If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me. This site is god awful. It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load, and that's especially terrible because it ended up becoming just a wrapper for a youtube video. I wish web designers would stop assuming I want to run their javascript. Clearly there's some HN-relevant discussion to be had from this post.
I will say that if you're sharing it as an example of a terrible or great site, I wish that posters would indicate it in the title or in a comment. Because as it stands right now, my gut reaction is that was shared because you're a fan of the video game, and that makes it advertising. Now, I don't mind people advertising their own things on HN, I love to see what people are making. What I don't enjoy is seeing people plug multi-million dollar funded AAA games.
Probably the biggest reason I don't visit reddit anymore is because there is far too much native advertising. It makes me weary of give anyone the benefit of the doubt.
The website does suck, though. Autplaying video, it doesn't load with uBlock enabled, and there's really no point to it, it's just a glorified youtube link.
Some of us like to hear about Interesting new science Attempts to land a rocket on a floating launch pad New releases of a bit of open source software New releases of closed source software (you might not like Windows, but a new release is still significant). etc.
Why not information on a new release of a computer game[1]? Lots of people on here use (play) them? Why is that materially different than a new release of an OS? My mentality with upvoting things isn't "plugging something", it's "this is interesting, you should all see this".
It's not advertising, it's like minded people communicating information of interest to them, in exactly the same way that you might be chatting to someone at the watercooler and ask them if they saw that Fallout 4 was going to be released.
[1] Obviously that would fit in the 'new releases of closed source software" anyway
I think it's safe to assume that people are sharing it and upvoting it because they are Fallout fans who have been waiting for some word on the 4th title in the series. The website is sorta... well absolutely... not the point. I guess we all can't wait for the chance to open thousands of containers full of useless loot. I know I can't!
I'm getting sick of it too. If I go to a site that doesn't show ANYTHING without javascript being enabled, I just browse back. If I have to turn on a bunch of scripts to press a button, enabling them for sites that don't have anything to do with the main site, I just browse back.
Ya, no one cares, but their content just isn't that important to do any work for it anyway.
A search for the username provide the context in seconds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9652604
> I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage.
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site."
> Probably the biggest reason I don't visit reddit anymore is because there is far too much native advertising.
Welcome, but please keep in mind the guidelines and take a few minutes to fact check yourself before making assumptions, and you'll do fine here.
No ads, fast loading, and nothing to blacklist.
It is not fair to present a site in such a premature test stage to the public and title it ironically as "really well". This site will be certainly really good after some professional designers will have worked on that prototype, so why exposing it while still in this early state?
Incognito mode works for me.
Others have said ad blockers do the same for them.
Not entirely sure what we're supposed to be looking at.
> "The megatexture direction [in id Tech 5] has some big wins, but it's also fairly restrictive on certain types of games," he said. "It would be a completely unacceptable engine to do [Bethesda's Elder Scrolls V:] Skyrim in, where you've got the whole world, walking across these huge areas."
[0]: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35125/E3_ids_Carmack_Will...
Granted, Elder Scrolls and Fallout are very different, but they aren't something that id would have done.
There's also a different focus: Epic put a lot of work into making their engine accessible and well-tooled to other parties (though at times it didn't seem like it). Id? Not so much.
The thing that's bothered me with Bethesda Softwork's games is that they are stubbornly single thread CPU bound, and don't scale beyond 2 cores that well. Perhaps the newer consoles will force them to multithread better.
Bethesda are good at creating open worlds, but technically the games have been mostly subpar.
You can see how clean the code is. They are clearly using a precompiler to group their js and css.
This is how I think your website should look - in terms of code.
Maybe still a couple of bugs!
Fallout 2 > Fallout 3
:)
