big nipples big life posted:

Maybe we will finally get to hear from the infamous Robert Space

Pixelate posted:

quote:

EXPECTED RESULT: I did not expect a teal shaped box or my ship to "tear" into 2d images.

Toops posted:

Brutal takedown by another game dev, love it. And he/she is 100% right.

Toops posted:

I wonder what happens when a shitizen sees stuff like this?

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/954063127481483264

G0RF posted:

Oh okay now I see where you’re coming from.

1) SCAA - I hadn’t really thought too much about her org and whatever responsibilities she might have to that. It barely seems real to me. But that’s a valid point.

2) MOTIVE/INTELLIGENCE - Here too, I’ll admit I’ve not given much thought to the possibility that a highly calculating alternative version of Batgirl might exist. One who takes as given the project is doomed yet benefits from pretending otherwise and cranking out material reinforcing the same. Perhaps that’s possible.

It’s my belief is that we all have GPUs of varying processing power upon which we render our delusions. Even the reasonable person experiences an Augmented Reality version as they look out from behind their eyeballs at the world around them, little delusions popping up here and there and distorting their understanding of the world and people and events moving around them.

In the case of Batgirl, I assume she’s got 1080TIs running with the SLI bridge and creating a fully immersive Virtual Reality experience all around her. I think the same is true of Chris Roberts. It’s not so much a question of raw intelligence because reasonable objectivity can be found in the simple-minded just as brilliant minds can construct convincing delusions and be held prison in them. Whatever her intelligence levels, I assume she’s got a high capacity to delude herself and that she prefers that. To varying extents, we all do.

I mean, I like to believe myself a reasonable and objective person and yet here I am in a multi-volley psychological assessment of a minor personality with a parasitic attachment to a major catastrophe. It’s crazy, really, yet here I am writing about objectivity even as the little OCD arcana nerd in my head is running around yelling, “Hold on, hold on — there’s that, that, that Batgirl / Wingman interview from back then where he talks about...”

It’s nuts, really.

Anyway I now understand where we differ on this point. We nuanced lunatics.


This is going to revolutionize the way she doesn’t play games.

AP posted:

Can't watch these with the sound on anymore, but skipping through looking at stuff in the background always makes me laugh.

alf_pogs posted:

i love the Sandi Gardiner twitter account of "things that happened today". it seriously reads like a bunch of bullet points of totally un-notable events delivered without any emotional embellishment or investment whatsoever. it's like a concrete carpark of writing

alf_pogs posted:

i love the Sandi Gardiner twitter account of "things that happened today". it seriously reads like a bunch of bullet points of totally un-notable events delivered without any emotional embellishment or investment whatsoever. it's like a concrete carpark of writing

AP posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paZYtrgaouw

his nibs posted:

Daztek posted:

why is everyone <25

his nibs posted:

lol an hour of ships

G0RF posted:

The heightened focus on ships over the last month feels more about reducing refund risks than much else. The whole tone of the opening tour feels tense and uncomfortable. Where’s the joy, guys?

quote:

Since the beginning of the project, development of the Game has proceeded unabated and RSI is delivering content on a continuing basis. RSI has applied your pledges to the development cost of the Game, and in accordance with the Terms of Service to which you agreed, and you are no longer entitled to a refund. These terms are consistent with the specific nature of crowdfunding. (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/tos)

We've reached a huge milestone with the release of 3.0, which provides the framework and foundation for the future game experience. Your funds have been fully deployed towards this effort, as promised, and our commitment to all backers in 2018 is to provide continued updates through quarterly releases.

As Chris posted in Spectrum, we're learning from how the new 3.0 environment works on a large scale with thousands of players on at once, and seeing how players use and interact with those environments we've created. Our first Q1 update in March is all about taking what we've learned to apply new and improved performance and optimizations.

You can see some of our wonderful Star Citizen updates at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu71Dcpf3c0 and our Squadron 42 Holiday Livestream updates at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVzJiarjvc .

We will consider each request on a case by case basis and will work with you to find the best solution, and it will be a few weeks before we can give this request the detailed attention it requires.

AP posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZMgnhBTHnc&t=1908s

A better time when you could open any CIG live video and

big nipples big life posted:

clearly you need to send more text messages about moobs.

Dark Off posted:

Daztek posted:

why is everyone <25

Dark Off posted:

Toops posted:

Lambdas don't have any direct relationship to async execution. For those who don't know, I'll explain.

A "lambda" is a functional programming concept. Instead of sending the data you have to a function that resides somewhere else in code, you send a function you have to the data that resides somewhere else in code.

Example: My class called "Circle" has a variable called "radius." If I want the area, I can send my data some other part of the code that knows how to calculate it:

code:

double calculateArea() {
    return Math.areaOfACircle(my.radius);
}

and get the area back. I'm sending my data to someone else's function.

Now let's flip it. My class knows how to calculate the area of a circle, and sends that function to the Circle class:

code:

double calculateArea(Circle circle) {
    return circle.radius( (r) -> {3.14159 * (r)^2;}  );
}

I'm sending my function {3.14159 * (r)^2;} to someone else's radius. Notice, I don't know what r is, I'm referencing a variable I don't have, which can be real handy.

There are many good reasons to do this that aren't exactly clear in this example. But the point is, the function (or lambda) you send can be synchronous or asynchronous. In game code, that means it can still block the main update() loop.

Now to the larger question, can you make things asynchronous in game code? Sure! Is it a good idea? Depends. If your code needs to do something, but the result is not extremely time-sensitive, or you don't actually care about the result, then you should consider doing it in an async call. One example is persisting your player's position to the server, so that you don't have to wake up in your wank pod and start over every time you log out or get disconnected. Let's assume my client needs to send that position vector to the server, and validate the response to make sure the server got the memo so I don't have to send it again. Well, imagine what would happen if that call wasn't done asynchronously. Assuming best-case scenario, with a latency of 50ms and 60frames/sec, my persistPlayerPosition(player.position); call would block the update loop for 3 frames waiting for a response. That's (60frames/1000ms) * 50ms. Normal case, 100ms, that's 6 frames dropped. 200ms lag spike? 12 frames dropped. Now imagine the worst-case, we don't hear back from the server. The entire game would lock up waiting. So you have to delegate slow-executing stuff to threads, otherwise modern gaming really isn't possible.

As with the previous, this is not a good real-world example because nobody in their right mind would write client-server persistence that way, but it's an example that helps illustrate the point.

As a real-world example, NVidia's PhysX engine (the physics engine used by both Unity and Unreal Engine and, notably, not CryEngine), runs entirely asynchronously from your engine's main thread. It runs on its own CPU core. It even has its own tick rate, separate from the main engine. The reason for this is physics calculations are complicated AF, there's lots of calculus under the hood, and CPU's are bad at calculus. Also, it's not really that important to calculate the physics state as often as the game engine calculates game state. 60fps is really for rendering, and providing a smooth visual experience. You can have perfectly smooth physics experience at 20fps, so there's no need for the computationally demanding physics calculations to poo poo up your graphics/rendering pipeline.

TheAgent posted:

its going to be hilarious when someone reads "blah blah count 4 motion to dismiss is GRANTED" and be all "YES YES I loving KNEW IT"

and then go "wait wait wait, but the overall motion to dismiss is denied?! HOW LAW WORK" and start ranting about how the liberal courts are destroying free trade or whatever

Henry Scorpio posted:

From what I could tell, the guy was setting up lambdas to do stateful game engine business on threads other than the main thread.

Game entity instantiation is usually a really complex process getting the following ready to go: Entity objects, script VM constructs/reflection data, meshes, materials, shaders, textures, particle systems, physics geometry and inertia tensors/body data, animations, animation blend trees, animation state graphs, sound banks, incorporation into engine spatial data structures, registration with graphics render passes, user interfaces, registration with the tick/update lists. That’s just the basics stuff before you start adding spergchariot specific systems (fuel tank, wire harness, flight computer? Subsumption? Lol)

Doing even some of these steps on worker threads requires careful thought and a lot of custom engine design. Successful async game engines have job systems that accept work requests in a way that encourage thread safe practices and try to reduce context switching / other resource contention.

What it looked like CIG was doing was calling arbitrary methods on global access objects inside of anonymous functions running on random threads. The tried and true “Heap corruption” design pattern.

D_Smart posted:

Because I have credible sources, I can safely say that it's as absolutely loving hilarious as it is disastrous for RSI/CIG. And it's coming tomorrow.

I think backers are going to be walking off cliffs when they read the brutal take down of Ortwin over his conflict of interest. Or how they completely shred CIG for their attempt at re-defining the intent of the word "exclusive" as used in 2.1.2. They called it "absurd", and I hear that at least one sentence had the word "nonsense" (a Derek Smart trademark) in it.

Tomorrow can't come soon enough, and I have Pacer in an auto-refresh tab already.

Someone should tell MoMa.