If the process wouldn't make you wanna kill yourself, I'd suggest doing it for the past 4-6 weeks' streams. The average from that would be a pretty good reflection of the past year of how much time a day he actually spends working on this 8 years in development magnum opus of his.
A communist tyrannical state banning loot boxes: Good
Another successful game development of playing world of warcraft for 21 hours instead.
Oh for sure, its frustrating especially when you see devs working on their games like the Soulash 2 guy getting gutted because he politely told people he had no plans to work out and code in gay marriages.
I would have to watch these streams at 12x speed, not to mention decide what qualifies as 'work' on the game. I could get very specific, but I don't think taking his hands off the keyboard for a moment should count as slacking off—most programmers aren’t locked in for 12 straight hours cranking out lines of code. However, if he stops coding and spends 40 minutes answering TTS while minimally flipping through code branches, I would count that against him. Most game devs in the industry don't do that. I’m not trying to inflate the numbers for the sake of it—this is purely a 'production evaluation.' If I were Thor's boss, what would I think of his employee's performance?
Thanks for the nightmare fuelPL I've replaced a couple of carpets over the years, one being for a sickly looking woman who owned ferrets. She let them roam around her bedroom freely and let me fucking tell you something; When any animal that isn't a dog is living in your house they piss and shit everywhere, ferrets specifically are extremely bad. When I was doing demo on the carpet and ripping it up; I found little piles of ferret shit in the corners of her room and when I pulled the carpets up I was able to see stains stretching across the entire bedroom OF FUCKING FERRET PISS. These little hell spawn had been pissing all over her carpet every time they were let out of their enclosure in her room.
(you can see stains on the undersides of carpets really easily, This was the best picture I could find of that but it was way way worse than this and there were a few little blood stains as well)
It was one of the foulest fucking smells imaginable even when I had just walked into her house my fucking eyes were watering. It burns like soap in your eyes, even as I was pulling the carpet up and it got on to my skin it started burning my fucking skin and I had to leave the job to go buy some chemical gloves and a long sleeve shirt. So yeah, these "cute" little animals are actually piss and shit demons with depraved fucked up owners who are so fucked they can't tell that the urea is literally killing them.
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"Yeah so uh I am a super cool independent that don't need no man and I worked at a company for 10-12 years that paid me one-third of what I was worth and I hate them what toxic assholes now here's me glowingly talking about my good ol days and shilling their products and streaming WoW and saying
How can a 20 years haxxor that hacked US power grid, uses a variable to control if a game is pirated or not. Even shovelware has better anti-piracy techniques that that shit
Yeah, odds are he's taken some tips from Yandev's book and is just going to milk development for as long as possible.
Kek, a new high for "indie developers."
What gets me is how this faggot smugly talks about it
Watching his streams would be pure torture, yet alone keeping a log book of his progress. But this does give me a hilariously brilliant idea. You could create a pixel bot that watches his streams when he goes live. The pixel bot watches select pixels scattered around his screen that, when matched, indicate his IDE is the active window and he's "working". When the pixels don't match, he's got another window in front of his screen and is otherwise watching something, or drawing in paint.
That would be great, but I'm not an expert at setting up a pixel bot. However, what you're describing is essentially what I'm trying to do. I plan to skim through and watch a bunch of Thor's VODs, then estimate based on when I see lines of code for Heartbound and when he's actively working on it. Here's the tricky part—Thor also runs a Minecraft server, known as 'BlockGame.' It’s a RuneScape-like MMO server where Thor has reworked every system in Minecraft with plugins. He considers it a second game, even though he doesn't make any money from it. It's a separate project, but it also gets screen time, with code being displayed. I can easily tell the difference, but I'm not sure a bot, without someone with a competent level of programming, could distinguish between the two. So, I think it's best to approach this manually, by hand, and get a rough estimate of how much time he spends on stream not working on the game.
Playing Retail might be the biggest sin here.
It's actually not hard if you're already checking pixels on the screen.
