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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The indestructible building in Helldivers 2

No Build has building in Fortnite?

Local press are reporting that a building that got partially burned on Prague was indeed #STALKER developers GSC Game World, preliminary declared being provoked by electrical installation failure.

Fortunately, NO injuries have been reported, but damages are estimated to be 1. 5 million CZK ($65,866) AND includes backup servers.

GSC reassured fans saying that the fire won't "make [them] stop in the pursuit of final goal" in developing Stalker 2 and that the team has "dealt with worse than that before.", including constant cyber attacks since last year.

All this after moving to Prague from Kyiv last year as the Russian Invasion to Ukraine pressed on.

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Apex Legends: Building Fires

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the streams this week! Building a great community on Kick!

Hope everyone has a GREAT weekend! Might stream this weekend, not sure. We'll keep you posted if we hop on.

Anyone looking at getting into the immersive world of GTA RP? Welcome to the world of Project V RP

An open world filled with adventures and opportunities for YOU to create and start a new life! After 5 weeks of learning and developing we are LIVE!!

- Custom Weapons
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Looking at building up our police force plus filling in local businesses! Ranging from a Used Car lot, Custom Burgershot, Custom Tequilala, nightclubs and more!! Whether you want to grind, hang out or simply LIVE, this place is for YOU!!

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Final recap of Day 2 of FTC Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft buying ABK:

-As with Jim Ryan, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida originally didn't have any issue as Phil Spencer called himself the day it was announce the transaction
-Spencer reiterates that Xbox exclusive games are not the 100% od the day-to-day at Microsoft Gaming nowadays
-Spencer: “Sony has a significant catalog of exclusives games. It’s drastically larger, dramatically larger than what we have on Xbox today. Both Sony and Nintendo’s first-party is stronger than Xbox.”
-FTC tried to reinforce Spencer saying under oath that Call Of Duty will be still releasing for Playstation
-At the same time, Spencer did acknowledged that beyond the 10 year mark thing cannot be assured as it will depend the state of trhe gaming market itself
-FTC tried to make it sound weird that Microsoft is paying almost $70 billion for a gaming conglomerate just to get ahold of mobile gaming studios as main target, but Spencer backfired that mobile gaming is one of the footprints that Xbox is aiming at
-FTC for the third time brought Nintendo narrative
-A common-sense info that the FTC should know, but their lawyer asked if Microsoft needs to pay the agreed fee to Activision Blizzard shareholders right away. Spencer replied: “No, when you acquire something it’s not a payment. It’s really a transfer of cash into an asset called Activision that you believe it retains the value that you have acquired. It’s incorrect financially.”
-FTC called Dov Zimring, Google’s former Stadia product lead as witness
-FTC asked Zimring to describe Stadia
-Zimring: “To our knowledge we had the best technology in the market. We had performance capabilities that didn’t exist in the [cloud] market like 4K.”

“We had prototyped on Windows early on... the mission we had established at the very beginning was to enable revolutionary experiences... we saw Windows as limiting to innovate in that regard because we didn’t have control over the operating system.”

-Zimring acknowledged that Stadia SDK was Linuix-based due operating cost saving
-The closure of Stadia Games & Entertainment with the sudden stop of investment for AAA games was due wrong projected numbers
-Originally, Google was willing to spend five years building AAA games for Stadia
-FTC returned to Spencer
-FTC wanted to a third time force Spencer to peldge on COD availability on Playstation but WAS CUT BY THE JUDGE WHO APPEARED TO BE ANNOYED ON THE FTC LAWYER LINES OF QUESTIONING THAT WERE STRAIGHT DISSINGENOUS.

Judge: "I don’t need that, I’m going to cut off your questioning."
-Judge wrapped things for today and will NOT ACCEPT this process to go beyond next Thursday, pretty much in line of Microsoft desired timeframe (5 days)