Programmer, BJJ enthusiast (and still bad at it), father of 3, co-founder of @FabmanHQ, working on a compiler @Thekla_inc
Wien, Österreich
Joined November 2014
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Raphael Luba retweeted
At this point ~everyone acknowledges that movies today have generally become a lot worse.
Little-known fact: You can watch the old movies which are good instead of the new ones which are bad.
I almost never watch new releases. The last movie I saw was made in 1961.
I skipped school to wait in line to buy tickets for the opening day midnight showing of _Phantom Menace_, there was a ton of hype (we also saw the 7 PM show later that same day, after the midnight open).
My friends & I enjoyed the movie, especially the spectacular lightsaber duels, although we were a bit confused by the plot on the first viewing & reminded of how cheesy Lucas' dialogue is (the script in the original trilogy is even worse but it feels familiar). We also hated Jar-Jar Binks—everyone did. Kids were starting petitions online to have him die in the next movie. The midi-chlorians were super controversial as well because lots of people thought they 'demystified' the Force (I liked them because I thought they 're-mystified' the Jedi & Sith, revealing their teachings to be merely contingent, religious interpretations of naturalistic phenomena).
But the biggest difference between the millennial experience of seeing _Phantom Menace_ in theaters & zoomers watching today is *context*. PM came out at the end / peak of a great period for Hollywood.
Other very solid / good Hollywood movies that came out in 1999 that still hold up:
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club
The Sixth Sense
Magnolia
Being John Malkovich
Man on the Moon
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Matrix
Blair Witch Project
October Sky
The Mummy
8mm
Cruel Intentions
Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels
10 Things I Hate About You
Tarzan
American Beauty
Three Kings
That year was absolutely stacked with movies better than almost anything being released today.
There was a specific combination of relatively high budget, emerging SFX technology, auteurism, & willingness to experiment (thank you Miramax) that was really quite special,
& it's probably difficult for young people today to grasp how high the prevailing level of quality really was.
Raphael Luba retweeted
Samsung alone is like 13% of South Korea’s GDP. This doesn’t sit right with me but that level of economic impact comes with real power.
It’s also a family business… their chairman Lee Jae-yong served time for bribery and embezzlement but was pardoned after 18 months to help with economic recovery.
This isn’t a one of thing either. Several top South Korean companies have been charged with bribery and embezzlement but deemed ”too important” for ordinary accountability.
Raphael Luba retweeted
The AI impact won't be felt immediately through layoffs (existing jobs are sticky), but through a collapse in hiring (jobs that don't yet exist have no stickiness).
Raphael Luba retweeted
A somewhat common but strange response to the consumer request for AI disclosures on products is to suggest that if you did this, you should have to disclose all sorts of other things (how many people worked on the product, what other software you used, what hardware it was made on, etc.)
I can understand that some people don't like the idea of having AI disclosures, so they immediately try to think of arguments against it. But respectfully, this one makes no sense.
Product labeling requirements are driven by demand, either from consumers or from competitors. There is no significant cross-section of the public asking to know if a game was made on machines with AMD or Intel hardware. There is no significant cross-section of the industry demanding that their competitors list whether or not they used Adobe Premier.
Product labeling is not about giving you a complete set of information about how a product was made. It's about giving the consumer information that a significant number of them might want to know before making a purchase. Which ones of these get codified can be driven by consumer demand, competitor demand, or - most commonly - a combination of the two.
This is not weird. It's good, actually.
And it's especially good if an industry takes proactive steps to voluntarily label their products accurately, because then they avoid the inevitable alternative, which is that the consumer demand for the missing labeling produces a political movement which ends with mandatory labeling designed by a political body.
I‘m really surprised that Samsung does not get litigated out of existence for this!But it confirms my opinion of them.
Follow @mmjukic for loads of depressing truth bombs about the state of the world. Highly recommended—if you don’t have a predisposition for anxiety attacks.
Raphael Luba retweeted
The elephant in the room is that there is basically nothing you can do to stave off total economic depression if your workforce has below-replacement fertility and eventually fewer workers replace them in the workforce. Nothing! This is *before* pensions even come into play!
Raphael Luba retweeted
I'm a few hundred puzzles into Order of the Sinking Star, and it is, indeed, fantastic. Yes, it's a box pushing game, but it plans to be the LAST box pushing game. No meat will be left on the bones.
The puzzles are really well put together. Compact. No extra elements. You are given a seemingly impossible situation and you have to explore the capabilities of the few parts you are given and figure out a new way to use them. Really ingenious stuff in here.
Highly recommended. I've already gotten well over the $30 worth, and I have a LONG way to go.
I looooved just toying with this level when I had to fix an issue with our fire particles a few months ago. I had so much fun just running back and forth and taking it all in.
Raphael Luba retweeted
I finished the @SinkingStarGame demo, and I only have a single critique, because it is absolutely bloody fantastic.
There are far too many tutorials and spoilers.
Of course, the game isn't done, so some of these may be made more implicit, or conveyed through gameplay rather than talking at the player eventually, but this stuff really has to go.
It immediately and unavoidably robbed me of the chance to explore the world, and figure out how things work on my own.
Raphael Luba retweeted
Voting closes soon for the @GoldenJoysticks Awards! 🏆
Order of the Sinking Star is up for:
⭐ Best Indie Game
💻 PC Game of the Year
If you've been loving the game, cast your vote for us here 👉 goldenjoysticks.com/
Thank you for all the support! 🙌
Raphael Luba retweeted
There is no such thing as the "tech industry". "Tech" is a euphemism that lets software and VC finance people assume the glamour and prestige earned by hardware people. Software companies are neat but they're not the same thing as factories.
Raphael Luba retweeted
This is the most ambitious puzzle games ever built.
It took 10 years to make.
It's size is staggering and every puzzle is a gem that has been polished by some of the best designers alive.
It's the Manhattan Project of block pushing games.
store.steampowered.com/app/4…
I had the privilege of experiencing Matthew‘s prowess up close and it’s very humbling. He combines incredible attention to detail with non-stop drive and energy. I wish I was half as productive…
Raphael Luba retweeted
Order of the Sinking Star is out now!
It’s been an incredible honour to compose the music for this massive and groundbreaking puzzle game. I’ve had the privilege of working closely with Martin Stig Andersen and Hans Christian Kock for almost six years. Thanks Thekla and Jon!
Order of the Sinking Star, the massive puzzle adventure from @Thekla_Inc and @Jonathan_Blow (director of Braid & The Witness) is OUT NOW on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5! 🧩
Get it today: orderofthesinkingstar.com
Raphael Luba retweeted
After TEN LONG YEARS, Order of the Sinking Star is out Now! On Switch 2, PS5, and ... it's at the top of Popular New Releases on Steam, already!
Thank you everyone for your support during this long, long, long, long, long development!
Raphael Luba retweeted
Periodic reminder that Wikipedia has a squillion times more money than they need to operate the actual website, and all marginal donations go to the fake paper-shuffling NGO that attached itself to the organization for the purpose of feeding on donations from rubes.
