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  • I simply can’t believe that they released the game in this unfinished state. Early access or a public beta would be understandable, but you just don’t release a half-finished product promising to deliver the remaining stuff later.

    The Minecraft way where you continually provide upgrades for your game can obviously work, but in that case, the game is cheaper and the upgrades are free. If they were going that route, CS2 should have been a free upgrade of CS1 with all the features of the previous product and nobody would’ve complained.

    If you buy another full product, you expect another full product.


  • morhp@lemmynsfw.comtoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.worldNot Sparks.
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    6 months ago

    That’s true. I think the sequels did a lot right. A woman as a main character was long overdue. The visuals are great, acting is good for the most part.

    But there’s no overall story that makes any sense and it contradicts the previous movies pretty much everywhere. 7 wasn’t very believable, but made at least some sense if seen on its own. 8 didn’t seem to have much story impact at all, people seem to just solve short term problems constantly. And 9 could well be a parody. A parody with a very big budget.

    I liked the spin off movies (Solo, Rogue One) a lot, though.




  • How often does branchless programming actually matter in the day to day life of an average developer?

    Barely never. When writing some code that really has to be high performance (i.e. where you know it slows down your program), it can help to think about if there are branches or jumps that you can potentially simplify or eliminate.

    Of course some things are often branchless, for example GPU shaders, which need very high performance and which usually always do the same things. But that’s an exception.