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At least this madness is isolated to this function. It can easily be fixed.

Pirate’s code is just cluttered with magic numbers everywhere. Hard coded numbers that are referring to a big ”story array”, or characters. It’s just a giant web of complexity. The only fix is to start from scratch.

I worked at Blizzard. I worked at Blizzard. I worked at Blizzard.

It’s the art of the deal

attacking a defenseless neighboring people

They’re so close to figuring it out

There’s a difference between ” it hasn’t changed because it doesn’t need to be changed” and ” it hasn’t changed because it’s impossible to predict the impact of any change, and no one wants to be responsible for things breaking”.

5 beers / hour

There was a German mathematician who allegedly managed to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kaluza

Strange stories were told of his private life, for example, that he taught himself to swim during his thirties by reading a book about it and succeeded at his first attempt in the water.

All hope lies in Gloomwood then

HL2 still holds up after 10+ playthroughs.

Last time I played it was when the commentary track was added. Played 80% of the game in one sitting because I was so hooked.

I would buy it if the excuse was they wanted an actor that could do voice as well as motion capture, and maybe David Hayter wasn’t cut to do both at the same time. In some promo it sounded like they wanted someone who could do both. In the age of motion capture, it’s going to be jarring to record voice lines in a booth separately. Particularly if multiple actors interact with each other in a scene.

But no. There was barely any interesting acting at all from Snake. Most of the acting was carried by the other characters, while Snake was just grunting doing nothing in particular.

I’d rather take MGS4 Snake any day.

They only care about short term growth. They don’t care about if the growth is unsustainable in the long term.

This year’s numbers must be better than last year’s numbers.

That’s how these ”self driving vehicle” companies generally works.

https://www.naturalhabitatshorts.com/shorts?pgid=ku471zfv-50e73695-2457-415c-bee9-99a83cbb2d8b

And after all that it is discovered that it was the wrong solution all along because the requirements were poorly specified, so the process must be started all over again

Product Manager: Make a step by step guide of how they think the lightbulb is going to be fixed without explicitly mentioning the broken lightbulb.

Then you haven’t seen bad documentation (or had that sex you regret).

Most of that cost was unlikely for the hardware itself, but rather Nintendo greed. Most of it was probably for the early access to Nintendo’s next console and possibly support from Nintendo directly.

Interesting paper. I skimmed through it quickly, but it seems like they wanted to avoid relying on ray tracing.

Minimal ray tracing. Many non-local lighting effects can be approximated with texture maps. Few objects in natural scenes would seem to require ray tracing. Accordingly, we consider it more important to optimize the architecture for complex geometries and large models than for the non-local lighting effects accounted for by ray tracing or radiosity.

Most of the paper is way above my understanding, so I’m not qualified.

They used top of the line hardware specialized for 3D rendering. Seems like they used Silicon Graphics workstations, which costed more than $10k back in the day. Not something the typical consumer would buy. The calculations are probably a bit off with this taken into account.

Then they likely relied on rendering techniques optimized for the hardware they had. I suspect modern GPUs aren’t exactly compatible with these old rendering pipelines.

So multiply with 10ish and I think we have a more accurate number.

Did Toy Story use ray tracing back then?

AFAIK, A Bug’s Life is the first Pixar movie that used ray tracing to some extent, and that was for a few reflections. Monster’s University is the first Pixar movie that was fully ray traced.