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Very well put, i agree. I have not worked with Cloud services in a while and i am sure they handle a lot of things very good now. I have done a lot of work for clients that want extreme performance. Bloomberg for example paid a huge Bonus for every ms i was able to shave off of certain financial transactions below an already tight threshold. I spent a week optimising the C++ and rewriting parts of the compiler for their platform to milk that cash cow. I also remember re-writing their ftp client and server to give them faster file transfers which looking back was a really crazy linux kernel hack that was scary as gently caress. I basically dropped some of the handshaking and headers, replaced it with a more "optimized" version. It worked remarkably well though. Downside was, it would not work on any other kernel and not to be used outside the intranet for security reasons. Amazing how much time you can save if you know where you are and who you are talking to. That was when i was 20 years younger though, today i am semi retired. Now, i know this is not something games need to concern themselves with since they would never need such optimization. You are completely right though when you say that the Hardware becomes irrelevant when you have lovely developers that lock up the CPU and IO because they never worked in a multi-threaded networked environment. We both know that CIG most likely does not have a professional on board that has any experience with real networking applications as evident by the state of the Alpha. They might have some networking guys from CryTek but that stuff is as you said trivial compared to a MMO environment and the heavy use of XML is kind of showing how inexperienced they are. It will be really fun to watch this from a technical perspective. So far i have nto seen anything that would impress me. The whole Alpha is basically a CryEngine mod with some really bad code hacks that will bite them in the rear end later on. TL;DR Back in the olden days! Get off my kernel young code monkeys!  EDIT: Catte tax
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VealCutlet posted:My contribution is one of my brothers greyhounds sleeping back when we still lived together: Awww. Ours doesn't like to climb up on furniture thankfully, we just keep beds on each floor for his highness. He does not qualify as marine life though.  Stood there for like five minutes not knowing what hellscape we had let him enter before he finally tried to find a way out of the pool.
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Toops posted:gently caress YEAH. Derek "Internet Von Clausewitz" Smart gonna rip some anuses and I'm fully torqued about it. Would you say, ohhhhhh, I dunno... RIPPED TO THE TITS about it?
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Toops posted:You're one of my faves Sami, I'll never quit you. Good. Because you complete me.
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I base my assumptions on the quality of a game by watching gameplay and thinking to myself "Does this look fun?" Case in point. I watched about ten minutes of Grow Home and bought it immediately and played it until I beat it. Watching SC I can't help but still be looking for the fun. You can't add in fun after the base mechanics are in. Maybe you can but it can't be easy. The core mechanics should be fun already. Grow Home would be fun if BUD was stuck in a box with a few enemies and a jet pack. Not for long but it would be fun. Where is the fun, CIG?
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Please go back to posting cattes, so I can compete. I really want a dog, but I need a house, not a 1200 sq ft condo.
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Gurzi is doing Mars' work Also, who the hell hates Eonwe so drat much? Go outside and take a breather, mate!
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uh big deal does Frontier have any doors like this?!? https://twitter.com/Devourlick/status/720789455775395840
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Sidelines? This is the top of the loving trenches man. I'm in the jungle, wading through snow with my wetsuit on Capping the CIGgies. Next we wipe out their RH furnished hootchs, right?
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SomethingJones posted:From Bensday with Batgirl & Ben episode 45 Man, if you need to bring back the Ming shtick to keep your sanity intact after wading through THAT poo poo all the time, well, Samizdata would be pleased.
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flyboi posted:Oh and a link I forgot - if you want to see the kind of hardware to run something on the fidelity scale multiply Eve's setup by 10 That is some beefy hardware! Amazing what they can put into 2/3U these days. I nearly died when i saw this baby, cramming 128 GPU's into a rack incl. switches. Soooo sexy! What are the chances that if this gets delivered to CIG LA, Croberts tries to plug it into a regular outlet. "Can someone bring me an adapter for this server?" Risc1911 fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Ooh, do me. I wanna see my notes. I am sure his notes on me pretty much read something like "GIANT dork. Despite all evidence, thinks he's funny."
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A Neurotic Jew posted:uh big deal does Frontier have any doors like this?!? Every dollar on the game.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:uh big deal does Frontier have any doors like this?!? it kills me that shitizens are ok with this
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Wafflz posted:it kills me that shitizens are ok with this They dream of having their own custom wank pod doors like that and want to live vicariously, so it is A-OK
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Do you think Ben could fit through those awesome doors?
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Ohtsam posted:How about the Family Matters Theme Song? Mostly piano and drums Now you're picking a guy out of my vocal range and yech those songs are awful.
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Wafflz posted:it kills me that shitizens are ok with this Just par for the course for game development. Didn't you know?
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B_of_InfoRedux posted:Just par for the course for game development. Didn't you know? Sorry, I don't know anything about game development.
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Xaerael posted:Also, I've started to keep files on everyone's animal posting. People who post creatures I find unpleasing go in my "first against the wall once I'm the ruler of the world" folder. Not that that matters, as I will beat you there as soon as my Kickstarter launches.
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Warcabbit posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF4pF0kY-4c I guess it probably needs some metal and stuff, but the combat system's working well enough that we're letting the guy who wrote it sell it. Whadda think? Niiiiiiiice, but if I wanted outside, I would GO outside, not game.
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D_Smart posted:^this Well and being morons.
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Wafflz posted:it kills me that shitizens are ok with this I'm getting flashbacks to Daikatana and the penthouse studios.
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TTerrible posted:
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ewe2 posted:Now you're picking a guy out of my vocal range and yech those songs are awful. So is star citizen
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didn't realise this was a wiki list but it's got some great stories going on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_failures_in_video_gaming
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G0RF posted:It's a quick aside to Ben - about deleting footage of "our bag joke" from that episode. It is real! So watching this thanks for this, another amazing write up. 
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$140 for a ship that doesn't exist yet for a purpose that doesn't exist yet for a game that is 95% non existent yet and 5% crap and has already raised far more funds that were supposedly needed and shitizens genuinely think big publishers are greedy. There isn''t enough  in the world.
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Hi guys sorry I fell behind the thread again, but I was busy earning my shillizenship.
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lazorexplosion posted:$140 for a ship that doesn't exist yet for a purpose that doesn't exist yet for a game that is 95% non existent yet and 5% crap and has already raised far more funds that were supposedly needed and shitizens genuinely think big publishers are greedy. There isn''t enough they got some cool new doors though
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lazorexplosion posted:$140 for a ship that doesn't exist yet for a purpose that doesn't exist yet for a game that is 95% non existent yet and 5% crap and has already raised far more funds that were supposedly needed and shitizens genuinely think big publishers are greedy. There isn''t enough Thanks for summarising 3200 pages and six months of my life.
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peter gabriel posted:I can imagine a Sea Cucumber being up for it The thread is good again as of this post thank you for the comedy  I'm assuming there aren't more insufferable 6 paragraph posts about who-gives-a-gently caress between now and the last post
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E:D's cool-game-stuff announcement and CIG's new-loving-door announcement. Unreal.
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lazorexplosion posted:$140 for a ship that doesn't exist yet for a purpose that doesn't exist yet for a game that is 95% non existent yet and 5% crap and has already raised far more funds that were supposedly needed and shitizens genuinely think big publishers are greedy. There isn''t enough
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Google Butt posted:you're an adult? fixed.
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Wafflz posted:it kills me that shitizens are ok with this i look forward to reading the hilarious justification responses from the shitizens as to why this is needed.
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Goobs posted:i look forward to reading the hilarious justification responses from the shitizens as to why this is needed. 
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Langosta Paleface posted:E:D's cool-game-stuff announcement and CIG's new-loving-door announcement. Unreal. I look forward to a surprise big announcement on RtV tomorrow as they once again badly attempt to grasp for relevance
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obviously it's to study the operation of a working door in order to increase fidelity of all doors in their game
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If it doesn't have something to do with fixing or repairing your jpegs they will have fallen out of their routine, which I can only assume means a collapse would follow shortly. And I would praise the heavens.
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