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Quote: Why is it still so difficult to make video games?
That's easy to answer: video games are often the state of art of software development.
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CPallini wrote: That's easy to answer: video games are often the state of art of software development
That's a great point.
I think the interesting thing though in relation to all software development is "why are estimates almost always quite distant from the actual time it takes?"
A lot of times we begin building on technology that supposedly works and then at the crucial point we learn that you can't get there from here with that technology.
The underlying API just won't do the thing and then comes the custom work.
Of course, there is a lot of "custom" work done in video games.
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Plus, the graphics and so forth get more complex - and directly hardware dependant - with each passing year, so you're not only trying to create new engines and content. but learn how you use the hardware seriously efficiently at the same time.
Add in the humongous amounts of money involved, and you've got a workplace pressure cooker with the valve welded shut ...
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CPallini wrote: Quote: Why is it still so difficult to make play video games?
That's easy to answer: makers of video games are often so obsessed with using the state of art of software development, that they consider game-play to be unimportant.
Glad we sorted that one out.
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True enough.
Of course, you can't keep up with teenagers. 
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That looks interesting and I really liked the opening quote by Pirsig. I read the entire introduction. I wonder why he believes there was some ancient ability of navigation that is lost.
It seems since there were no maps that navigation would've been done more or less in a wandering manner where the traveler is interested in a destination that is better than her present location and that is it. In that case it would seem that there was no intended or specific direction but just a wandering until things got better. However, maybe the ancients did have a way of determining that they weren't going in circles.
Were you able to successfully understand natural navigation techniques from the book?
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I think that with modern technology a lot of the old ways of navigation have been lost. The fur trappers were the first non natives to dicover the west. I don't think they had maps, it was passed word of mouth. When fur got scarce they moved to other areas. Some of it they got from natives but a lot was just wandering.
I found the book to be mostly common sense, just observe things around you, where ever you are just use what's available.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too!
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I just opened Outlook and I got these fancy new icons.
And Word has them too.
All of Office I bet.
Forget bugs and features in Windows, Visual Studio, C#, Azure (DevOps) and SQL Server, ICONS IS ALL WE NEED!!! 
Now let's find an icon that offends me...
Why does the Archive icon have a green lid!?[^]... 
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 Globalization is funny, at times.
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I find the VS icon very similar to this: Zware jongen[^]
That really pisses me off
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RickZeeland wrote: Zware jongen[^]
A Beagle Boy by another name...
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I know, there's a song about it: "The Boogie Woogie Beagle Boy from company B" 
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Interestingly, their boss was (until a slurry of PC-think took over) called "Black Pete".
How was that translated into Dutch? "Zwarte Piet" != a bad guy.
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Can't be unseen... Thanks 
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That US TV and movies reflect the reality that 87.6% of people in the world are gay?
Am I the only one who's sick of it?
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Whenever I hang out with friends we make sure there's at least one non-straight and non-white person (not necessarily the same person) in our group so our reality can reflect that from TV.
As a result we never hang out anymore and I don't have any friends 
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Would I count? I identify sexually as a VW Beetle Cup Holder.
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Actually, we're staying away from Transformers.
They're... complicated[^] 
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No, no - VW. Transformers would be for Ford van cup holders.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Whenever I hang out with friends we make sure there's at least one non-straight and non-white person (not necessarily the same person) in our group so our reality can reflect that from TV.
Oh, I know a couple of gay devs (not a couple couple, but literally two).
The trouble is that I know hundreds of devs, so I'm wondering which 87.59% of them is in the closet.
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They are trying like the dickens to desensitize us.
Aside from sports (not soccer btw) My tv is off until the ball is actually in play largely for that reason.
Someone tell me, what is the connection between dog shows and full on ferries?
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Ron Anders wrote: Someone tell me, what is the connection between dog shows and full on ferries?
Well, if you ask Google: Advice on taking your pet abroad | Brittany Ferries[^]
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So dont watch it. Those series are crap anyway.
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The only current TV show I watch is Grand Tour.
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