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Tommaso Checchi

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World class timewaster and feature creeper.

Redmond, WA
Joined February 2011
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Tommaso Checchi
1 year
Literally every issue in this post is solved by doing gameplay in a scripting language within the Rust engine? It seems pretty rash to just throw it all away without considering that.
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Tommaso Checchi
1 year
Rust is a great language, but I feel like a lot of fans want to use it for _everything_ and then get burned. Rust is for writing engines, and there it works great. It's weird to see once fanboys throw away the whole language because it didn't occur to them to just like use Lua.
@LogLogGames
LogLog Games
1 year
Here's also our postmortem of 3 years of Rust gamedev, and why we're leaving Rust. #rustgamedev #rustlang.
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Grok
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Join millions who have switched to Grok.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
While the downsides in terms of usability are real, and apply the whole time to everything you do.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
In any real game, the alleged cache coherency advantages disappear when every entity becomes a different combo of components, and the component table becomes so sparse that getting the next entity in a view is a cache miss anyway.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
ECS is bad actually, and you only need it if you absolutely need third party developers to register new systems and components without your engine knowing their types. Which is about 0% of the games.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
Well, at least OpenAI managed to stop OpenAI from releasing AGI! Great success.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
Sooo is there anyone in big tech that isn't dealing with circa-1980 USSR levels of political dysfunction, or do I only know unlucky people? Sometimes I wonder how big tech companies ship any product 🤔.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
Half my stuff disappears for years every time I move, so this is kinda life changing.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
I can't believe this worked so well so protip: if you're moving, you can tell siri/alexa/google what you're putting in each numbered box. Then you can paste every list into ChatGPT and it will tell you which boxes you have to open to get stuff ready!
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
This is why I'll never be right wing. Whatever you want to do about immigration, these are real humans, who are scared, tired, caught in an unfamiliar country. And these dudes are taking selfies with them like they are cattle. It's just hatefulness and lack of empathy all around.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
2 years
US Border Patrol just reported the highest number of recorded illegal immigrants in history at over 260,000 this month. The full number, including unrecorded, may be over half a million per month, which is the population of Wyoming.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
"Don't use our engine if you plan to make a successful game" - Unity.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
"The Unity Runtime fee will not impact the majority of our developers. The developers who will be impacted are generally those who have successful games".Wow, this must be one of the worst line a company has ever tweeted, I applaud the courage.
@unity
Unity
2 years
Today we announced a change to our business model which includes new additions to our subscription plans, and the introduction of a Runtime fee. We wanted to provide clarifying answers to the top questions most of you are asking. Yes, this is a price increase and it will only.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
So I suppose we're just letting the "new owner" get away with posting Tucker & nazi dogwhistles every day? I really tried to move wherever people moved, I even tried Threads. but people just kept posting here. The usual sad lesson on the effectiveness of internet "protests".
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
"Tiktok square hole meme" but it's someone solving every TOTK shrine with Recall.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
It's a lot easier to stick to the FA part of FAFO for sure.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
Ah crap, I actually finished a side project instead of daydreaming about finishing it, and now it turns out it wasn't that good of an idea. Clearly a rookie mistake.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
There should be a terminal that straight out of the box has.- autocomplete.- history.- file and folder picker.- colors.- a good prompt.- standard shortcuts.- mouse click to move the cursor.- a text box to write the next command.- a plugin system.- etc.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
I wish there was a "VSCode of Terminals". Why are terminals so bad? Automating everything is amazing, but every terminal comes by default with a weird 1990 UX with wrong defaults and no way to install plugins.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
As a gamedev, I really wish we stopped with the "poor wittle ol gamedews" defensiveness and recognized WE are also victims of this behavior from our leaders.
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Tommaso Checchi
2 years
99% of times a terrible game is released and people go "how did nobody notice it sucks???", the answer is that everyone knew and people in charge went ahead because it's not their problem.
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