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  • The ruin of modern games is the perfect shit storm of:

    • The quest for the other side of the uncanny valley, making releases closer to decades
    • The death of the in-house game engine.
    • The half-baked attempt to cross-platform consoles with PCs
    • The half-baked attempt to cross-platform mobile devices with consoles
    • The merger of Live Service Games and Free to Play
    • Game prices not following inflation.
    • Everyone and their brother trying to take a major cut.

    Shit is more complex and resource intensive than it has ever been, we’re hardly even looking to optimize these days if it works.

    You get to choose from a couple of engines, who want a serious cut, or a free engine who has serious problems on consoles.

    You need the game not only to pay for itself in sales, but in in-game sales without making it to gambley or making it too pay to win.

    Adjusted for inflation, Mario Odyssey is $20 less at launch than E.T. was at launch for the atari.









  • rumba@lemmy.ziptocats@lemmy.worldNo issues here
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    14 days ago

    That the risk you take

    Well someone might just hit your car, that’s the risk you take by driving, nobody got hurt, they shouldn’t be held accountable. I would have shrugged it off and started taking the bus.

    This is fun, we can remove all accountability from everything that’s not harming someone directly!



  • 48PB in excess of 120 million items.

    Most of our distributed storage sharing systems break down long before that.

    Even if DHT could handle it, we’d need like five full copies of it out there for it to be safe, and not one or two people with multi petabyte rigs, when you get really distributed.

    2100 22tb drives

    ~700k dollars.

    If you factor in volume discounts you can probably afford enough discs to make it a bunch of nice raids.

    Of course, then you’ll need a bunch of really expensive chassis to be able to mount them and have them working.

    Seems like somebody could stand a spare a couple million to make that happen.