ramirezmike @ ramirezmike @programming.dev

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a big part of the complexity in programming (especially game programming) comes from balancing flexibility with speed (both implementation and performance). At some point, decisions are made weighing out risks, priorities and plans that will solidify a part of the code base in favor of speed (or some other factor) at the cost of flexibility.

this happens all the time

A lot of the reasons a solo dev or modder seems like they can progress so fast changing things is they aren't facing a lot of the same factors and they aren't needing to go through any rigorous testing.

At some point in the process, there's too much risk and and overhead involved to make any change. This is totally normal from triple A down to game jams.

And, you can't ignore that some of these things come down to game design. A change like you're suggesting, just adding a light, can negatively affect the balance of things even if it seems like it wouldn't.

6 months doesn't sound unrealistic for re-doing a menu system. Designing, reworking art, re-programming workflows and then testing everything can take several months. Even just the logistics of releasing it after it's done, that alone can take a month.

Yes, it is possible to setup everything in a very generic way that is data-driven, but that also is a lot of work that has to be prioritized with the scope of the project and the team members available.

supposed to be basic launch features

isn't this very subjective and dependent on the game and scale of success?

the creator of deus ex coined the term immersive sim shortly after it was released

that's a lie. They knowingly made something up. The AI doesn't know what it's saying so it's not lying. "Hallucinating" isn't a perfect word but it's much more accurate than "lying."

you're missing my point that there are many things in life that don't require several hours of context and nuance. And those things aren't automatically invaluable because they don't require much time to grasp and move on.

For example, a one-panel comic may only take a few moments to parse and enjoy. Does that mean it can only be enjoyed by those "with short attention spans"? Does that mean its value is inherently less?

there's more to life than political discourse 🤷‍♂️

they can't really do that because that would be defamation and they would be sued for it. Bribery is a crime and while it is effectively the same as lobbying from our perspective, one is legal and one is not and a media outlet can't just accuse someone of a crime without evidence unless they want to close up shop

I actually help run a blog, so I know first hand how many barriers there are between a blogger and their audience and it's getting worse all the time. These days even if you do make good content that people are looking for, the search engines summarize your content or rank higher content which has scraped your content and summarized it.

that's even if you have the skills to set up a blog and the resources to fund it. Not everyone has that and if they don't, does that mean their content shouldn't be seen?

trust me, I wish the Internet was different but with things like TikTok, you just have to focus on making your content and it takes care of bringing it to the people. With a blog, you really need to seek people out and a lot of people are turned off by self-promotion.

And yeah, I know there's an argument that people shouldn't need other's validation or attention for their art but also as a creative person it is demoralizing to make stuff that no one ever sees.

TikTok has tons of issues but this bugs me so much. There are many examples of people sharing their creativity, their skill, their knowledge, their passion to the world on tiktok and it's so good at exposing you to it if you are interested in seeing all kinds of people expressing themselves.

Since when does the value of content correlate directly with the amount of time it consumes?

is brevity no longer the soul of wit??

I find it useful for finding local events where I live, updates from local businesses and newspapers.. it's also cool for following artists or bands I care about.

Idk, it's in a weird space between facebook, what twitter used to be and tiktok. It can be useful if you curate your feed right 🤷‍♂️

WHY DID THIS 3 POINTER TAKE FIVE DAYS

YES YES, IT'S NOT TIME BUT WE ARE TRACKING IT THAT WAY BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO NOT THINK OF IT THAT WAY WHEN YOU ESTIMATE BUT WHY DID YOU GO OVER THREE DAYS

you may not have an account but your friends and family might and if you have similar interests they may vouch for products that were pitched to them via AI.. so in that way, they're still reaching you

everyone is looking at it wrong expecting these social media companies to show this as engagement.

That's not the goal.

The purpose of the AI profiles is targeted advertising. It probably isn't going to work on you but it does work on many demographics. It's the same concept as any other advertisement. They all set the scene of the specific type of person they want to buy their product, whether it's a TV commercial, a radio ad, a magazine page.

The only real difference here is that it's not a real person but when it comes to advertising, will that really matter? That is, will the drop in sales be negligible compared to the massive drop in cost of advertising?

you could argue that men have similar exclusive, lucrative paths that use their strength/athleticism and are also probably statistically similar rates of exclusivity within their sex. Like, not everyone will be a professional footballer just like not every onlyfans model makes livable income.

it's weird how you are really specific when accusing everyone of behaving in the same non-constructive way but then you're really vague about what you expect people to do.

All your grandiose literary imagery makes it difficult to understand what you're trying to say.

what do you think should be done?

for most people

I'm assuming there was some sort of survey that shows this then?

pretty sure nyc has the highest usage of public transportation of the whole country though

to be fair, mirrors are pretty crazy and don't typically appear as clearly in nature with the exception of water.

Whether a dog recognizes its reflection or not doesn't really rule out that they're not self aware