The recent Twitter meltdown reminds me of the last leg of Freenode, an Open-Source IRC network. It has been subject to a hostile takeover, and the new "owner" tried to force "free speech" rules onto everyone.... (cont...) 🧵 In reality, the server was filled with bigoted nutjobs who hate everyone and want to say things without consequences. As more and more channels started to move away to a newly formed Libera Chat network, they would put their location in the channel topics. (cont...)

I hate hard games but inspired by “Let Me Solo Her”, I created a new character, named it “Let Her Solo Me” and decided to get myself killed a million times in an attempt to get to like Elden Ring and now I’m hooked. Mike’s thread helped a lot but there’s more! Let me tell you!🧵

https://twitter.com/RaveofRavendale/status/1499056691610017796

Some rules for easy sailing:
1. Don’t worry about dying or losing runes. You’re gonna die a lot, spend runes asap, do suicide missions for items, you don’t lose them.
2. Look up everything online. You can skip anything that annoys you. Stay away from bosses.
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I did a thread of Polish references in Witcher 3 some time ago. But Dying Light, despite being set in a fictional middle eastern city of Harran, has a ton of Polish references and influences. Let me go over these! 🧵

https://twitter.com/Sosowski/status/1187341399685062657

The entire safe zone building interior is based on communist living blocks from the 70s. There's at least building identical to the in-game one in pretty much every city in Poland. The elevators, railings, half-oil paint job, granite floors is exactly what you'd experience here.

The first scene in Dying Light 2, you meet this guy who goes "Hi, I haven't seen you in two years. Also, I tracked that guy for you, you need to meet him tomorrow at dawn." I'm on the first mission and if you go 5 meters to the side of the road in Dying Light 2, game of parkour and exploarion, it shows you this screen and kills you after 4 seconds (!) I had to die sto take this screenshot because there's not enough time to go back!

I've read so many bad takes on the CDPR crunch situation that I really need to address them. This is a thread, and my last take today. Sorry for ranting so much, it just makes me unreasonably angry. First, context: CDPR announces mandatory crunch. 0/

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1311059656090038272

BT#1: I've heard people say that in Poland you cannot work more than 150h a year overtime. the thing is, that applies only if you're an employee. In video games, you're usually a contractor. And even if you're an employee, you can still be a contractor IN THE SAME COMPANY 2/

I was always curious about these and I finally grabbed one. A DOS-based Data Collector. It has a 486 CPU with 8MB RAM, runs on 3 AA batteries and has built in Ethernet port, a PCMCIA port and a laser scanner. The ABC keyboard is awful, tho (why not QWERTY!?) Just as I suspected, scanning a barcode pipes the numbers to keyboard input! Wonder if I can consistently get data onto the thing this way!

And it's announced! Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080! There's also RTX 3070 with a sweet price point and not much RAM.

StyleGAN: *crashes randomly every now and then*
Google solution: Reinstall drivers, CUDA, Windows, resocket your GPU and install AC in you office
Me: Also, the early fakes generated by this are super blurry blobs. I can't help but imagine the thing just sitting there squinting really hard trying to see something in the images for days.

Today I came across a fake PS5 reveal video and got totally fooled for a moment. Thus, I wanted to talk about fake news, and how it's not your fault for falling for them, but the social media lack of background checks. Let me go through this one by one. 1/ This is how the video landing page looks on Youtube. There's nearly zero indications that this is fake. It's a "PlayStation 5 - Official Trailer" by "Sony Interactive Entertainment". The only giveaways here are: 5.68K subscribers (quite low!), and the date (aka, not today) 2/

To celebrate the fall of capitalism I made a new game! Stock Jump! How far you can jump from plunging stocks? Made using real stock market data! stockjump.sos.gd Who said capitalism can't be fun?

If you're still planning to go to GDC despite the COVID-19 outbreak, keep in mind that your travel insurance most likely will not cover travelling to an known epidemic place with emergency state in full blast, and US medical bills have the biggest numbers! Stay safe there! Also, I assume the big companies are not pulling out of GDC due to health risks, but inability to provide travel insurance to employees and risk of stopping production company-wide for several weekss due to possible outbreak/quarantine (that's some insane costs for a big company)

Just got this old classroom netbook. It comes with a resistive touchscreen (you can use a stylus or a anything pointy), two headphone ports, a carrying handle and the cutest keyboard font ever. It's also supposedly water and shock resistant. Can't seem to find drivers, tho. Ok, I need to reinstall OS on this and was wondering what's the best option. It has a 2-core Atom N2600 1.6GHz and 2GB of RAM (probably not upgradable). It has a Windows 7 sticker but I'm kinda worried about security . What's the best?

So @DenonAmerica just suddenly decided that I'm supposed to pay $3 just to be able to access list of internet radios. They say that vTuner is na external service and it's them who require the payment, but that's a cost that should be handled by Denon. I mean, imagine this....

If you think things like this mean less crunch for developers, you are wrong. This means extra 6 months of crunch.

https://twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/1217861009446182912

Video games are made from the extracted essence of human suffering. We need to make this shit illegal.

Hey programming twitter, what's a good JSON library for C/C++ ? (no boost, please) Thanks for all the suggestions! I settled with RapidJson and wrapped it around in C functions!

This holiday, I cracked opened my piggy bank. Hope it's gonna be enough to get something nice! :) There's money from all around the world, and I feel like Ebenezer Scrooge counting this just in time for Christmas.

Death Stranding for PC 1 day after release: I can keep going

Just started playing The Outer Worlds, I'm really looking forward to these extra dialogue options! Oh hey! It showed me female character by default so I rolled with it. Nice touch! So here's my character, Snag, dumb as a brick. This is gonna be fun.

Playing Witcher 3 on the switch again makes me wonder if people do realise that a lot of the quests, characters and monsters and even a big part of the main story is based on Polish folklore? For example, Fyke Isle's "Mice Tower" is an actual place you can visit in Poland. Want more? The free city of Novigrad is the Free City of Gdansk. Oxenfurt is Krakow. Nilfgaard is Germans, Redania is Russians and Temeria is Poland during 19th century (as in, non-existant)

I don't have much time for this so I decided to do Inktober all in MS Paint. Here's Day 1: Ring Day 2: Mindless

I wanted to try this #FaceApp thing to see what Teletubbies should look like in 2017. Also, that made me realize how easy to fool AI face recognition is. With just few lines here an there it sees whatever it wants to see.