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bitinn

@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place

Trying my best to talk more about gamedev | currently Tech Artist and R&D at an AAA publisher.

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bitinn, to random
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By far the biggest advantage of Mac hardware these days: low power consumption during idle and light use*.

(*with Safari, Telegram app, Transmission app, Mail client, Steam client, and idle game Rusty's Retirement open)

godotengine, to godot
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PSA! 🚨

We are introducing minor compatibility breakage in shaders to bring you an import optimization.

Read more: https://godotengine.org/article/introducing-reverse-z/

bitinn,
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@godotengine I haven’t been this excited for a shader breakage for a while.

bitinn,
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@godotengine but but, how did you do it on OpenGL ES / Android? I thought it wasn’t possible?

bitinn,
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@godotengine ok answering my own question, looks like reverse z is possible on GLES3 but because of [-1,1] z range there isn’t much depth precision to be gained.

Still I think this is better than having no reverse z on OpenGL ES (eg. Unity).

YoSoyFreeman, to random
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I'm physically well. I just don see much future. I can't make Godot work as i need, My pc takes almost an hour to open an unreal project and unity... is unity.

I use godot because is very light. My pc cant handle much more.

They denied my disability again this year, so in general futures seems very dark.

I been trying to be positive, but truth is that being poor and disable is almost a guarantee to keep being poor and disabled.

bitinn,
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@samf @YoSoyFreeman same, I am going to say it will feel a lot better if you can release something and reach an audience that enjoy your game (go charge for it, even).

For most people, it would be their first impression with your games, keep trying with new audience, you will get there.

(If you want to work on something more defined and get payed for the time being, there should be no shortage of remote gamedev gigs.)

bitinn, to random
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Hot take:

Not nearly enough farming games on Steam for macOS.

And hear me out, macOS users are like the prime victims of white-collar job exploitation, most of us just want to live on a farm virtually as an escape.

It is a good business :)

https://store.steampowered.com/category/farming/

bitinn,
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Also don't worry about the real farms and villages competing with you. Most macOS users won't go anywhere near farming tools, as that will be too exhausting.

bitinn, to random
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Do you think there is a silent war going on between walled gardens where each data scraping team is trying to automate scraping of other platform’s copyrighted data, disregarding any TOS?

I think there is🌝

bitinn,
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Still waiting for a LLM model that is trained on public domain text only: it will have all the knowledge from 1800s but have no idea how mobile phone works.

We should be able to replace the Supreme Court judges with this model quite easily.

bitinn, to random
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I hate that now I have to doubt if my yogurt had been sufficiently pasteurized and whether I should go full UHT only🥛

bitinn, to random
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Weird, “CIA-funded” independent media reporting on IDF’s atrocities, I wonder how tankies feel about this:

https://mstdn.social/@Bellingcat/112352945835844469

bitinn,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9q8dsW9Qg

bitinn, (edited ) to random
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Does your IT department setup machines with many TBs of HDD that you almost never use because SSD is required to open your project repo with a reasonable speed?

bitinn, to random
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Free market in ideology: consumers can pick the best phone, social network, health care and education that fit their own needs.

Free market in practice: consumers can pick the least shitty phone, social network, health care and education if they can afford them.

bitinn, to random
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What Mastodon did in their announcement of a US non-profit is a PR disaster.

If you are still arguing people don’t get how open source work or people are entitled to free support, you are reading the negative responses very wrong.

If Mastodon needs legal expertise to make them viable as tax-deductible in the US to make up for the lost of Germany non-profit status, they should say so at the front, not as some addendums in the latter passage.

bitinn,
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More importantly, the blog post show a lack of understanding on why mastodon continues to be so resilient.

No, it is not the decentralized protocol alone. It is people having a fundamental distrust of centralized + venture backed services, coming together to keep these instances alive.

You don’t go about posting a board of directors without explaining why: 1. they are so important in your missions that such a board is needed, 2. they bring unique assets that cannot be replaced by others.

bitinn,
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Anyway, if I don’t care about fediverse I wouldn’t be on here. There are enough centralized services with great content to keep my free time occupied already.

The reason I am on here: is to prove fediverse works and I for one will support it.

All in all, if the Mastodon non-profit board of directors is like the OpenAI board of directors (see how they ended up in recent news), I want to know who are in the driver seat at the end of the day.

/end

bitinn, to random
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Finally someone had make a good desktop idle game for macOS, and yes it can run as a sidebar.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666510/Rustys_Retirement/

bitinn,
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Not nearly enough games try to do this since late 90s desktop pets and 00s web game boom.

bitinn, to random
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Domain name registrars are something you rarely want to think about. And when you have to think about them, it is because your own provider have gone very mad.

.com renewal price at $23.99 with gandi
wikipedia states Gandi had been acquired twice in the past 5 years.
a pie chart of commonly suggested domain name registrars, gandi is slipping to 5%, top recommends are Cloudflare, namecheap and porkbun.

bitinn, to random
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Telegram: let's post some nazi shits and burn our servers down, that will make our users more willing to pay for NFT.

bitinn, to random
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Our world is set up in a way that, a few heads of engineering in the top companies can decide they want to care a bit less about user experience and a bit more about other metrics, then the snowball of this decision will cause billions of users to have much less useful softwares/services in 3-5 years.

Fun.

demofox, to random
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One of our cats eating the dogs food while the dog begs from our son.

bitinn,
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@demofox cat: what, I am dogfooding

bitinn, to random
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“And Up First's Steve Inskeep is on a reporting trip in China, where economic pessimism is rising amid frayed U.S. ties.”

(yes, this feel is real among many middle class and higher income folks, especially in the cities.)

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1198912448/arizona-fake-electors-trump-immunity-china-04-25-2024

bitinn, to random
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Hear me out Sweetie, here in the motherland, we call it a feature, not a security flaw:

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/04/vulnerabilities-across-keyboard-apps-reveal-keystrokes-to-network-eavesdroppers/

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