Better title: Kadokawa employees are reportedly “optimistic” about the takeover. Subtitle: Kadokawa owns FromSoftware

Kadokawa suffered a ransomware cyberattack earlier this year, but employees were left disappointed by the response from current president and CEO Takeshi Natsuno.

As a result, employees are said to be “thrilled at the prospect of an acquisition by Sony”, according to a new report from Japanese outlet Bunshun (via Automaton).

HAAHAHAHA, Oh The Onion, you guys are… It’s not The Onion… (for anyone that doesn’t get it, PSN has been hacked a couple of times)

Anyway, the “thrill” comes from the expectation that the current Kadokawa leadership will get the boot from the acquisition.

though tbh, listing all games that taken the funko brand would be a massive task lol

That’s what the brandshield “AI” was supposed to automate. Hell, I could possibly cobble some python script to crawl through itch and create a list of infriging games/devs, something that wouldn’t take more than 1 day.

For some reason, I cannot git ye shell. All my attempts to bash my way through anything fail miserably as well.

This weird Grub on a boot keeps showing up and blocking my path.

Fuck this game >:(

So, what’s the point of Organic Maps or maps.me? The latter’s website just say “download and prepare for adventure”, like some sort of app for route preparation?

Available on both Apple and Google stores? That’s a near instant pass to me, too.

This warcraft 1 and 2, the RTS games, not world of warcraft

Dunno about communities, but https://www.science.org/ and https://www.sciencenews.org/ are all about science

• Pathfinding still sucks and people abuse that for bosses, building walls or whatever to glitch them. The good-ish is that this has been mostly fixed for base working pals, they’ll either work in place or teleport to the thing where they’re supposed to work. Sometimes they may still drop “inside” foundations, so you gotta remove/add them again from the base bench.
• Enemy AI still sucks - same applies for your combat pals’ AI. Attack, wait, maybe move a bit, repeat. They don’t dodge or attempt to move except when positioning for an attack.
• Happens more often with online play. Playing offline is a lot more stable regarding clipping issues
• I think those are mostly fixed

ackshually 🤓

One of the patents was for seamlessly transitioning from one type of ride to another, as it happens in Legends Arceus, ie: jumping into the water while riding the stag will automatically change to the giant piranha. The irony here is that palworld lacks anything like that, you never transition between 2 different mounts without player input. The closest to that is using some pals as gliders, but you’ll just get back on your feet once you touch the ground or water.

Another patent was for throwing stuff at enemies in order to begin combat. They’re all hard reads, mostly because they read like they’re describing how Legends Arceus works in minute detail.

USTelecom, which represents telcos such as AT&T and Verizon, said that “the competitive broadband marketplace leaves providers of broadband and other communications services no choice but to provide their customers with not only high-quality broadband, but also high-quality customer service.”

That’s so much bullshit in so little space that I’m surprised it didn’t become a black hole.

if you want to get insulted personally by an operator stay on the line

20 minutes later, a robot voice - Please wait, our attendants are busy. You are very valuable to us.

Like I said, a lot of people going into gamedev don’t want to learn, they want to make. Good luck convincing those people that learning about rendering pipelines and implementing one themselves is a good idea and use of their time. The most common answers you’ll get are

• “I don’t have time for that”
• “Why, if engine X already does it?”
• “I want to make a game, not an engine”

It’s time to return to the roots, to the C programming language CPU specific Assembly language

Fix’d

Joke aside, the answer to most of your questions is “because people with money said so”. As to why programs lag despite computers being more powerful, because shitty programmers and a general “BLA is cheap” mentality, where BLA is processing cycles, RAM, storage, network speed, etc. Funnily enough, the “program using everything the hardware offers” is an old complaint, as even Unix was considered a cancer during the 1980s, mostly by people whose computers did nothing but run very specific LISP code.

C is not without its flaws, just like every other language. Teaching it over whatever the market desires may not necessarily make better programmers, nor better programs for that matter.

I look at how programming has changed (…) it was all for the benefit of giant companies or the government.

Giant companies first, govt second and as a side effect, as govts tend to be veeery slow in adopting certain computer related stuff. I suspect the main exception would be intelligence/espionage agencies, but they also much prefer others doing shit programming, makes their job easier.

I remember Netbeans IDE used to have an auto-generator of CRUD java server pages if you fed it with a ready database. No idea if that feature is still there, but it saved my ass during a final assignment once in college.

Before even thinking about “which engine”, “which language”, people need to train and master the fine art of being aware of their own competence level.

The second is being fully aware that your first game will likely suck and that not everything you make will come out as you dreamed.

The third is knowing where and when to stop, especially regarding features. Many visual novels, effectively the simplest game to make regarding programming logic, die out in early access because the single dev decides to add a new character one too many times, forgetting there’s supposed to be an overall story to be told. Yes, feature creep is a problem even in fucking visual novels.

To be fair, you can go places knowing pure Javascript ever since HTML5 became widely adopted, back in 2012 or so. There’s a variety of engines and frameworks, including for 3D games (Three.js and Babylon.js are the most known) and every major OS has a native web viewer, so you’re not stuck to fucking electron.

The thing is that people want to do something, not learn how to do it. You’ll find a lot more people with zero programming experience trying to get into gamedev and they’re much better off learning planning and organization skills rather than any specific programming language. Feature creep kills loads of projects

World of Warcraft is the absolute winner in my case. I have no idea on actual numbers, given 99% of my time was in private servers, with a very brief stint on official. Only one of those private servers is still around, with my character from Warlords of Draenor times still there.

Outside that, probably Skyrim (many hours playing pirate versions, modding it with more lethal combat, more lore-friendly armors and “actual” civil war, among other things). I wonder how many hours I’ve spent on Dwarf Fortress, as I’ve only played the freeware version, starting with 0.34, before trees had height.

The AAAAudacity!!!

Might finally do something with Elixir. Plenty of ideas for using it with Phoenix and while I’ve seen a couple of tutorials for simple stuff like a live chat, I’ve done fuck-all thus far.

Might try V one way or another as well. Super small compiler and very small executables make me happy.

There are no easy bucks to be made. If it was easy, it’d already be done.

Legally. There’s plenty of easy bucks to be made if you lack morals, ethics and doesn’t care about the law. Scammers and religious figures come to mind.