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Please stop referring to games as "built from the ground up"
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I think it was Steven Wright who said: "I once put instant coffee in the microwave and almost went back in time."
And if I airlifted a cargo container in, cut some holes for windows and started to live in it am I allowed to say that it was "built" from the mighty above to the sodom below?
i started my house from the roof and then started putting walls, cables, pipes and all that stuff
i'm sorry you're such a building casual
But, what about "coded to the metal" than ? Even if I am using APIs, these APIs ends to move electrons on silicium. But electrons themselves aren't even "to the metal", it's an electromagnetic field that makes them move, and not even freely. So it's more the metal itself that codes ourselves.
OP
OP
No, but the person who once made a nazi-comparison thread about me but didn't realize I had a Jewish background, they felt privileged that day I'm pretty sure.
And the bosses in Bioshock were examples of bosses who did tell you what to do all the time. Just saying.
c'mon, this is a shitpost right
"From the ground up" has a fairly clear meaning in software development in fields wholly unrelated to gaming, and it very obviously has nothing to do with ground either in-game or IRL. It simply means that the program was built from what is generally understood as the "floor" of practicality (which varies wildly by context as to how much foundation is under that floor) and reused essentially nothing above that floor.
the only reason anyone would ever say this in regards to video games is when implying they want a video game to be built with the lowest common denominator technology being the newest console. Whether a game does or does not really take advantage of ps5 while being made with ps4, that is up to the devs and fans perception.
This is a level of pedantry even I don't get involved with.
Would love to hear your thoughts on the old "living, breathing world" shit that was all over last gen.
Would love to hear your thoughts on the old "living, breathing world" shit that was all over last gen.
I can understand OP's frustration, and as to people in here asking why it's something to be annoyed with, it actually falls in line with a topic everyone's familiar with and talk about here all the time- game company marketing tactics and how they tend to bend or warp the truth. From bullshots to failed promises, I figured there would be more people with something to say.
If it was a Sterling video would people be more willing to engage with the topic? I can understand not thinking the OP had enough to get a conversation going, but the "what a thing to be bothered by" posts aren't really helping in that regard.
Yeah this is where I most often hear it, but when it's in regards to an engine that ends up being just iterative and nowhere even close to being a complete re-write etc. is where it's annoying and sounds manipulative.
If it was a Sterling video would people be more willing to engage with the topic? I can understand not thinking the OP had enough to get a conversation going, but the "what a thing to be bothered by" posts aren't really helping in that regard.
Yeah this is where I most often hear it, but when it's in regards to an engine that ends up being just iterative and nowhere even close to being a complete re-write etc. is where it's annoying and sounds manipulative.
This is my reaction to about 45% of threads here.
Worry about something that remotely matters.
