Hacker News: shinymark

New comment by shinymark in "Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)"

shinymark — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:32:02 +0000

6-7 had yet to be discovered.

New comment by shinymark in "2025 marked a record-breaking year for Apple services"

shinymark — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:06:37 +0000

Agreed completely. I started using NextDNS partially to get ads out of News+.

New comment by shinymark in "Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together"

shinymark — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:53:40 +0000

Change to real Visual Studio for C#. Visual Studio Code is complete garbage in comparison.

New comment by shinymark in "Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'"

shinymark — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:36:25 +0000

I visit Yamagata every year. I love how in Japan each region has their own specialties, it makes it fun to travel within the country. It would be sad if the snow monsters disappear.

I usually visit in the summer. The mountains are incredibly verdant. I love riding my bike there. Just watch out for the heat at that time - bring plenty of Pocari Sweat!

New comment by shinymark in "The elegance of movement in Silksong"

shinymark — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:10:47 +0000

This article from 2005 has the toy idea. It has stuck with me.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/how-to-prototyp...

New comment by shinymark in "Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games"

shinymark — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:39:01 +0000

You’re right but it was called Yakuza in the west for many years. I don’t know if they made the right decision or not renaming it but it is interesting to consider if it made an impact in one way or another on sales.

New comment by shinymark in "Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2"

shinymark — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:37:39 +0000

I agree with you. I want to play Alan Wake 2 on PC and since it is only sold on the Epic Store I will buy it there.

If it was on Steam I would have likely bought it on Steam. But it’s not. So in my case at least, this exclusive is effectively driving me to buy on the Epic Store.

I find it sort of funny that many (not all) complaints about the Epic Store are the same things gamers complained about when Steam was released 20 years ago.

New comment by shinymark in "I did Advent of Code on a Playstation"

shinymark — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 15:06:47 +0000

Considering how similar Bloodborne is to other From Software games I assumed it was developed 100% at From with Sony as the publisher. But I have no idea what the reality is. Did Japan Studio do development work on the game too? If so, I’d be curious to know how they split up the development work between teams.

New comment by shinymark in "From throwaway side project to Switch in 2 years: my indie gamedev story"

shinymark — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 04:23:24 +0000

I’m not the prior poster but it’s a median benchmark based on real-world surveys of game developers who are willing to share their data.

(Source: I’ve participated in one such survey.)

New comment by shinymark in "Ask HN: Who's sick of remote work?"

shinymark — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:07:29 +0000

12 years ago I worked remotely for the first time from a small apartment. For the first 6 months or so I loved it. The flexibility primarily.

But I came to hate the isolation. I crave human interaction in all aspects of life, including work. I never want to work full time remote again.

New comment by shinymark in "Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform"

shinymark — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 01:14:13 +0000

I don’t understand the distinction. You can sell a game on your own website today without using any of these technologies if you want to avoid walled gardens.

New comment by shinymark in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

shinymark — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:08:36 +0000

I agree - when trying to watch something next to a sleeping partner even 1 step above muted is too loud. Annoying. I often watch Netflix muted and read subtitles because of this. I guess I need headphones.

But I do really think a volume one half of the current lowest would be useful for me.

New comment by shinymark in "Effects of cat ownership on the gut microbiota of owners"

shinymark — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:15:09 +0000

Not the original poster but I’m going to seriously consider this. I’m at my wits end with a male cat who habitually meows at 2 am and 5 am point blank in front of my face.

New comment by shinymark in "Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus"

shinymark — Thu, 20 May 2021 00:50:32 +0000

Anyone sign an office lease recently? Any negotiation tips?

I’m looking for new space in SF, moving from a current lease near Union Square to something bigger.

New comment by shinymark in "I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers"

shinymark — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 02:02:57 +0000

If you care about performance you should not be using a laptop as your primary workstation. Period.

New comment by shinymark in "Show HN: Monster Train, a deckbuilding card game in the global top on Steam"

shinymark — Mon, 25 May 2020 00:27:20 +0000

Hi all - I'm Mark Cooke, the CEO of Shiny Shoe, the creators of Monster Train. We released on May 21 and have been in the global top seller list on Steam since. The game currently has a user rating of "overwhelmingly positive", the highest possible rating on Steam.

I've been a reader of HN for years and I've seen some members of this community mention it in Tweets that they are addicted to the game so I figured I'd post it here and see if there is any interest/questions.

AMA!

Show HN: Monster Train, a deckbuilding card game in the global top on Steam

shinymark — Mon, 25 May 2020 00:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1102190/Monster_Train/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23296317

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by shinymark in "Setting Up a Jenkins Home Lab"

shinymark — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:48:53 +0000

Regarding suggestions for alternatives to Jenkins I’m curious if anyone has any for game dev use cases.

We use Jenkins now and build for PCs, consoles, and mobile. Almost all of our builds must be on Windows. Some builds require GPUs. Builds require things like specific versions of Unity, Unreal, or a console SDK. Many builds result in build artifacts in the multiple gigabytes which we then want to efficiently copy to e.g. a QA person’s console dev kit on our local network.

For all these reasons we’ve setup our own Jenkins deployment onsite at our office on bare metal. But I’m curious if any of the newer services or technologies might be useful for us.

New comment by shinymark in "Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices"

shinymark — Thu, 16 May 2019 04:04:51 +0000

Yes. And agreed.

I’m sure whoever came up with the idea got a nice raise.

New comment by shinymark in "Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience?"

shinymark — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:16:37 +0000

One anecdote - I moved to Japan 12 years ago when I was 26 to work as an engineer in a game company. I stayed for two years. Like anywhere there were pros and cons but overall it was a fantastic life experience that I’m very glad I did.