I’ve been PC gaming for decades, and something feels off lately.
Even with top-tier hardware, many modern games stutter in ways older titles didn’t.
It made me ask: are we optimizing for the wrong thing?
@fromcodetocloud The absence of IaC tells me nothing without understanding the infrastructure. Not everything is ephemeral or needs to be repeatedly deployed. Some infrastructure is engineered once, changed under control and runs reliably for years. That’s not technical debt, that’s infra
@Pirat_Nation I don’t even want to to that in real life. If they want you to work out in the game, I’d rather do that in real life, I want to do things in a game I can’t in real life. You know like crazy stuff that would get you locked up in the slammer or dead!
@davepl1968@choehau_ara One is at the block level, protected against ransomeware eg ZFS or BTRFS snapshots, VSS is not that, it’s a file level point in time that can be encrypted and wiped out.
@vicious696 I still don’t buy it. Dump the raytracing. They had 13 years they could have done it rasterised for this generation (the one it’s released in) then done an RT version in the future.
@xxyourdisease@RowanEdmondson Which is why it’s looks dull. The absurdity of it is the charm. Larger than life and OTT. Is putting petroleum in a car a fun thing to do? I hate it in real life.
GTA 6 It looks technically incredible. But the characters don’t look fun, and I’m supposed to spend 80+ hours with them. Michael, Trevor and Franklin looked entertaining before you’d even played the game. These two just look boring.
@DarkViperAU It did not look fun though? Did you really understand or care about what’s they showed!? It had none of of the nonsense and satirical fun. Just bland seriousness.
@F_DaVid_A Did it look fun? It looked dull as dishwater. What’s the story? The mains seem dull, the editing of the clips made no sense as who are these people, nothing seemed cool and I can have fun with that and the gun play and movement looked really dated.
@DarkViperAU It looked like Mindseye and the gameplay was stiff and boring. No character was inspired, fun, interesting and made me want to play it. Compared to GTA5 and the 3 chaps, you are in from the 30 seconds you know it’s going to be good. If that was the start of the game it was bad.
@Explorerwong@JustinS65097428@Sambhav_Gandhi If you understand the code well enough to review it, debug it and know when the AI is wrong, manually typing out code it already generated isn’t learning. It’s just deliberately working slower.
The skill now is understanding, architecture, debugging and judgement. Use the tools.