AP posted:

Those 8 extra players must make a hell of a difference because from what I saw it looked poo poo.

Plural Abysss posted:

If there's one thing that SC is good at, it's explosions

Warhawk109 posted:

So I had an itch to play world of warships. Tried to set up an account but never received the activation email. Checked literally every folder too. Nada.

Seemed like it's a pretty common issue. FAQ page says to get a friend to submit a CS ticket for you. Catch 22 if you don't have any friends playing the game already. :/

AP posted:

The delay until September would make even a Citizen Con release very uncertain.

The smoke & mirrors Gamescom presentation should be a laugh, will Citizens fall for a flashy video presentation yet again? My money is on yes, because after years of being lied to, why wake up now?

87 days until Citizen Con.

TheAgent posted:

so twerk hasn't been back streaming anything SC related since his major blow up two+ weeks ago

in fact, all the streamers from last years gamescom have peaced right the gently caress out

OH AND GUESS WHAT GUYS

tomorrow is the last day for the amazing and totally well thought out star citizen referral contest

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/referral-contest

looks like no one is going to germany! hurray!

Zteuer posted:

Would the game as promised be possible in a custom made engine or is this the computer science equivalent of alchemy?

At what kind of graphics detail level would the game be possible if the current fidelity level is the problem?

smellmycheese posted:

This just in - unlike most games Chris Roberts' shadows are NOT FAKED. They are REAL LIGHT from a sun

AutismVaccine posted:

I love all that power on/off, flight ready stuff.

So janky and over engineered. lovely

Beet Wagon posted:

HAHAHAHA did anyone see that helmet pop in

e: https://clips.twitch.tv/EndearingLazyTroutTBTacoRight

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Just reading some comments, are most guys on here always this unreasonable? You knew what you were getting into. This is a new IP, new everything on a project of this scale. This is like nothing that has ever been done before. If this game is officially released in 2020, I'd consider it a quick release. Yes, I know it has been in dev for about 1 billion years now. But all that time is required. If executed properly, SC will change the face o gaming. Forget the cancer that is rehashed, reskined AAA titles with sequels every year that has plagued the scene for a while now. I backed SC bacause I wanted something different. A game for the future. I did not back the game because I was looking for something to play now, in underdeveloped alpha. Those moaning on here need to understand this. Its this sort of unreasonable pressure that births barren products. Just look at No Man's Sky...

The SC project is a very massive one, and it will take time. If you cannot enjoy following the development of the game, but are busy complaining about the lack of minor tweaks and polish because they effect your enjoyment? of the alphas, when the devs are still working on more complex and fundamental aspects of the project, STFU and go play some PUBG or preorder the next Assasin's farcry of duty's battlefield, with all the DLC.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/Welshy31/status/854961337625194496

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I love bees! Bees are awesome. I always stop to purchase honey at random beekeepers I drive past on the countryside, only partly because I love honey. I genuinely like the (pretty dumb) thought of supporting the bees, they're so hard-working and sympathetic. I would pet the bees, if I thought there was any chance they'd enjoy it. Bumblebees are amazing too, every spring I look at any flowers I pass by and worry that there might be too few bumblebees (regardless of how many/few I see).

Mr Fronts posted:

I wonder why there was no MVP release of any Elder Scrolls game, where you could get on and off a variety of horses and ride around the map... well, a part of the map, with one village.

Bethesda could have said, "There you go, that's the hard bit done. We are now going to jot down some thoughts on additional content, like a main quest, side quests, characters to meet, etc. You know. extra fluff. We are getting right on it!"

@Bethesda : "What will YOU do when you rise to the top of the Thieves Guild?" *


* Pickpocketing, crime, law, NPCs, inventory and Thieves Guild not yet implemented.


Cue 4000-word essay on reddit by theorycrafters explaining how they will reform the Thieves Guild and return all stolen items to their rightful owners, before running for mayor/thane.

AlmightyPants posted:

I'm surprised crobberts wore shorts to the office and allowed them to film his lovely legs. Like seriously dude, it takes a conscious effort to both defy his stylist and any attempt at appearing at least semi professional in the least. The head of a multi million dollar scam should be doing his best to look professional, looking like a loving schlub isn't gonna impress anyone.

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no_recall posted:

Current guesses for their black friday / anniversary week sale. (in millions).

Jobbo_fett - 3.2
AutismVaccine - 3.7
Quavers - 3.7
Goredema - 9
VictorianQueerLit - 4.35
big nipples big life - 1.7
Zzr - 4.2

Did i miss anyone? Keep them coming.

Prizes are random games from Humble Bundles. Everyone is getting something at this rate.

no_recall posted:

4th Day of Sale Current Tally is at : 2.775M

Ramadu posted:

So I'm actually trying to learn c# in a class (intro to ito first semester) and the teacher is the worst I've ever come across and I'm basically trying to learn it myself and I'm doing ok I think. We just finished up arrays and my code actually worked but lol he said it was insufficiently put into modules/methods. It had an input output and loop calculations what more did I need.

Anyway because he's so bad I really feel like I'm not getting as much as I could be out of it and wondered where I should go further to learn better. Is game maker free? What about unity? I'm not terribly interested in doing game programming and would just like to make some money as I'm sorta rebuilding my life after surviving cancer. So any specific things would be appreciated and you can pm if you're a lurker or whatever.

Thanks and god bless

Ramadu posted:

Well I can't use my biochem degree for a while cause I lack an immune system so I can't work in the lab anymore. I figured I liked computers and I'm not totally brain dead yet and coding seems neat since we were always stuck trying to code a custom program in the lab. C# is just what the intro to programming course teaches. It's been neat, did hello world and did a little census program and a thing calculate discounts and now doing a payroll thing. I just have been in enough classes to know my teacher is bad and that I need more help outside of class to try to be good at it. What's the old adage, try to be the best at what you try to do? Something like that. Trying to be good at it.

PederP posted:

The run-time doesn't care about your coding practices

PederP posted:

An example: Many people will say having duplicate code is a bad thing. E.g. two methods with the same exact same code in two different classes. And it does add a maintenance cost, because it is very likely that if you need to change one method, you need to make the exact same change in the other method. However, abstracting the shared code into one piece code (e.g. via inheritance or composition) has a performance penalty.

PederP posted:

There is nothing contradictory about those two statements. The run-time cares about what the result of the interpreter/compiler/JIT/whatever. Some abstractions are indeed more performant - often the ones that are more difficult to maintain/extend/scale. There are times when duplicating code is a good thing and there are times when it's bad. How and why is a combination of performance/maintainability/person preference. Coding dogma is bad. Being informed about pros and cons of various practices, and self-critical of the abstractions we choose, is good.

tuo posted:

I agree to a certain degree (allthough I'm not sure what you mean by "wrapping" something in an interface), but imo for a new programmer, it is good to understand very early on how important interfaces are. I'm mostly working on ERP systems, where clean IoC is paramount for easy and stable customization, and I am often baffled that programmers with a couple of years of experience in the field never - ever - use interfaces and create tightly coupled code that is impossible to decouple. This leads to frankenstein systems that are a nightmare to work with.

As a general hint for a new coder, I still think it is a valid advice.

PederP posted:

Let me rephrase it then - it doesn't about whether it is maintainable, readable, extensible, scalable, etc. My point is that the functional characteristics of code and the "soft" characteristics of code are separate. And when someone tells you something is categorically bad due to something "soft", you need to be critical. If it's got a functional issue (ie it's slow, eats up memory, etc.) then that's something you need to weight against the "soft" benefits. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it's not. But when a teacher says the student writes bad code because of "modules" in a loving array learning session, then that's very likely to be a dumb and irrelevant observation.

Rantista posted:

It doesn't, just tested. 68.6 seconds for sorted vs 69.1 seconds for unsorted. 1% difference isn't a lot faster :-)

code:

Sorted:
68.604
sum = 314931600000

Unsorted:
69.1101
sum = 314931600000

Hav posted:

Mods! Ban this filth!

XK posted:

The portion of code jumped into/out of is too short to really show off the effects of branch prediction.

Also, don't use unsigned data types unless you absolutely have to. It puts you at risk of <= 0 tests failing in obscure ways. Google's internal programming guidelines disallow unsigned for reasons like this.

Tippis posted:

You sick bastard.

XK posted:

If the code is very close to the CPU, like in ASM, or a good C/C++ compiler, the gains of branch prediction on such a small operation will get stomped on by code caching and precalculation.

Tippis posted:

I would, but I think it's highly contagious and we need to isolate, quarantine, and contain it before it spreads any further.

dogboy posted:

Is it fullstack and agile?