There's some kind of business concept (that I'm sure many around here know more about) around making decisions cheap to reverse. AAA studios are the antithesis of that.
It's a creative process. It looks great all the way through until it comes together and... it just feels wrong. The scene doesn't work for some reason.
So now we re-write. Translate into the five languages we support. Hope the voice actors for those languages are all available. Maybe even re-record existing lines to fit the new tempo. Maybe mo-cap, maybe new 4K textures, maybe more.
At this point I'm sure people in the room are definitely trying to convince themselves that, actually, it really wasn't that bad. Let's keep it. No one will care it's just one scene.
Rinse and repeat. It costs a lot more to fix mistakes on high fidelity games so I wonder how many just get left alone on purpose.
Orthostatic Dysregulation sounds exactly like what I asked my Dr about recently! And of course I've had sleep issues my whole life, not much helps since it's based on racing thoughts and anxiety, other classic comorbidities.
I squatted, stood up, and the blood pressure monitor saw a drop and my pulse doubled 5 seconds later. It was trying to make up for lost time like my body had no idea I stood up.
Do you have any pointers to get more details? Since he didn't seem to know what it was exactly, we discussed POTS but that's a bit broad rather than a specific thing to treat it seems.
It seems like you might know - is there any correlation or information to read around light sensitivity and ADHD?
I don't know if it's because I'm in my 40s, have ADHD, or got on the meds. But it's becoming more noticeable the last couple of years.
I'm very sensitive to light in the morning and can't get back to sleep when the sun peeks in. And at night if my wife left her phone face up, I know when she gets a notification. I see the screen light up through my shut eyelids.
I've long since had to wear an eye mask to bed, which I hated until I found one I liked. The ones that do it for me are the weighted ones, in case you've never tried.
I tend to sleep with my arm over my face like a cat in the sun, which has messed up my shoulder a bit. So thanks, weighted makes a lot of sense, I didn't know they make them.
40s but no diagnosis of ADHD. I have a mask for summer time as I'm the same when the light peeks in. I bought a pair of cheap ones off amazon. I usually wake at dawn and put them on, then sleep hog-like.
FWIW ritalin reduced my anxiety a fair bit. It changed my brain from one with multiple concurrent streams of thought, often negative and never truly going away, to focusing on the task at hand.
As a direct outcome it means I don't have bad thoughts and feelings sitting in the back of my mind when trying to do something else 24/7 so I'm generally more balanced. Indirectly, it was helped by actually getting stuff done and feeling less shit in general and not putting myself down as much for failing.
A study I glanced over a while ago said something like 40% of people respond to dex or ritalin, around 80% to either (I'm in this group but dex had more annoying side effects), and the last 20% to neither (but there is other stuff out there). So it's definitely worth trying both branches of the common meds first. You should also talk about dosages because there is titration period where they need to monitor and adjust to see how your specific body responds.
It can also use fonts which map glyphs via characters which do not represent the final visual item e.g. "PDF" could be "1#F" and you only really know what it looks like by rendering then viewing/OCR.
A nice file won't, but sometimes the best work is in not dealing with nice things.
I assume you mean open source or free, but just noting Acrobat Pro was almost there when I last used it years ago. The problem was you had it in reverse, browsing the content tree not inspecting the page, but it did highlight the object on the page. Not down to the command though, just the object/stream.
Even if the format is understood, it's also very much a case of Acrobat handling extremely badly formed PDFs instead of erroring out if it were strictly adhering. If you've ever seen a save prompt when making no changes, that happened.
"It works on Acrobat" was something we got told a lot from clients sending us PDFs that were broken according to the official spec - we just had to deal with it.
PDF was basically created as a final presentation format, it's essentially append-only by design, which is why you hear so often of redactions just marking up a white/black box over text.
You can edit text streams, which needs a decompress/recompress, messes up all the object reference offsets for the entire file, potentially adds or removes characters to the subset font, which may not be referenced by the glyphs but a number instead to intentionally break copy/paste/scrape (e.g. 'a' is not 'a' in the text stream, but a random number), etc. Assuming the text is even marked up as strings, and not individually positioned characters with nested offset co-ordinate scaling to further muddy the waters.
The fact so many people want to edit PDFs probably indicates a design flaw on Adobe's side, when considering what customers really want.
It's a creative process. It looks great all the way through until it comes together and... it just feels wrong. The scene doesn't work for some reason.
So now we re-write. Translate into the five languages we support. Hope the voice actors for those languages are all available. Maybe even re-record existing lines to fit the new tempo. Maybe mo-cap, maybe new 4K textures, maybe more.
At this point I'm sure people in the room are definitely trying to convince themselves that, actually, it really wasn't that bad. Let's keep it. No one will care it's just one scene.
Rinse and repeat. It costs a lot more to fix mistakes on high fidelity games so I wonder how many just get left alone on purpose.
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