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“Where there’s muck, there’s brass”

In general, if you can do the more difficult aspects, then you’ll be more in demand (both because people need them done, and because it’ll serve as a badge that yes you know what you’re doing in a general sense).

In games specifically, it’s more likely that you’d find yourself doing optimization, or the low levels of porting a game from one system to another, as opposed to writing an engine from scratch. If it were me, I would probably get involved in some existing project and try to write a new low-level system (e.g. a Gaussian splatting renderer for Unity or something) as opposed to just reinventing a new engine of my own. But absolutely, if you’re skilled with the deeper systems aspects as opposed to just using the existing tools, it’ll help you generally speaking.

I listened to a good part of Blueprint for Armageddon, and I had to stop. It’s so, so sad. It’s too real.

The “battle” of Verdun lasted 10 months; it was less of a battle in the usual sense of a single let’s-fight-and-loser-runs-away event, and more like an open-air industrial blender made of shrapnel and bullets into which a continuous stream of mostly innocent people were ordered to walk over a long, long period of time.

The Somme was similar, but worse because it was bigger. All war is hell, but World War 1 was much, much worse.

Yeah, I’m sorta inclined to agree; I looked at how it works out in practice and it’s definitely a little obnoxious. I disabled it for now.

It’s tough because I’d like for it to be accessible both from the big instances like lemmy.world, and from the instances like beehaw that have defederated the big instances. So that tends to imply that a good home for it would be on one of the little instances. But, it’s not gonna sit well on the little instances if it’s making a firehose (relatively speaking) and overwhelming their local feeds.

IDK; I’ll ask around and see if I can find a good home for it. Absent some person coming in and saying “yes ruining the local feed is ok” I’m gonna conclude that that’s not SDF though.