how much of the retro studios staff from prime 1 & 2 is still at the studio? how ship-of-theseused is it at this point?

I am still going to get the game. I am just extremely skeptical about it at this point.

I love that proton works so well that I dont even need to consider native linux builds anymore...

I'm guessing ~600 but wouldnt be surprised if it was 999

you gotta record in slowmo to see how extreme it actually is on most controllers

every controller I have to test here for a variety of platforms does this to at least some degree, except the gamecube controller which seems to have a super stiff stick lol

just policy, censor usernames when posting screenshots of the playtest discord. otherwise people will message them

if someone shits out a game with AI generated art because they don't care, then that is a self resolving issue isn't it? it communicates "i didnt care about this" and thus nobody else should either

no my position is simply that telling people to stop using a tool that they find useful is just going to get them to ignore whatever else you have to say about it entirely

for the record my position is that AI is unsuitable for creative tasks where you care about the results. but there sure are a lot of non-creative tasks it can do as well.

I use it to generate run-once-and-discard python scripts that move/rename text files around + move strings from one file to another. there is zero difference in results whether I wrote that script myself because the outcome is a deterministic non-creative thing.

if someone's current opinion of AI is "this thing saves me hours of mundane work" you need to have a REALLY GOOD, REALLY SOLID reason why they should avoid using it.

the vast majority of normal not-terminally-online people will use AI and go "oh neat" or "oh thats useful" and if the main criticisms they're hearing from opponents are outright incorrect, all that will do is make people think that position is unreasonable. this isn't a hypothetical, I see it often

discussion around AI is full of stuff like this, along with incorrect / misrepresented stats about energy or water usage. it drives me up a wall.

its poisoning the internet with slop and the economic implications of it are worrying, i think a lot of people just dont have the right words for it

if I need to thats the type of stuff I do in the optional unlocked_update call

start of each update, all Transforms store their current data in a "previous" field, rendering functions can just request transform->GetInterpolatedTransform(framepercent) instead of current values

the interpolation is 0 to 1 frames behind, so ~0.5 on average

if monitor hz + update hz match you just always draw frames at T=1 if done correctly, i.e. always displaying the most recently rendered frame.

If they don't match, then a locked 60hz renderer would be waiting for vsync while the interpolated one can be drawing interpolated frames instead