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hell I even bought a new PC just to play Starfield (and also game dev but ehh)
where'd you play? PC?
Yeah.
I mod the everliving shit out of the game
wish starfield came out a week before my long weekend, instead of the week after π¦
hope you have pixars render farm ready to play the game
I really just don't like the fallout series in general. Wasteland is a far better futuristic dystopia series.
I'm looking hella forward to payday 3 though
top-notch gunplay, incredible combat (and idc about the story)
I liked the earlier games more
also hoping starfield will run on my gtx2060 π¬
my dad is pixar so I have that covered
fallout 76 was pretty fun
fallout 4 was fine
idk not my favorite series
and it is still Bethesda
my new PC didn't arrive yet so I'll be playing it tomorrow on an RX 580 lol
main OST was banger, other than that, mid game
the B in Bethesda stands for Broken
surprisingly
I should make a children's book
π‘
what'd you not like?
let us know if it runs π
deffo will
Fr let me know if starfield runs
actually curious
since they used and open source graphics api
doesnt come out till the 6th tho right?
I believe that whole engine is new
early access lol
Unity?
yeah I think they're using vulkan
it was in development before msft bought them though
and the engine already existed I guess
surely their biggest game will use their own RHI, right?
oh yeah they're using the forge
holy they improved forge a fuck ton since I last saw it
even made it into a company
the first developed to run on Creation Engine 2.
they support both dx11 and vulkan from what I can find
I'm talking about the RHI lol
Beth does have their own engine
it's not like vulkan is this obscure api that is used by 3 people world wide though
well it's not as common as dx, but it's out there in the wild for a few well known games
bg3 supports vulkan
not that I use it
well I was looking for wrappers around graphics api's and I saw it a while back
but at the time it was super simple
what are wrappers ;-;
basically a wrapper is makeup for things
Any tips for managing / preventing neck pain? My monitors are arm's length from me, and just below "straight ahead" when sitting at my desk.
I see, noice
I thought CP2077 was pretty immersive tbh. I felt right in character throughout the entire thing and the open world experience felt decent. Just my two cents tho.
...use a neck brace?
I love cyberpunk, thought it was a solid 9/10
Funnily enough on my first playthrough on launch I had absolutely no issues, I can't remember any bugs either
So after playing it, seeing all the criticism online was very surprising
a split keyboard can help with shoulder/neck pain as well if you wanna yolo in
same. I completed it twice and had 2 bugs the entire time
That is ironic but I believe it
not sitting in the same position for 5 hours on end also helps
Already rocking a Moonlander π
I see you have too much money
I played 2077 on its first sale lol, saw one bug and after I fixed it, there was nothing
I did, but now I have a Moonlander
ngl if I get this career job I will straight up piss any excess money away into my health
Tons of breakable bounds ~ visually unfinished / gutted content ~ very simple ai ~ police were extremely unimpressive ~ gang fights were always super repetitive and linear ~ driving / traffic ai was awful ~ water had no interactions ~ lack of working vending machines or arcade games ~ same exact character models side by side walking down the street ~ children were shrunken adults
a standing desk could help with changing positions throughout the day as well
and then the combat felt mediocre
excess money? did you apply for CEO or something?
well half of them are fair but the other half ain't
the story only felt interesting once johnny appears
I wish, but I live in Indiana so COL is p low. Any cash after added savings and student loan payments I'm gonna put into ergonomic stuff, more nutritional supplements, etc
and it was an open world with a story so you got what you paid for. And we can all criticise games to any degree but as far as games go, it was very very good
I'd only buy supplements if your doctor says you need them
most of them are a scam
especially in murica where they sell anything as "medicine"
like assassins creed odyssey or far cry 5 or red dead redemption 2
are light years better
imo
no way you said ACO and FC5 are better
its all preference tho so I respect that.
than CP2077
I didn't get what I paid for because their marketing was so
misleading
to be fair, Farcry 5 was very good. RDR2 was boring as hell tho
ACO is the most grindy, bloated and dreadful game I've ever played
FC5 was pretty fun
haven't played RDR2
aco is really fun
I went through all their marketing to prove a point and they never misled on any of it. They gave exactly what they said they would except for two things. Mantis Claw climbing and trains
I take Centrum. Not because my doctor told me to, but just as a safety net.
what is that
wall running
and flying fucking cars
It's a vitamin supplement.
do you have a deficit?
True. Mostly diet. I've become a Bryan Johnson stan lately and it's been interesting
cause too much can also be bad
Probably.
you can test it with bloodwork lol
I wasn't disappointed in the story it's a solid 8/10 maybe a 9
I was just disappointed in the world
I like exploring everything
I'll maybe try it again in the far future
after I cut through my backlog of several 100 hour long games
Well, the last time I ahd bloodwork done, I wasn't deficient while taking them. Or having too much. So I'm gonna continue the trend.
I got to act 2 in Baldur's Gate after 50 hours in act 1. So I put it down and went back to Blender for now. Loved it but damn ...
hopefully cd projekt red can redeem themselves in the future but they made me stop preordering games
ngl
I instantly pre-ordered Phantom Liberty.
that's wild
I hope that dlc makes it into a full game
yeah some games are soooo long
but tbf as long as they are fun idc
pre ordering something they promised would be free at first, and is an expansion to one of the most broken disappointing launches
I only preordered 2 games in my entire life - Just Cause 4 and Starfield
one was bleh and the jury's still out for the other one
idk though these newer assassins creed games look real bad
dude thats just excessive criticism. The original game was a full game. It had a beginning, middle and end with the story. It took over 40 hours to complete. I mean, what do you want out of it? Is there something you felt it needed?
like the Viking ones had terrible movement systems
well not story wise just the world
imo gta 5 from a decade ago had better ai
and more interactive things
I don't actually know what the phantom liberty dlc adds in terms of story
or how much it costs
its Β£30
it basically reboots the whole game they say. New story, different way to complete it. etc.
new area too
Yeah I'm playing it as soon as it comes out
like i said the cyberpunk story was solid 8/10 maybe 9
I don't pre-order games usually. I do it perhaps once every 5 years. But I had to with this. I know the console players had a rough time with CP but I played on PC and found it really enjoyable
talking about far cry 5 made me want to play it again
ngl
that game has the best fishing mechanics ever
it's so fun
I watched my wife complete farcry 5 at least 25 times. She's an expert on it to the point she got me to teach her how to hack games so she could find hidden unused content and things.
when's phantom come out anywah
september
oh my god 25
I've played it only twice
I played the first area and got bored knowing the rest of it is just the same repeated. But she was obsessed with for a solid 3 years
I hope far cry 7 is a brand new game
WHAT
twenty-five times??
well, they say a lot of things
far cry 6 is kinda just a reskin
yeah its not an exaggeration either
Was fc6 the cult one?
no that was 5
What was 6?
with bullet sponges
Hmm. Think I skipped 6 then.
6 is the south american one with Gus Fring
a reskin with less features at that
when is that new division game coming out
the free to play one
heartland. Dunno. But I bet it flops
I'm a huge Division fan but they consistently ruined it over time
oh late this year or early next year cool
Something that really pisses me off in games dev right now is removing content in sequels. Like they make a game where people love it. They have all this content and game modes. Then make a sequel and take it all out. Like why? Just add to it you special kind of lazy bastards.
Like Diablo 4 for example
Just Cause 4 is the best example of this
guys removed everything people loved from the previous game
like why
they did the same with The Division 2
if you're gonna reskin a game why take content away from me I'm all for copy and pasting good titles that took years
but why not just add more content
Ubisoft does this all day long
all their titles
Yep
assassins creed has the same issue
it's annoying
you have to wait a few years til they start from scratch again
then you get a solid game
but first they release their testing games
like assassins creed origins
is like the test of the new engine and features for odyssey
and then they copy their next few games
dude it was actually the same with unity to syndicate
god that's awful
and it's all documented
on their fandom
diablo 4 already on sale lol
Soon.
Isn't this the one where you had to spend a million dollars in order to get all end-game gear or something? xD
yes
im about to ask chat gpt for spoilers
10/10
I read that it feels polished with minimal bugs
lol
Also this a typical triple A studio game move. Not announcing what the gameplay is actually about but instead just saying "we sell games people play" π€£
Storage: 125 GB available space
No thanks.
how can there be any meaningful reviews already though
Embargo lifted just now
Those are not "meaningful" in any way. Those are often just trying to make it look better than it is so they don't get kicked out of being able to review their next games.
π
Oh I recognise this game engine
it's powerpoint
hey the current top starfield streamer cohhcarnage played our shitty indie game at release
I'm definitely biased though, I absolutely do not like those big companies reviewing games.
what's the catch with xbox/pc game pass? all these games (and starfield) for like 7 euros per month?
there is no catch yet
farm subs, raise prices
that's how services work
look at netflix
There doesn't have to be a catch either though.
I think microsoft likes money though
Laura could tell you all about it
they crunch the money out
They pay developers to have games on gamepass, people buy the subscription and end up giving Microsoft money and so the loop continues. Then after some time new games go on there and other games get yoinked away so that you now need to buy the game you spend hours on x)
well most people will not play a game longer than the game pass shelf life though
It's still an amazing deal to try out games though.
it is a good deal
is it?
If they didn't make money from it or gained something else from it they wouldn't be keeping gamepass π
that's all pretty high
pretty sure they're still running at a loss atm
depends on who you ask
not all reviewers have the same standard for a 9 for example
A 7 on average still means nothing when it's only a few companies getting a look at a small portion of the game though π€·ββοΈ
have you seen any modern tech company btw, all running on losses in the hopes of future revenue
yeah I'm still in the process of reading all the reviews (like I won't be playing the game in a few hours hahaha)
Yeah. There are also companies who hope they get bought over by someone else and then it's their problem. Microsoft / Xbox aren't going to be bought over randomly though. Those companies are gigantic.
i've discovered tons of good games on XGP
gigantic enough to run losses for years on one division
it's like amazon
they make bank on AWS so they can lose money on things like twitch or undercutting competition till they die
EGS does the exact same thing. They throw a ton of money into it in the hope it eventually starts generating revenue for the rest of the companies existence π
But it absolutely did not make any money for a long time. I'm not sure how they are doing these days but you get the point xD
but it is a great deal if you play games regularly
I don't play that many games anymore these days myself though
The launcher is absurd.
or a reverse financed intern
I was looking at my library the other day and noticed I have a bunch of mod SDKs in there. Turns out you can't remove them or any game for that matter because they don't offer that functionality. You can't even hide them D:
I don't understand how they don't see how big of an issue their whole interface is though. It's absurd they put millions of dollars into that product and then still have the most barebones functionality.
I'm probably one of the very few people that want them to succeed but it's absurd how much is missing :/
I was in a stream for a game today with the developers playing and someone was asking "Why don't they just add all mods for the game into the game" and I was genuinly confused why after all these years it's still not clear games can't just throw everything into their game in a second π¦
Especially if it's 10-20 people versus an entire army of modders x)
and why would you even
I mean fair enough. It's definitely much easier for me to say "Why don't they just fix it?" then someone within Epic getting paid to do so lol.
The person asking was playing on console and we all know how much Sony / Microsoft etc. love mods.
factorio is also making a space expansion, co created by the guy that made the well known space exploration mod
at least that's different
well it is downloadable
technically the base game is also DLC in that sense π€
as are most games
have we been living in DLC all along?
I can't be bothered to use words every company gives something while we for a long time have named things like these "DLC"
I can't wait for the day people do the same with micro-transactions π
But I'm not old though.
"DLC" is the word I grew up with π₯²
are you like 15
- So might as well be.
Good luck. ChatGPT doesnt know anything after 2021.
Why is "dinosaurus" called "sauropod" π
I was born in 2001. So you might understand why I was saying I literally grew up with that name x)
The lower price thing?
unfortunately
The worst part is the consumers continuing to give those companies their money π
Actually what I would consider worse than that, is the part of the community that acknowledges the problem, complains about the problem, and then continues to give them their money ππ
sry but my fav streamer is playing that game and buying all the dlc and comsetics so obvi i have to too
I didn't mind DLC much at all growing up... granted my initial exposure to DLC was COD and battlefield. I was cool with spending $15 for 4 new multiplayer maps and a new nazi zombie map :p
I've always just viewed dlc and expansions as one and the same, just different names 
Back in teh day you had to actually buy physical copies that extended your game.
They are essentially the same thing, barring that.
The internet has just made it convenient to release smaller amounts of content per release.
Depends on the game/developer what DLC actually is.
Borderlands DLC, for instance, is generally very well made and mid-sized.
It's just really sad that the state of AAA games especially, has devolved from, "we want to use our resources to make great shit," to "we want to use our resources to milk your wallet." π¦
Borderlands is the first non-multiplayer game I played with DLC and I thought they always did a good job with it
Yup!
Admittedly, they have released some "hey this is a new playable character" dlc which was shit.
But all their actual content updates are really good.
Oh a fellow baby
Tho I'm 2 years older 
10 bucks for new areas, enemies, guns and story? hell yeah. But now you got shit like Destiny 2. "$40 for a couple hours of story plz and a raid. if you don't buy it, we lock you out of some content too hehe"
"oh and here buy our $15 season pass too"
ikr
Hey mine does, am I in the cool kids club?
"and to compensate for the price increase, we also took dungeons out of the season pass. you have to buy those too hehe"

the game lies about being free to play
You didn't have to say it that way.. π
it's a fucking demo
and the new user experience is dogshit
it doesn't help they removed almost all the story content that was in the game on launch
including the first two paid dlc
Even @slate drift made fun of me for my age π
That's like 30 ish
Practically 1 leg in the grave already
The server I moderate in there's a fellow mod who is like 80-90 years old. It's great XD
It has the worst progression system I have ever experienced in a game too. "You are only allowed to progress this much every week, and you have to do these specific activities every week to progress." and it's 90% the same exact shit they had you do 6 years ago when the game launched
Tbf like 90% of my daily interactions, be it online or irl is with people much older than me
That actually makes me feel a tiny bit better, considering I look back at my 18th birthday with massive nostalgia lmao
I did, zoomer ^^
I wish the game was as fun to play as it is to look at. I love the concept of the game. I love the visuals. Everything else is atrocious π₯²
Acting as I'm not a zoomer myself
I think you were like just on the edge of being a millennial, Wizard?
π
Damn parents not considering that I'm now a zoomer smh π€£
"Next time"
I'm not a refundable product, sorry to disappoint Laura.
stop that
that never occured to me and that's just wild
I don't think we need to have this talk with you any more I hope.
so what is between 93 and 98, asking for a friend
π
stap ittt
The people that fix printers.
Wizard have you already taken over your job's lead role? π
event gang rise up
Working on it
Are you like 70 
You have a very special manner of convincing
There was a YouTube short and they were using the term "I tiktok'd without a firewall" and it was the most absurd thing I had ever seen.
Gonna use that against our designers
NewObject intensifies.
Oh 
Wizard is a lie all along π₯²
All them 2025 babies out there
It's still not looking good no?
Imagine being a baby pff
I feel like they've given up on generation naming after millenials
β€οΈ
"Yeah they're all a lil broken. They need a lil fixin before they can function right"
What even is life am I right Dieter.
why not just refer the generation by the years
instead of weird words
oh. sorry for the suggestion 
What instead of "generations" we start calling them "hotfixes".
Clearly means they're radioactive
Run and hide when generation gamma comes around
Lol
Patch 2025.2
2012 apparently
An Electro/Psytrance-inspired Techno track with a few hints of chiptune.
This is the first fully finished track I made after many months of just practicing/studying, and hopefully, it shows.
I decided to show all the stems and plugins/tools I'm using while the track is playing because this thing was a fricking beast in complexity. (for me at le...
I saw the emoji and I thought it was Wizard.
The disappointment is unreal π
This is my cue to disappear again. This is the peak of the day.
where is the spider conductor?
Is this some cursed version of a superconductor? Who let the scientists think again?
We need a :baby_yells_at_unreal: emoji lol
Oh it was related to a random discussion me and some friends had, and someone miswrote something.
lmao that ending
speaking off, @broken sigil still wanted to generate an image for me iirc
Checks dms
That would in some way suggest later generations are in some way better π Gen X all the way!
hi
what about "Version Updates"?
Version updates are not necessarily always better than previous ones π
yes that works π they introduce their own set of bugs and undocumented features...
but what happens when you roll back a version update? π₯Ή
updatecide
I really wish I hadn't pictured what you just said! π€¦ββοΈ
kek
does the steam version of substance painter come with all the invasive adobe windows services and background running apps?, or does the steam DRM handle it?
indeed :/
same. i know it does not contain 'creative cloud' but i still wonder about the 4 other services constantly running (if they are still included)
yeah, that's the type of Windows service they install that bug me (barring cloud based stuff)
oh, that's not good. i know they are still selling 2023, but IDK if 2024 is coming.. sounds like no, from that
In about 4 months
Mixer is officially at its final version, but they seem to have something else planned.. perhaps a suite?
well, depending on your needs, maybe the Layer Painter add-on for blender is enough,. i just forked and updated it to include edge masks, and procedural grunge maps. PR is waiting on acceptance, but you can pull it from my Git if you wanted to try it
lol
woops I accidentally cracked photoshop
yeah, but manually setting up all the layers, every freakin' time is Super slow workflow killer :/ that is why i was so glad to find Layer Painter. had to contribute, just because it was so helpful
Yeah, layer's are a manual thing, without this plugin
nope. Nice!
i watched 10 minutes and it was... exhausting to watch
i feel like the quality of the UE streams is going down
or they are just too slow placed for intermediates?
matthew wadstein does that!?
just watch them at 5x speed π
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glad they leave something like that for "compatibility" reasons around π
No joke! π my literal folder name
That font!
I find it very easy to read! y'all are just mean π
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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lmao π
That would depend on your local laws.
However, I highly suspect they aren't paying taxes and you shoudl report them to the local government.
After offering them a loan secured on their house which they will then be unable to repay.
Something tells me Varun is not a centralized bank, otherwise that would be sound advice
He owns the restaurant and the building, the room above the restaurant is for rent
it's legal
I would not do it.
One key thing regular payments make is a paper trail, in case they try to say you didn't pay
If they do, make sure you have proof of payment. They may try to fuck you over
My neighborhood is trying to make a new housing rule where any "tenants with a dog over 30 pounds will have 3 days to leave"
"Trying", I dnt think its gonna get very far considering everyone has hounds and pits
Indeed.
is it just me or bg3 act 3 is beyond unplayable
i was having fun with around 50-60 fps now its barely 15
check to make sure the patch didn't set your resolution up to 4k. Mine reset last patch and I was getting awful FPS but I usually play in 1440p because 4k is really heavy
Killer klowns from outer space are getting a game
And it's just a dead by daylight clone
Sorta
I wonder if we'll get project zomboid with better graphics with this π https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_TWsTlXnw
Wishlist HumanitZ on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1766060/HumanitZ/
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I hate zombie games
and days gone
the best zombie game to date is probably last of us
blame mons for this hue thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9mEVc0DS9w
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I will never trust "smart" security
Isnt there some Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 thing9 tonight?
yep WP has the exact same damn bug
as it was in 5.0
basically "dont use the cardinal axes!!!!!"
i really hope i just dont know some magical incantation because
otherwise it seems like world partition is completely useless
without some very careful world design
hmmm
well that implies this eventually ends, that only things within 4x of your grid's load distance will stay loaded
lemme check that once i relaunch the editor since it decided to die
fwiw its 50 feet of gap
not like these are perfectly on the axis
its actually a little lopsided too, but that might just be sloppy methodology on my part
oh right
i guess on that point, its not as bad as it seems, because very dense very small objects are unlikely to do so
i suppose for your "architectural" or "environmental" grid, youd want to be sure to set the grid size itself to be large in addition to the load distance, to minimize this effect
oh yes
"game dev is not stressful"
you can use some prioritization to help
but absolutely not solve
i was hoping to find some new WP loading observation API
another usecase for behavior trees 
i meant grid loading prioritization
yeah it doesnt exist
or if it does, its.... shall we say absolutely undocumented
for characters so far i have some hacks
things like checks for floors and disabling physics, some teleporting stuff. But nothing works well
honestly a nightmare
is this all to workaround a single WP bug?
well no
to work around multiple WP bugs
but the fact that you cannot enforce loading order? yeah
if your object has physics, its gone
or at least, indeterminantly gone
interesting, why Fortnite doesnt suffer from this?
if it doesnt, why it exist in the engine 
oh well 
sadly it seems just a tech demo
i really wonder how epic responds to "actual" clients
we got a fking expensive license and WP doesnt work
answer: lmao
"you weren't supposed to actually use that"
"but you marketed it to us
"
I really hoped it was gonna get better in a few point releases
because the old system is so insane as to be useless unless you have a huge team
what was it called again
world.... composition
nativization didnt work, water doesnt work, statetree is buggy, aimodule is dumpster fire, wp doesnt work, vcs integration is shitty, c++ is awful
in house engines should be beyond terrible
if Epic can survive with this amount of half assing

I bet the larian engine is nice
I'm in act 3
it cant render much skeletal meshes
it's not great perf but it's actually impressive what they do on crowds and stuff
i just started and my fps dropped from 50 to 15
cheers in 3080ti
its cpu bottleneck
rather than gpu
ryzen 2600 cant take it, i wonder how xbox series will take it
which is even weaker than ps4
yeah core i9 12900k for me, and it's ... ok. about 30-40 fps with some noticable frame stutter
How come no one uses right click as 'back' in menuing
(on 4k)
stop flexing 
because I don't want that
shtaaap
See it sometimes in eastern developed games, in EDF and AC6 for instance, but I can't think of a single western developed game that does that
nah it's ehm 2160p 16:9
not even cinema 4k is 4k*4k
cause that would actually be 16k
It sounds bad, but 'plays' good
I want my right click to be for... like menus and stuff
In and out of menuing with just a mouse
that's fair I guess. for certain games it could work. makes me think of death stranding
on PC, kind of a nightmare controls wise
Some games do use right click for like bringing up a menu
all creative tools should have fluffy mode though
because it sounds comforting under crunch
Didn't play it, did DS have right click back in the menus?
Damm the dragon from the editor
sup hevedy! man, Laura, hevedy, I popped on at a good time
and Eren of course sorry eren
I don't ping Laura because she does this
k, make that 25875
And I feel dumb (deserved)
please can this happen π
I've been hanging out with the forge folks (actually, Neoforged now because they're forking) and pings are strictly forbidden
25874 RTX TI
Don't worry thats the common day of a programmer
so I got used to hitting that bell on every reply to avoid banishment
ahh the 25874 RTX Ti, not to be confused with the 25874 GeForce RTX Ti, which behaves entirely differently
I like how Epic is giving out unannounced RX 7500s
yes all three are from different generations and have nothing in common. Thanks Nvidia!
oh totally, im secretly the owner of a AAA studio thats using unreal engine 5 to make the next AAAA game, how did you know??
most people here are in AAAAA studios, so.
doesn't mean much really
damnit
GOTY
welcome to unreal. scratch that, welcome to game development
Why Spiderman games are Spider-Man and not the combo or Spider+Man
Someone have the reply
should I do a woodworking course of 160 hours for 410 euros including material and machine usage π€
seems like good value
not if you hate woodworking no
sounds good
that would not be a good value
I like woodworking with my hand tools so far
thing is I don't have machines at home, so outside of class can't do shit
Wait you don't have foot tools ?
converts currencies
I mean everyone's gotta have a hobby
at this point maybe is better to making living money from there than games that's collapsed
well I don't make games either way
yeah career change! open an Etsy shop
the course guy was also promoting it like you can find work with this lol
I was like bitch please, I'm a swe, I can get a job in 4.2 nanoseconds
That always are liars
this would be more of a hobby thing
swe ?
I had a recruiter reach out to me like "Hey, wanna go be armed security in Bahgdad"
and maybe come in handy when working on my own house
why do you hate sweden
that's the best part about it
I got a job offer for a student job as worker in a warehouse recently lol
it's like those people don't know how to read
Wait, that easy is to get a job as software engineer in the north ?
and why is it soft
I've always thought people who use hyphens are rather dashing.
"Do YoU wAnNa ClImB tOwErS aNd InStAlL 5G!?!" - x5 every day
depends on how high your standards are
@proud jay in what industry you work right now ?
but if you have none, then yes
I'm currently a backend dev in a supply chain planning company
oh
Webdev!
idk if you can really call it webdev in se though
I guees
but it goes so deep
we're transforming our fat client to a service based architecture with a thin client (aka this frontend)
wild, absolutely wild
I feel like saying web dev gives this connotation of making websites for companies
like wordpress crap and the likes
yeah
I've never made a wordpress site. I hope to continue this trend.
I've never made a website
wait, except my portfolio
with drag and drop wordpress lol
for a few years I did php webdev, including WordPresses and magentos. never again
there's not much difference between making a desktop application and "web dev" though
just that you separate the UI and work with an api
agreed, especially these days
everything is networked, APIs are always needed
whats indeed?
You don't have to use html and css. Or any web-related language.
neither do I as backend boy though
Then you're good!
Like a job posting board thing
indeed it is
is it indeed
Indeed is a spam machine
i was half expecting you to say "indeed deez nuts"
indeedz nuts
lol
frie.....
the boss will fuck you over any day
Honestly, looking at it, it doesn't sound too terrible
except that you could kill/get killed I guess
and it's in baghdad
They pay better than the last company who sent me over there
software engineers are well known to be good armed guards this is true
Army, and Afghanistan but close enough
OR, you could make [REDACTED} herding games! XD
what happened that you are a vet at 29?
When statetrees are like "Linker." I got scared
Blown off a roof
it's not uncommon for 29 year olds to be veterans....
at least in the us
doesn't make it a good thing
Most peoples only do like ~5 years and get out
folks join young, do a few terms and leave. if there was a war, I'd suppose you are a veteran. hmm, do we consider servicemen not in active war to be veterans? not sure on that
research sheep
They pay for uni completely, and like a few thousand dollerydoos a month while you're in school
if you specialized in something, you usually go into that industry
I never got the whole army thing personally
but it's for a specific kind of person I guess
or when you are in need of their benefits to survive
well someone's gotta do it
I of course am priviledged to live in a quite peaceful country
If everyone refused there would be no more war π§
world peace achieved
cries in empirialism
Outsorcing war to AI π
We had mandatory service, but they got rid of it like one year before I was supposed to go π
is that not something that can be googled
we have taken our hands off of colonialism π₯
only people familiar with belgian atrocities will get that joke
everyone is familiar with the belgian warcrimes stuff
you can't Dieter me if Dieter didn't already respond, that's a technical foul
its like the emu war level internet lore
idk about everyone lol
(just go with it Dieter, it benefits you)
technically belgium did nothing wrong
Biggest lie of the century π
oh crap Belgium controversy
wChocolate
We all know Belgium isn't real though.
Wait, he already said that
....is probably the only time I'll be able to say that
thats france
That too.
france is quitelarge though, hard to miss
Belgium is the place with that weird version of English ?
what
That's England
you mean the UK?
lmao
france is a story made up by mothers to make sure children finish their bread
which is the normal version of english
but belgium has 3 official languages, Dutch, French and German
I still love how France strategically placed one of their nuclear reactors next to Belgium π€£
My parents made me learn how to spell every word in the dictionary when I was really little
neutrality? I dunno
I think that is shared between them though
reminds me of Canada units
It was an Oxford dictionary, and they didn't know the difference
And it's ruined me for life
Shared as in?
if by share you mean we buy power, yes, other than that no
Maybe they share the energy that comes out of the reactor but it's still on ground from the French.
of coure we also share the radiation poisoning
at least we're wrong consistently
For weight?
yes
A stone is obviously the weight of a stone.
It's split into sub-units called pounds (lbs) of which there are 14 per stone..
and also all the us customary units are defined via conversion to metric. so like it or not, we are on the metric system (this is more funny talking to dumb pro-customary unit americans)
cause metric has standards
ayo
No matter what they're defined as, the metrics system is based around the idea of base 10, which they apparently don't l ike. Probably because they don't have 10 fingers, damned hillbilly inbred mutants.
lol
And I'm saying this in a country that uses only half metrics units.
as an American, Sounds Accurate (TM)
People complain about Imperial units and turn around and use 60s, 60m, 12x2 or 24hr, 28,29,30,31 days, 12 months, 7 days in a week,
that's a practical concern though
Didn't the US officially switch over to the metric system but people are just too stubborn to give up the imperial system?
their scientists use it
laughs in sidereal units
no just in how we define the customary units
That's what the UK did, Thom, at least.
actually to be fair month day counts are fucked
We tried that in the US, and according to my Dad (only sometimes right) "Everyone hated it because they were getting ripped off on gas"
that's a worldwide problem (mostly)
they fucked up some space craft back in the day cause the one guy was measuring in inches and the other thought it was centimeters or something
why do we do this to ourselves
The challenger explosion?
mostly because of that one idiot who programmed the acceleration of a particular spacecraft with imperial numbers and metric units
I don't recall which one exactly
hey, NASA is smart!
Challenger was a frozen o-ring
Oh, it was the Mars Climate Orbiter.
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for what it's worth, most Americans don't consider Texas to be part of the country
although it's more US than Florida is
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texas and florida is probably the most US out of all US states
If only the US would join the EU in the more superior system π₯²
we're not sure what is up with Florida. seems to be some kind of swamp thing
The chicken little skyscraper.
If the sky has fallen, it's touching it!!
Idk how florida is still alive
ahm, I'm talking about the count of days in the months and what months they are. that's actually a place where US and EU agree
the guy just scammed them by using inches instead of feet
more like how is any wild animals in florida still alive?
Feels like every year there's a new massive hurricane that destroys a part of the state
should've gone for months with 28 days
they have to deal with florida men and women
florida is australia for all species except humans
but the Roman dictators would feel so trodden upon
There's a website where you can see what random event happened including a "Florida man" on the day you were born. It's pretty funny xD
well they also invented extra months, what are you gonna do about it
hopefully get rid of them
but as I say that
do any of us want to program that?
Can I switch my birthday.
at... all
Florida Man Birthday Challenge is an internet trend where you can learn about funny and interesting events that occurred on the dates that coincide with your own birthday.
we should start years in march again
Feels like every country has its own florida and florida man news π
hopefully Florida man doesn't become president. if so, run away from us
make sept-dec make sens again
Florida is already messed up anyway. No need to run away only then XD
well trump his official residence is now in florida
ehm... again
If they don't like it, they can go fuck themselves.
is he actually in prison now
I'm so excited for the trial to be livestreamed
I saw he was arrested but assume he paid bail
working on it
It doesn't say he was doing it to himself.
please no, that johnny depp vs amber heard one was bad enough
@sand oxide
They announced today they're streaming it on Youtube
meh nothing interesting
I think it should be a constitutional right for Florida men to castrate at home
Poor YouTube servers going down.
why is my birtday cursed
who are we to stop them
Wtf. That's messed up.
its a little biased towards the men tbh
well, men are known to do stupid shit
another "why women live longer" meme?
such as marrying women, amirite fellas
why
Weren't you the one engaged?
yeah but Florida men take it to a new level. And it has occurred to me that someone in here listening is probably a Florida man (technically) but they are probably one of the good ones
Sad Dieter fiancee noises.
well statistically speaking women do live longer
i dont understand the "marrying is such torture dear god save me jk jk" jokes
I kinda observe men really do more dumb and risky things in general too, though 
boomers hate their life
Phone bad
π
I don't hate everyone equally, not based on gender though
Anyway, let's all agree to switch to an even 28 day 13 month calendar with one additional rest day per year.
I wonder what the most remote place I can get fiber internet is
mostly based on personality and actions
half of my friends at the same age as me are married and I'm merely 22
No.
aww cmon
it won't be THAT hard to write the localization code for it
How about we first ditch all languages around the world and agree on the same language?
is turkey one of those places still with arranged marriage or nah?
better idea, 20 months, each dedicated to one space marine legion. the emperor protects
I hate this
language is a part of culture
mostly the people who vote(d) for Erdogan do that
I equally hate you too π
but not the other half
could as well say break down all the buildings and build the exact same apartment block everywhere
ew
So? Screw culture if that means people don't have to spend multiple years learning different languages π€£
well it would probably be English. I'm not in favor, but you'd have to deal with this shitty language all the time
you don't have to
and it's not that hard in a lot of cases tbh
You're telling me you can survive by only talking Dutch?
believe it or not, thats how the world worked not long ago
I do love those tiktoks where they construct a sentence in an arbitrary language that sounds ridiculous because all the words are the same
Sure technically you "can" but in reality most of us speak different languages.
somehow every language has managed it
History is a lie if it doesn't favor my hot take π₯²
history is a lie unless the omnissian record keeps say its true
unreal slackers is why I make no progress on my dumb game.
well, also unreal doesn't work but yeah
you said it was a hard requirement, it's not
plenty of people don't
oh hell yeah English is no exception
There's a good reason it's called "Unreal Slackers" π₯
especially in less "internationalised" countries
yep
most americans only know one language
in romania only 35% of people speak a second language
More than 70 people try to say 70 tongue twisters from 70 countries. In this tongue twisters challenge, citizens from all around the world attempt funny tongue twisters in different languages. Most English speakers know about Sally selling seashells at the seashore and Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers, but what about the best tongue twister ...
This is going to wreck my youtube algorithm isn't it
But 90% of youth speaks english
Sure but there are also plenty of countries these days that teach multiple languages at schools. We had English and Dutch at our primary school and my highschool was giving French, Dutch, English and Latin as a must in the first year. Latin is by no means a standard but usually you also get a language like French or German on top of Dutch and English. It sucks.
in asia youll get weird looks if you say you only speak 1 language. overwhelming majority know 2+
in California, it's 53% English only, 46% other language or both
it's quite educational though
depends on the person
c#
agrees in binary
I got dutch, french, english and german in school, and latin and ancient greek
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cries in "writes typescript all day every day"
Me and Latin were absolutely not vibing. I managed to get a single "ok" grade for the time I did it XD
oh we also very shortly learned some hebrew for some reason
but like only a few hours
I also thought myself basic swedish
languages can be interesting
but most people won't enjoy it indeed
what's the worst part of German for you
The Germans
the existance of it
The germans
German is just the yelling version of Dutch.
nah the fact that it is a modern language and still uses all these cases
I know that's not unique to german
German should be pretty easy to learn though
but they do it in a way that I don't like
π€
I feel like knowing Latin didn't help to learn German
Especially in high school
Extra dick
It means extra large i think. It was written over a pack of sausages and my friend and i absolutely lost it when we saw it