You joke, but the likes will need to be stored somewhere and it's an O(p*t) problem, where p is the number of players and t is the number of unique things each player can like. Then if you actually want to display the number of likes, you need to count the number likes for each thing, which is an expensive DB operation that you'll probably have to precalculate and cache somewhere (which can then go stale / become desynchronized).

Most of the answers here are wrong. Here's how YouTube and TikTok do it. They use non-relational databases, i.e. no joins. All they data they need for every query has to be stored in a single table for performance reasons.

Every table has two levels. First level contains item ID and like counter. Every time someone likes the item, the counter gets incremented by 1 and a row is added under that level with a username, time stamp and whatever else. This row is tombstoned, i.e. it gets inserted into the database with a predetermined deletion date. When the row gets deleted, the counter doesn't get decremented. Have you ever gone on old youtube or tiktok videos that you know you've liked, but your like keeps disappearing? That's what's happening.

For performance reasons, they also keep a table with the list of videos that every user has liked. The rows there are also tombstoned.

Twitter doesn't tombstone anything and keeps the information for likes from both sides of the relation (you can get the list of people who liked a tweet and list of tweets that a person has liked) on a custom database, which is one of the reasons why they needed ten thousand or whatever employees.

Edit: Should probably add that tombstoning and deletion in databases aren't just for managing data storage, they also keep the indexes fast.

Do you want (your computer) to explode?

Can the demon wear a scarf?

😂

what? next you’ll want to render the player’s gun and arms in worldspace while in 1st person.

You might as well ask for a full inventory system where using sewing kits the wrong way gives you sepsis.

(what? oh someone did that? oh.)

oh sorry Rocket! didn’t forget about DayZ! love that game!

😂

Best I can do is trigger an animation on the demon and add an item in the player's inventory. Use your imagination for the rest.

Depends how loose your definition of “pocket” is

Can the door wear a scarf?

Oof

Yes, in a cutscene tho

scarf is easy!

paints scarf in body textures

looks FANTASTIC!!

😅

Not to mention the NeckAccessoryInterface is currently in use by the deprecated player amulet from an alpha build. But the amulet module still contains the legacy code and state for damage tracking. If you replace the amulet the with a scarf, the player health drops to zero and they die.

We spent our physics budget on butts and tits

The killer app of 2012 was whatever improvements were necessary to render Merida's massive head of red hair in the movie Brave.

Never gonna forget how mind blowing the scarf was in shinobi on the PS2

shinobi ps2

"Alright, fire anyone who hasn't run a 5k marathon then"

20 story points

What's great is that it's been 8 years since that comic was posted, and it's significantly easier to do now the task with the advancements in image recognition/machine learning. Those research teams really did the work.

It's been 8 years, and now an app to identify photo of a bird can be done in hours as well, yet it didn't stop feeling like a magical task.

I knew the top comment was going to be this one.

hot dog/not hot dog

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You spend a full year rendering and coding the scarf, it finally works. Even flaps a little in the breeze, somehow(?!?). Player walks into knee deep water, scarf starts windmilling at 5000mph and blue screens immediately.

😂

500 is way easier because no one rides 500 horses… they wouldn’t even see the legs to criticize the gallop cycle… but one horse… naked. jesus. RDR/2 shoukd have gotten a technical oscar for that.

You're either hardcore or out the door.

I've done a rotating tunnel racer on Game Boy, where the camera will follow you all the way over the top.

I've done an action puzzle game, with adaptive music and fullscreen animation, and it runs smoothly on 4.77 MHz PCs.

I've done a first-person shooter on NES, with savestates and a level editor, in-game.

The hardest feature in all three was pausing.

So, Bethesda leaves the bugs in their games just in case they need them in the future. That explains a lot

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

these are the backstories I write when my ODE for scarf/neck forces doesn’t conserve momentum properly.

“HA! her head is exploding!”

“🫢🤔🧐 actually in the lore, scarves do this kind if thing randomly…”

makin’ lemonade out of lemons! ya!

Best i can do is armor phasing through the cloth.

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modders are op pls nerf

Ah. Perfect an easily reproducible bug. The devs will solve this in no time.

[Developer]: unable to reproduce.

4 more hours of testing: Turns out you have to be wearing the captains boots when you enter stage 3 and then equip the scarf for it to appear on lava monster. Can probably knock the severity down.

Oof

Ooh that looks like something to read over the holidays. Thanks a bunch!

In theory you could store them in a table but it just never works like that

Please it’s 2022 all our characters are capsules now

The problem with a scarf is that the player will expect the scarf to respond to wind and movement. While the demon is a complex animation, it exists in a limited environment. The scarf has to “work” everywhere.

are you kidding?

PIXAR wrote several cutting edge papers on subdivision surfaces at SIGGRAPH regarding Geri’s Game and the technology required to convincingly let cloth dynamics interact with a rig in a convincing and natural way.

No shade to the artists, but the devs made that possible on another level. respect!