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New comment by binthere in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

binthere — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:17:27 +0000

The snow flakes of the website are really bad for UX, just saying.

New comment by binthere in "Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)"

binthere — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:33:55 +0000

Not everyone has $$$ to spend on a subscription service and they would locked out of content. Ads are necessary to promote accessibility of content in my opinion.

New comment by binthere in "Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach"

binthere — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:49:14 +0000

Because some people love different drinks? Water is good too but people enjoy drinking different things. I actually don't understand how so many people in this thread are completely blind to this and are like "Why don't you just enjoy the world like I do?"

New comment by binthere in "Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B"

binthere — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 21:43:03 +0000

I remember when they acquired Allegorithmic, Substance Painter went down hill since then.

New comment by binthere in "Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’"

binthere — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:06:30 +0000

Yes, but you are not the only person working for that company. I for one fight for the right of every employee of the company I work for to be treated fairly and greatly. Just because YOU have a good relationship with your company (or more so with your manager) doesn't mean everyone is on equal foot. I feel extremely uncomfortable when my coworkers are crying for help and all I show is indifference.

New comment by binthere in "How the ancient Romans managed their toilets"

binthere — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:42:26 +0000

You can actually see similar systems being used today in underdeveloped/developing countries, from toilet to sewage.

New comment by binthere in "Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access"

binthere — Wed, 26 May 2021 18:33:52 +0000

Although I think it's extremely important to move forward in making artists do less work, I do not expect that a full zbrush model without any retolopogy to go into the engine and expect it to just work, specially because most of the time you also need to take care of animation and texture/uv. Also I also worry about download size. So there are still many reasons why you'd want to optimize the hell out of a mesh in a game engine even if it has the capability to support millions of polygons.

New comment by binthere in "Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access"

binthere — Wed, 26 May 2021 18:26:38 +0000

Git LFS is not bad if that's the only thing you're referring. I've used Git for plenty of games, never had a single issue.

New comment by binthere in "Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S."

binthere — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 20:34:09 +0000

You are slicing her up not the article. It is simply stating that no woman has ever achieved a ranking as high as she did and it also happens to be a woman of color. I don't think it's that hard to understand, is it? Also, this is indeed significant because it puts hope to so many woman and woman of color that they can achieve it too and not be afraid of be who they are in America.

New comment by binthere in "Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store"

binthere — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:15:48 +0000

Simple question to whoever is honestly defending Apple: What if Windows prevented people from installing anything on their computer except from the Microsoft Store. Then Microsoft forced every app to use their payment system and then charged an excessive 30% fee for each transaction. Would you think that's an abusive and illegal practice?

New comment by binthere in "Epic direct payment on mobile"

binthere — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 18:28:08 +0000

As a customer, if the game I'm about to buy was able to be polished because of additional funding/saving, I'm interested in the game being exclusive.

As a customer, if the game company has better chances of surviving paying their employees a decent wage, making quality games that I can enjoy, I'm interested in the game being exclusive.

As a customer, if the market could have more store options other than Steam so prices can be more competitive and developers can choose better deals, I'm interested in games being exclusive.

Also as a customer I can decide to just not play the game because of exclusivity and move on.

Why is Mario not on Steam? Why is The Last of Us or Uncharted not on PC? Yeah it sucks games are not ubiquitous but it's not always in the best interest of game developers to distribute their games everywhere and I think it should be perfectly understandable from the point of view of customers.

Also, from the point of view of Epic, I guess it's expected they want something in return for funding projects.

I don't get the anger people direct towards Epic when in fact they are doing a good thing for the market that very few companies would have the power to do.

New comment by binthere in "Epic direct payment on mobile"

binthere — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 18:08:52 +0000

No, you're wrong. The key difference you're missing is that Epic is not forcing any developers to do anything. They can do whatever they want, but IF and only IF they want some funding they need to sign a deal that benefits both parties. Gamers don't lose anything because they can still play the game, if anything it's better because now the game developer was able to polish or finish a game with the additional funding they have.

New comment by binthere in "Epic direct payment on mobile"

binthere — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 18:02:42 +0000

If this was Microsoft Windows I am sure you would have your pitchforks ready. Just rephrase your statement with Windows and you'd see the absurd of your statement.

New comment by binthere in "Epic direct payment on mobile"

binthere — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 17:59:52 +0000

If I'm a small developer, how can I process payments directly without having to pay the fee to another provider?

New comment by binthere in "Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming"

binthere — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:44:03 +0000

Thing is, Facebook is just forcing views by showing a live stream on people's feed. This alone makes it grow exponentially. It also solves the biggest problem Twitch has at the moment: not being able to promote lesser known streamers. I've see plenty of unknown people streaming on Facebook with 100+ viewers. This is actually good for streamers.

New comment by binthere in "Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States"

binthere — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 23:46:14 +0000

Reading so many positive things about Apple Maps here for sure looks like astroturfing since I've had some really frustrating experiences with Apple Maps in the past.

New comment by binthere in "Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers"

binthere — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:00:57 +0000

I have witnessed more and more people from the gaming industry switching back to the boring programming jobs. Why? Because they get to have a life and play video games too.

New comment by binthere in "Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf"

binthere — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:44:30 +0000

I'm probably missing something here, but what is the value of this when you could write a script that would do just about the same? (Serious question, I want to know the answer, not rhetorical)

New comment by binthere in "1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface"

binthere — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:52:20 +0000

I can see some big usage for this in medicine. Projecting stuff to help doctors performing complicated surgeries.

New comment by binthere in "When will Google shut down Stadia?"

binthere — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:44:01 +0000

OnLive was kind of a big deal when it was announced. A lot of poeple used it and tried it. They "gave" some games for you to play for free and test it out. Also, Sony did a few things similar on Playstation but was never a huge success because of the technical implications.