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Nice tech breakdown of our trailer. Glad you like it @Dachsjaeger ! https://t.co/dpFRsyp7Ub

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Sunday rant. For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to

Yes you can prepare a tasty meal without knowing how to cook, but that doesn't make you a chef. And you can create soulless mashups based on real artists work, but that doesn't make you an artist yourself.

I see a lot of opportunists who think they can just skip the work straight to the result. But that's not how it works. You have to create something yourself first to even know the right solution to a problem.

I absolutely agree that problem solving is the valuable bit in our craft. However, some people don't understand that you cannot simply skip the hard work, dedication and creative process to become a good problem solver.

He also programmed the original Secret of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 2 on the SNES, one of my most beloved childhood games. Absolute legend indeed.

I worked on a game that started like that (The Surge).

People optimize for programmer productivity, I get that. But it's insane to ship a full fledged browser engine for basic apps. But you'll micro-harassing millions of users constantly for years if you don't care about performance.

Another reason is resource consumption. In my world it's not acceptable that seemingly simple chat apps use half a gigabyte of memory and runs with barely 30 fps, with input latency north of 100ms.

One reason is user experience. 60 or 120 Hz displays are the norm these days, so client responsiveness and latency matters, also with mobile apps and browsers. The state of many apps is laughable.

Our current favorite optimization meme raises some important questions. I disagree with the "but webdevs don't care for 5ms" crowd. The state of affairs is that hardware becomes faster exponentially, but most software proportionally slower. This is bad for many reasons.

I've spent several weeks optimizing less than 1 ms of gpu time - multiple times in my career. In perspective, 5 ms are more than 60% of DOOM Eternals frame budget for the 120 fps mode on Xbox Series X|S and Playstation 5.

@philiphammer0 By now I've worked with a lot of inhouse and commercial engines and let me tell you FledgEd had some of the best features for designers. RIP

Sad news. The Fledge engine was a truly beloved member of the team, built by a small group of extremely talented developers over the last 15 (?) years. It powered the original Lords of the Fallen, The Surge 1 + 2, Atlas Fallen and countless prototypes in between. #RIPFledge

City's got some serious blade runner vibes again

@philiphammer0 Thanks buddy! Here's a clean version heh - Happy #DOOM30 !

German Bethesda PR on 🔥. I'll definitely try the Slayer Worscht today.