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christina 死神

@chhopsky

5 years

i have two speeds

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

4 months

i worked on COD for two years as a programmer at demonware bobby's decisions made our games worse in my first month it came out he threatened to have an employee killed. in the all-hands that followed, no-one wanted to speak first. so i demanded his firing in front of everyone

CharlieIntel

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Bobby Kotick is officially no longer the CEO of Activision Blizzard. Today was his final day as CEO.

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denouncing NFTs is good and honorable here are some tips to help you on your scam-prevention journey: - 'power usage/environment' is a trap, people will goalpost move you on about proof of stake. - try to focus on what they do, which is nothing, but badly, while scamming

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@chhopsky

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@CarlosR you're allowed to be friends with whoever you want just like other people are allowed to think badly of you for it

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@chhopsky

1 year

@ebwaycapital @ChelseaWooff go to therapy

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@chhopsky

1 year

i had earned $50,000 of total wages in my entire life by the time i was 25

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@chhopsky

2 years

@JAAY_ROCK_ ha ha yeah imagine preserving the look and feel of your iconic game while also leveraging previous work, what a weird choice 🤡

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@chhopsky

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hot take: video game designers should at least once try designing tabletop games not only is it a fantastic prototyping tool, but it highlights two very important game design concepts: 1. state tracking is data storage 2. rule enforcement is cognitive load let me explain 🧵

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@chhopsky

1 year

i've struggled to frame the paradox of tolerance when arguing with dipshits sometimes but framing it as a social contract makes it so, so clear BREAK THE CONTRACT // NOT COVERED BY IT

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@chhopsky

3 years

decided to improve an article i read

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@chhopsky

3 years

daily reminder that NFTs are shit because every single implementation depends on a source of trust outside the blockchain that either doesn't make sense or doesn't exist

D. or Davison Carvalho 🕷

@colorblindmess

3 years

Someone made $170k selling my artworks as N F T. I do not sell art on crypto places, in fact, I do not sell art anywhere, not even prints. It's strange to see someone loving my art and paying big to own it, making a thief rich, while my hospital bills piles up. Nice.

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@chhopsky

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@RammJaeger wow that's disgusting, imagine trying to pretend this is about 'life' when those same legislators will abandon those babies the instant they're born and leave the mothers in medical debt looking forward to your support of laws forcing vasectomies to prevent rape babies 🙏🙏

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@chhopsky

1 year

yo this sucks actually? people not being able to add me on discord without me telling them the discriminator was a feature not a bug so now i either get to allow impersonators, or pick a random unguessable name and have to override it constantly truly incredible work 👍

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@chhopsky

1 year

@Tocelot the CIA couldnt make me post something this embarrassingly clueless under threat of torture and you just typed it of your own free will. incredible

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@chhopsky

1 year

i will never, ever forget the pure distilled virginity in that post

PAR | Roma D. Nova ➡️ EVO Japan

@Romanova

1 year

When people expose that they've never been close enough to a woman irl:

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@chhopsky

1 year

@martsharter how does it feel to know that this thread detailing how little you know about game development is the only thing you’ll ever make that anyone paid attention to

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@chhopsky

1 year

@DavidMMorton0 @_georgina666 hey champ just so you know, men often react really poorly to women asserting boundaries and its not unusual for them to abuse attack harass stalk or try to kill us sucks your fee-fees got hurt tho

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@chhopsky

1 year

@Foxyfox4054 @RightWingCope jargon fluency is a terrible purity test dude is based

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@chhopsky

2 years

just one of those days

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@chhopsky

3 years

razer viper ultimate

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@chhopsky

4 months

i get that i am very loud and very annoying and that with my seniority and ease of other opportunities, that affords me certain protections and safety to do such things but you all need to get on board this train. we all need to revolt against people like this, every time

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

1 year

@Zvbear thats a funny way of saying 'no-one trusted me enough to tell me' sorry you had no friends tho

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@chhopsky

3 years

the more i talk to, genuinely engage with, and ask questions of people that are mad about gaming journalists the more i come to understand that all of their complaints are rhetoric drummed up by outrage-baiting, and have no basis in reality

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

1 year

@isitpolitick @activevirtues homophobic parents are homophobic you fucking psycho

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

3 years

@RammJaeger the Venn diagram of 'bosses i had who acted like they owned their employees and treated us like shit' and 'bosses who were loud about their support of controlling women's bodies' is a circle attitudes of controlling others are deep and pervasive

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

4 months

if i'd been fired i had several other companies hovering in the wings, but that is why it is on senior staff to dig their heels in juniors will not feel safe doing that until their leaders do it first we may not have unions but we do have power if we work together

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@chhopsky

2 years

well this was something to wake up to

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

3 years

@TheEpicDept @docsquiddy see also: every single 'this is life under socialism' post that is actually life under capitalism

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@chhopsky

1 year

@iboudreau i have to know what a woke soundtrack is

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@chhopsky

2 months

story time: the launch of Dauntless (2019) was the most difficult launch of my career we planned for 260k ccu peak (players online). during open beta (2018), we'd hit 65k with some wrangling it fell over at 10k ccu. took 3 weeks of 15 hour days 7 days a week to get it stable

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@Pilestedt

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@q7xpb6sygn @helldivers2 Yes! Good idea, I will sit behind the engineers and ask them "are we there yet?". Or... I could let the engineers work independently, towards our common goal without me as the CEO pestering them at every moment. I wonder which one will work best? 🤔

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

2 years

@djvlad @Gibrilace im struggling to wrap my head around the argument that making art is good but loving art is bad. this is mental

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

1 year

a context-collapse attack is one in which an attacker misrepresents a post containing keywords as bigotry, and uses the resulting fallout to drive traffic out of context. successful context-collapser attackers usually hide behind identity or account size to avoid criticism

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@chhopsky

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@SharikaSoal84 that's a stripper

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@chhopsky

1 year

@Ion_Ramaru this is why women don't leave their drinks unattended around you

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@chhopsky

1 year

@KnowledgeFountN @h3h3productions you first

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@chhopsky

1 year

@mtaibbi so to be clear, you're arguing that we should let politicians break the law

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@chhopsky

2 years

- while the presence of rug-pulls is common, you will also get goalpost-moved by 'but scamming is old'. focus on how NFTs make that scam *easy* instead - go hard on 'they require infinite expansion because ponzi scheme, and someone is always left holding the worthless bag'

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@chhopsky

2 months

i have never in my entire career seen anyone pressure a developer to make a character more queer or less white i have, however, seen many instances of developers being forced to change their characters to be straight and/or white you could start a list on league alone

Gavin Young

@GavinDYoung

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What's especially frustrating is that pressure from marketing and execs to change the gender or race of characters is still fairly common in AAA games: it's just the exact opposite of what angry YouTubers tell their followers (because their business is keeping you angry) (1/?)

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@chhopsky

1 year

once again economists prove they are just doing coke and throwing numbers at a wall and seeing what sticks

$4 Million Retirement: That’s How Much Millennials Will Need To Live Comfortably

If you're a millennial wondering how much money you'll need to retire comfortably, now might be a good time to practice some calming techniques. You'll probably need anywhere from $3 million to $4...

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@chhopsky

4 months

ask the loud annoying question in the all hands make it short, direct, to the point, and leave no room for waffling in response. make it sharp, direct, and do it with clarity and without anger so they can't attack your delivery they won't answer, but everyone will see it

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@chhopsky

1 year

@hethiccthicc @joshstrap13 don’t be that guy

todd dillard

@toddedillard

3 years

I see your tweet failed to mention all contexts and exceptions. Prepare to be exterminated.

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@chhopsky

2 years

- also go hard on the fact that logically it never makes any sense for any game to use them. the only way for any game to not totally fuck themselves over is to allow zero interoperability, at which point there is no point being an NFT and could just be a marketplace

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@chhopsky

1 year

the bodycam game is technically and artistically very impressive but personally i've seen enough bodycam footage of cops murdering people, i'd rather not see anymore god, why couldn't it have been a dayz type survival. or a horror game. nope, had to be cops. fuck

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@chhopsky

1 year

@MrSAAerobics you know it's gonna be a bad take when the bio starts with Father but this was next level

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@chhopsky

2 years

IMPORTANT SOCIAL TIPS: if a post of yours starts blowing up badly and making people angry: go private immediately. do not attempt to explain yourself do not post through it. it will accelerate faster than you can deal with. nope that shit the fuck out of people's hands

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@chhopsky

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early in my career, an engineering manager doing things like this caused discussions that lead to him and his entire team quitting on the same day, and going to a new company they all got offered $30-50k more to stay and they all said no soli-fucking-darity 💪💪💪

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@chhopsky

1 year

@sneako @GretaThunberg how are you so bad at donuts. is your car busted or do you just not know how to drive

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@chhopsky

1 year

@jakelyonsmusic "why do people like having fun" what a weird question

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@chhopsky

4 months

write down what you said. keep notes in case HR pings you. record yourself saying it in the meeting if you can so that you have evidence of exactly what happened, because pissweak executives will take their exposed failure personally demonware protected me, but other places wont

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@chhopsky

2 years

- focus on that all commercial usages are either logically impossible, or made worse by being an NFT, or better served by an API - also remind folks that games have been granting people stuff based on other games for over 20 years, and it didn't require any of this bullshit

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@chhopsky

2 years

no game in history has ever been shipped exactly the way the developer wanted. constraints always exist from the outlay, or are found the sooner you understand that all games are a four-way fight between budget, time, technology, and human power, the sooner you understand games

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@chhopsky

1 year

HAHAHA ENGINEERS KNOW WHAT'S DYING AND THIS IS VERY FUNNY

Eddie

@EddieMakesGames

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How the....

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@chhopsky

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@ejrosetta ask your school for a refund

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@chhopsky

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@Atlanticoncrete @sarafischer @axios @WhiteHouse @Twitter

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@chhopsky

2 years

- being able to trade outside the game is not valuable at all. the game can always just block any item or anything you buy for any reason. - everyone hated diablo 3 auction house because it fucking sucked and it was bad for the game, no-one cared what tech it used

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@chhopsky

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@Jillie_Alexis @JoeBiden The travel restrictions to china were criticised for being racist because it only targeted chinese people coming from china you disingenuous fuck

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@chhopsky

1 year

if your idea for a solution to a problem seems obvious and easy, and the professionals haven't done it, and the only reason you can come up with for that is that they're stupid, you don't understand the problem

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@chhopsky

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@MrBeast america hates poor people it doesn't matter if it's more profitable to help them. it's not about the cost, or the outcome a certain segment loses its mind over the idea that someone might get something they didn't "earn"

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@chhopsky

1 year

@jakelyonsmusic because i'm not a joyless shell of a human you should try it

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@chhopsky

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@rortlieb @PopBase sure they do. it’s like how people see this and lose respect for you

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@chhopsky

2 years

we failed our dps check and now she's gone untargetable prepare to tank lb3

Claire Penis

@ZeroSuitCamus

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Is that good?

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@chhopsky

2 years

- it is actually super illegal to use other games IP, the difficult part of that is never technical, it is legal - use this graphic to explain why a network of interoperable games can never work without destroying itself

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@chhopsky

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@notdanilu i dont want anyone to get hurt, but metaphorically, crypto folks spent the last two years punching people in the face, and bragging about how cool it is to punch people in the face, making life hell for anyone who said 'punching people in the face is bad' live by the sword, etc

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@chhopsky

3 years

the story goes: - journalists are paid shills, or hate games and are only doing it to 'push agendas' - youtubers are honest and impartial and can't be bought which is wild, since its very illegal to pay for reviews, but extremely legal to buy YT coverage

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@chhopsky

2 years

@ydaaviz @CarlosR bullshit. if i was hanging out with bobby kotick on the weekends and playing buddies you should absolutely judge me for that but instead im calling for him to be fired, because people like that shouldn't be in gaming

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@chhopsky

2 years

"youre just blindly hating" no, i did my due diligence every time this has come up since 2015. it is my job to find new technologies and use them if they're better. these are not. they are bad, embarrassingly bad. blockchains and NFTs solve precisely zero player problems

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@chhopsky

3 years

non-diverse teams neglect audience needs

Adrian Hon

@adrianhon

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Resident Evil 4 VR attaches your grenades and knife to your chest, which is fun - but the devs forgot that some players have boobs

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@chhopsky

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no-one talks about how hard layoffs hit you emotionally when it's one of the places that works themselves into your social identity 'rioter' 'twitch staff' it can feel like your identity has been taken away but it hasnt. you were a creator first. they just borrowed you

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@chhopsky

3 years

when are we going to get game industry specific therapists? i don't want to have to explain my stupid life to a normal person

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@chhopsky

1 year

@sumbodysbabygrl @joseletemuniz dont worry guys the woman police have arrived

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@chhopsky

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@manuel_frigerio they're eating you alive and they're right

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@chhopsky

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- NFTs being immutable is actually bad. software is patched all the time, and games, famously, never have any bugs - the only practical applications of blockchains are not user facing, they are in industrial backends to resolve decentralized trust issues. thats all they can do

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@chhopsky

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@TheIceMan711 @Rycaster you mean you. your instincts. number one trap armchair and junior designers fall into. thinking Your instinct is The Normal One

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@chhopsky

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- the only way that NFT items make sense in games is if you can't use them anywhere else, which defeats the stated purpose of NFTs, and is worse than a first-party marketplace - even two-party item sharing is fundamentally fucked, by the logic. none of this can be fixed by tech

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@chhopsky

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- if a blockchain ever depends on a source of trust off the chain, it is fundamentally useless. the value of a blockchain is in its ability to prove things. it cannot prove anything the moment it references external data, as it must choose to trust that, rendering it useless

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@chhopsky

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they have come to believe that youtubers are the answer to all gaming media problems. that youtubers are the last vestige of honest opinions and all written word is paid for shill lies or people that hate gaming unsurprisingly, it is youtubers who told them all this

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@chhopsky

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"you just havent researched this new technology" it is not new to me. im a distributed systems engineer & programmer. ive been building shit like this for decades i serve a playerbase larger than most countries and have built networks spanning the globe. blockchain is old news

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@chhopsky

1 year

once again reminding you that chatgpt does not understand *anything at all*. it is just forming sentences based on sentences it has already seen

Senior PowerPoint Engineer

@ryxcommar

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lmfaooooo

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@chhopsky

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@TroyBakerVA @VoiceverseNFT did you know you can just not exploit people looking for an easy way to get rich? it's actually incredibly easy to just not do that

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@chhopsky

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as an aside? the tech is a fucking joke. just laughably, hilariously, 'we didnt think this through' bad. even the original creators of NFTs knew it was a hack, they just never expected people to blindly copy it please just use a database once in your life, ever

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@chhopsky

3 months

if people from any other competitive MP game community complained about getting matched with people of equal skill to theirs they would be laughed at and mocked relentlessly yes, im sure high skill players would love 'variance' aka 'to play against players worse than them'

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@charlieINTEL

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Activision has acknowledged the feedback that higher skilled players are in “sweaty” lobbies a lot and working to address those concerns with new matchmaking changes/tests. Skill won’t be removed 100% ever, though, as player retention is significantly impacted.

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@chhopsky

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@Kryss85 @mattmfm @ChrisFetterman this is the douchiest fucking thing you could have possibly said behind maybe 'those protesters enjoyed being punched in the face!' idiot

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@chhopsky

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- "they will fix this in the future / this new token changes everything" you can't fix a fundamental logical problem if your problem is "im getting stabbed", changing the kind of knife that's stabbing you is not going to fix it. you actually just need medical attention

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@chhopsky

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- every public-facing application of blockchain of any kind depends on some source of trust off the chain. blockchain voting so the govt cant fuck with votes? depends on the governments voter registry. any time a blockchain relates to the real world, it depends on trust

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@chhopsky

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- try to not information dump, the way i have. refute their idiotic points one at a time - when they claim 'you just dont understand', ask them what, specifically, they think you don't understand - "well im going to retire early" congrats, scamming has always been profitable

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in SF i had a friend ( @finespline00 ) who was an animator for movies/games - happy feet, iron man 2 et al he wanted to stream so i pitched 'play league but also make new animations out of league characters' when i watched i was confused why it took so long. it looked done.. 🧵

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Calling all artists. This is making the rounds. There is hope for us yet!

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dan, like most AI people, either failed to understand the work, or is lying to make this look impressive stable diffusion did not read people's minds. he's very conveniently either omitted or left out how this actually works, because it would show that SD didn't do shit 🧵

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@chhopsky

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@StarlingHunter1 @Esqueer_ dunno how you got through typing that sentence without convincing yourself to rethink it

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@chhopsky

1 year

Everything Is Better With Lesbians™

PeterOvo

@PeterOvo5

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How does this help the game?

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@DrillbotKillbot @incineroarings its a cyberpunk scifi anime set in an imaginary future society. the number is whatever they say it is

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@chhopsky

2 years

"but you'll be able to sell your rare gacha items and make money" you are describing gambling. any studio who does this will be immediately fucked to pieces by legislators. it would be regulated so hard that no-one would ever dare try it again

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@chhopsky

1 year

@SaintPeebles @Wowhead "staff development policy" is a hell of a euphemism for being asked to lie about people so they can be punished

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"How The Games Industry Hurts People" A look into the physiological processes via which we break down and cease to function. If you've hit a wall, and then struggled to understand why you're not getting better, this article is for you.

How The Games Industry Hurts People

The anatomy of a breakdown, and how to rebuild afterwards.

chhopsky.substack.com

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@LLBroadwell jargon fluency is a terrible purity test

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@chhopsky

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pro tip: if you're interviewing for a gamedev job and they ask you if you have any questions for you, ask them what their archival strategy is. how do they intend to handle EOL? what happens when the servers shut down, or a license is revoked, etc - how will the game behave?

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@chhopsky

1 year

@PicchiaVT are you trying to defend attempting to pay people for work in exposure?

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@chhopsky

1 year

@NMassian @OpenAI this is almost as big a self-own as that guy that complained that science and data seemed to always support left-leaning claims

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@chhopsky

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once someone is bought into a scam they are convinced is going to make them rich, they will not want to let go of that future hope. they will do the worst mental gymnastics you've ever seen to not give up on this supposed lifeline but for just as many others, its an anchor

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@CultClassicCage

🧙🏿‍♂️#1 Hater Kendo✊🏿🇵🇸 is working on VITW

@KendoMakesFilms

1 year

Damn that’s crazy, anyways here’s the lead designers quote about how Link is purposefully designed to be gender neutral so that any play (masculine or feminine leaning) could relate to him.

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

2 years

people in the comments: damn ppl soft you should play call of duty my brother in christ, we don't want people abusing our players either

Dexerto

@Dexerto

2 years

YouTuber IShowSpeed was banned from all Riot games for sexist and toxic comments during a Valorant match

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christina 死神

@chhopsky

2 years

i saw some people tonight who - and i swear you can’t make this shit up - were complaining that the leaked footage looked unfinished the leaked footage from the unfinished game. that got leaked. before it was finished

Alanah Pearce

@Charalanahzard

2 years

Leaks are awful for everybody, including excited fans, who are often looking at an unfinished product and creating totally false expectations based upon that. Everyone loses, it just sucks.

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