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Giant Bomb #22 | Drew, F*** This Tank
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Christian Gyrling, who is a lead programmer at ND, gave a talk last year at GDC (that I just randomly came across) about porting their game engine to PS4 for the Last of Us Remaster and what it took to make the game run at 60 FPS. Sounds like it was not easy. It's a very technical talk, but if you're familiar with threading and memory allocation, it's actually fairly easy to follow.
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naughty-Dog-Engine
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naughty-Dog-Engine
If the reign of a Stree Overlord lasts for more than four hours, it can be overthrown by a doctor, but it is generally a pretty gruesome affair.
EdReedFan20
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While I'm not a big fan of Shane Satterfield, I'm sad to see some jerk stole literally everything from his video game site SIFTD. They had just announced last week they were offering a free option, while also bumping up their $30/year subscription to $50/year.
GDC vault post mortems and elsewhere scratch a similar itch for me.
CypherSignal
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Still really impressive. The number of games attempting anything like "character climbing and animating on high-speed moving object which also has NPCs moving and pathfinding on object" can be counted on two hands, I think.
Hot Coldman
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Cowboy sounds a LOT like Jason...
Death Metalist
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Yeah, it's fucking terrible but it doesn't surprise me. If shitty people stole GB's equipment then they'll steal anything from anyone.
EdReedFan20
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Fortunately, GB has the backing of CBSi. SIFTD is reportedly struggling mightily, which led to the need for new pricing structures. And in the thread I posted, some people are saying they might not have insurance, which would make things even worse.
Death Metalist
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Damn.
The Dutch Slayer
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I know but WITH "the press".
Twin Tails
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I want to watch Alex build.
FlammableD
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Encouraging Dan's wrestling habit at PROGRESS today
#TeamRyckert
Hot Coldman
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Well, Australia might not have had great download speeds in 2010 so maybe it'd be useful for that reason? It probably helped sell that magazine in any case.
Twin Tails
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Does look cool. Hell is a rad ass place.
It's a real popular motif in 'dark' interpretations of hell. I suspect it's because of the correlation between sex and sin in Christian tradition. The female form in general gets associated with sin because of it.
Why not is the better question.
That's a weird name for a Digimon.
Death Metalist
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Twin Tails
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BreezyLimbo
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Do you bat an eye at a shirtless male demon
NumberThree
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I hope there's a buttdemon too.
EdReedFan20
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I played UC2 for the first time in 2013 and the train sequence is still one of the most impressive things I've ever seen in a game.
I have to imagine Naughty Dog wants to keep some of their better tricks close to their chest. They're still working on PS4, why let everyone know your secret sauce?
Yeah for sure
EdReedFan20
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Yeah not surprising.
Yikes that really sucks.
I have to admit, I couldn't stand Shane and Marcus back when they were on GT so I never really visited SIFTD but that still sucks balls to have something like that happen to your startup.
Death Metalist
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:/. This just bums me out and I'm speaking as a guy who isn't a fan but I'd be glad to donate if he sets up anything, hopefully the insurance company will send some good news his way. I do hope those that stole get caught more than anything, nothing worse than someone jumping in and taking away whatever you worked hard for.
For sure, that really sucks to hear.
EdReedFan20
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Some people over in the thread I posted are now accusing them of insurance fraud, considering the timing of everything: happened right after they talked about struggling, happened a week after they changed their pricing structure, happened on Memorial Day weekend when agencies have Monday off, and finally, them not realizing their insurance might've lapsed. With all that, I don't buy it. It's just a bad deal for them and nothing insidious on their part.
Bad luck happens. Just because it's suspicious doesn't make it fraud. There's no reason to make those silly accusations on no evidence. If you aren't a fraud investigator, it's not your responsibility to determine if it's suspicious. That kind of talk just hurts people when they're down.
TheMrPliskin
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I'd love for them to go back and do something similar for UC4 at some point in the future. I'd really love to know the behind the scenes stuff of the market jeep chase and the tower collapse near the end.
EdReedFan20
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Yeah, people are too quick to blame the victim. It's a real shame, because that was Shane's baby. There's no way he'd do something that risky. It was just a series of bad fortune that all hit at once. I do hope other similar sites will make sure their insurance is all in order after this.
Edit- Perhaps a stroke of luck (or stupidity of thieves). Apparently the robbers drank beer from the fridge and left the empty bottles behind. Finger prints!
For sure. Will probably be a while though!
Glitchesarecool
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Unfortunately fingerprints (or as one poster was hoping, DNA--which would be a long shot) won't help if they don't have a suspect and the thieves aren't in the system. Or if they wore gloves.
EdReedFan20
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Good point.
Edit- Man. To make matters worse, they were not the only office in their building hit. The building's security typically has cameras watching the premises, but apparently they were not working. So the robbers might not be captured on camera.
War Peaceman
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Thank you. I don't care for SIFTD, but I hate these kind of unfounded accusations.
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