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efficient game design rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Like what else would a .log file be? A video file? A Word Document? An executable?

I think their point is that a 200gb text file is a wild size usage for a crash log, and there's probably accidentally some binary data in that log. There's no way a crash log can exceed 2x the size of the game binary itself.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Could be a bug in their crash handler, just like, infinitely looping and printing something over and over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Binary data is almost always more compact than text data