William

I say to one of their neighbors, “their pies tasted better when they were using real sugar, but they’re scared the kids’ mommies will be mad because their kids are up all night so they just took the sugar out. Didn’t even replace it with anything. The Johnson’s still use real sugar, they don’t care.”

Actually, I would say that unless it impacts you negatively, you shouldn’t criticize what others are giving freely. If they ask for criticism, that’s fine. But you shouldn’t volunteer it.

That “free pie stand” didn’t do you wrong. You dumped a heap of negativity on them for something they did out of the goodness of their heart, spending their time, energy and hand-earned money on. And you were negative about it, staining their memory of that event for your own selfish desires.

If they had asked you, “why don’t you want this pie?” you could have answered, nicely. But they didn’t ask you.

Instead, you should have just left and gone to the Johnston’s pie stand instead.

I 100% agree with your point about security and private information, but you are way over qualified for this “job”. ;)

It’s kind of weird to ask someone to have all that mod experience and then expect them to just post their private information publicly, though. Surely if they have enough experience they’ll already know what a bad idea it is to publicly post people’s information, and it’ll be hard to get them to apply.

It reminds me of a past job recognizing that I have a lot of cashier experience, but then not being able to understand why I refuse to share a till with anyone else. Duh, because I’ve been through that pain before and any smart office will want to avoid it, too.

It gives out free Steam items that you can sell to other suckers. Sometimes it gives a valuable one. It isn’t a game, it’s a money-maker.

And “100 developers working on it” doesn’t mean much when they’re unpaid and there’s no lower limit on how much they have to actually contribute.

And incentivize them to raise it? No thanks!

That was highly specific language. There was no miscommunication. They were inappropriate. They were not misleading. They said exactly what they meant.

Also, "All terms will go live only when both parties have discussed and have agreed.” ? Hah. The vast majority agreed last time! It was only a vocal few who didn’t agree, and there will always be some who don’t agree. That’s such a nothing statement that I can’t even believe they said it.

Play and completed it on PC GP. It was short, but fun. I only ran into 1 game-stopping physics/control glitch. Quitting and loading again fixed it.

What I’ve heard from gamedevs is that Linux games are their lowest sales and their highest bug reports. Some of that may be from working on a system they aren’t used to, but it just reinforces the idea that they aren’t going to make money there yet.

Is it a “review bomb” for complaining about a legit problem with the game that stops you from playing?

I agree! Which is partly why so many people were surprised and excited that Bethesda took this challenge on. They failed at it.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. They clearly skimped on the content for all those planets and handwaved it away as perfectly normal and expected, when it clearly wasn’t good. Why? To add breadth without adding time to the development. To “increase their output” without adding more input.

It clearly didn’t work there, but it could have worked with some decent mechanics and a little more thought into the content. It worked for No Man’s Sky.

Luckily for Bethesda, AI has suddenly gotten a lot better, and they’ll be able to use it to generate a ton of content that feels better than standard old procedurally generated content. That is, of course, if they can manage to work it into their tooling for their ancient engine.

As a wannabe game developer, I plan to use UE5 and take advantage of the deals that Epic offers for selling on their store, but not the exclusivity. I would actually like to launch there, so that my first sales get me as much money as possible, instead of some storefront, but it’s basically game-suicide to do that.

I wish Epic would smarten up about all the complaints about their stores and exclusivity practices and realize that gamers would use their store if it just had the features it needs. They aren’t as entrenched in Steam’s store as Epic believes. Especially after all the free games that Epic has given away already.

As for “Alan Wake 2 dev”… Wake up! Trying to frame this as a “woe is me” situation is ridiculous. That game had a ton of hype before it was even announced, and failing to capitalize on that is the dev’s and publisher’s fault, not the consumer. A Kickstarter would have been nuts if money was what was needed.

I started playing 76 for the first time. I got it for free at some point.

At first, I was inundated with ads for the monthly fee thing. When I got into the game, it took me through a tutorial and then asked if I wanted to be level 2 or level 20 w/ pre-set perks selected from a few sets. I took the latter.

I was initially fairly impressed. It felt very much like Fallout 3/4/New Vegas, except that VATS didn’t pause time, IIRC. Which sucks, obviously.

I got through a few more tutorials and was setting out from my C.A.M.P. (which you place wherever you want in the shared world) and was about a mile down the road and the server disconnected. I found myself back where my CAMP was placed… But no CAMP! Someone in another instance had put their CAMP too close to that spot, so mine couldn’t go there any more and was back in my inventory.

But back up a step. I was a mile down the road, and a server blip put me back at CAMP, losing my progress.

I exited the game and uninstalled. I’m playing 4 again.

You know he’s on Youtube as “Fully Ramblomatic” on “Second Wind” channel now, right?

“Developers” aren’t going to get that tip. The company will.

As another senior software developer, but at smaller companies, this was my answer as well.

If I start right away, the idea they had in their had but couldn’t put on paper will emerge as “No, that’s wrong” about a million times, trying to coax my idea into being their idea.

If I wait for their idea to be on paper, they’re stuck for it and if I do what they said, even if it’s awful, there’s no consequence to me. If I do what I wanted, even if it’s amazing, it’ll be destroyed in front of me and they’ll think I’m a screwup because I didn’t do what they wanted.

If you’re one of the people that control the company, you can afford complete creative freedom. If you aren’t, everything you do will be crushed in front of you, and you’ll just have to work harder to get back up to speed with what they really wanted.

And I don’t even have the “5 other teams” problem, since I’ve been in small companies. That would make it 10x worse.

I was reading about that interview, and it amazes me that he could say all that. I think he started to realize the hole he was digging, because he eventually started talking about just how few underage programmers they actually have.

IMO, you just can’t mix for-profit with child labor. I don’t care how much some of the children get out of it.

But then to find out they only pay out like 30% of the earnings? Outrageous. There’s no way you can say that isn’t exploitative, IMO. People are already railing against Steam/Google/Apple/etc for only taking 30%, and Roblox is over twice as bad for adults. Doing it to kids is just so incredibly wrong.

What I’m reading there is that they expect gamers to spend less because there are fewer blockbuster titles this year than usual, and so gamers probably won’t spend as much.

However, I’m guessing that at least some of that money will go to smaller studios and indies instead, so it should be a good year for them.

Retailers, of course, are the ones that lose out, especially since those smaller games don’t usually ever sit on a shelf.

And all of this is ignoring the fact that there was just a huge bubble in the game market because of Covid, and sales are still better than pre-Covid.

To expand upon that, I had something similar to the OP’s setup at one point, and I found things worked a lot better when the files could be moved on the same volume, rather than appearing as separate volumes (because they were mounted separately). I ended up re-engineering my whole setup for that and it’s much faster now.

As for duplicates… I assume this is so you can continue seeding after the file has been moved? I can’t think of anything that would fit the bill for that off the top of my head. Ideally, I think you’d want QBT to just start serving from the new location instead, though I admit hard links does sound like a solution that could work.

And after Googling, it seems like it already does hard links for torrents for this exact reason. I think if you just map /media (and drop the 2 maps you have after that) things will work like you want.

It’s the normal layoff cycle of new game development amplified by the Covid boom.

Why does the layoff cycle keep happening? Because developers are okay with it. They keep signing those contracts and not joining unions. And that’s their choice.