Some days I miss working on this site. I hold a lot of great memories of working with GoodnightPanda, crushing some insane bugs, completely changing the infrastructure, and building new features.

I remember one was introducing the caching subsystem. When the site only had like 50 accounts in it, the performance absolutely TANKED to where it would take sometimes 2 whole minutes to load your main timeline. Turns out the bottleneck was in the friends system itself, making several hundreds of queries to the database to get the latest friendship statuses from each profile.

I told Panda my plan to introduce Redis to cache a ton of the work being done every page request and he just told me to go for it. Couple days and several hundred lines of code later, timelines and pages were suddenly loading within milliseconds. We all waited for when the site would slow to a crawl again and.. it never happened. It’s still running on the same caching system I built all those years ago, and running smoooooooorh as glass as far as I can see.

I’ve got a few more stories like this one of anyone’s interested.

Until next time, cheers 🍻

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During a big update on expectation for the launch of Senua's Saga #Hellblade2, Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades has left the studio, confirmed by Xbox Game Studios acknowledging his unignorable absence on the latest updates of the game.

The game has achieved Unreal Engine 5 visual benchmark, regardless being capped at 30 fps for Xbox consoles, it is touted as true next-gen experience & one of the best good-looking games so far as game's realistic FMVs scenes will match movie theater's quality at 24 fps.

Hellblade 2's Storyline will be a narrative, linear action experience with very high production values, focus on story and cinematic craft, impactful combat & puzzles, expected to take players between 8 to 9 hours to complete.

Combat system was designed to be a one on one only, slow-paced and expect to feel brutal with swinging your sword always feeling heavy & impactful.

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 launches DIGITAL ONLY on Xbox & PC, both for sale & Day One release with Game Pass on May 21, 2024 with no physical version announced (yet maybe?).

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Microsoft announced that Windows 11 will deprecate #Android subsystem on 05/5/25 with official support ending TODAY.

User will not be forced to remove it if you have it today, but expect NO guarantee of functionality & no new app install.

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Back in No Man's Sky and we're trying to find a pirate system and an exotic planet!
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Blizzard announced that #Overwatch2 S9: Champions will introduce bigger health bars (depends on hero), self-healing mechanics & reformat of Competitive Mode and rewards with a new Competitive Points system.

Ranks will be reset for all.

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Nintendo announced that #NintendoSwitch have surpassed the 139.36 million unit sold and overtaking DS family as the best-selling video game system of all time in Japan.

During their quarterly conference with investor, Nintendo claims that Switch will be main business for 2024 & didn't mention anything about its successor, slated to be released this year and reportedly, key partners are already developing games with dev kits.

During the three months until December 31, Nintendo reported an operating profit of ¥184 billion yen, slightly down on the same period last year but still, went better than analyst expected.

Analyst are impressed on how Nintendo have a steady business with an aged Nintendo Switch ecosystem & limited hardware compared to PC and gaming consoles, all this without major price cuts.

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Sony consoles annoy the shit out of me.

I have a fully functioning PS3 and physical copies of the Ratchet and Clank games. Can I stream from the console? Of course not! the system's HDCP stops me from capturing anything. I tried multiple different work arounds and nothing pushes past the HDCP unless I use the A/V cables and an HDMI upscaler which looks like I'm playing a snuff film.

So I can either hit the high seas and play the games through ROMs or pay for Sony's trash subscription service so I can STREAM the games to my PS4 and rely on their dog water servers.

Electronic Arts made official the release date of #UFC5 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on October 27, 2023.

It will be the first in the series of being built with Frostbite Engine & introduce the Real Impact System which boosts realism on MMA matches.

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