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> Generally speaking societies do better when knowledge is shared and not hoarded.

These companies do even better because we're not allowed to share the knowledge (read, illegally copy protected works) and they are.


Exactly.

Can you expand on how you do this? I've gotten into gamedev a couple of times, but never got around to completing anything. Something like this might just do the trick.


First of all, you dont do one prompt to do the entire game, but "decent" style vibecoding where you do things little by little controlling the bot.

Godot whole engine is text based. This means you can just let claude rip through the assets and files just fine. It basically just works.

The thing that is critical is to make some documentation about the axis systems and core classes (the one on OP project is pretty good, ive grabbed it) and then you set your claude.md to point at the godot source code so that the bot can doublecheck things.

Ive been playing with multiple engines, and godot is by far the best one to use with the AI. Unreal engine is too heavy on binary files that coding tools cant parse, and Unity is closed source which leaves the bot with no reliable documentation or way to check what the game apis are doing. Godot is small enough that the bot can understand it and works fine for games that arent too complicated.

Im using it to build a spiritual remake of daggerfall as a procedural open world rpg, right now its at 60.000 lines of code, quite advanced. I got it running on a steamdeck at 60 fps even with 4 kilometers of draw distance with thousands of trees and procedural terrain thanks to doing tons of custom shaders and a few engine edits.


Note that while Godot's formats support being text based (.tscn and .tres) you get a massive speed boost in saving and loading once you convert to using .scn and .res for everything that is over 1MB in size. If you add a high-res model and make it unique because you need to change the textures or something, that already makes your scene as big as the model.

So be aware that supporting text only will become slow once the scenes are big enough.


incredible. And this was all using $20 plan from Claude or do you pay extra for Claude bandwidth?


I use the 100 plan, the 20 dollar plan is more of a trial, you run out of that in no time. With the 100 model i use it both for work (graphics rendering) and this which i do part time. Ive captured a few screenshots here <https://imgur.com/a/RJIcKqM> .


The 60,000 lines of code that just works bro!:

The screenshot:


The actual screenshots only show like 10k lines of code from the procedural generation system and custom render tech. Its a fully playable RPG game, the lines are split on quest systems, stat stuff, inventory, ui, dungeon generation, enemies, etc.

The world is being generated at startup for a 50-50 kilometer play area through multiple steps of generation that includes city placement, roads, and various biomes.

Has 3 months of dev time right now


that's reasonable I think if he isn't using any kind of game framework.


Eh, betting houses have a vested interest in matches not being fixed, which actually fixes a huge problem in sports, so they have a use in that.

I used to work in odds prediction and the issue is all the shady shit surrounding betting, not actual betting itself. We very contractually forbidden from betting on any of our customers, but managers would go around encouraging to bet. This is obviously a huge problem when you know how the algorithms work, and more importantly, where all the errors are. I'd see odds on matches where you couldn't lose on a weekly basis (think 2 outcomes, average payout of >2x), open bets for things in the past (score 1:0, bets for first point still open, etc.).

The biggest issue though, was betting houses straight up banning winners. The more you won, the less you could bet, eventually leading to a ban. This is straight up illegal, but nobody cares. On the flip side, the more you lost, the more you could bet, you'd get better rewards (if you won, which you didn't) and the cheaper it would be.

You can't ban gambling, because you'll just get illegal gambling (much like prohibition/drugs). Proper regulation and enforcement is the solution here (much like drugs).

Edit: All this being said, I don't bet, nor do I endorse gambling with real money. I agree betting should mostly be between you and your buddy, but unfortunately the reality doesn't support that.


Without betting houses existing, why would you fix a match?


When does steam require age verification?

It sometimes asks for my age for viewing a game and I can input any ol' date I want to. It doesn't even flinch if I input a different date every time.

I also don't recall them asking about my age when I was actually underage and paid using a PaySafeCard, but then again they didn't have porn on the platform at that point either.


> When does steam require age verification?

They only enforce it in the "mature sexual content" category, which mainly applies to porn games. For everything else, including the "some sexual content" category, they still just take your word for it.


Many more thousands have no issues with small cars or going to a closer sports club.

If the roads in cities are wide enough in cities for literal trucks, then they're wide enough for your car. Widening roads and making cars bigger makes pretty much everyone less safe.

Don't get me wrong, you're free to live in the boonies and drive 400km to your sports club, but don't call me narrow minded because I can load up 5 people in my VW passat and drive 500km for a 10 day vacation, or because I prefer not to get bulldozed by a car with a higher hood than me while walking to my local sports club.


Thank you


Account creation is the first thing you gotta do when trying to join a server complete with a silly captcha. At least on the server I just tried.


IIRC, admins of a server can configure it to require different levels of authentication, from anonymous all the way to requiring a verified phone number (the latter of which I have so far refused to join).


This is self employment only where your company assets == your assets. You can make an LLC and this isn't a problem.


An LLC will cost you much more money. It’s a great pay cut.


Well obviously, higher risks higher rewards.


We have figured out how to get money to enforce paying taxes and GDPR compliance: Pay them with the taxes and fines. USA's IRS has a famously high ROI, and I'm willing to bet a single GDPR fine for Google/Facebook/Microsoft pays for a whole lot of GDPR enforcement.


In general, when it comes to enforcing laws on normal, individual people, governments seem to have no problem finding and cracking down on you. When it comes to enforcing laws on the rich, or corporations, suddenly the kid gloves go on and the "but we're simply not funded for enforcement!" excuses emerge...


Why not make it 4%? Because the highest fine per GDPR is 4% of global revenue or 20 mil, whichever is higher.


> I noticed that often the people who switch to Linux, are more likely to send more time into finetuning their OS, tinkering around, etc... aka people with more time on their hands. But when you get a bit older, you simply want something that works and gives you no trouble.

> Yes, it has no adds but that is like 5 min work on a fresh install, a 2 min job of copy/past a cleanup script to remove the spyware and other crap and your good for year. So again, killer features?

First thing you do after you install windows is fine tune it lol. For what it's worth, I just installed the latest debian on a Minisforum mini PC and it was clean and easy. Everything works out of the box, including bluetooth and gaming (surprisingly well given only has an integrated GPU). Same experience with two of my wifes laptops.

Now I did have issues with my desktop due to running bleeding edge hardware, but those all got resolved within months on its own and a clean install is now no hassle at all.

In short, I'm now older and don't have time to tinker with my PCs. That includes reverting whatever bullshit Microsoft decided to foist upon me, so now I run base debian and won't be buying bleeding edge hardware anymore.


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