gerryflap

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe you should learn how to hold a normal discussion without attacking the other party. Cursing and telling the other party to fuck off just because they disagree with you will not convinced anyone of anything and will only make you look bad. It's not like the person you're responding to is advocating for school shootings or anything else immoral.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Kinda makes sense though. I'd expect images where it's actually labelled as "an Indian person" to actually over represent people wearing this kind of clothing. An image of an Indian person doing something mundane in more generic clothing is probably more often than not going to be labelled as "a person doing X" rather than "An Indian person doing X". Not sure why these authors are so surprised by this

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 11 points 7 months ago

Haha, when I heard about it I was expecting as much. It'd be pretty impressive if it went smoothly with the amount of testing they seemed to have done. Still an interesting project, curious how it'll evolve.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl -3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I recently tried to get Wayland working. Followed a simple guide to enable some NVIDIA boot parameter. Somehow it fucked my complete grub and I couldn't boot until I messed around a fair bit with live usbs. Cost me a whole evening.

So I guess what Wayland is missing is normal support from the GPU manufacturers.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 65 points 7 months ago (3 children)

When I was a student I never understood how something like this could happen. "Just rewrite it" I thought, how hard can that be. But working in a corporate environment I now totally understand it. Everything you write will at some point become part of code that, to the fast majority of colleagues, will just be a black box that they've never touched and don't intend to. Despite my urge to test and document everything, I've already more than once complained about my own code, only realizing later that I wrote it myself. Often you can still find out what it does, but the "why" gets lost and because of that people are afraid to change it.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't say so for most people. I bought it (figuring I could refund it if it was bad) and tbh the performance and buggyness weren't too much of an issue. A way bigger issue is the late game and how all the systems interact. These issues only became apparent to me deep into the game.

My main issues are how you're basically forced to work around cars. Every attempt I made to ditch cars or trucks would land me into bugs and unbalanced systems. I had a lot of issues with cargo train stations, I had weird deadlocks with trams and trains that grinded my city to a halt, I found that the bus lanes are just a suggestion and won't keep out traffic, and I started missing bikes more and more (they're not in the game). It's basically just a horrible American city simulator, and that's the only way you can play without running into trouble. A lot of that may be fixed, I haven't played after the patch, but still I feel like the game needs some time in the oven. Especially for the price.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

Good idea, they're on the right path, but not there yet imo

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago

I get what you say, but I bought Cyberpunk after the fixes and it's legitimately one of my favourite games I've ever played. They should've never been in this position, but they righted their wrongs instead of abandoning the game and they made it into the masterpiece it deserved to be.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 17 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Yeah the DLC is really scummy imo. Definitely not worth the money. I'm just gonna ignore it. What's more hopeful is the free patch with the introduction of mods and a good amount of bugfixes. If they keep this going they might be able to pull a Cyberpunk (although slightly less dramatic).

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago

This also goes for many things in general, not just gamedev. I used to be a teaching assistant at the University that I was studying at, and this was the main thing people seemed to get wrong in their projects. Instead of going for the basics and building from there, they just went for all the fancy cool features, or the most optimal algorithm. Then, when the deadline inevitably came around, they would have basically nothing working correctly. Sometimes I even warned them, and yet it still went wrong.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

Not a console player, but cool that the console crowd now also gets to enjoy these games. I don't think I've ever finished any of the stories, but I sure had a great time exploring the worlds of Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. Just walking around you somehow always managed to stumble into crazy encounters. The world felt so dynamic, with all the faction interactions and monsters. One big scary sandbox

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 10 points 9 months ago

Bullshit. Even if AI were to fully replace is software developers (which I highly doubt), programming is still a very useful skill to learn just for the problem solving skills.

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