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Hi there, I’m curious how hard is it to make an open world game that loads all off the assets/ props/npc’s ets. all at the same time? So basically the game ( the full game) is active in all direction without preloading or loading screens or popping things in to existence. It all exist at the same time everywhere… Even when the player lives the game. I know it sounds silly. But I really wanted to ask is it impossible because we don’t know how OR we luck the power of graphical hardware?
It's possible, but if you had a full world's worth of assets loaded and running, the game would either run at an unplayable frame rate or would be significantly reduced in visual fidelity. This kind of thing actually did happen way back in the day - we used to load the entire game into memory in the arcade coin-operated machines and cartridge days. Nowadays we can do a lot with streaming data from disk into memory, most of which comes from being clever in optimizing what gets loaded when. As long as we can keep the smoke and mirrors going, the player never sees the railroad tracks they're following.
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#humor#wronghands#webcomic#john atkinson#social media#podcasts#technology#internet#streaming#planets#charts#audio
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#streaming#china#phones#gadgets#tech#technology#dystopia#future of social media#mobile phones#cyberpunk
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i'm so glad that technology has *streamlined* and *evolved* so that now instead of popping a DVD into my laptop like a cave person, I can hook up an external disk drive to a usb port, put my DVD in that, wait while my laptop opens the microsoft app store for no reason, open my DVD player app and wait for the disk to load...watch as nothing happens and then check my app to be completely reassured that there are no updates and the app is working perfectly!
what a time to be alive!
(also the only reason I'm even trying to watch a DVD is because streaming has become so fucking untenable that I can watch s3-4 of this drama on prime, but have to purchase s1-2 (for £12.99 each even though 8 seasons on DVD cost £7) and those 'purchases' aren't even real and can just be taken away and s5-6 are only available on a really specific app that is region locked to another country even though no physical media is involved, so just click the fucking button to make it universal and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
#technology#streaming#disk drives#take me back#take me back to 2010 when everything had a fucking disk drive#and you could stream anything you wanted any time
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#internet radio#web radio#net radio#streaming radio#e-radio#ip radio#online radio#tech#technology#technologycore#techcore#radio#internet#computers#wikipedia#wikipedia pictures#media
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i miss you physical media!!!!!! i miss you dvd players i miss you cd slots in cars i miss you mp3 players i miss you!!!!!!!!
#shima reaction image cause i love him <3#but man WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH im so sad forever that technology has changed towards temporary media and streaming#like fuck...........#luna.txt
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Happy Holidays from the lovebirds! 🕊️💝
Layth belongs to the illustrious @1wretched-thing1 !! Thank you for blessing me with such a perfect character!
#aurelia#layth#layrelia#ocs#procreate#digital#chibi#look!! i drew this on stream!!! you watched it happen live!!! :D wow!!!#technology is amazing
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Always thinking of the "flex heart"...
During one of their signing livestreams, Leon and Claire's voice/mocap actors Nick Apostolides and Stephanie Panisello got a request to do either "heart hands" or to flex for us. So naturally, they combined them and gave us this!
And yes, people started spamming "Cleon!' Lmao!
I remember watching this stream while having a massive toothache and seeing Nick and Steph having so much fun really helped take my mind off everything. You can just tell that they're really good friends and I just find that so sweet. <3
I'll link the stream down below, this moment happens around the hour and eight minute mark but I suggest you watch the whole thing because there are plenty of fun moments.
Also, for context, Steph is beating Nick with a pillow at the beginning because he broke the stream and recording while trying to show us a picture of a massive Oreo cookie he made...
Yeah...
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#Nick is bad with technology#nick apostolides#Stephanie Panisello#Resident evil#cleon#These two are a joy to watch#leon x claire#claire/leon#There were no oreos in this stream and that's the real reason it crashed#I could look at Nick's muscles all day because DAMN...#Youtube
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I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but as a long time player (since the first game launched) of Splatoon, I'm really just not as connected to 3 as a game? Maybe it's because it's still growing on me or because I'm not as invested in the idols, but I don't know, I feel like I had so much more hype and love surrounding 2 then I do 3 currently. Obviously I'm fucking off the walls excited for Side Order, but besides that, 3 just hasn't quite captivated me like previous games did. Anyone else have similar feelings or is this just a me thing?
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#technology#vtuber#vtubesona#streaming#art#actually autistic#anime#gaming#lgbtq#splatoon#splatoon 2#splatoon 3#side order#special interest
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To be completely frank, we're in an era of functionally illiterate pearl clutching fear mongering moral discourse on the right AND LEFT in literature that's significantly worse than the victorians. Some of you would die if you read a penny dreadful. Which are silly and tame in the historical spectrum of gothic literature. You are functionally ultra, ultra conservative if you open a piece of modern gothic horror and are shocked to find a basic, traditional gothic horror trope in it. Some of y'all are walking around unironically using the word "degeneracy" exactly as it was used by the nazis. How tf did your middle and high school english and history teachers fail so many of you this badly.
#this is about the coffin of andy and leyley but its such a far reaching problem#the majority of audiences are just..i mean completely functionally illiterate at this point#its severely dangerous#it seriously actively is putting creators' lives in danger#i know a lot of it has to do with how technology and mass corporate merges and streaming have changed media output#widely focusing on content over storytelling and getting shorter and shorter#but jfc its barely been a decade#how tf has basic critical thinking regressed so badly so widely in such a short amount of time???
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my server vs netflix
Long post for a few mutuals who asked about this 🏴☠️
Netflix (according to the geeks on server forums -- so this could be off a bit) has individual servers that hold about 100TB of data each, and Netflix claims they have around 18,000 servers worldwide.
Netflix has about 3000 movies and 1800 TV shows available in the United States at any given time. It varies in other countries, but is similar.
This is my server below (pen for size comparison and purple sticky note covering the super bright blue light that bores into my brain)
It's got 5 drive bays, and right now I have 60TB of storage space in it (meaning it's just a little smaller than one of Netflix's servers), and only 37TB of which is currently used. I can easily expand with add-on bays once I fill up the 60TB.
I currently have 4470 movies and 862 TV series, all with closed captioning that I've curated and about 100 of the TV shows have bonus scenes and specials included.
My server cost me about $2700: $1200 for the 5-bay box and the rest was spent on hard drives over the course of 2 years -- 5 inside the server and 6 backup drives. I bought good drives when they were on sale.
I spent another $300 on a range extender for my house so mom and dad could watch in their bedrooms without interruption.
My home internet costs $50 a month and I'm able to serve friends and family in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. It's not always accessible (sorry Australia and your shitty internet), but it's up most of the time.
I never take movies/TV shows off of my server, and all the TV shows have their original DVD soundtracks, so nobody has to worry I'm going to remove their faves or ruin soundtracks.
I take requests from anyone, adding it when I find it with no judgement on content.
I don't charge anyone for using my server, and yet I'm paying less than I used to for internet and streaming services.
My payments for internet and streaming for my business and two family houses (Charlie's house and my house) used to be $900 A MONTH ($450 of it was the business internet because ISPs gouge businesses even though the internet usage at the shop is less than home).
Just before I quit Cox Internet, they were about to raise the cost and my new total would've been $1000 per month.
My monthly payments are now $220 for internet service and streaming services. So within just a few months, the server paid for itself.
I still have YouTube TV, Netflix x2 (one for each house), Hulu, and Discovery+.
I'm not saying the average person can set this up, but I want to make it clear that streaming services aren't the mysterious, unknowable magic that people think they are.
They're just servers (hard drives) with data on them and a good internet connection.
Anyone can set up a home server. You don't need a $1200 box like mine. Even an old computer/laptop or single hard drive will work.
A brand new 2TB good-quality hard drive that could hold about 1000 movies or 60-80 TV series would only cost $60 plus another $29 for a basic enclosure/case. (I bought mine from NewEgg for backups)
I use Plex as my media server program. It has a free version and a paid version. I bought the lifetime pass on sale for $90. It goes on sale 2-3 times a year. There are other programs out there too, including Kodi, which has a Netflix skin so it looks like you're using Netflix.
Plex and other programs like it already have a huge library of metadata, so I didn't have to create my own cover art or fill in any other information other than title & year for movies or title + season + episode number for TV shows.
Careful naming of files and sorting in properly-named folders is all you need to have this:
It took me about 3 months to download and organize most of the movies and TV shows in between working and taking care of my home/family. Now I update the server once a week and it takes about 2 hours a week to download/update new TV shows and movies.
I wasn't able to torrent when I had Cox Internet, but the new $50/month ISP doesn't give a shit. Even so, I use a VPN, which is $9 a month just in case they ever decide to get touchy about torrenting.
The server does regular maintenance on itself, and I have backups of everything.
I realize not everyone has the tech skills to set something like this up, but even if one tech person in the family or circle of friends has the ability, they could serve around 60 people.
The most I've had streaming at one time was 10 separate people watching different things, and my server handled it with no problem.
Others on the server forum claim they've maxed out around 25 people simultaneously watching, but 60 people is the number suggested because not everybody will watch at the same time.
Streaming, as it currently works, does NOT support anyone related to the creation of TV shows and movies.
Hopefully this will change, but even if it does, that doesn't change the fact that I can easily support creators myself by buying their DVDs, merch, going to cons, and donating to them or their projects directly.
Right now, pirating movies and TV shows doesn't hurt creators because streaming services and big studios are the main villains, and if all you did was donate $5 to your favorite TV show/movie, you'd be giving them more than if you streamed their content as many times as you wanted each month on a big streaming service.
I have movies and TV shows on my server that aren't even available from content creators anymore due to greedy CEOs and execs who dump their content for tax breaks.
If more people switched to using their own servers, MAYBE it would scare the greedy assholes into paying content creators what they deserve, but in the meantime it's a great way to enjoy content that was created to be shared and to support the creators.
EDIT: I need to add that streaming a TV show/movie as much as possible in the first few weeks of the release date DOES help the show get renewed and the movie execs are more likely to buy future movies, so please stream as much as possible then to help content creators. After that time is up and the streaming service moves on, then it's totally fine to pirate.
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every time jason blows off the bats or puts a bullet between some fuckers eyes, tim shuts off his streaming services for a week so Jason can’t watch Derry Girls
#batfam#am I writing this into a fic? sure#jason todd#derry girls#nothing is more self indulgent than combining my two favorite obsessions#and so i shall#dc#tim drake#jason is bad with technology ok leave him alone he doesn't understand why there are so many streaming sites#tim tries to explain capitialism to him and he ends up shooting the ceiling#jason relates to erin quinn on a spiritual level
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This is an age that has produced floods of how-to-do-it books, and it is also an age of how-to-do-it science. It is, in other words, the age of technology, in which if we know how to do something, we do it without pausing to inquire whether we should.
Rachel Carson, "Of Man and the Stream of Time"
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nooo aha don’t get an hdmi to composite converter and plug your streaming device into it thus feeding your streamed shows through a vhs player where you have a blank tape inside… nooooo don’t hit that red record button which then records what’s playing on your tv…. Aha noooo don’t that hahahaaaa…… blank vhs tapes go for 15$ for 3 on eBay and can record six hours of television btw. unrelated.
#i will kill streaming services with one obsolete piece of technology at a time#they shall die by my sword (my vhs player)
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