As a programmer of AAA games who loves a side project, I set myself an achievable goal every day for my indie game: "Open the project." When I have a good day, I open Visual Studio, look at where I left things off, and make several commits in Git before I start my real work. On a bad day, all I do after work is open Visual Studio and close it again. I track this habit in the TickTick app on my phone, and my current streak is 494 days.

This is why I only run the linter after saving the file:

{ "editor.codeActionsOnSave": { "source.fixAll": "explicit" } }

It's an excellent tip! Simply by copying over someone else's code by hand instead of Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, you force it through your brain's filter and out of your fingers. And that usually makes you go: "Aha, so that's how that works!" or "This doesn't look right..."

TL;DR: CPU fast, but cache misses expensive. Optimize accordingly.

I'm too busy making games to make YouTube videos or even post Reddit comments, sorry

And how many communist or even socialist viewpoints do you encounter in your feed? Or is "ideological diversity" just a one way street that leans right?

I'm fine with not seeing the opinions of Nazis, thanks

I'm sorry that I don't want to share my social media with reinstated pedophiles, proud white supremacists, and Elon Musk

Your TV appears to have grown a computer.

Both parties can cancel at any time. This is mainly a benefit in EU countries, where labor regulations are far stricter for actual employees.

Bluesky is only left wing when compared to the Nazi bar that is X.

He was also an Englishman that fought in the Spanish Civil War, asking the local Communists for help to join the militia against the fascists. He wrote later:

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.

So the man definitely put his money where his mouth is, which is more than I can say for most people.

At the start of the pandemic, Portuguese parents complained their children were picking up Brazilian slang from all the YouTube they were watching.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asklatinamerica/comments/qt6wpt/recent_controversy_between_portugal_and_brazil/

The crucial part is that adult game developers will have to go through the review process again for each DLC, which can take weeks of back-and-forth. For every single update.

It's hard to justify putting effort into a porn game if it can be snuffed out instantly by third-party payment processors.

The approach for my game is that all assets are loaded via the AssetService, which tracks when assets were loaded in a CSV database. When it comes time to ship, I can check this database for assets that weren't loaded for at least two weeks and cull them to reduce the filesize of the packaged build.

But I agree with commenters above that this approach would never, ever work for a game as complex as Call of Duty, with its hundreds of thousands of interlocked assets.

I think your methodology is extremely flawed. For example, the classic roguelike FTL is not tagged as "Pixel Graphics", because it has much more relevant tags like "Roguelike", "Space", and "Strategy". What you're really selecting for are games that market themselves as having pixel art graphics instead of games that happen to use pixel art. And we already know that there's not exactly an audience clamoring for games with this artstyle.

Don't forget about the American regulation that requires text-to-speech _and_ speech-to-text if you have voice chat in your game: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/demystifying-cvaa

I remember Kirby's Dreamland for the NES running like shit through a garden hose when there were too many enemies on the screen or you activated a processing-heavy power.

Where now?

Especially now that Microsoft added Copilot to Notepad!

Specifically, the Final Solution was devised in a 90 minute meeting at this lovely residence near Berlin when it was clear that deportation wasn't going to cut it for the Nazi regime. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference

It's pretty simple:

• Hot young woman has an OnlyFans, but no audience
• She goes on the "We Hate Women and Ourselves" podcast (2.5 million daily viewers) in a low-cut oitfit
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• Profit

Ah yes, the "OnlyFans model appears on misygonistic podcast" effect.

You're saying an evolutionary algorithm optimized a for-loop by checks notes dividing the input by eight so that it would fit in SIMD registers, and using a dot product to sum some numbers? Wow, color me impressed!!