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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It might also be a single dev who pushed for it. With only a 1-3% market share, the company is unlikely to push resources at it. That 1 dev getting any working version out is a win in many ways.

    Also, most Linux users are a lot better trained at reporting bugs. Most of the time, this is a good thing, letting them get fixed in FOSS development setups. Unfortunately, in gaming, it ends up making Linux look a buggy mess. When 60% of your big reports come from 0.5% of your users, companies can panic. Even if the same bugs exist in windows, just no one bothers to report them.



  • The series Expeditionary Force" by Craig Alanson actually plays on this.

    Spoiler to protect those who might want to read the series.

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    The AI Skippy, (that has befriended humanity/adopted us like puppies) upgrades the weapon systems on a captured ship. Joe Bishop, the captin of said ship, gets involved to deal with a strike by the onboard missiles. They are complete homicidal maniacs, and are actually fine with blowing up, they just want the pecking order/first dibs on targets sorted out, along with entertainment rights while waiting (karaoke night invites, from memory).

    And no, after dealing with their bullshit, Joe has no issues turning the weapons into his enemies problems, very energeticly.




  • What genres are you looking in?

    For building games, factorio, or satisfactory absolutely blow away anything from yesteryear. There are similar games in many genres.

    It’s worth noting that some genres saturated a while back. FPS type games have been optimised to the limits for a while. It’s difficult to make something new and interesting in that environment.

    It’s also worth noting that shovelware production has been industrialised, particularly in mobile gaming. Companies pump out mass numbers of games, that are basically reskins of each other. They are entirely focused on $$$ rather than making good games. They are predatory to the extreme, and water down the market further in the areas they attack.









  • It does, but not in the way it does in blackjack.

    Basically, if you can guess at the cards people have thrown away, you can update your probability map of what is likely to come out.

    Most players use a fixed mapping for calculation, since it gets maths heavy. Data could do it in real time and gain a small edge.

    He could also correlate betting patterns with historical plays to estimate hands. All good players do this, but data would be excellent at it.