Bro I started my professional game development career in 1996 and retired in 2015. I played video games in the early 70’s that existed before Pong. My father had one of the 5 supercomputers in the world in the meteorological service of Canada, where I used to hang out with nerds that would let me play with shit, and play the games they made when they weren’t modeling weather. I have studied nothing in my entire life more than the tapestry of what we call game development. So kindly stop.

This is one of the stupidest comments I’ve ever heard really Rre video games, no country has produced more innovation in the space than the Japanese.

They snuck them in during some AB testing like 5 years ago, they didn’t stick though obv

None of you can hear. You’re all so afraid. There is OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE but you’re so locked into your script there’s no talking to any of you. It’s so sad to see you limit yourselves. But in a way it’s revelatory of the truth I’m speaking… the “i’m a porgammer” because ya downloaded other people’s work is over, and the path is open to those ready to work and innovate. Good luck, but you don’t need that because you’ve already decided you’ve lost.

I’ve been retired for a decade, moron

I was a mf’ing hard core rider of the tech boom, was a sought-after consultant, and I and my colleagues rode the razor’s edge of what was possible in online gaming for 2 decades… and I can tell you now, AI presents to creative individuals who have a clue, the greatest opportunity ever handed to them. Look at how AI destroys things and “invent” solutions and you’ll pay yourself well.

Now more than ever a “programmer” is a guy that can plug other people’s modules together and pray it works. Notice that now and git gud at what you do.

Very valid, I also noticed he goes off talking about the motivations for a cartridge-based deployment system, and he misses the mark completely.

STFU

Just on the issue of disc rot, I feel like I have something to add to the conversation that’s more than a personal anecdote.

For many years I worked as a game developer and I did tons of multimedia software, it would not be an exaggeration to say that in my career I personally oversaw the burning of over 100,000 discs, and that’s not counting manufacturing or high-run final product.

There’s actually a pretty high failure rate, even on new disks. Most that are about 7 years have a 50% failure rate, anything after 10 years if you’re lucky you can use software.

In the above examples I’m talking about discs that the consumer grade hardware can burn. It doesn’t matter that we used the highest quality equipment, it really doesn’t change the formula. Commercially made ones have a much higher durability, somewhere around double.

So basically any disk you own, regardless of where and when it was made, you’ve got 15 to 20 years at best and then it’s nothing but a crap shoot.

I was a professional developer in a wide range of gaming areas for about 20 years… Looking back, I can honestly say that 95% of the work I did ended up as a vapor… The 5% that made it to market were so fleeting…

I derived my satisfaction not from completing projects, but solving the underlying problems. That kept me very engaged.

But yeah, not everybody sees things this way.

You’re wasting your breath. These people are smart enough to know that you can connect (hell, even to an ad-hoc network if you’re so f’king paranoid) once to FW update then hard-reset. These people are just being pissy. They also know that “IF dIsPLaY PIcTuRe No BUg PosSiBLe” are absolutely lying to themselves because they’re not actually that technically illiterate.

I hate it when people pretend to be dumb just to continually underscore a feeble point.

There’s lots of different approaches, but I’ve had the same problem.

Steam lets you exclude tags, but they limit how many tags you can exclude so it’s basically a useless feature.

I go to steamDB and it has a ton of sorting options, including being able to exclude “Lovecraftian”, “visual novel”, “dating*”, etc

There’s also a great browser extension for Firefox which is my preferred browser. It enhances the Steam homepage (depending on how you configure it) and lets you do lots of things like quick-sell cards and other stuff.

Facebook was a wonderful tool for me for quite a while. It let me build a digital list of my irl “friends” and then I got watch over the years as they posted their most vile and ill-conceived innermost thoughts.

An excellent tool for seeing what people really think and feel when they’re not “performing” in social settings. Curiously people don’t understand that public posts to a public SM site aren’t anonymous but there’s enough separation from the “real world” that lots of people forget that.

Just sitting back and watching gave me a lot of insight as to how awful people really are when they “feel like” they aren’t being watched.

Squarez Deluxe (which is now Freeware!)

It’s a thinking man’s Tetris and about 100x more rewarding to play

Your ability to connect disconnected concepts is legendary. Good luck with your life lol

I blame Toyota for how poorly my Chevy ran.

Wow, wild, uneducated thread.

Racism isn’t based on race, it’s based on power. That’s why America is still a race-based society in late 2024

I have 400+ games from Epic and I’ve given them $0.00

I will never play any of the games. Ever.

Fuck Epic.

I’ll literally buy a game on Steam even if I own it on Epic. Fuck Epic.

I love the expression! Sounds close to “out of steam” in English which is used similarly… nothing underlying has changed but the enthusiasm or “special something” is gone

4000+ hours in (edit a strategy game) as I used to be the top streamer until the publishing company fucked me around. 3500+ in Diablo 3 as I was able to Leaderboard with a solo Monk… LB’ed and didn’t earn any XP in groups… all solo!