Recently started Indivisible. I’m really enjoying the gameplay, and the animation, art direction, and characters are wonderful.

There are so many things like this. Billionaires (or even multimillionaires) could create an endowment to fund operations for museums like this until the end of time. It was already running on a smaller budget, perhaps $1M or so per year. Even a $20M endowment would probably be enough to sustain it forever. With $30M they could probably afford to expand it a bit. One wonders why Allen didn’t set up a trust to do exactly that while he was alive.

I visited the LCM multiple times, and was amazed at how everything was working and interactive. I think it would have been a natural evolution to split the space for early video game consoles as well, perhaps up through the PS1. That might have brought in more (and younger) visitors.

They might just want key staff to stay off recruiters’ radar before development is complete. Doing a high-profile project with Nintendo will probably raise the profile of their studio quite a bit.

My screen is 5K, but I have it scaled up to the second largest size so my eyes don’t hate me.

It’s because kids people in their 20s are the ones making these games. At work I’m constantly asking them to increase their font size when they’re screen sharing.

C

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

printf(“Hello, world”);

return 0;

}

C++

#include <iostream>

int main() {

std::cout << “Hello, world” << std::endl;

return 0;

}

According to people who are way more interested in this than I am, there was a bunch of licensed software in 5 and 6.

tl;dr for article and comments:

Microsoft mangled arrays and code comments with ASCII extended characters into UTF-8 encoding, which makes building many of these files impossible without a lot of extra work. This was mistakenly attributed to Git.

The timestamps for each file are also not preserved, which is debatably a valid criticism of Git (original file timestamps can technically be preserved on an archive like this, but it requires a large amount of work to line up those times and the correct commit times programmatically).

Several Microsoft employees involved in this project appeared in the comments and offered to work directly with the author to correct the character encoding issues. One Microsoft employee indicated that historical timestamps could likely not be included due to Microsoft corporate policy around personally identifiable information.

Everyone gangsta till Sharkey shows up

Discord did not answer questions about whether these users were repeat copyright infringers, had received any previous warnings, or were forwarded any takedown requests.

Yeah look, this isn’t how DMCA takedowns work. Why would anyone think you get a practice round when it comes to copyright infringement?

And it doesn’t matter for Discord if it was valid DMCA or not; Discord isn’t going to take up your cause with their legal team. Why would anyone think they would? That’s the job of the entity that was acted on.

(And let’s set aside that there’s a good chance it probably was valid for the reasons they briefly alluded to in the article. It just takes one person doing something dumb.)

Blaming Discord is silly. Any corporation would do the same. Don’t depend on a corporation providing a service for free if you don’t want to be subject to their judgment. There’s a reason we’re all on Lemmy.

Wow! This is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen in recent memory. Subscribed to see more updates about this

It was Compaq. Incidentally, that story was the basis for the first season of Halt and Catch Fire.

There would never have been any 32-bit versions: no Windows NT, no Windows 95; no Explorer, no Start menu or taskbars. That, in turn, might well have killed off Apple as well. No iPod, no iPhone…

Not following the logic here. Why does Microsoft’s choice in 32-bit OS kill Apple?

They literally released a new game six months ago

Shantae (GBC). Don’t get too excited, Shantae fans: while the package is great (music, graphics, certain aspects of the game design), I think the core gameplay is bad. That is to say, as a platformer, I think it fails. But clearly the characters and idea were strong enough that they were able to improve upon the other aspects later.

This is exactly right. Having worked in these environments before (and currently), no one wants to stick their neck out if their head is just more likely to be chopped off. As a result, only the projects that are least objectionable to a committee of decision makers (so formed to reduce risk) move forward.

tl;dr: A handful of games industry analysts share ungrounded guesswork.

One is cited as “independent games analyst Pelham Smithers,” which conjures a very clear image in my mind that Midjourney obviously agrees with.

https://ibb.co/gTLS2c9

The reason I said Skyrim or Fallout 4 was not to invoke exploration, but all the typical trappings of a Bethesda game, the quests, the engine, the mechanics that are sort of vaguely interesting but don’t always hang together well, etc.

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How did you feel about Skyrim and Fallout 4? Because it’s the same game, but in space.

I would give it a B. The sheer size of the game is impressive (I completed 200 plot quests), and several of the quests, or at least the ideas contained within, are memorable—particularly some of the side quests. The ship builder is also a highlight, though I wish Bethesda would fix their janky camera issues. And the FPS gun mechanics are better than in their previous games.

But they also tried way too hard to make this a game people would want to play endlessly in new game plus, and there’s just not enough variety or real consequences to justify that. Once you play through it, that’s basically it. Sure, you could support this faction over that faction, but it doesn’t actually make any material difference in the game until what is effectively an ending clip show. They might have 120 star systems and thousands of worlds to land on, but one can only stand so much same-y autogenerated content. This is why I don’t play looter shooters.

And for a game about space travel, they really made actually traveling in space pretty unimportant via fast travel. Many of the systems, like outpost building, don’t really have a point, and the companions, while much better realized than Skyrim, are still not quite at the Mass Effect level. Don’t get me started on how the characters don’t seem to be situationally aware or adjust their tone or responses based on the world. There are only so many stop-everything heart-to-heart chats I can have during a life-or-death firefight.

But like I said, overall there’s enough there that I found worthwhile. Most people won’t spend as long on it as I did, but I think it’s a pleasant way to spend 50-150 hours.