hodgepodgehomonculus

hodgepodgehomonculus, 8 months ago

I feel like Unity has just cut off the top of their user funnel with this and guaranteed their slow fall into obsolescence. Large companies using Unity won’t move away immediately, neither will many indie devs currently working on projects they are too deep into to pivot. But any new game developer will either go to Unreal or Godot if they want something ready made to ship. Companies will see what all the new talent is using, and will slowly start moving away from wanting to use Unity, since their incoming employees have other skills.

It won’t be a fast death. The “leaked” cap at 4% will quiet people down and not make anyone go bankrupt, but I do think they have irreversibly hurt their future with this wild swing.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 8 months ago

Also been enjoying Sea of Stars, it’s like the modern love child of Super Mario RPG, Lunar and Chrono Trigger

hodgepodgehomonculus, 8 months ago

Dnsimple for me. Swapped from GoDaddy like 10 years ago and haven’t really felt the need to explore elsewhere, the costs are pretty good and never had any issues.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 9 months ago

Just put the card in your wallet and scan it like a metro pass card.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 9 months ago

I love my duxtop induction, but you should make sure all your pots and pans are compatible with induction, only my cast irons work with mine.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 9 months ago

I’m using Connect on Android and it’s been pretty flawless. Until I see a reason to swap, or a less insane paid version I’ll just keep using this.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 9 months ago

Re-iterating TeaHands and Walops points. I think for me the biggest one is to start small. Like…pick something small, and then go smaller than that. I find that it can be useful to set a bronze/silver/gold endpoint for yourself:

• Bronze is something you are sure you can complete in the time frame.
• Silver is where you think you can get to if you really push yourself and nothing bad happens
• Gold is where you can go if everything goes right all the time.

This can help with motivation, because “failing” can often make you stop working because you de-motivated yourself, but not quite reaching your furthest estimation is motivation to push yourself.

Also something to keep in mind is that if you don’t make your bronze goal at first, this just means that you have a skill that needs to be improved: scoping. This is something everybody struggles with. I have been a professional gamedev for 10 years and I still scope things to how I think things should go, or I scope time to “feature-complete” (ie it ticks the all the boxes it was supposed to), but not “complete” (there might be bugs, the art doesn’t look right/etc…)

Also, version control is super useful, not just for tracking down bugs as Walop called out, but also for motivation. If you commit at least one thing at the end of everyday, you are basically keeping a journal of your work. This can be useful to look back on and realize even if you feel like you didnt get that much done, you can go back and see “hey I actually did all this stuff over the last week!”

hodgepodgehomonculus, 10 months ago

The containers are useful for having multiple accounts. Eg I have a work tab that has my work Gmail/PayPal/etc accounts logged in, so I can easily switch contexts without closing all my other tabs/windows

hodgepodgehomonculus, 10 months ago

+1 for the Sofle, I love mine, just built a wireless version so I can take it on the go.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 10 months ago

Ive tried out loads of thees knowledge base apps, but I always end up coming back to org-mode and org-roam. Once I integrated everything into Emacs, its hard to swap out to something else.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 10 months ago

I have a pretty basic org-roam setup I think. I keep my org files all in a directory called "org" that I sync with syncthing (previously I used Dropbox), and whenever I setup a new machine, I just grab that folder and put it at my user root (with Dropbox I would just symlink the folder from "/Dropbox/org" to "/org").

Now no matter what machine I am on and where I make my changes I have them all up to date.

I generally have large nodes that contain all my knowledge, and I split them up as they get too big. E.g I used to have a single UnityEngine node, but over time I have split it up into many different nodes: EditorWindow, ScriptableObjects/UnitTesting/etc..

I have at least one node for each of my projects, and there is a "Tasklist" heading in each of those project nodes which contain all my TODOs, those project files are tagged with the name of the project, so that I can easily write an org-agenda search to grab all the TODOs from a single project into a single view without anything else I have stored in the file (which includes a project synopsis, architecture notes/UML diagrams, general notes, etcc..).

Since I am already in emacs when I am writing code, this keep it very simple for me to have this information as accessible as all my code files are. When I discover a new language feature or have to look something up, I just open up the node for that language, and put that new information in, linking to the source where i grabbed that snippet, or where the full MSDN documentation is stored if I need to go more in depth that my short description I write it. Copying down the information helps me internalize it, and I can easily just search through that file for information I have stored. This means that even if I don't have internet access, I have access to all my previously looked up information I maybe have forgotten.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 10 months ago

undefined> trying to have an async conversation over time on Discord (and other IM solutions) is garbage compared to forum threads. While Discord added threading, in my experience not enough people have either adopted it ,or use it properly.

I agree wholeheartedly, Discord is great for being a live chatroom, and for chatting over voice chat with friends, for any other purpose it is awful, and I am so baffled by so many product decisions to move to Discord. I feel like its a bunch of younger kids that played with their friends on it, and it has become the Hammer they use for every communication scenario, when most things are not nails.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

Over 50% isn't too bad at this point in the game. We'll see if it drops lower over/after the weekend, but that is still a significant portion of subreddits, which are the only thing that generates content for reddit. I don't this this will actually do anything, and I am done with reddit now. I never felt attached to it, and I have found active communities on lemmy for most of my subs, and the community is way better here. I don't need reddit anymore.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

I don't have much sympathy for this. If you really just care about the community, then just move the community to lemmy/kbin/discord/irc/whatever. These people are just afraid to lose their power over the community, not the community itself.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

I don't have much sympathy for this. If you really just care about the community, then just move the community to lemmy/kbin/discord/irc/whatever. These people are just afraid to lose their power over the community, not the community itself.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

Lumberyard was just a fork of cryengine, that's not what required a rewrite. They threw away all the FPS work that they hired a company to make for them, and redid that from scratch, and then also just rewrite systems all the time because they have no plan.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

A Hat in Time and Yooka Kaylee scratch that Banjo itch pretty well.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

Star Citizen is the freelancer sequel, it's just stuck in development hell

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

I like the partial weights, it basically means that the whole community has to band together to hide something, which is essentially what they were originally supposed to be used for on reddit.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

Seconding Bloodlines, this game has stuck with me since I first played it as a child. I've been eagerly awaiting the sequel, but also dreading that it ends up being awful and ruins any chance of more games.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

Honestly this seems like the biggest downside of federation. It makes sense for like furry_gamedev to have its own community, but having multiple general purpose gamedev communities seems like unnecessarily splintering. I wonder if Lemmy will either add a way to combine them on the user end, or for the community side to be able to link themselves together.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of communities acting as entry points. Each one could act as a "node" which helps for redundancy in case one goes down, and if it only works one way then a community could remain separate if they really wanted to, but the larger community could still have posts from B showing up.

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

Nice, I've used the Deep Focus one before, I'll need to checkout Coding Mode

hodgepodgehomonculus, 11 months ago

You know there really should be, but I am awful at socials and never post. I have a mastodon (@hodgepodge_homonculus) where I very occasionally post. I did a refactor recently and that took up a bunch of my time with no visual changes so I stopped posting updates. This is a good reminder that I should get back to regularly doing that!

It's still in prototype stages, I almost have the core loop implemented. I should open up a beta or something when I get it to a good stage.