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Perhaps it’s naive but I really think that teaching critical thinking patterns to young teens can help. Just telling “don’t believe everything you read” can cut both ways.

Should just pay in pure cocaine, cut out the crypto middlemen.


Someone should make a framework like this but with static typing and manual memory management. If you want a modable game you really need to have it in a managed language, and I spent enough time fighting with garbage collectors that it's just a non-starter. A shame because Love is really nice to use.


> If you want a modable game you really need to have it in a managed language

... Why is that? Personally, both as a game developer and modder, dynamic languages like Lua and alike tend to be a lot easier to make moddable and also force in mods regardless of how the authors felt about modding in the first place. Isn't it quite the opposite?


Sure, but how much of that had to do with the design and implementation of Windows? You know, the OS that runs half of the modern economy. Microsoft is just milking it without a coherent vision.


And "surrounded by too much hot air."


Big tech Arpanet and CERN are full of it!


This article is so out of touch. The AI boom is great because it makes the line go up. I mean imagine these frivolities like affordable shelter and forty hour work weeks being some kind of birthright. You don't want to work anymore and we say fine and then we give you a digital pacifier but you're still whining, like these stocks are going to prop themselves.


This is really cool. Kaze Emanuar[0] seems to be able to hit 60hz consistently with his Mario 64 rework, I wonder if such perf is achievable for these wide open landscapes. Iirc Shadow of the Collosus rendered distant geometry into the skybox, which always struck me as a neat trick.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64


VRAM goes vroom vroom.

I emailed him the video from OP and he mentioned they’ve done some collaboration. I’m assuming there’s a retro programming discord that I’m not worthy of.


A lot of stuff is happening on the n64brew discord. https://discord.gg/WqFgNWf


VRAM on the n64 is notoriously slow.


It's RAM that is notoriously slow. VRAM is fast, but there's only 4K...


That 4K buffer is not VRAM. The 4/8MB of RAM is also used as VRAM.


Well, it’s texture RAM, the only one that RDP can access. It’s closest thing to « video memory ». Although, you’re right as the framebuffer lives in main ram. But that just means the system is sharing like in modern hardware, so I wouldn’t call the main RAM VRAM in any way.


Yeah I remember hearing that SOTC's "SuperLow" LOD was a 2D image. Trespasser also did that, but only for trees and props, not for terrain objects. Trespasser being basically a heightmap with dinosaurs dropped in


Even modern games replace distant geometry with billboards. Simplygon is one middleware that does this. The Remedy folks talked about how Alan Wake 2 used it at GDC last year or the year before.


Hey! It also had a barely working physics engine.

Then again the dinosaurs were physics entities, so maybe you already mentioned it. :)


IANAD but reads like a textbook case of latent schizophrenia, especially with the frequent cannabis use[0].

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7442038/


Yeah, it's weird they even included that. It reads like a psych shelf exam question to test if you know the connection between marijuana use and acute psychosis. But still, it is difficult to completely separate the AI being a possible catalyst for it.


Not sure about schizophrenia explaining all of the cases but I have a strong suspicion that cannabis use and isolation play a strong part in so called "LLM psychosis"


I didn't think of that but I had a friend who went pretty delusional, hospital level, through LSD and cannabis use.


The correct name would've been Fichte.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte


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