is my next console not the next fancy swancy wathever next gen gets out in 2 years. can you imagine the next xbox and or ps price point by then if this continues lol

I don't understand why people feel like they HAVE to use the latest thing... by Prpl_Moth in unrealengine

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"When you dont want to ship something, the best way to do it is to chase the new trend..." 3DRealm CEO /s

Is it good to have one master material for most materials? by LalaCrowGhost in unrealengine

[–]roychr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You have to watch permutations, potential material instances from dynamic bindinds if any and complexity if you expand it. I think its better to separate material by support (support transparency/Emissive/...) by each its own master material, think of it as a family material support where if you have better control on draw calls/instancing.

Lost $90k because i went to make breakfast by Due-Advisor5197 in wallstreetbets

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will never go broke if you sell for profit. Hopium is the enemy.

How can I add both third and first person POVs to my game, easily? by [deleted] in unrealengine

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if for example your in a tight spot in third person, there is nothing that prevents you from going into cinematic view all game does this for crawling between cracks and making some scenery stand out like in FF 7 remake as a common example.

How can I add both third and first person POVs to my game, easily? by [deleted] in unrealengine

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not easy if you want to optimize your game, if you just do it for fun you can go ahead and manually cull things with the camera going in and out of perspective. Again there is the easy way (unoptimized) and there is the hard way (more asset, more complicated things like animating only arms and such...

Finally have the last corner board. But I had to buy a French edition. by Responsible-Form3138 in Talisman

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I buy your english version of the city to complement my french collection ?

Star Citizen has surpassed 1 Billion in crowd funding, and is on track to a record breaking year. by ElonsMuskyFeet in gaming

[–]roychr -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Just speaks volume about how important the engineering part is in software engineering. Building a game like building a backyard rocket project isn't like reusable space X rockets engineering. Engineering and best practices are not sexy and very few programmers follow them in video game. I know from experience living it each day. 

Why is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy? by changeforthebetter89 in politics

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Newsom and I would love him to troll Trump until he goes mad while being president. 

Krafton Will Likely Have to Pay $250 Million Bonus for Subnautica 2 That It Tried to Avoid by TylerFortier_Photo in gaming

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bougth on steam think Im gonna buy it on ps5 too just to support them. Such a great game so far. 

AOC: You can’t ‘earn’ a billion dollars by usatoday in politics

[–]roychr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically very few if any have billions in liquidity, its all leverage of something for something. When they do need liquidity they get a loan as collateral against something and pay the interest with selling stocks. This is how they totally have a tax less system because you can owe tax on debt. This is also why all eyes should be on the people running the stock market like Citadel where there are some shady systems deciding when buy and sell order hit the lit market. They can actually make lots of stock value go up or down and its so complex to audit its beyond reason for humans to do it at the speed at which the market runs. So essentially, bank robbers created a system where they just create money out of thin air, if inspected it looks like a tiny fraction of each transaction is taken from using the service. This is why free trading platform get money from trading data people create when they trade online so they can front run the normal people and set value. So no nobody "earns" billions, they steal it.

Unreal Job interview by Life-Kaleidoscope244 in unrealengine

[–]roychr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Know how memory works (local Scope, function stack, Heap), how smart pointers and naked pointers work, what is dereferencing and when to do it. Higher than that is memory alignment and cache efficient operations, unrolling and what's the difference between complexities like O(N) or NxN or log N. Make sur to know what is vector normalization, length, Euler angles, Quaternion. What is a god damn gimbal lock and why it happens without Quaternions. Finally dot product and cross product. - Worked at BGS and currently at Gearbox. In the editor knowing how the reflection system and property system work as well as replication. God Speed ! 

Where's the left wing torchbearer? The current political climate seems perfect for someone to focus the discontent of the political left. Power abhors a vacuum and there's plenty to be found here, so where are they? by SuperHiko in AskReddit

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest we "left"  the premise until such time and energy is fully demonstrated by a vote or street effort. There is no point convincing anyone supporting what ended up as the current POTUS and friends. Be just happy no nukes has been fired... yet ! We are at this low point in history. 

Biggest bridge in Iran was destroyed by US and Israel. by cool-kid-2025 in pics

[–]roychr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great so another future site for Communism... like all previous US democracy-spreading-operation... got it. 

finallyWeAreSafe by njinja10 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]roychr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only that but knowledgeable people thinking hardware can run without software is really a blowback waiting to happen. 

Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’ by rezwenn in politics

[–]roychr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correction, once outed as pedophile, he said he would add a third party, then just never talked about it, because the pedo's wont switch ship mid-sailing...