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vinyl7 commented on Activision Blizzard pushes out dozens of employees over workplace misconduct wsj.com/articles/activisi... · Posted by u/kyrra

bob1029 · 4 years ago

Kotick has taken a dishonorable path. He should be first person out the door.

Situation in the industry feels kind of bleak to me now. One of these days I am going to be able to trick my investors into letting me start a game studio. I really don't understand why there isn't more intense competition at the AAA tier. I know for a fact I can do it cheaper and faster. Not sure about better, but I'm willing to fail a few times...

vinyl7 · 4 years ago

That's basically what AA games are, and are sometimes somewhat successful...but usually not as successful as AAA games. Then you have the indie and solo developers flooding Steam with mostly low-quality games with a few gems...making it extremely difficult to get noticed. So not only do you need a game idea that is attractive to gamers (AAA games are established franchise with decades of releases and marketing), it also has to be implemented well (see the failures of this years CoD and Battlefield) AND you need a huge marketing budget to get your game in front of eyes (maybe you could get lucky going "viral") to stand out from everyone else.

rytcio commented on Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection axios.com/n95-mask-protec... · Posted by u/daveaiello

circleit · 4 years ago

That’s a cool stat, but whatever…Just traveled (USA) via airplane. When I arrived at the airport, people were sneezing and coughing everywhere. On the plane, same thing. I’m my Uber, same thing with the driver. I tested positive after all this, albeit with mild symptoms. Seems everyone has it. Also seems like no one cares anymore (at least all these people). If Covid was a more serious issue, we’d all be doomed. Doesn’t seem USA govt thinks this is a big deal because otherwise they’d shut everything down. Know why there are no flight attendants and flights canceled, because everyone on planes is spreading it. And now the quarantine days has been reduced. Carry on people…

rytcio · 4 years ago

> If Covid was a more serious issue, we’d all be doomed.

Or maybe people stopped caring because they realized that it's not a serious issue?

rytcio commented on More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/nkurz

x86_64Ubuntu · 4 years ago

But there's a lot we can do concerning vaccinations, mandates and social distancing. I'm not sure why it's on the reader to fish for a charitable reading of a comment devoid of any nuance.

rytcio · 4 years ago

> vaccinations

Which, according to the commenter, don't work, apparently

> mandates and social distancing.

Yea lets put everyone under house arrest for the rest of their lives.

rytcio commented on Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/curling_grad

ajkjk · 4 years ago

What were they supposed to learn? "Don't have dependencies"?

rytcio · 4 years ago

Ideally

rytcio commented on Nvidia tool generates full 3D models from a single still image blogs.nvidia.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

omegalulw · 4 years ago

I mean is file size really a concern? I would rather have a 300 GB game with something like quixel megascanned assets than procedurally generated crap.

The latter sounds nice but in practice game execs just use that to cut corners and you end up with an unrewarding grirnd fest of a game.

rytcio · 4 years ago

I was hoping 8 hour download times was a thing of the past

rytcio commented on New Law Will Install Kill Switches in All New Cars motorious.com/articles/fe... · Posted by u/skarz

water8 · 4 years ago

How many lives would surrendering all our freedoms save?

rytcio · 4 years ago

Well the covid lockdowns showed us that

rytcio commented on Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado covid19.colorado.gov/data... · Posted by u/shrubble

kuroguro · 4 years ago

I really hope so. The hospitalizations usually lag behind case detection AFAIK, so there might still be some damage to watch out for.

rytcio · 4 years ago

People have been talking about how hospitalization numbers are lagged since before Thanksgiving. It's been almost two months. It's time to stop hoping for doom and gloom and accept that it's over.

rytcio commented on News engagement fell off a cliff in 2021 axios.com/media-ratings-t... · Posted by u/kvee

rytcio · 4 years ago

Yea right...streaming is not the reason people are less engaged in "news"