What does arbitrary geometry have to do with level complexity? My Nintendo 64 featured games with arbitrary geometry, and games with complex level geometry usually feature invisible, lower-resolution collision boxes; from a design perspective, those "are" the level.
Having more regular geometry allows the program generate more geometry itself and level designer to specify less.
Wrong. There's absolutely no reason that the developers couldn't tack on a graphics-based display of the content in the game world, with nearly arbitrary-detail tiles, and there's no way that doing so would limit the underlying game logic. "More triangles per frame" is primarily a function of GPU power, and DF's world runs exclusively on the CPU. The world's CPU-heavy; the graphics are CPU-light and GPU-heavy.
No reason except the requirement to maintain a reasonable framerate.
There exist some graphics frontends to DF but they definitely don't use photorealistic graphics. And probably they wouldn't be able to get enough art assets for more detailed graphics anyway. Another option would be to move some processing to GPGPU because DF manages to kill framerates in some cases even if you use ascii graphics only.
You can never know for sure what really happened there and for what reason. But both Ukraine and Russia make themselves known as democratic states. I have no reason to believe one of them is more truthful than other. All people seem to have different visions of what democracy and freedom is so any such statement is close to being a truism. Even China has People's democratic dictatorship.
But it's evidently true that Ukraine repeatedly failed to establish a government that satisfied both eastern and western parts of it. Both of those parts want democracy and freedom. They profess their love for democracy and freedom to implicitly assert that the other side isn't democratic. This is bullshit sophistry.This conflict isn't about democracy and freedom but between two groups that hate each other and have different pet political ideas, and it just got violent. Russia would never get an opportunity to meddle like that if not for this conflict.
Level design doesn't become more difficult, but you have to pay for more artists to design and build the higher-detail game resources (or spend more time with the same number of artists). Difficulty of using the models doesn't necessarily scale up with the complexity of the model geometry.
It's quite obvious that a level based on tiles is easier to design than a level based on arbitrary geometry. Designing levels in Blender or whatever is definitely not the way to go. Too much workload.
Name a game mechanic that you'd like to see that can't be made purely because the code running the GPU has been optimized. I'll wait.
How about the entirety of, say, Dwarf Fortress? It allows infinitely more complex gameplay systems just because it's based on tiles that are displayed by ascii characters. There are compromises possible too, say you settle for graphics complexity last gen but focus on making huge worlds with complex and interesting rulesets. Nobody is trying to work in this direction much. It's only matter of time before people will get tired of glorified interactive movies. I already did, and that's the reason I ended up becoming a retro gamer. When some game weighs dozens of gigabytes, takes ages to start up, provides less not-trivial gameplay than some similar titles of last millenium I really feel cheated.
Pushing the limits of platform like that will not give you that much of a competitive advantage. But it definitely will require more work that would be better spent focusing on game mechanics proper. The only progress games as a whole have lately is pushing more triangles per frame. All other aspects get shafted. Due to nature of those worlds built of millions of triangles it becomes harder to design levels which results in shorter games. And game design is an afterthought too. There weren't much progress with it. Power of modern PC could allow huge virtual worlds with complicated,interesting mechanics, but in practice all that power is spent on making world models less efficient for sake of more triangles per frame.
It's not that simple. There are many actions that can be attributed to Putin. Crimea issue is just one of them. And his stance on it definitely gives him more support. The only news from Ukraine Russians get is frequent coups, horrible economic situation, squabbles about discounted gas prices and Ukraine's failure to pay for it in time anyway. So you pretty much can expect that yet another Ukrainian coup followed by period of anarchy will get little sympathy in Russia.
Where did you get this idea that I thought it was OK for the boss' wife to poke her nose into company affairs?
It most certainly is *NOT* OK and nowhere in my post did I imply that it was.
And why should her co-worker have pulled her code due to sexism? That's her interpretation of the situation. It could have been entirely unrelated, either because it was crappy code, or it was a mistake or any other reason.
I wonder if such situation would be thinkable if wife's and founder's genders were reversed? Would it considered to be normal for some random guy to hang around the building and interfering with company's operations just because he's one of high level manager's husband? Perhaps it was just allowed in case of wife due to stereotypes of women being meddlesome meddlers of little practical importance..
What makes you think so? Not a single autonomous oblast/sub-SSR was allowed to be independent state by the dissolution. Only SSRs were, and ALL of them. The thing is if Soviet Union didn't dissolve and instead elected to become democratic loose federation, but still a single state, then many post-soviet conflicts could have been prevented. What really happened is a lot of fails due to there being not enough skilled statesmen and too many ambitious people wanting their own toy state.
This is not a fact but some moron's fantasies. And if it were true it wouldn't justify Georgia's fail either.
And what does it have to do with Vova? Are you insane? Disagreeing with your lunacy doesn't constitute dick-sucking to Putin. Your double standard against current Russian Government is ridiculous. And I would know it for sure because I'm not a Putin supporter, I merely agree with this particular action. So why do you emphasize Russia's fails over other former Soviet republic fails and diminish Russia's successes? What's the point?
You're just a troll. Most of former Soviet Republics were so much of a failure that it's even problematic to justify their continued existence. Russian Federation is not an exception. But response to Ossetia issue WAS a success for Russia, one of few cases in recent history when army was actually employed to save lives rather than to control oil or something. And ignoring this and making up excuses for Georgia instead IS blindness.
Yeah, Georgia and Ossetia are in long term conflict just because some clown in old Soviet Union placed them in same republic. Georgia failed to establish relationships with Ossetia so hard that this ended with incursion by Russian army which was even NOT condemned by international community. I bet Russian government expects similar fails by Ukraine based on this experience. Given you're not in any hurry to congratulate Russian army on this feat of Humanism and instead link to wikipedia edit wars based on mistranslated sources, I can only consider you biased. Everyone deserves credit for saving human life, no matter for which country they happen to fight. If there are people like you in Ukraine any people of Russian descent DO need protection.
This is not WW2 definitely. The only reason there's no outcry from world community is that 1: no annexation was done, 2: genocide was prevented. I'd even say Putin pulled off a reverse Hitler here. This was an epic fail for Georgia. If Ukrainian government tries to pull off something like that too another epic fail will follow.
Sure, and people born in Algiers did contribute to the French Empire. So what? It was still not their empire, they were the exploited in it, not the beneficiaries.
Soviet Regime had statesmen of local nationalities in pretty much all regions and communistic movement is international by definition. Soviet Union is built by rebels of all nationalities.
Now go tell that to Putin. And all the retards on the streets of Moscow who are cheering him, and asking for more (I heard Transnistria is next?).
You're missing my point. People born on Ukraine DID contribute to empire building, participated in common state. What language they spoke as they did so matters not. They might be compelled to continue this as Ukrainian state this time, perhaps to rebuild ancient Rus' or something. You can always come up with some reason to build an empire. But the time of empires has passed. And nobody will actually try to pull it off. Neither Russia nor Ukraine.
So local population is just tired of weird revolutions at the center? You can expect it to end as Ossetia war did, in nothing. Hopefully there will be no attempts of genocide this time.
I bet they weren't as long they were in Poland or Lithuania or whatever. But I simply don't see how they would be any different than any other territories in either Russian Empire or Soviet Union. Both of those states were to large degree nation agnostic. So Belarus, Ukraine and Russia definitely share some legacy as far as empire building is concerned because they all contributed to it with their soldiers and politicians.
If it was invasion, then Crimea can't be 5th column because it's just a victim of invasion. If it wasn't then why did Crimea rebel NOW? What triggered it?
You've misread me. I was merely claiming that Russia is in equal degree for freedom and democracy as Ukraine is. This makes me as much of a Russian nationalist as Ukrainian one. All nations are for freedom and democracy. Even China. Or at least they claim. They all end up working short of the ideals in practice, and Ukraine isn't any different.
Still it's enough people to take their interest into account. There's too much of those people to just to ship them to Russia and alternatives are either subjugation or some kind of compromise. Is new temporary Ukrainian government ready for compromise? It doesn't seem to me that is so, but I might be wrong.
I don't want separate states at all. I never saw any need for borders or ambitious politicians seeking fame at expense of other countries. I think a single world government will be enough. UN and EU are in some respects precursors of it.
But where do you see apathy? How refusal to accept your theories as gospel constitutes apathy? In fact such ramblings are manifestations of apathy themselves. They only serve as excuses for procrastination in practice. They offer nothing beside depression, and I can get depressed on my own without someone talking my ear off. I want something more constructive. Not talking about random bullshit for sake of it. Not pretending to understand motivation of Eltsin or logic of oil prices or whatever you decided to ramble about this day. I like to get the job done. Apathy is in your actions, not in your words. If you do nothing but ramble there's nothing to talk about in the first place.
People like you are dictator's best friend. Lot of talking so it's easy to find you and use you as scapegoat. Which is necessary for establishing the atmosphere of fear. To effect actual social improvement requires hard work, good social skills and great wisdom. It's a lot easier to just ramble on a kitchen. So most people do just that. I don't claim to support current government unconditionally. In fact my opinion on some issues differs sharply with it. But I will always keep my feedback specific and it will not spiral into paranoid ramblings. And I will not vote for Putin on elections.
I only know that Berkut was using nothing more than non-lethal methods against some rioters. While Ukrainians radical nationalists tend to be as violent as Neo Nazis
And only thing that came from independence of soviet republics is a lot of mess-ups. I want as few national states as possible. Equating cosmopolitanism and fascism is ridiculous. I only think that we're better off as single state. I don't care if capital is in Kiev or Moscow. As long as bullshit notion of nationality isn't the main factor. I don't consider nationality to be in any way meaningful reason to be separated by borders.
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What does arbitrary geometry have to do with level complexity? My Nintendo 64 featured games with arbitrary geometry, and games with complex level geometry usually feature invisible, lower-resolution collision boxes; from a design perspective, those "are" the level.
Having more regular geometry allows the program generate more geometry itself and level designer to specify less.
Wrong. There's absolutely no reason that the developers couldn't tack on a graphics-based display of the content in the game world, with nearly arbitrary-detail tiles, and there's no way that doing so would limit the underlying game logic. "More triangles per frame" is primarily a function of GPU power, and DF's world runs exclusively on the CPU. The world's CPU-heavy; the graphics are CPU-light and GPU-heavy.
No reason except the requirement to maintain a reasonable framerate. There exist some graphics frontends to DF but they definitely don't use photorealistic graphics. And probably they wouldn't be able to get enough art assets for more detailed graphics anyway. Another option would be to move some processing to GPGPU because DF manages to kill framerates in some cases even if you use ascii graphics only.
You can never know for sure what really happened there and for what reason. But both Ukraine and Russia make themselves known as democratic states. I have no reason to believe one of them is more truthful than other. All people seem to have different visions of what democracy and freedom is so any such statement is close to being a truism. Even China has People's democratic dictatorship.
But it's evidently true that Ukraine repeatedly failed to establish a government that satisfied both eastern and western parts of it. Both of those parts want democracy and freedom. They profess their love for democracy and freedom to implicitly assert that the other side isn't democratic. This is bullshit sophistry.This conflict isn't about democracy and freedom but between two groups that hate each other and have different pet political ideas, and it just got violent. Russia would never get an opportunity to meddle like that if not for this conflict.
Level design doesn't become more difficult, but you have to pay for more artists to design and build the higher-detail game resources (or spend more time with the same number of artists). Difficulty of using the models doesn't necessarily scale up with the complexity of the model geometry.
It's quite obvious that a level based on tiles is easier to design than a level based on arbitrary geometry. Designing levels in Blender or whatever is definitely not the way to go. Too much workload.
Name a game mechanic that you'd like to see that can't be made purely because the code running the GPU has been optimized. I'll wait.
How about the entirety of, say, Dwarf Fortress? It allows infinitely more complex gameplay systems just because it's based on tiles that are displayed by ascii characters. There are compromises possible too, say you settle for graphics complexity last gen but focus on making huge worlds with complex and interesting rulesets. Nobody is trying to work in this direction much. It's only matter of time before people will get tired of glorified interactive movies. I already did, and that's the reason I ended up becoming a retro gamer. When some game weighs dozens of gigabytes, takes ages to start up, provides less not-trivial gameplay than some similar titles of last millenium I really feel cheated.
Pushing the limits of platform like that will not give you that much of a competitive advantage. But it definitely will require more work that would be better spent focusing on game mechanics proper. The only progress games as a whole have lately is pushing more triangles per frame. All other aspects get shafted. Due to nature of those worlds built of millions of triangles it becomes harder to design levels which results in shorter games. And game design is an afterthought too. There weren't much progress with it. Power of modern PC could allow huge virtual worlds with complicated,interesting mechanics, but in practice all that power is spent on making world models less efficient for sake of more triangles per frame.
It's not that simple. There are many actions that can be attributed to Putin. Crimea issue is just one of them. And his stance on it definitely gives him more support. The only news from Ukraine Russians get is frequent coups, horrible economic situation, squabbles about discounted gas prices and Ukraine's failure to pay for it in time anyway. So you pretty much can expect that yet another Ukrainian coup followed by period of anarchy will get little sympathy in Russia.
Where did you get this idea that I thought it was OK for the boss' wife to poke her nose into company affairs? It most certainly is *NOT* OK and nowhere in my post did I imply that it was.
And why should her co-worker have pulled her code due to sexism? That's her interpretation of the situation. It could have been entirely unrelated, either because it was crappy code, or it was a mistake or any other reason.
I wonder if such situation would be thinkable if wife's and founder's genders were reversed? Would it considered to be normal for some random guy to hang around the building and interfering with company's operations just because he's one of high level manager's husband? Perhaps it was just allowed in case of wife due to stereotypes of women being meddlesome meddlers of little practical importance..
What makes you think so? Not a single autonomous oblast/sub-SSR was allowed to be independent state by the dissolution. Only SSRs were, and ALL of them. The thing is if Soviet Union didn't dissolve and instead elected to become democratic loose federation, but still a single state, then many post-soviet conflicts could have been prevented. What really happened is a lot of fails due to there being not enough skilled statesmen and too many ambitious people wanting their own toy state.
This is not a fact but some moron's fantasies. And if it were true it wouldn't justify Georgia's fail either.
And what does it have to do with Vova? Are you insane? Disagreeing with your lunacy doesn't constitute dick-sucking to Putin. Your double standard against current Russian Government is ridiculous. And I would know it for sure because I'm not a Putin supporter, I merely agree with this particular action. So why do you emphasize Russia's fails over other former Soviet republic fails and diminish Russia's successes? What's the point?
You're just a troll. Most of former Soviet Republics were so much of a failure that it's even problematic to justify their continued existence. Russian Federation is not an exception. But response to Ossetia issue WAS a success for Russia, one of few cases in recent history when army was actually employed to save lives rather than to control oil or something. And ignoring this and making up excuses for Georgia instead IS blindness.
Yeah, Georgia and Ossetia are in long term conflict just because some clown in old Soviet Union placed them in same republic. Georgia failed to establish relationships with Ossetia so hard that this ended with incursion by Russian army which was even NOT condemned by international community. I bet Russian government expects similar fails by Ukraine based on this experience. Given you're not in any hurry to congratulate Russian army on this feat of Humanism and instead link to wikipedia edit wars based on mistranslated sources, I can only consider you biased. Everyone deserves credit for saving human life, no matter for which country they happen to fight. If there are people like you in Ukraine any people of Russian descent DO need protection.
This is not WW2 definitely. The only reason there's no outcry from world community is that 1: no annexation was done, 2: genocide was prevented. I'd even say Putin pulled off a reverse Hitler here. This was an epic fail for Georgia. If Ukrainian government tries to pull off something like that too another epic fail will follow.
Local governments have levels of their own too, provinces and what-not. Many of them were independent principalities in the past.
Yeah, he was born Georgian though. That citation is definitely ripped out of context.
Sure, and people born in Algiers did contribute to the French Empire. So what? It was still not their empire, they were the exploited in it, not the beneficiaries.
Soviet Regime had statesmen of local nationalities in pretty much all regions and communistic movement is international by definition. Soviet Union is built by rebels of all nationalities.
Now go tell that to Putin. And all the retards on the streets of Moscow who are cheering him, and asking for more (I heard Transnistria is next?).
And previous was Georgia. Only it wasn't annexed.
You're missing my point. People born on Ukraine DID contribute to empire building, participated in common state. What language they spoke as they did so matters not. They might be compelled to continue this as Ukrainian state this time, perhaps to rebuild ancient Rus' or something. You can always come up with some reason to build an empire. But the time of empires has passed. And nobody will actually try to pull it off. Neither Russia nor Ukraine.
So local population is just tired of weird revolutions at the center? You can expect it to end as Ossetia war did, in nothing. Hopefully there will be no attempts of genocide this time.
I bet they weren't as long they were in Poland or Lithuania or whatever. But I simply don't see how they would be any different than any other territories in either Russian Empire or Soviet Union. Both of those states were to large degree nation agnostic. So Belarus, Ukraine and Russia definitely share some legacy as far as empire building is concerned because they all contributed to it with their soldiers and politicians.
If it was invasion, then Crimea can't be 5th column because it's just a victim of invasion. If it wasn't then why did Crimea rebel NOW? What triggered it?
Ukraine, Russia and Belarus come from Kievan Rus'. All empires WERE theirs.
You've misread me. I was merely claiming that Russia is in equal degree for freedom and democracy as Ukraine is. This makes me as much of a Russian nationalist as Ukrainian one. All nations are for freedom and democracy. Even China. Or at least they claim. They all end up working short of the ideals in practice, and Ukraine isn't any different.
Ukraine got hit by it worse.
Still it's enough people to take their interest into account. There's too much of those people to just to ship them to Russia and alternatives are either subjugation or some kind of compromise. Is new temporary Ukrainian government ready for compromise? It doesn't seem to me that is so, but I might be wrong.
I don't want separate states at all. I never saw any need for borders or ambitious politicians seeking fame at expense of other countries. I think a single world government will be enough. UN and EU are in some respects precursors of it.
But where do you see apathy? How refusal to accept your theories as gospel constitutes apathy? In fact such ramblings are manifestations of apathy themselves. They only serve as excuses for procrastination in practice. They offer nothing beside depression, and I can get depressed on my own without someone talking my ear off. I want something more constructive. Not talking about random bullshit for sake of it. Not pretending to understand motivation of Eltsin or logic of oil prices or whatever you decided to ramble about this day. I like to get the job done. Apathy is in your actions, not in your words. If you do nothing but ramble there's nothing to talk about in the first place.
People like you are dictator's best friend. Lot of talking so it's easy to find you and use you as scapegoat. Which is necessary for establishing the atmosphere of fear. To effect actual social improvement requires hard work, good social skills and great wisdom. It's a lot easier to just ramble on a kitchen. So most people do just that. I don't claim to support current government unconditionally. In fact my opinion on some issues differs sharply with it. But I will always keep my feedback specific and it will not spiral into paranoid ramblings. And I will not vote for Putin on elections.
I only know that Berkut was using nothing more than non-lethal methods against some rioters. While Ukrainians radical nationalists tend to be as violent as Neo Nazis
And only thing that came from independence of soviet republics is a lot of mess-ups. I want as few national states as possible. Equating cosmopolitanism and fascism is ridiculous. I only think that we're better off as single state. I don't care if capital is in Kiev or Moscow. As long as bullshit notion of nationality isn't the main factor. I don't consider nationality to be in any way meaningful reason to be separated by borders.