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shram86

@shram86@mastodon.gamedev.place

owner of @retrodev and #retrodev discord.

game dev. Middle-aged ASD diagnosee.
Writing credits: Hellgate: London, Shroud of the Avatar, La Mulana EX

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gabrielesvelto, (edited ) to rust
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If you're doing a lot of work in C/C++/Rust consider using sccache to cache compilations. It's easy to set up and will save you a lot of time and a huge amount of power.

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache

As an example this is just a couple of hours of work on Firefox, it saved me from re-running the compiler almost 90% of the time.

shram86,
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@gabrielesvelto this is terrible advice unless you are actively working on Mozilla.

Why would I use a tool explicitly developed by them for their own internal software with my extremely delicate low level, hardware optimized code?

Yuck.

realtegan, to random
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For Americans looking at people posting in Celsius temperatures: don't try to convert, just remember this...

Zero is freezing,
Ten is not.
Twenty is warm and
Thirty is hot
(And forty is DAMNED hot)

shram86,
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@realtegan I remember 20 is room temperature and 40 is bath temperature.

shram86, to gamedev
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Single file D88 (PC-8801 disk format) tool for creating, editing, and adding data to disk files.

Has been working for me for a couple years, quickly ported the code from python to c++03 for portability.

#retrodev #gamedev #pc8801 #NEC #retrogaming #z80

https://github.com/bferguson3/pc88-asm/blob/master/tools/maked88.cpp

darylbaxter, to Starwars
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To mark #Maythe4th , here are 4 + 1 #StarWars games I play often — and you should too.
#gaming #newsletter
https://darylbaxter.com/may-the-fourth-be-with-these-star-wars-games/

shram86,
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@darylbaxter don't bother advertising on fedi if it's for subscribers only. Blocked

OutofPrintArchive, to Playstation
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Still on my Ys Memories of Celceta trip so when I was shopping for harder to find, but cheap Visual Novels and RPGs, I had to add this one to the list.
€33 brand new, so I'll call that a steal. 🥰



shram86,
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@OutofPrintArchive make sure you play through twice to get the best ending, it's worth it

mahryekuh, to random
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:q! For life

shram86,
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@mahryekuh why not :wq, you're just canceling the git commit with :q!

djlink, to random
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shram86,
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@djlink one plus one!

djlink, to random
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compile warnings should be enforced as compile errors!

shram86,
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@djlink spoken like someone who has never encountered a warning bug in a compiler

shram86,
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@djlink I have to set them to ignore one by one

gimulnautti, to mathematics
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people:

I feel there has to be a way of training neural networks to recognise the influence of their training data on the output.

This would probably include training a complementary indexing network + database that would then ”reverse-training” resolve and offer at some predetermined accuracy the -viable sources for each generated

I need some help though. A proof would show the companies know it can be done, but they just don’t want to.

shram86,
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@gimulnautti considering all of the Metadata that goes into every single pixel this isn't beyond the realm of possibility at all, but it will never happen even if you perfect it. Nobody is going to willingly prove that they plagiarized all of their art.

shram86,
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@gimulnautti I'm all in.

djlink, to random
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ok but does your github contributions page looks like this?

shram86,
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@djlink this isnt funny, repos only do this when under extreme stress

godotengine, to godot
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Don't do this, people. It helps no one and if anything pushes people away from our community.

shram86,
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@godotengine this is literally any question about anything at all on stackoverflow

djlink, to random
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shram86,
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@djlink why?

NASA still uses floppies

mekkaokereke, to random
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Honest question for white people that don't consider themselves racist:

White nationalists have been vocal about their attacks on DEI. These are literally the same people that talk about Charlottesville, Jan 6th, and ethnic cleansing.

They've laid out exactly how they plan to destroy DEI.

  1. Make false claims that DEI is about giving unqualified Black people an unfair advantage

  2. Work with racist politicians to use this as a pretext to make all DEI programs illegal.

1/n

shram86,
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@mekkaokereke It genuinely confuses and shocks me that the default isn't to assume that everyone is against this nonsense - and its just a small percentage of bumpkins you don't see.

Even being asked to say, "anti-DEI is stupid" feels childish, because, duh?

shram86,
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@mekkaokereke @bluGill I certainly do.

However this pivoted from "idiot whites current dogwhistle is DEI" to black genocide which I have no right to comment on.

SirLich, to gamedev
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What it's like to make games with a full-time job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pMsgYDHgos

shram86,
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@SirLich i feel this so strongly. difference between wealth and money is how most games actually get made.

Kierkegaanks, to random
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So Lizzo expressed basically that she concedes to being canceled and quits. Good job random bloodthirsty mob. Give eachother a celebratory reacharound.

shram86,
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@RickiTarr @Kierkegaanks do you know the whole story? its basically SA, and definitely SA from the other girls perspective, so is this a believe women moment, or a "fuck wokeness" moment?

autism101, to actuallyautistic
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As autistic people, we don’t need to apologize to others for our differences.

Illustration by Izzy @autieselfcare

@actuallyautistic

shram86,
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@autism101 @actuallyautistic No to 2 and 4. Just because things frustrate and upset us does not give us the right to take it out on others. If we are made to apologize for such things then we clearly overstepped some social bound.

The world does not revolve around you or I.

djlink, to random
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It almost never happens but I love when I find a perfectly good case for a goto: to avoid code clutter. I don't think I never used it in C# until today. Nice!

shram86,
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@djlink I love goto. Languages that support it rule

timClicks, to random
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Difficult for a job ad to have a red flag in every sentence, but not impossible apparently.

shram86,
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@timClicks and the pay is a joke if they want to be "competitive"

godotengine, to random
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Godot is just checking in! How is the games industry doing?

shram86,
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@godotengine Horrible

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, picking up from my video game post yesterday, I'm curious:

When you play video games, rpgs, ect, where you get to choose your character, do you tend to choose a character of the same sex, the opposite sex, non-binary, anthropomorphic, or a mysterious 4th option?

If you want to share screenshots of character builds I would enjoy that!

shram86,
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@RickiTarr 50/50 male or female. Always comfortable as either.

fell, (edited ) to gamedevelopment
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"Use GLTF for your 3D assets. It's based on JSON. And JSON is great!" they said.

Well, I regret to inform you that the majority of the game's asset loading times are parsing JSON.

Yes, decoding meshes, textures and animations and uploading them to the GPU are all faster than parsing the stupid JSON. I hate it.

shram86,
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@fell Do you have more information on this process? To my knowledge basically all engines use glb internally.

froyok, to random
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I wonder if anybody tried to use FXAA before doing display mapping BUT by still applying and reverting a curve ? 🤔

Aka:
1 - Switch from HDR to SDR
2 - Apply FXAA
3 - Switch back from SDR to HDR
4 - Apply regular post-process stuff

shram86,
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@froyok fascinating thread. I vote for make your own tooling, as if it doesn't exist, someone else would probably use it too (spoken as someone who has written many tools that I doubt anybody used)

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