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a big part of the complexity in programming (especially game programming) comes from balancing flexibility with speed (both implementation and performance). At some point, decisions are made weighing out risks, priorities and plans that will solidify a part of the code base in favor of speed (or some other factor) at the cost of flexibility.

this happens all the time

A lot of the reasons a solo dev or modder seems like they can progress so fast changing things is they aren’t facing a lot of the same factors and they aren’t needing to go through any rigorous testing.

At some point in the process, there’s too much risk and and overhead involved to make any change. This is totally normal from triple A down to game jams.

And, you can’t ignore that some of these things come down to game design. A change like you’re suggesting, just adding a light, can negatively affect the balance of things even if it seems like it wouldn’t.

6 months doesn’t sound unrealistic for re-doing a menu system. Designing, reworking art, re-programming workflows and then testing everything can take several months. Even just the logistics of releasing it after it’s done, that alone can take a month.

Yes, it is possible to setup everything in a very generic way that is data-driven, but that also is a lot of work that has to be prioritized with the scope of the project and the team members available.

supposed to be basic launch features

isn’t this very subjective and dependent on the game and scale of success?

the creator of deus ex coined the term immersive sim shortly after it was released

that’s a lie. They knowingly made something up. The AI doesn’t know what it’s saying so it’s not lying. “Hallucinating” isn’t a perfect word but it’s much more accurate than “lying.”

could be dangerous. collars on their own can kill a cat if they don’t break away and the cat gets stuck on something.

apologies for the YouTube links but I really dig [this one] (https://youtu.be/0nBYI0owpeY?si=uf8046PS4jv28y5l) by Rifti Beats. Every track is gold on that.

This one is pretty good and has neat, nostalgic visuals to go with it.

If you like a little bit more trippy synthwave style this one is very cool too. There’s an FF8 one too.

have you listened to ff7 lofi remixes on YouTube though? 👀

it’s been a long time since I took biology but my gut keeps telling me that this isn’t some binary thing… like, all these suggestions we follow to me seem to be about minimizing exposure… like if I get 100 individual covid viruses in me through a cheap, cloth mask, my body can fight it off. And that may be a different outcome if I didn’t have a mask at all and got 1,000 individual viruses in me.

I don’t know, I’m not a biologist, I just don’t get how everything is constantly framed as all or nothing. it doesn’t make sense to me.

I work from home and after the shift to remote work it didn’t take long for me to pretty much stop using my gaming pc because at the end of a work day I kinda want to be out of my computer room.

Most of the time I’m using it on the couch or lounging around the house. I have brought it on planes (flown like 14 times so far this year) and it’s not that bad but I guess that may vary from person to person.

It’s not for everyone but it fits my needs pretty perfectly.

I’ve been using this all day and haven’t seen any ads 👀