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help help i'm trapped in the comput

i followed 4,939 people on twit and i have NOT learned my lesson
i make games, theatre, AND A LOT OF NOISE
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hthrflwrs
@hthrflwrs

just found out my computer's dedicated graphics card has been broken for a month. i straight up didn't notice until now lmao


hthrflwrs
@hthrflwrs

the good news is, having bad computer specs is like the hyperbolic time chamber for game devs. my engine is gonna be so goddamn optimized because it needs to run on my computer


hthrflwrs
@hthrflwrs

q: why did it take you so long to figure this out
a: i don't play many video games, i guess


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so happy to have linked it to you! it had us completely enraptured when we read it

and we kind of haven't been able to stop thinking about how cool the concept of bootstrapping a virtual machine is, how powerful virtual machines are as a method of software preservation

This really lines up with my thoughts on game engine design. I'm not quite at the compiler level, but it feels really, really good to work on something for my own work, which I completely understand and know I will be able to use for years to come. I couldn't implement it in a weekend, but I know how it works, because it works the same way my brain does.

i have a card and cpu that are older but still Reasonably Good, and this fills me with constant dread

i've been told fox flux runs fine on an rpi though so maybe i should be deving on that

thinking about how the common snide off-the-cuff version of that idea is that developers just don't care when their computers are fast enough. but there are two really huge edge cases that contradict that — one is big software that just is slow for everyone, like IDEs and office suites and whatnot, and the other is little software like my humble video game, where it just is really hard to tell what's slow when my computer is fast enough that everything becomes noise