(REE-zick) • game & societal programming • husband, father, etc.
Rapid City, SD
Joined March 2009
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Adam Rezich retweeted
From pure gut feel, I think the final boss fight regarding copyrights and labs god given right to infringe will be between Nintendo and a leading lab
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Shirt is sticking out of the UI button’s perimeter. Free minds, their whimsy was terrific and completely distinct in its character than what constitutes as whimsical today.
Adam Rezich retweeted
Why are some gamers proud of Steams monopoly on PC gaming?
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Steam has ~70-75% of PC digital game sales and is called a de facto monopoly by many developers, but rivals like Epic, GOG, and Microsoft Store exist and sell freely. No court has found an illegal monopoly; price-parity lawsuits are ongoing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(se…
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When did Iowans start driving 12mph over *in the slow lane* on 29 South dude what are they putting in the water down here – at Onawa, IA
Finally, the modern programmer has discovered a more cloyingly obnoxious form of unproductive artifice masquerading as productivity than “making everything ‘a TUI written in Rust’”. – at Rapid City, SD
Adam Rezich retweeted
Twice in the last 5 or so years, I have gotten into conversations with coworkers who have learned that I am pretty right wing and a christian. They are usually surprised because I joke around and swear a lot, which maybe I should work on, but thats not the point here.
What happens is that we start talking about it, and in both cases, the coworkers were either atheist or vaguely agnostic. They start interrogating me from the classic George Carlin/reddit atheist stance. Its exhausting. But what I find is that when I turn it back to them and ask them what they believe in, they don't have an answer.
They do the meme. "Be a heckin good person" is essentially what they say. They've sincerely never thought about it. They don't really have a belief system beyond rational self-interest. They are floating through life like this. They don't feel the need to construct or deconstruct a belief system. They are content to carry out the programming they have absorbed without much question.
They always claim to be political centrists and make sure to point out that they want fiscal responsibility (they never have any idea what this would look like or take and constantly vote for people who don't hide their intentions to spend wildly).
On the religious side, I will start to ask them philosophical and theological questions, to which they seem to not even understand. They think its weird to even think about or discuss these things. They may have learned about Aristotle but only in a biographical sort of way. They've ever actually had discourse or been challenged about this stuff.
As eigenrobot says. They don't have any beliefs to interrogate. These people could be conditioned to consent to mass killings with 2 years or less of really good propaganda
I'm both, and always have been (born 1991).
All six movies are good, and both trilogies were immensely inspiring worldbuilding exercises that extended beyond themselves into multimedia franchises in ways that Kids These Days could never conceive of.
A different, better time—gone. – at Rapid City, SD
FanDuel+DraftKings > 2×AIPAC is crazy stuff.
We live in completely absurd times. – at Rapid City, SD
Adam Rezich retweeted
I've been discovering new vibe coded file managers on a weekly basis lately and I've just gotten used to it.
Most are toy programs. A couple of things worth mentioning here:
- Vibe coding still won't give you top notch technical results. You can do better if you have the knowledge, even if you use AI to assist you.
- Programming != building a product as a whole.
- Designing a good UI and user experience is a whole different skill set.
- Building a good brand is another skill in itself.
- Creating and maintaining a good product website and presenting your product effectively.
- Vibe coding a toy project and putting it on github is very different from selling it to someone and taking responsibility for maintaining it.
- Marketing is again a whole different domain. Posting on social media, reddit, writing blog posts, creating showcase videos etc.
- Building and managing a community through discord, email or whatever platform you choose.
- Running your own company...
The list goes on.
Don't be discouraged by things like this. Put yourself in the user shoes. If you wanted a program that does job X really well, would you rather pay some money for a reputable product with an established community, reliable support, and a proven track record.
Or would you browse github for projects where you have to download the codebase and build it yourself?
And I'm talking about users who actually want to find something good, pay for it and get on with their work. Not those who complain on the internet about something costing money and not being open source. Those people would nag you even if you were on the toy project side of things.
So keep your head up and do what you're good at. Let others copy you. That's actually a sign you're doing something right.
FINALLY, someone is making a “boomer shooter” by ACTUALLY programming it the way the boomers did—rather than wearing “boomer shooter” as a skinsuit stretched over Unity or Unreal (you can always tell). Nice! – at Rapid City, SD
My upcoming game doesn't run on any modern engine; it uses a custom raycasting implementation written in C. I’m not a big fan of game engines, they come with pre-defined approaches for how to do things, which I find limiting. 🤔 #indiegame #gamedev #SDL3
Adam Rezich retweeted
Humans learned how to make batteries by studying the fish that is perfectly battery shaped. Sometimes God just throws us a bone
