he was like 24-25 when Wolfenstein 3D came out (having designed like half the levels) and continued on, being an integral part of Doom, Doom 2, Hexen and Quake

can’t both be true though?

a comment on that site really condescendingly claims this is how he would have handled it and that a script could be written in half a day to do the work.

my understanding is that an emulator effectively recreates the hardware’s different components in software so that from the game’s “perspective” it’s running on a real machine more or less.

This process instead decompiles the game code and recompiles for a new target machine.

I suspect one can’t just pump out a script in an afternoon to do this, but I am curious what is the complexity here?

Sonic & Chill

I can’t stop listening to this specific one, it’s been months and everyday I listen to it at work

these methods don’t account for all the variables that reality has. People across all boarding groups will be late, there will be people that need assistance from flight attendants, there will be people who want to switch seats to be near their family, there will be people who can’t sit in the exit row, there will be people who need to use the rest room, there will be people who’ve never been on a plane before.

There is no great, full proof way to handle it because people are unpredictable

I flew around 26 times domestically last year and most of the flights ran out of space. It’s really common for the airline to ask for volunteers to check their carry-ons. If you aren’t in the first 2/3rds of people on the plane, you’ll likely be forced to check your carry-ons.

This problem has gotten worse over the years because airlines have increased the prices for checking your luggage so many people opt to bring carry-ons instead.

but not everyone wants to buy yet (younger people, people who want flexibility, people who know they are moving [only in that city for school], etc).

People don’t want to buy a house because it’s either unaffordable, unavailable or the process takes too long. If you eliminate those aspects of home ownership, people wouldn’t mind and maybe even prefer owning a home for short periods of time.

I’ve been mostly making games for fun and am fairly risk adverse so am planning on sticking with a stable job and making games in my free time.

It’s discouraging, but it is reality. I still want to try, but definitely not putting more than one egg in this basket.

I’ll admit I’m knowingly doing the following haha

hopefully it’ll at least be a positive experience and I learn something from it

I’ve been doing itch and jams for a little bit, even managed to win one once. I’ve learned a lot but can’t shake this feeling that I’m just making free games for itch. You might be right though… whatever kind of sea of games I think itch is, the mobile sea may be a lot worse.

ooph, I just started trying to make a mobile game in Jan 😬

this makes so much sense, how do you know all this?

it’s 2024

it’s a tough choice but I made a similar one. I shave my head every week or so with clippers with the smallest guard. I don’t like how shiny my head is sometimes but eh, overall it saves a lot of time and money. It’s not a big deal but society makes it feel like it is, especially if you’re a woman

aren’t black holes just dense objects? They aren’t just stuck in one spot in space…

obviously it depends on your requirements but what I meant was you can’t compare them at the DB level within queries… you have to pull the data out into your application layer to use your date library.

The problem there is you effectively need to grab more data than you need to answer queries like “which record has the most recent date” or “give me all the records between the values of the result of this subquery”. it can quickly become a massive bottleneck and may even prevent you from doing certain types of queries at all due to memory limitations.

you wouldn’t be able to sort or compare in your queries though

The demonic cat-sith called Big Ears could be summoned (Gaelic taghairm Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [tɤrʲɤm]) to appear and grant any wish to those who took part in the ceremony. The ceremony required practitioners to burn the bodies of cats over the course of four days and nights.

wow

my childhood friend called him “seh-pirth”

have you seen Forbrydelsen / The Killing?

how do you test a mattress?