It’s because the showrunners of The Pitt worked on E.R and were in talks with Crichton’s widow to make a sequel, but the network didn’t want to pay the royalties she was asking for. So they pivoted to making an original medical drama that was very similar to E.R, hence her suing them.
It’s not a common term outside its niche. If you’re not in the industry, you’ll mostly see it used in pull request reviews by people who have professional backgrounds. Looks like it actually originated with Google.
“Looks good to me.” It’s a standard phrase used when signing off on changes.
If Arkane’s current Marvel project is close to shipping, this might be Ubisoft gambling that it’ll pay for itself and give them a little more time before bankruptcy.
Many cities have public transit in the form of busses and/or subway systems, but regular street traffic still exists and car ownership has so much cultural inertia that it’ll probably take decades to wean people off of them.
However, that doesn’t mean we should refuse to improve cars in the meantime just because they’re not the transport solution we’d prefer.
I remember watching a video showing how increased reaction speed can virtually eliminate traffic jams (I believe it was this one?). It’d require nearly all vehicles to be automated, but someday city traffic might flow smoothly even during the busiest of rush hours.
Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers
Are PDF viewers a common student project? I always assumed the file standard must be a labyrinthine mess given all the features they’ve crammed into it over the years. Or is there some popular library that takes 99% of the work out of it?
First time reading RPS? They’re what’s left of a humor blog after all the actual humorists left. It’s nothing but awkward attempts at randomness and making constant references to the time when they were still good.
It sucks, because 15-20 years ago they were one of the best sites to follow for PC gaming. Now they’re a hollow shell of their former self that thinks being “quirky” and filling their posts with impenetrable in-jokes is a substitute for good writing.
It’s one of my favorite early access games of the past few years. My only problem with it is that they give you an awesome backstab alongside stealth mechanics that rival Thief, then make half of the enemies past the tutorial immune to stabbing. My preferred way to play stealth games is to clear out everyone without ever being spotted, but this makes that playstyle impossible.
The Dwarf in the Flask
Nomunculus
I remember reading that the guy behind the original overarching plotline (where the Reapers’ motivation for culling spacefaring civilizations was preventing early entropy of the universe due to overuse of Element Zero) left Bioware after EA bought the company, then the Mass Effect 3 script got leaked several months before release so the ending was hastily rewritten.
I’ve also heard that due to said leak the rewrite was done in a locked room by just two people, a writer and a producer, with no input or feedback from the rest of the writing staff. Given how abrupt and out of place the ending is (and what we have now is the expanded, retconned version - it was much worse at launch), I can easily believe that rumor.
It’s mostly a problem for indie games where novel gameplay is often the main selling point. Imagine if a hundred Katamari Damacy or Patapon clones came out months before the originals, and whether they’d have made the same impact when they finally released in that scenario.
Clones are already a huge problem in the independent games space (see the myriad of “dig for buried treasure in a backyard” games last year). AI gives cloners the ability to churn them out so rapidly they can steal the original’s thunder entirely.
I’m worried that companies will stop releasing demos again out of fear of AI-driven clones stealing their work and beating them to the market.
Bastion’s entire soundtrack was amazing, but the end credits song (especially the live jam version they released on their channel later) has been stuck in my head ever since the game came out.
“The player can look and be anywhere in the world at any time, and the traditional ways of doing optimizations on a game is knowing that the player is only in this space, and that means the rest of the world can just be forgotten.”
You can tell it’s been a while since he’s been in the trenches, because over the last decade or two game technology has moved away from this paradigm and into heavy use of level-of-detail and asset streaming. Vision-based culling still happens, but it’s done at the engine/shader level and not something level designers are forced to laboriously set up triggers for anymore.
Not that it matters anyway. I can’t imagine an amount of improvements and visual upgrades that would prevent even the largest Black & White world from fitting entirely into memory at all times.
The real reason chefs use coarse kosher salt is because its sharp edges let it penetrate deep into the food using this method, like a rain of tiny shuriken.
Well yeah, that’s to be expected. Chris Roberts wanted to be a big Hollywood writer/director even more than he wanted to be a game developer, and then people handed him hundreds of millions of dollars. Is it any wonder he spent a fortune hiring all his favorite actors?
Or it could usher in an age of cloud-only apps where customers don’t have access to the binaries so they can’t reverse engineer them.
CJ ate too many burgers so he can only fat roll now.