Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers

[Retink]

Think Bethesda lost the source code for Daggerfall

To be fair, that would have been in a very different time of gaming and from what I remember Morrowind was basically a last ditch effort to make a passion project to keep the studio alive as it was a disaster as well. Morrowind was also supposed to be Morrowind originally from what I heard, and not just the island in the middle we ended up on, which makes a lot of sense with how stripped down Skyrim and Oblivion were.

I'll add that Elder Scrolls is probably the most mishandled franchise out there, with how much time they take to put out shit they're not really making anything exciting and Skyrim was mediocre at best.

 

[The Last Stand]

Square lost the source code for Kingdom Hearts. The developers of the remasters had to dig through the retail game. Konami lost the source code for Silent Hill 2, 3, and I assume 4. Whatever the developers did to make HD versions of 2 and 3, I wish they hadn't. Think Bethesda lost the source code for Daggerfall. Video games have been going through a similar lack of care towards preservation that film had in its early years.

Why don't developers keep their source code?

 

[neverendingmidi]

Why don't developers keep their source code?

When you move from one computer to the next, do you download EVERYTHING from that last computer? Do you know where every harddrive and flash drive you've ever owned is? When something becomes obsolete, do you spend time converting over everything you aren't using? And that's just a home system.

It's pretty much that written on an industrial scale. At least with film there was a physical object. A number were lost due to lack of preservation/the fact that the material itself was unstable as fuck and would burn if you looked at it cross-eyed, but it did physically exist. Code? After the game is done, well, you're going to need that memory space for whatever you're working on now. If the higher ups aren't going to splurge on more harddrives or other forms of backups to save a project that's for all intents and purposes "done" while demanding you move your ass on another project that's "in progress", then something's gonna go. Add in to that changing computers, from hardware to OS's to software, on a regular basis to keep up with whatever's most modern, and there you go.

 

[Stasi]

I'd like to expand on this a bit. Social media has normalized itself into modern culture. It's quite scary. I see friends post drama about their day-to-day for all to see. Complaining about their job, their families, their relationships on their pages. And people encouraging or enabling it.

There's a lot of trends about social media that tick me off. But drama has to be the worst of it all.

Along a similar vein to this - people doing this type of shit on LinkedIn of all places. Only a few years back it was still a social network for professionals mainly sharing business news and updates. Now it's filled with idiots posting their personal life shit for updoots and sharing obvious fake feel-good stories.

Here is muh mental helf story/my dog died of cancer/did you hear the one about a guy kicking a homeless person who turned out to be a CEO interviewing him that very same day?? etc. etc.

Keep that shit on Facebook, some of us still want to try to use LinkedIn for business shit.

 

[catmasterj]

Why don't developers keep their source code?

Sega was bad at this. They threw out unreleased games and everything

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Why don't developers keep their source code?

What is the point of having a lot of NES assembly code laying around when you're now developing for the Genesis? That is my impression of old japanese developers at least, they moved from one architecture/platform to the new one and everything related to their previous games were fundamentally incompatible so why keep it around. When Square made the FF8 remaster they had to knock on Eidos' door, they're westerners and did the PC port so their code was actually archived while Square themselves had tossed it or lost it.

 

[Gamepad]

What is the point of having a lot of NES assembly code laying around when you're now developing for the Genesis? That is my impression of old japanese developers at least, they moved from one architecture/platform to the new one and everything related to their previous games were fundamentally incompatible so why keep it around. When Square made the FF8 remaster they had to knock on Eidos' door, they're westerners and did the PC port so their code was actually archived while Square themselves had tossed it or lost it.

The reverse of that is devs who can't let go of their previous platform, and just wind up doing really clunky shit as a result. Or in the case of Kemco, make a GBA emulator to run on 6th gen hardware, and have your AI routine get computed by that, for some reasons.

That's Batman Dark Tomorrow.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

The reverse of that is devs who can't let go of their previous platform, and just wind up doing really clunky shit as a result. Or in the case of Kemco, make a GBA emulator to run on 6th gen hardware, and have your AI routine get computed by that, for some reasons.

That's Batman Dark Tomorrow.

That sounds really interesting, is there any articles about that?

 

[Gamepad]

Specifically, David Vout, who is credited as Executive Producer at HotGen on Dark Tomorrow.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Why don't developers keep their source code?

Natural disasters, shit just happens and some guy forgot to back it up, lack of hard drive space, original developers being defunct, copyright clusterfucks, thieves stole the drive. That last one happened to Project Zomboid. Guy had to start all over. In the days before you could get multi-terabyte drives for mostly sane prices, hard drive space was quite limited. At one point, 20GB was high end. Games were also largely treated like toys even if the game was aimed at adults.

 

[seri0us]

When you move from one computer to the next, do you download EVERYTHING from that last computer? Do you know where every harddrive and flash drive you've ever owned is? When something becomes obsolete, do you spend time converting over everything you aren't using? And that's just a home system.

When I move to a new computer I move in the drives I was using last time. If there's data loss I restore from backup. This is I&T so I assume most of the other people here do something similar.

 

[Jimmy Olsen]

Quora gives me the urge to neck myself. Yahoo Answers sucked too, but at least it was funny sometimes.

 

[seri0us]

Quora gives me the urge to neck myself. Yahoo Answers sucked too, but at least it was funny sometimes.

Its all just a bunch of gross pajeets :/

 

[Jimmy Olsen]

Its all just a bunch of gross pajeets :/

And upper middle class white people giving 'inspiring stories' about how abusive their parent/child/pet dog is/was while posting pictures of themselves and said family member, which definitely couldn't have any unforeseen consequences. So many people are complaining about their meth-addicted adult children and looking for asspats.

Oh and crappy ex-journalists and accounts that repost Buzzfeed comics. In a way I almost like the pajeets more. They're fucking annoying, but at least they're doing it to get paid.

 

[Breaker of Swains]

Fucking arse dedicated pronoun fields on input forms for personal details - especially if they're mandatory!

Look, I go by "I/me" when I am speaking and by "you" when being addressed. And I genuinely don't care if you make it sound as though I'm a rhinoceros / cherry blossom hybrid when talking about me in my absence ...

... now, saying this, I just feel ancient!

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Why are so many new software bait-and-switch?

What I mean is, they come for free, garner a huge audience, then they decide to suddenly switch T&A and just ban/abuse their power.

 

[UselessIdiot]

Fucking arse dedicated pronoun fields on input forms for personal details - especially if they're mandatory!

Look, I go by "I/me" when I am speaking and by "you" when being addressed. And I genuinely don't care if you make it sound as though I'm a rhinoceros / cherry blossom hybrid when talking about me in my absence ...

... now, saying this, I just feel ancient!

If they ever make it mandatory for anything I'm using, I'm just going to put opposite sex pronouns for shits and giggles.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

If they ever make it mandatory for anything I'm using, I'm just going to put opposite sex pronouns for shits and giggles.

I do that for laughs and to muddy the waters a bit for the data gobblers.

 

[Jimmy Olsen]

I do that for laughs and to muddy the waters a bit for the data gobblers.

For accounts not connected to anything particularly important (bank details, work, et cetera) I like to close my eyes while scrolling down the birth year section and pick whatever my finger blindly lands on.

Does this make me trans-age? I've been 90 and 13 in the same year.

 

[I Hate Anime Avatars]

My phone battery is deteriorating and I cannot replace the battery itself. Why did they remove that ability?

Lithium batteries can be pretty dangerous if shorted out, can catch fire etc. To improve battery life they made the battery larger by making it's casing thinner and therefore more easy to puncture or damage and short out the battery. Therefore you don't really want people that don't know what they are doing handling them. That and getting rid of removable batteries and phone jacks makes the device much easier to make water and dust tight. Not saying it dosen't have disadvantages but it's not purely malicious as is often said.