Yes, many apps will use a lot of RAM if it’s available, that’s how RAM is supposed to be used. If you have 16GB and a game is actually causing swapping I’d be surprised. An app that can use 20GB isn’t necessarily going to consume all the RAM on a system with under 20GB. Higher memory pressure statistics will mean more aggressive evictions but not necessarily swapping.
I have 64GB so the “you don’t have enough to go around” bit doesn’t apply to me.
This is supported by the patent documents for at least one type of milk jug, which I found thanks to Snopes:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/01/07/milk-jug-indentations/
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO1999022994A1/en (page 2 lines 7-10, page 3 lines 27-29).
Honestly this is the first I’ve heard of groff, but I’d be surprised if it’s not easy to transpile a Markdown document into the format. Have written only Markdown-based docs for a decade
LaTeX spitting out an immaculate pdf with carefully calculated text distribution and vectorized fonts just to have it printed and scanned by the camera on a razr flip phone:
AI music is a technical exercise, not art. Ban it
Can’t think of a game that really needed more than like 10GB of RAM. It’s all VRAM for textures and even then 8GB is enough
Sometimes you get both. And then it’s really special (especially 8 years later when you can turn the settings up), see RDR2.
Longbowoman
Topology is immensely useful to describe reality.
Can’t be repeating, but there could be some sort of non-repeating pattern as far as we know
I’m reading these wrong and it makes you sound like you have a speech impediment. So who’s laughing now
You could use it as a dressing rather than a dip. Like sriracha or tabasco, but not spicy.
A placeholder isn’t what they’re working on either. It’s a placeholder for something someone else is working on but hasn’t completed yet.
It was a placeholder texture that was always intended to be replaced by actual art made by a human. It was overlooked accidentally and promptly replaced. So no, it isn’t a very different thing. It was never supposed to be part of the game or even a significant part of its development.
A stance that is perfectly relatable in 2025, but not as much when Expedition 33 was in early development.
Why not? If the tools weren’t available, they’d have used stock art or something super basic and crappy looking, which would’ve been just as good as a placeholder. But the tools were available.
In 2025 it makes sense for companies to have policies against using generative AI tools even for stuff like this because of the systemic effects of normalized use. But in 2022, it wouldn’t have been a thing. Nobody would have thought twice about it. Just a neat new thing that does the job.
The only takeaway is that the Indie Game Awards’ rule is overly restrictive. Woops, one of your contracted artists used a GenAI model to generate a music playlist to set the mood while he was working on your game, you’re disqualified and the fact that you didn’t come forward with this information immediately makes you a liar. Obviously absurd. If they’re going to take a strong anti-AI stance, it should be more realistic. At some point, maybe even already, every single competitor should be disqualified but isn’t aware or forthcoming about it, so what’s the rule actually doing except rewarding dishonesty?
“the truth” being that a few generated placeholder textures were accidentally left in and promptly replaced? crazy
I disagree, it’s not just the setting. I’ve played about 50 hours of it in the last couple weeks and like 250 total, and the entire time I’ve felt its level of polish and detail is unmatched in any game.