To be fair, Postal and SOF haven’t been relevant in almost 20 years, though your point stands.

I wonder how a modern implementation of these two games would look given the vast visual improvements since then. I assume UE5 or 6 already comes with a Ghoul-esque framework ready to go. Though I hope they would feature a curmudgeon caricature of Jack Thompson.

Forget AI. Get in here this is our thread.

Amen!

Yeah - a lot of devs don’t know about clip planes but they have their uses and they kind of function outside of the normal pipeline.

Yeah I expected a TED talk and the op more or less delivered.

I’m self taught from a single digit age and yet I went and got a degree and it was eye opening. It was mostly a vocational thing with an absolute assgrind of a program that drops most of the students in the first 2 years, and just beats down into a pulp the remaining ones for the next 1-2. 16 hour days of nothing but projects, individual and team.

By the time I landed my first job I think i worked harder on personal projects than I ever have at work. I also ended up tutoring proper CS nerds in things like graph theory and functional programming concepts.

So, YMMV.

Sounds like a therapist that hates men.

A non-insignificant portion of HNers found jobs during one of the last 3-4 economic downturns. They seem to happen frequently.

In truth it’s always a crisis mode. Build your networks and demonstrate value and competence such that when people leave your company they’ll regret not having you on their team. This is the right way to stay employed once you land your first gig.

7% unemployment means 93% are employed. So it's really not that bleak.

This is why I walk backwards.

Which is fine. If they’re right they’re right.

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