Wasn't "people with really intense hobbies" how modern olympics started though, going as far as banning professionals in early days?

„Early days“ is until 1990 in that case, which is surprisingly late. Some nations got around the ban by employing the athletes as soldiers and allowing them to prepare almost full time though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Amateurism_and...

The US Army still does that through the World Class Athletic Program. It's an effective recruiting and morale program.

https://www.armywcap.com/

Thanks for the link, this made me chuckle:

There was also a prevailing concept of fairness, in which practising or training was considered tantamount to cheating.[176] Those who practised a sport professionally were considered to have an unfair advantage over those who practised it merely as a hobby.[176]

Yes it was originally, but now you gotta have the money and time to pursue that sport at a professional level if you want to have any chance of even getting into the Olympics.

Personally I think it would be better if it was just regular joes doing the Olympics again, but state political interests kept dipping their hand into the pool to try and secure wins for some dubious political points.

Hmm I've never thought of any Olympic victory as being attributed in part to like, the current President, and I'd be surprised if anyone thought that would be the case. But it's not dubious that Americans (including myself) love to see our country winning things, and if we suddenly started tanking at the Olympics most of us would want our country to get our act together.

Of all the things the state does having national pride in competition does not seem nefarious to me. I also love it when we win the various math/science olympiads. Means our country is still a powerhouse across the board.

This is much more an autocratic country thing. Or small countries trying to promote themselves on the world stage, usually by picking a particular event and focusing on it.

Everyone's already heard of America, they don't need the marketing.

Jamaican bobsled team is basically the nation state sponsored-ish equivalent of that guy from one of the plains states that won a bunch of medals in downhill skiing a few years back.

My boss and a long time good friend developed one[1] with his previous indie studio. Originally VR but playable with mouse and keyboard too, player can shrink both themselves and their enemies.

(Not trying to advertise for sales as the company went under years ago)

[1]https://store.steampowered.com/app/754850/The_Spy_Who_Shrunk...

The missing comma, it's two items and not three.

Sometimes I write printf like this

   printf( "count=%i"
           "failed=%i"
           "busy=%i"
           "reqs=%i"
           "rsp=%i",
       count,
       failed,
       busy,
       reqs,
       rsp);

Oh ... ye ok. Impossible to spot once you decided it is actually one there.

Terminator + Robot = T1000 T1000 + T1000 = T2000 I'm at T-32000000 and still going

The most unexpected 2048 clone

Same here with Monkey Island 2 + Monkey Island 3 = Monkey Island 4.

I'm now at Monkey Island 12357990.

I got Sharknado from shark + tornado.

Then Sharknado 3 from sharknado + sharknado.

Then Sharktopusnado 3 from sharknado 3 + octopus

Now I'm going at Sharktopusnado 9400000000000.

Great fun!

All those major studios listed have their own game engines, so unitys decisions don't affect them anyways. And Epic develops Unreal Engine, so Unitys' loss is their win.

Bethesda has a game engine?

I thought their games were run by a 1000 year old abacus.

Starfield engine is pretty good: https://youtu.be/neO-Bl7g9-U

I would claim that’s the physics engine, more than the “game engine”. Physx did this sort of thing 15 years ago.

well, no one else is known for their "physics engine", so clearly Bethesda did something right, or cheaper than everyone else (doubtful).

If it were actually part of the gameplay, rather than the result of console commands, then I think this would hold more weight.

I've checked some gameplay footage and it's atrocious.

Bethesda is making the same game in a different package ever since Oblivion.

Which is Nintendo's whole business, to be fair.

Heartstone is Unity, Witcher card game by CDPR may be as well.

Support for Gwent will end this year and Hearthstone is soon 10 years old and not that relevant for Blizzard. Their much more important game Diablo Immortal uses a different engine.

The big publishers only used that engine for a few offshoots and this change will guarantee that won't happen again.

As european I don't assume either US or china has my interests in mind when regulating privacy-invading activity.

I make the same assumption about Europe and China as well. You can't be too careful