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[–] pewpew@feddit.it 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  • "Can you make the player be able to summon a monster from the fifth dimension?" "Yes ok ez lol"
  • "Can you make the player able to exist in the world without having it fall though the ground?" "You are asking too much mate"
[–] Beldarofremulak@discuss.online 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Player: Can you make it so that a 3 inch drop won't kill me?

DayZ Standalone dev: .........

[–] Justdaveisfine@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Oof, this reminds me of a personal experience.

Me: Oh this grapple system is easy, we'll just push the player's vector towards the destination vector.

Game: Oh but there's a small object in the way that cannot be moved. This will make an immense amount of collision data per tick.

Me: Can't we just ignore-

Game:

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

You're the one who asked to open a gate to the fifth dimension, you can't then get upset that you broke 3+1 dimensional physics

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago

Shadows in the real world a lack of energy Shadows in games imma need it all boss

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago

"I noticed the elves in level 3 look too similar to the dwarves in level 5."

"It's too late to change it now!"

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I worked at a company that made IoT stuff (which is an increasingly archaic term). The web team was pitching using a third party tool called ThingSpace to view and manage the things. The web dev said ThingSpace could do all these amazing things automatically. The manager said “can we change the color of the background?” The web dev said “…. no.”

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

what if you wanted a scarf, but god said

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "you.py", line 1, in <module>
    scarf()
NameError: name 'scarf' is not defined
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[–] matmarspace@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

That's cute 😅

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

The logical answer is that too many Computer Science majors loved Silver Age comic books.

The Martian Manhunter was stronger than superman, but couldn't handle fire. Green Lantern was similarly godlike, but was unable to control anything colored yellow.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf, you can make the characters wear anything, but it won't look good. Lol

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