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 compression might ruin it, but Street Fighter 3 pixel art is just top tier. After this SF4 went 3D, which looks good but it's just not the same.

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 hum.... is duckduckgo broken for anyone else? 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 Does that count each platfo... 
 @5e96eede yeah for sure all, I guess SKUs would be a better name for this. 
 A $15 microtransaction horse on WoW made more money than StarCraft 2. No wonder companies are betting so much on micro transactions. People complain but apparently it takes tons of money

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 It's Mario Wonder launch week!!! 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 just turned off the lights ... 
 @5f6db9c6 put some candles! 
 Part of being a kid is being scared of the dark, part of being an adult is being scared of the light bill. 
 On Return to Monkey Island we had a lot of Zoom and Slack calls. Other than one team meeting none... 
 @de22920b people ask me that often, about my rule of no camera as much as possible, but it so much better for everyone. any computer screenshare for work/code/assets is the only video I use 
 Scooters aren't a new invention, they had them in 1915, called Autoped. They had an engine and could go to ~32kmh (20 mph). A lot of times things fall out of fashion and return later, more modernized and just seems new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped

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 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 most of classmate used git ... 
 I've lately played a whole bunch of games where I loved boss fights instead of hating them.

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 @338e8289 which ones? I'm curious since I often find most frustrating as well 
 Dave Plummer, the original creator of Windows Task Manager mades a guided tour through the source code of the original manager.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YGD94lSor8

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 Unity docs claim scriptableObjects have Awake method, but I have this one project here where Awake/Start is never called. However OnEnable is :S

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 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 nice camera you got there 
 @1d325feb it’s an old Sony HX90V I got used many years ago to visit Japan. Pretty good still. 
 Anyone else has “that” chunk of code or project from a few years back, in the back of their head, just taunting that it could be refactor/optimized? Like it’s not even a problem, but part of you just wants to fix it with what you know now, just me? Cool cool 
 this is so impressive, Mega Textures running on a Nintendo 64, ~40MB of textures streaming to N64 4MB or ram. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf036fO-ZUk #gamedev

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 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 I prefer the old, retro, ru... 
 @7939d6e4 I prefer wired as well but gotta admire the convenience 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 glue the top part. I end up... 
 @753983c1 thanks, I actually glued the top part :) I didn't for bottom, seems like it should hold. you had to glue bottom? 
 this #LDjam theme is quite good. I can't enter as I've work to do but gotta say it's the most interesting theme to work with I've seen in a while. 
 so hum... Discord is blocked because of cloudflare? so many websites connecting through this service always felt like a bad idea to me, if this goes down, a lot of stuff also goes down.

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 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 tell me that is not real 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 By all accounts I've heard,... 
 @8acd711c that’s true yeah. But overall seems like he was indeed a good boss. You read the book Ask Iwata? 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 he also lowered the salary ... 
 @b95cda57 I saw that news, they want to keep morale up, they have the money for it, good for them, that will bring loyalty and people will wanna do good for them and the company, it's simple. 
 let's never forget this is how the great Iwata handled the poor reception of Wii U, not with layoffs, but by cutting his own wage.

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 I highly recommend reading Ask Iwata book to know more about Satoru Iwata

"I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that would impress people“

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 that wonderful moment where you accidentally press "restart" instead of "shutdown" 
 @d2ad5b01 my panic moment is pressing either of those when I wanna press hibernate 
 I thought fortnite was making a bazillion money?? Also those new on bandcamp are also not good.

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 @289bf954 always wanted to thinker with this, how hard the the coding language for this kind of stuff? 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 honestly as soon as iPhones... 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 I got tinfoil hat theory th... 
 @44a12d40 That's already what happens a lot in some countries, so you might be right 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 I’m not 100% sure.

The T... 
 @5db042d5 I feel like this might be different since it seemed to be a crash log, to be fair, this might even be a JAVA crash that rider doesn't have control where it lands? there's several software that ends up with files in random places, sometimes just a couple mbs, sometimes big xD 
 Smartphones cost way too much now. Sure everyone uses them, but they keep pushing more powerful hardware mostly by bloating software, deprecating stuff way too rapidly, and batteries slowly improve but they are just fighting an uphill battle with software and hardware.

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 @5db042d5 I use the rider cleanup (the one on IDE itself), is this a different function? 
 one of my least fav things about most software, is how easily they'll  sometimes dump gigantic temp files in random places that won't be found to be cleaned. Look at this 1.2GB file in my main user folder. some java rider crash file.

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 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 wdym? Did I miss an announc... 
 @63e1de88 valve never does a 3 for their games 
 my laptop just beeped loudly at me

it's powered off next to me. it was powered off before it bee... 
 @6868b3c0 it has awaken!!! 
 I’m sure it will eventually bounce back but Unity has lost 10% of its value over the last week. Right now the new-new rules helped existing projects (unless they update version). but I think the most uncertain thing for the ecosystem might be “what % of developers will drop Unity for their future projects?”

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 @63a3952b not ideal but there is a setting somewhere to alleviate that problem, I think on player, something like Recompile after finished playing or whatever, I know I had that issue, never fully made it better but it helped a bit. 
 @c9089ad9 this is something I wish Rider had, they have a ticket about this open for a long time, hopefully we'll get it soon 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 Will never not make me laug... 
 This actually make way more sense for why The Matrix wanted humans and they could actually manipulate it. Humans are already capable of dreaming without machine aid if the whole purpose was only “battery”. That’s why the scorched sky thing was always so vague I guess   https://cybre.space/@polychrome/101848593189377482 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 watching it again currently... 
 @3af02537 gotta do that again too 
 gamedev tip: your character movement speed is likely too slow, go crazy, double it, see how it feels. Still good? double it. Too fast? go back one. I'll never stop defending that a faster character is always better than a slow one. 
 always found the intro section of Jurassic Park Rampage first level quite impressive. A pterodactyl carrying our character through the whole level before landing in a nest. That was a massive amount of stuff on screen and at a fast speed. you can also shoot while flying

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 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 it’s been on my watchlist... 
 @b45a5a13 time to bump it up 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 taht's one of the reasons I... 
 @351190ab I mostly forced myself to beat the final boss, took me over and hour of frustration, a good game only tainted by over the top bosses, with really no need, the game is just fine. 
 nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 is it the same as 4-finder ... 
 @da581531 same as the hand gesture yes 
 Even though I know I’ll likely switch to Easy mode later I always start games on Normal. It’s important games allow the switch mid play through, having this only at start can make someone give up a game if too hard later on. 
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 @350f6fb9 I never saw those, gotta search them 
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 @64b4e958 cool. also that's a nice DS collection, I don't have many as I only got a 3DS later in the cycle (and never had a DS)