i think the main two things that make an immersive sim are open-endedness and mechanical depth. zelda is linear in that there’s only one valid outcome, and TES is shallow in that skills are just “press button to action”.
some outliers i’d class as imsims are, like… Divinity: Original Sin 1/2 and Hitman.
an imsim isn’t just an immersive game, it’s a genre of rpg. examples include deus ex, dishonored, cruelty squad, system shock, thief, and others of that ilk. characteristics include mechanical depth, freedom of approach, open-endedness, and worlds that move with or without the player.
gripen has the tailfin bulge thing
i’d disagree on the first one, that’s just par for the course here. and 90k is senior staff engineer territory here. that puts you in the 99.9th percentile.
well duh. i’m in the top 5% of earners here, and i make just shy of €60k a year before taxes.
this sounds… entirely reasonable? like, had it not been in california that’s about what i expect a position with those responsibilities to pay. the median income here is just below $40k a year and for an it manager these are all completely expected skills. i don’t get it.
in the rest of the world that is basically a three-job salary.
that’s divx. xvid is h263, or mpeg-4 part 2. it’s all a bit muddled but xvid was started by divx as an open platform, it’s gplv2 but it uses a bunch of patented code.
like everything in the video world, it’s needlessly convoluted and bogged down by red tape.
1.1 and forward is night and day, yeah.
i mean in comparison to other open cad applications.
based on what metric?
oh also the openaec foundation endorsement means literally nothing, they didn’t exist three months ago, their website is all vibecoded, and they linkjacked the name of an existing organisation with the same name incorporated in japan.
meh, that only applies to what, 5% of the world’s population?
it is. contracts can not make you go against the law.
it was there earlier in the day. not a cloud in sight until about an hour before.
AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, copilot as contributor, an insanely long readme full of tables and emoji for a project that is just a couple of months old, solving a problem nobody who can read a man page has, posted by an account named after the project, with explicit disclosures in the post.
idk it’s unclear