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Reticularas··on RPG-CLI – your filesystem as a dungeon
Extremely clever concept
Reticularas··on How to draw an outline in a video game
A more modern example would be Dead Cells
Reticularas··on Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs
VVVVV was released during the initial wave of indie game popularity. It may not be the most influential of that group- but it's more relevant than it probably seems from a present day standpoint
Reticularas··on Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
No one in game and game engine development is using ChatGPT.

It doesn't even work, even if it was productive, as barely any problems the average gamedev faces on a day-to-day have been surfaced to the training data of an LLM.

Reticularas··on Getting into Pinball
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Reticularas··on Getting into Pinball
Attack from Mars is a good beginner table to learn ball control especially. There's basically a single shot up the center, but a lot of nuance in how you do it to avoid a drain.
Reticularas··on Getting into Pinball
They're complex and generally handmade. There's not too many of each type made and they rarely make more, so the price follows suit
Reticularas··on Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
Don't know if the index isn't complete, but the results with this are quite poor
Reticularas··on Peredvizhnikov Engine: Lock-free game engine written in C++20
This model isn't novel, there's been experimental engines using this technique for years now. They're just not practical at scale
Reticularas··on Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software
What you've just described is basically every networked video game, the majority of which are happily running via c++.

(Plus some increase in content load over the network, which does exist ala runtime mod loading, streaming, etc)

Reticularas··on Water
Don't toss those- they belong in a museum
Reticularas··on Free database of 4,000+ AI tools
I'm guessing many of these aren't legitimate to start with. Two of those copy writing tools with different names are using the same promotional picture with the same lady.
Reticularas··on Show HN: 2x-4x faster strlen() in C
That's pretty bizarre optimization, how does this not get throttled by the thread calls?
Reticularas··on C++ is everywhere, but no one talks about it
Basically all game engineers use C++, regardless of they are working on the engine or the game. It's wildly perf focused.
Reticularas··on Langchain Is Pointless
I get this feeling too "maybe I'm not the target audience" This feeling is followed closely by "Who is the target audience?". Some abstract concept of an audience doing complex LLM work to accomplish... something?

The value in statistics analysis for LLMs is clear, the value in chaining responses is very unclear.

Reticularas··on Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
The ferengi, despite being over-the-top capitalist, do have their moment of shine when they coyly remind humans their homeworld has yet to have a single war.
Reticularas··on Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod
Didn't expect to see this here.

I heard this rumor a long while ago (15+ years) while still in school. I did it to my headphones but learned that it pretty dramatically increased sound leakage. I'm not sure if was the exact same models of senns, but the trick has been around awhile.

Reticularas··on IUP – Cross platform C GUI library
It appears to be a requirement that all C/C++ UI libraries have old, crusty looking visuals.
Reticularas··on Show HN: This Job Does Not Exist
I made an account just to ask how you made a site featuring only text this slow