Played the Pragmata demo yesterday. And then I played it two more times to see how it compared across all current gen consoles. I’ve made a quick video on the subject in the minimal time I have for video editing these days.
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Forgot to post the link here when I uploaded this yesterday.
My quick, informal and unscripted thoughts on AI in #gamedev and creative media. All brought about by the use of AI generated content in Black Ops 7.
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Finally got round to making another video. This time I'm talking about Xbox for 20 minutes and how it's dying, changing and not quite finished yet, despite recent price increases.
#xbox #gaming
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UPDATE #3:
We got the car back from the MG dealer today. Fully fixed and driving again. Don’t know what’s been done in full detail yet. Still awaiting a technical report to be emailed following the warranty claim process. Will update again then.
UPDATE #2:
The HV technician has looked at the car today. We were first told they believed the HV Junction Box had been tripped by the charger. After another call later, they are replacing the vehicle control module and we have to wait for the part to come in.
In today’s video, I’m joined by Josh as we discuss the performance problems and constant stutter of #UnrealEngine 5.
#gamedev
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The car was perfectly fine before using the MFG charger, we had rapid charged before with no problems. Two other cars using this MFG station also failed to get the chargers working, they could still drive away though. Will update when MG's HV technician has a look at it next week.
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The error being caused by a software bug when plugging into a failing rapid charger is known by MG and was fixed in a software update 2 years ago. It could still be this bug and our car was never updated. If it isn't however, then these chargers really did cause some damage.
UPDATE #1 [1/3]:
Car is in MG Service Centre. Had to arrange transport ourselves since our MG Assist expired. They're now waiting until next week for their high voltage technician to diagnose it. This makes it sound like it could be more than a software bug but we don't know.
#EVSky #EV
So to conclude;
Avoid MFG chargers at all costs as they are known to damage vehicles.
RAC wait times are disgusting and we were far from the longest you can wait.
MG’s warranty is great but would be good if they had a better system to move broken down vehicles to a service centres.
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They said the issue is a software bug triggered by these not very well built chargers.
In addition to the car problem, the RAC wait times and paying for more transport, the EV bays were also limited to a 90 minute parking time. So we’re also expecting a £100 fine for getting stuck there.
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The RAC left us waiting for over 7 hours in the middle of the night. We got recovered and they brought it further than their usual range to get it home for us.
MG have said they can cover the fix under warranty but we have to pay to have the car moved to their service centre.
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…voltage from the charger even though the cable was disconnected. This code can only be cleared by MG’s proprietary software that only their service centres have.
This meant the only option was wait to be recovered by the RAC to get the car home.
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This message said ‘Vehicle Control System Fault’ and the car would not enter the ready to drive mode, meaning we couldn’t move the car at all.
A quick google search reveals others having the issue at MFG chargers. The vehicle prevents power on to stop damage from the unusual…
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After it inevitably failed, we got back in the car to go elsewhere. We did note a message that appeared on the car’s screen while trying to charge which said ‘Abnormal Grid Connection’ which we just put down to the charge failing.
Upon trying to turn the car on it displayed another message.
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Unfortunately the only other chargers nearby were more MFG chargers so we thought we’d give them a try since they were different models. And while we likely could’ve made it to another charger, we thought it best to try. We had three attempts at getting the charger to complete the handshake.
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Most of the time it’s just an error on the charger and no charge starts. Yesterday was different. We initially tried an MFG charger at a Morrisons. This charger locked the cable to the car and it took some time trying to unlock it.
Since we couldn’t charge we went to the next nearest one.
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I have never been able to successfully start a charge on any GeniePoint/MFG charger on either a Gen 2 Nissan Leaf with Chademo or a 2022 MG ZSEV with CCS2.
It’s still usually worth a try since others seem to be having success at the chargers and when you need to plug in you just go for it.
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MG ZSEV being recovered from an MFG EV charger after the faulty charger caused damage to the car.
Message on the digital driver display saying ‘Vehicle Control System Fault’
Warning to EV owners in the UK:
I have had issues with GeniePoint / MFG rapid chargers multiple times. But last night was another level.
Previous issues mainly come down to the chargers just not connecting to the vehicle. The handshake will timeout and it won’t start a charge.
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As a UI Designer myself, I quite enjoy looking at new UI updates.
This time I looked at the upcoming Navigator UI on the Quest 3
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My 1 week review of #NintendoSwitch2. Covering my time playing on it as well as how I think it will suit developers. As a quick first impressions video, it’s still basic on some development insight, I hope to improve that in the future.
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YouTube Shorts is absolutely shocking with the amount of views you can get compared to long videos. I started posting content on my channel as only a week and a half ago. My long videos are typical new channel numbers. Shorts are going off! Even if I'm not a huge fan of acting hyper for them.
Interesting how Mario kart world just kind of lets you bounce of NPCs. You can open photo mode during this and see there is an animation of the toads getting squashed… and their friends celebrating?
#NintendoSwitch2 #MarioKart #MarioKartWorld
The first episode of my YouTube series ‘Collector’s Edition’ is out now.
I unbox the Nintendo Switch 2.
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Since I’ve spoken about the pre orders before. Here’s how it ended:
I went to Currys and got there at 8:45AM.
Store opened at 9AM.
6 in front of me in the queue.
Many many behind me.
Got my system and the last pro controller they had.
Went very smoothly.
Much better than the PS5 launch.
Busy week of starting YouTube content, continuing #gamedev and the #NintendoSwitch2 releasing.
I was able to confirm today that I will be able to collect my switch 2 on Thursday morning, seems to be the case for everyone who pre-ordered with Currys in-store.
YouTube content on switch 2 soon then.
The first episode of my new YouTube series 'A Game Dev Review' is out now.
Please excuse any small issues for the first one.
For this episode, I review Nintendo Switch 2 console pre orders in the UK and why pre orders matter to the industry.
#youtube #gamedev #nintendoswitch2
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For anyone interested, in future videos, I hope to cover individual games and review them from the perspective of a designer/developer. This should be useful in pointing out actual good/bad design versus player opinion as well as covering any extras such as why certain business decision are made.
Hope to have my first YouTube video out tomorrow. Will be a bit different to the videos I hope to make in the future. Just wanted a short topic to test out the editing style and visuals.
The first video will be:
A Game Dev Reviews The Nintendo Switch 2 Pre Order Chaos
Link in bio to channel.
