I've made the mistake of restarting Cultist Simulator. So much things have changed with the new updates and DLC... The Apostle legacies seem to be quite a bit more demanding than the regular legacies. Let's see if - or, let's be honest: how fast I'll loose :D

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: soulsourceI didn't play games this weekend.
On Friday I discovered how awesome Intel ISCP can be, so I kept working through the weekend. I just couldn't stop, simply because for some of our code just porting it from C++ improved performance by a factor of 15 (on Intel Skylake - on AMD Jaguar the improvement is more like a factor of 7, but still impressive....), and I didn't want that endorphin rush to stop.

If you're wondering the save as me:

https://ispc.github.io/ [External Link]

Whoa, sorry. I can't seem to type the abbreviation without mixing up letters. I'll edit my orignal post.

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I didn't play games this weekend.
On Friday I discovered how awesome Intel ISPC can be, so I kept working through the weekend. I just couldn't stop, simply because for some of our code just porting it from C++ improved performance by a factor of 15 (on Intel Skylake - on AMD Jaguar the improvement is more like a factor of 7, but still impressive....), and I didn't want that endorphin rush to stop.

(Edit: I mixed up the letters in ISPC, and fixed that now - originally I had written ISCP...)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: soulsourceDon't worry.
Now that they edit the masked characters, other (or probably even the same) people will complain that they now removed the African culture whatnot and that the removal is racist.

Yeah, why talk about what actually happened when you can make up things that might happen in the future?
The latter is so much easier and more fun...!

Sorry to say that, but:

Quoting: GuestWell all this SJW bullshit just did one thing: push me away from this game. The devs shouldn’t have listened to them.

Q.E.D.

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Don't worry.
Now that they edit the masked characters, other (or probably even the same) people will complain that they now removed the African culture whatnot and that the removal is racist.

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A big advantage of using Vulkan in Unity over using OpenGL is that shaders don't need to go through Unity's HLSL->GLSL transpiler. That's a huge win in performance, simply because that transpiler, as cool as it is, isn't handling some edge cases very well.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: soulsourceFor me it will likely be Elite Dangerous via Steam Play. I've started messing with the background simulation, trying to get an independent star system to join the Alliance.

What do you mean by that? How are you "messing with the ?background? simulation"?

I meant that I'm currently exploring the gameplay the background simulation offers. Not that I'm trying to break it or anything. I'm just doing missions, battles, etc. to help a currently completely irrelevant minor faction to become the controlling faction of a star system, and later on maybe expanding to neighbouring systems.

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: soulsourceAlso of course for the noble goal to replace a theocratic government by one where every citizen is equal, and some are even more equal than others. :P

Let me guess, you got harder into Elite because of the awesome announcement that they will finally have Space Legs [External Link]? I found it amazing but on the other hand it will not initially have VR. One up, one down :'(

Nah, I just bought the game a few weeks ago and got absorbed by it. The space-legs announcement is nice, but I would mostly like to walk around inside the ships. Exploring the planets by foot doesn't get me hyped...

What really got me hyped though is that the planet they are walking around on in the trailer obviously has an atmosphere, so the DLC will probably offer the option to land on atmospheric planets. I guess it will only barren worlds because getting earth-like planets landable would require a whole lot more work, but still, beautiful blue skies and maybe even gameplay related to aerodynamics.

I personally don't miss VR, because I simply don't have the hardware for it. Also I am quite certain I would need a bucket next to my VR station, because I am very vulnerable to motion sickness :(
For players who enjoy Elite in VR currently it's of course a major disappointment, to only have the option to either play VR, or play the new DLC...

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For me it will likely be Elite Dangerous via Steam Play. I've started messing with the background simulation, trying to get an independent star system to join the Alliance.
Also of course for the noble goal to replace a theocratic government by one where every citizen is equal, and some are even more equal than others. :P

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: KohlyKohlI gave up on snaps. They look awful on a 4k monitor, are slow to start up, and take up way too much space.

I can dig the other stuff, but how on earth can they look any different?

Probably someone packaged their own version of a font-renderer as part of a Snap.

That's actually my main point of critique regarding all container formats: They delegate dependency tracking to developers, what makes it basically impossible to prevent situations in which users end up installing the same libraries over and over and over again, in different versions, some of them with up-to-date security patches, some outdated. Flatpak is not as bad as the other formats in that regard thanks to the runtimes, but still the situation is not ideal.

My second point of critique is that the container formats delegate the responsibility to supply updates and fixes from the distributor to the developer. This is a good thing for packages that see active development, but many quite important projects have mostly been abandoned, and need a distributor's work to remain usable and get their worst security holes plugged.

I fully agree however that container packages are preferable to some developer-hosted binary tar.gz. Yet, I don't see how they could be a suitable alternative to distributor-maintained traditional packages (deb, rpm,...).
I have the feeling that the ideal solution for end-users is a co-existence of containers and traditional packages, each having its own preferred use case.

And honestly, if I as a user have the choice, I'll pick Flatpak over Snap any time, simply because of the standardized runtimes.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWoah guys, stop with all the hate. Seriously.

I dislike how the Linux community is slowly turning into a bunch of people whining... step back, take a deep breath and calm down.

Now, it's not great that this wasn't immediately ported, and let's face it many of you want to play the new update, want simultaneous updates with Windows and of course, to play online with windows friends.

It's perfectly acceptable to want these things, but here's the thing you have to remember:
Porting houses usually don't get access to the update code until after the windows team has finished their part, by this time usually the update is announced and has a deadline.

Sadly this often means if they run into problems making it work, or anything else which may slow it down, the deadline is easily missed, and the Windows version will always be ready first. That's why it's called a port..

So sit back, wait a little while and calm down.

Complaining and insulting the developers won't make the port happen any faster, in fact it may do the opposite, if you're a developer reading someone talking about you, and you read "These guys can eat shit" and "I'm definitely not buying this now!" will this make you want to keep porting for them?

Nope it'll make you angry and have a low opinion of the people you're doing the work for.

Remember, some of the porting houses have developers who read these comments...

That's also the reason why I am barely reading the Steam forums for our own titles any more...
There are players with whom chatting/discussing is great. And there are the others. Those who refuse to realize that developers are people too (and therefore make mistakes), that budgets are limited, and deadlines can be missed if something unforeseen shows up (and, as everyone who ever worked in software development knows, there are always unforeseen things showing up - the art of the producer is to estimate how much of them show up, and how much time they might take :P )...

So, vented enough.
And just to make that clear: The GoL community is great. Lots of friendly people here.

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