Don’t worry, he’ll be promoted to a special position in Siberia

Rest in Pepperoni

I also know browsers have continuously gotten better at dealing with and adjusting to bad frontend performance

Citation needed

But I would counter that frontend performance is as important now as ever

Citation needed - it certainly feels like frontend performance was rarely seen as important in the past 10+ years.

So, again, anyone have a good ideas or thoughts as to why this field has erupted, and seemingly absorbed frontend?

Probably for the same reason that “programmers” got separated into “backend/frontend”, so that it feels like you have more specialists, instead of asking them to do a good job in the first place.

I’m afraid someone might take this shit seriously

It’s even funnier when you consider that this has been the case for millenia

I’ve always wondered, because sometimes it looked like that, despite being banned, a certain account still made new posts to the community they were banned from

The price of MURICAN Freedom^TM

Never, I’m in permanent mode

Did you know all creator posts are wiped out from lemmy after account banned?

I’m dubious of that, because I’ve often seen posts with a red [banned from community] tag right beside the user, which often made me scratch my head - how/why is that post there if the user is banned?

Another thing to keep in mind, we don’t need to be reddit in terms of content volume. Yeah, a lot of us expect that, but it’s better for us, as humans in the long term, to be slower here

No lead acetate? How is your partner going to savor a sweet taste?

Ok, and what exactly is this thing for?

That’s going for the jugular

It’s all the hyperprocessed fat and sugar in their eyes, they can’t see straight.

“Netanyahu? More like Genocidetoyou, amirite?”

“wtf bro that’s antisemitic!!!”

No no, they’re not considering suicide, they’re just applying to pilot those F-18 submarines!

I take full responsibility 🤣

Oi, you got a loicense for that MATE, m8?

Man, I should start a racist blog, release a shitty ass linux distro, get a 10 million donation then go “SYKE!” and disappear, as anyone dumb enough to get in on that rightfully deserves all the backdoors

Pretty shit article. Anyone with a working brain knows the main reason is this one:

Which brings me to something that, to me, is the most overlooked point of all: the business model dictated the game’s design before a single line of code was even written. An arcade cabinet only made money if you spent your coins fast

Contrary to what the author says, it is not an overlooked point. Any kid who has ever played an arcade knew the difficulty was bullshit on purpose. Not to mention that most boards let the owner change the difficulty and players wouldn’t know any better.

Regarding controls, yes, home ports didn’t have the entire hardware of big machines like Daytona USA, but most, if not all, side scrollers and top down games only needed 2-3 buttons - Final Fight, Aero Wings, Metal Slug, Ghosts 'n Goblins, TMNT, to name a few.

The lazy answer is always “weaker hardware at home.” And sure, that’s part of the story, but it’s a small, almost surface-level part

The irony of stating this is that the very next paragraph is about how the SNES/Genesis hardware was weaker and didn’t have the chips for some of tricks the CPS2 or NEO GEO pulled. The 3 paragraphs before the last are all about “weaker” hardware - physical limitations of the 16 bit consoles, “weaker” CRTs at home and finally, more “arcade boards had more chips to do more stuff”. Literally half of the article is “the home hardware was weaker”, hard to call it “surface-level part”

Oh, here’s a fun fact: the Sharp X68000, a Japanese home/business computer of the 1980s, was what Capcom used to make some of their CPS1 games - said computer also had, at the time, the best home ports of said arcade games.

I remember that r* considered not even working on GTA6 or anything else because of how much money they were getting by simply selling fake money in GTA online