Posts by KoKo5oVaR

When you think that google is used by 90% of the world (using internet, people with money in fact), and that it is possible for them to store and process all the search data by ip, country, previous searches etc..

With statistical tools they can know pretty much in real time what the whole world, by country, social class etc... has on their mind.

I find this absolutely scary. In all history, the fact that an institution has access to this kind of omniscient information never occurred by technological means before.

Just imagine the potential of these informations on a global market that works by anticipation of offer and demand. It is just too big to not be used. Because you look at that inoffensive search bar, and you tell yourself, after all who care about what i search on internet, i don't have anything to hide.

Internet is free, based on the individual level, but this is pretty much the trick of it. But at least on the positive note, you still have to trick people by giving them a service. Much dystopian, very globalized, wow

Hey! I wanted to ask you guys this simple question about what we discuss all day, and should know in quality of fine and selective connoisseurs :

What is for you a good video game ? Which are its relevant qualities ? Or its griefs retrospectively, if it is a bad videogame ?

Maybe this could lead to some interesting developments, at least i would be really interested in knowing what you guys think !

Looks like a way to fund, develop, and then sell a technology, which is i think the main product, the game being just a mean.

I would pass personally, i just heard "a game playable on a size 1 earth.. survival rpg etc" sounds dubious

Thanks a lot guys

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Very "cute" style

Can't help, even if i try not to be (=^_^=) :3

A chillax drawing for a chillass sunday

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my only problem with this is the alien AI design - it's just Amnesia? it doesn't feel like an alien - just a big clunky monster that walks around and doesn't seem to so much as hunt you as just wander around and let you run 5 metres behind it?

maybe it makes it more atmospheric and perhaps even makes for better design and more "hilarious" amnesia-like youtube reaction videos but it just doesn't feel like an actual alien so far..

That's probably because it's not the same medium rick, we are used to see that monster design in a movie format with creepy effects like close shots on his funny second mouth or see him only as a passing shadow in the ceiling while other caracters are terrified etc..

But since you have control on the camera angle in a fps and can see the alien in full, not just bribes that suggest its presence, i guess it's not the same effect.

Puddy oh yes! leather, cigarette burns and razor blade cuts while having to restart videogames from the beginning

It's beautiful guys congrats

I don't know how much time will it takes to finish the game, but that would be absolutely terrific with an "iron mode" where you have to start back from the beginning if you die

I guess It's too small for now, so maybe it's seen as an experimentation thing, but if it becomes a largely used way to create an economy free of taxes, be sure it will be dealt with in a way or another. I don't see how it could not be. You sound really passionate about it though Alex

Yes but i mean, for the currency to work, you need people offering services for bitcoins, or people exchanging them for an applicable currency, otherwise it's useless ?

This work by trust, people trust gold, so there is always someone to exchange your gold for services because he knows he can do something with what is in the end a rare yellow metal.

And in the end someone still control your crypto currency very well : your electricity and your internet providers. Gold on the other hand needs to be stolen or you being physically harmed. I dunno what is safer really.

At least no offence, it's a pretty good way to learn more about economy.

That's probably why there is so much retired british people buying properties in the french country side e-freak (and it didn't worked out unfortunately cheers mate )

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Seriously, don't stress out Kokoz, there are things you can't change anyway and you just gotta learn to accept that. When you do, you don't get that much stressed anymore.

Such buddhism, very peace of mind, low stress, wow;

I don't want to sound pessimistic at all, let's be this clear, if we can continue game dev to age 65 and still have fun and manage it, it's all good; it's a matter of subjectivity in the end. It's just at the present moment, personally there is things like family and health i feel i won't be able to sacrifice on the altar of videogames, plus i don't feel good enough for the overloaded french market. So most probably i won't have the choice.

Don't nod just closed today actually laying off everyone (remember me), rumour is quanticdream is in a pretty grim situation, and that makes as much as super good 3d guys out there against who i will need to fight for a job, even if i don't have anything against these guys. Makes me feel it's not what i liked about making maps when i started 14 years ago.

It's very hard to judge where we will be at 65 in the end, and it depends on each person. So i don't want to chop a general case really.

I have some coder friends who made the calcul, and apparently they can pay their yearly heating bill by "mining" doge coins. Don't tell me how you mine doge coins though, that's a bit too technical for me. It has something to do about resolving algorithms or whatever.

There's also people who will dogefy your picture for doge coins, others that will sell stuff for doge coins, others that will post photos of them naked for doge coins...

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Buy a $800 BTC today which should assert over $100 000 in a near future.

But who will transform your over expensive bitcoins into a material currency ? Comment est ce que tu vas blanchir tes bitcoins

In the end it will only work if there is as much people as possible using the currency (to go more than buying steam keys, or computer parts). And to me it seems a bit too technical to touch most of the population. Except if the banks and institutions in place, who have the power of communication, the customers, make them change their opinion about bitcoins, dogecoins or the like. Because if i have doubts about the future of crypto currencies, imagine the doubts someone who touches a computer 1 time a week could have about a currency that has a dog face on it.

Also if banks and other investors want to destroy the business, it's always possible to create an effect of inflation and destroy the entire crypto economy by just owning them all.

But maybe you are right Seldoon, to me it won't work if the major investors don't go into the system. But if they do, i mean, what would be the difference then ?

I'm laughing but this is actually pretty grim.

The older game developers (45 years max) still there that i know don't look so much happy of their conditions. Because when these guys just need stability, the lucrative private school market is pouring out more and more fresh game devs each year who are anxious to start to finally work into videogames no matter what.

It's ofcourse encouraged by companies because youngsters are cheaper, overly ambitious, productive, sacrificial and obviously more up to date than the older game devs who don't have the time to work each evening and weekend on a 3d scene because of their family work and also cannot move from place to place each year.

Because yes, it's all fun to change job each year, move to another country see the world when you are young, i actually quite enjoyed the little i did. But recently i've been literally hit in the face by time, i'm 28 and my parents are getting old enough, (78 and 77 years old now) they are starting to need help and since i'm their only child, i can hardly be at the other side of the planet unwrapping uvs (well i could, but this is just too sad). Add on that my girlfriend suffers from the repetitive moves and the distance with her family, she is clearly starting to hate my job which force her doing it. So i'm kind of forced to look for a job in France, which lost more than half of it's employment offers in 3 years. Pretty quickly actually, because money is running out. So it's been really really complicated lately. Stress, smokes, coffees, I think i'm actually even doing high blood pressure because of it all.

So working in a game dev company at 65 with all the burden of earth on the shoulders ? Jesus christ. No. I would die before of a heart failure. I would be better in a cheap country side house selling my tomatoes

edit : but maybe that would be easier for us because we won't live the same huge change of skills? Between 8 bits pixel art and zbrush; but who knows what will be game tech in 30 years

Guys ... quick... invest i... in.. doge coins...

http://dogecoin.com/

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It's funny, i looked over what i had

Basically in france it works by trimesters, and you need around 160 trimesters of work to get a full retirement pension. (which will probably rise in the future anyway)

So far after 4 years of tumultuous game dev, between internship, unemployement, temporary contracts, full time job, studio closing, work oversea and the like. I made 11 trimesters.

And if i continue on that rhythm : (160 /11) * 4 = 58 years

28 + 58, i should get my full retirement pension at 86 years of age! ... mhhh hardly there

Nobody really know what will happen for game developers in the future actually, since even the oldest aren't retired yet.

I guess since it will be the future, i'll get me some fancy robotic arms or something to continue to translate and rotate crates with distinction and style. But until then, any ideas of reconversion guys ?

Depends on your country mate, you could take a private retirement fund, or if you rely on your country retirement plan, see if there is a way to still pay for it by working overseas. Because "rebuying" the working years if you miss some, will probably cost you much more.

I know that for the year i worked in england (i'm from france), i didn't took the private pension plan of the company nor i paid anything in france since i was working in england and paying english taxes.

But after i knew there was a way to still pay the public pension plan we have in france by working overseas, but you have to subscribe to it. So just get informed mate.

Same with public medical care, after one year in england i didn't exist anymore in france and can't get my medication refund. So i have to get back into the system again; plan your return too actually.

It's the video game industry after all, i heard about some french people in canada who were laid off from one day to the other (because they can there) had 3 month to find a job, didn't found it, and then had to go back into their home country. If you have no family to get you back on your feet there, it's pretty much an acrobatic flight without a net. So think about that too.

For me it happened to be the family issues that were the most complicated ;p

I was thinking.. If this is fake, that's probably a very clever way to get hired at valve and float in the sea of portfolios.

It looks like it has been graphically heavily err.. koreanified. I guess this is a good hint of the customers they are targeting. Maybe to slowly implant the elder scrolls license where it's not a complete plebiscite. And then BAM another occidental rpg like skyrim, the western market being already conquered for pc and console alike, see if it sells a bit better in asia.

With the resolution of the screens it's hard to see if it's relying on normal maps and the like for details or if that is just a LOT of tris.

If it is the case, i hope it's not lightmapped because i wouldn't want to do the uv2 of those meshes

A cool thing i tried with potatoes which is pretty simple and usually gave me good results is to cut them in two from bottom to top (keep the peel)

Get them into water to wash away the starch

Have some butter warming up in a pan, and dip the flat side of the potatoes into the butter

Then you could put some stuff over it, usually i put herbs and peper

Then you put them in the oven on cooking paper 180°C ~ 40 mins and you should have something like this :

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Pretty awesome with roasted meat and a lot of sauce

This thread is just too cute

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I wonder if all my posts in the EOT will make finding a job harder... or easier? xD

Too many efforts wasted into trying to make his colleagues laugh... what a shame. Doesn't give himself the means to succeed.

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