Microblog Memes

I've joked with coworkers that our entire job as programmers is to find ways to light up pixels on someone's screen in patterns that they find pleasing.

Well. I mean. Both release dopamine for me anyway.

In the engine I've worked on it's even less dramatic than deleting a row. It changing a single boolean from 1 to 0.

"Single bit state CHANGED!!!”

Hah! Joke's on you, player! I pooled my game objects and you're endlessly killing the same bad guys with the same bullets over and over.

And spectator sports are watching people exercise and reading is staring at a tree while hallucinating

I've been working on a survival/RTS game and it's funny that even though the game development framework I'm using (Unity) tends to push you to put most of the code on the visual objects level and that was my original approach, over time I've figured out the whole code is way cleaner and works better (in other words, the best architeture for that software) when almost all of the game is really just a Data layer being manipulated by the player and a separated View layer for the players to visualized it in a nice way - basically a Model-View Controller Architecture, same as you'll find in systems were a server-side application has web and/or smart app UIs.

That said, I have the impression that something like an FPS is a lot less data-driven than an RTS because things like the 3D models that make up the world are a lot more important for data decisions (has the bullet hit an object, can the player move to this position). You can still say that stuff is data (3D models are data, specifically collections of vertices in 3D space with some additional information attached), but model data is generally way more visualization-oriented than what one could metaphorically call a "database".

No, I'm not playing. In reality, I'm just bumping atoms in a galactic billiards game with the biggest chain reactions.

The opposite actually - rows are dramatically added to a database. In most games save files grow the longer you play.

Reductionism when "it isn't murder I just deleted your row from the national health government database"

Anyone else remember mysqlgame?

Eve Online, basically.

Macrodata refinement in cold harbor

Pretty much them zombies would be in active memory

Incidentally, just decided my new band name, active memory zombies

After hours of trial and error, I finally changed the integer on the BossKill parameter from 0 to 1!

I would play a database management roguelike.

I like to dramatically DELETE rows FROM slow_database

ON ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ CASCADE;