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I'd like each planet to have distinct biomes, as we have on earth. They created a creature engine that works remarkably well to make weird but mostly realistic creatures (I mean, there are an unusual amount of big-butted creatures in No Mans Sky sashaying around, but they mostly seem like realistic evolutionary paths, given how bizarrely varied earth creatures are).
That creature engine could make dozens of distinct biomes for a planet, instead of the seemingly half dozen or less. 5/?
And, that's not a different set of problems from the ones they already solved. They could have made each planet far more interesting without having to store any more data. 32 bits defines the planet, no matter the complexity.
I get the game decision to have a variety of worlds you have to visit to get various resources...it'd be a different game if you never needed to travel into space, but there's already a lot of ways to play the game, maybe a landlubber play style would also be fun. 4/?
The idea is you build a system that takes as input a seed, and for each unique seed, you get a unique world. The key being every time you input that seed, you get the same world. So, random, but repeatable. Given this, if you want two billion worlds, you need a 32-bit number for the seed. Everything else is boring implementation details.
But, my wish is that the system knew how to build more variety and realism on the planet. Why aren't there poles that are colder? 3/?
So, you know how the pitch here is that there are billions of different worlds in No Mans Sky? You could play forever and never see them all. OK, fine, neat trick, but there's a remarkable amount of "sameness" to every planet.
I have done literally no research on how NMS, specifically, works, but I think I understand how they make a game with billions of worlds, based on my understanding of procedural generation in games (an area I like to read about, but never actually do anything with). 2/?
I know y'all come to me for hot takes about the latest games, so I've got some opinions about No Mans Sky (only 9 years old, it's practically brand new).
It's a remarkable game, very fun, very engaging. Love it. But, also, I can't help thinking all the time about how it could be better...I mean, yes, it still has a surprising number of bugs for a nine year old project still in active development and still selling OK. But, also... 1/?
@xerz whatever the maintainers enjoy doing. Realistically, the vast majority (99%, at least) of Open Source projects will be the former. But, for large projects with a lot of people who care about it, if everyone can agree to make it some kind of democracy and wrangle a community into supporting it, I'm happy for them. I want the people writing the code to mostly enjoy the process, because otherwise the project will die.
@nina_kali_nina they wouldn't run out of seconds from the epoch until September of 10681, unlike us 32-bit time losers. So, maybe they were good planners.
At first I was thinking, "A $3600 keyboard? Go fuck yourself." And, then I saw the space bar mechanism, and thought, "I owe you an apology, I wasn't really familiar with your game." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3FEv1qw4_w
@mcdanlj for a moment there I thought maybe a Blue Alert was for notifying the public about cops doing crime. But, that would blow up everybody's phone all day every day, so maybe not a great idea, either.
So, probably a groyper. Terminally online. White, Christian, raised around guns by Republican parents in a very conservative community. Ideologically incoherent, but seemingly leaning far right. The engraved messages were mostly from video games and 4chan (or similar). Social media has Pepe, Trump, and a lot of guns from a young age.
@pixx @egallager yeah, I was cussing about bash printf the whole time. But, I cuss about it all the time because you can't pipe to it without xargs, as well.
@pixx @egallager oh, wait, we can awk to save a few more chars. This is almost not terrible, and it does not require bash. It works in every shell I tested (csh and dash, which is a minimalist mostly POSIX shell, in addition to bash), while the nice `echo {a..z}` only works in bash.
seq 26 | awk '{ printf "%c\n", $1 + 96 }'
@pixx @egallager we golfin'?
seq 26 |xargs -I{} sh -c 'printf "\x$(printf %x $(({} + 96)))\n"'
They call options related to this "feature" "get a room", which somehow makes it more annoying.
OK, Discourse (the forum software, not "the discourse" about any current news) made me mad today, and that's not something that ever happens. I love Discourse, but this one is crazy.
I get mad when someone PMs me, and this damned forum software is telling people to do it behind my back. This is a support forum for an Open Source project, people are not allowed to ask for private help without paying for it. It is bonkers to recommend taking public conversations private.
@jonathankoren and, Xitter has been passing around the made up stuff about a gun and ammo with "trans ideology" etched into them. I don't know what the shooter was thinking, but right wing extremists commit the majority of terrorist violence that happens in the US, by far. So, playing this odds, the shooter is probably a right-wing extremist.
We'll know more eventually. The likelihood of getting away clean from an assassination in broad daylight with cameras/crowd is low.
@jonathankoren I mean, this guy wouldn't be out of place in this meme.
This seems to be the shirt. Made in China, of course.
Definitely a groyper?
@BlackAzizAnansi Newsom and Obama!