I just spend a couple of minutes researching and trying to understand the joke, but I’m sorry to say my efforts have been unsuccessful. How much ultra-specific information am I expected to know here?
Disclaimer: it’s past my bed time and my brain is malfunctioning accordingly, so this might be on me
Correct me if I’m wrong, but those games didn’t track official player rankings. Which is perfectly fine, and doesn’t make a game any less competitive, but official rankings is a legitimate feature that some people gravitate towards.
To be extra clear: I’m mostly with you, I think every multiplayer game should at least offer the option of self-hosted servers, and I backed Stop Killing Games to force them to do so (after official servers shut down).
Though to be honest… My opinion on this topic isn’t worth much. As I said, I don’t play any competitive games. So it’s very likely I’m missing some important info in my perspective.
Uhh, no… It’s because that’s not how anything works. There’s so many flaws in your argument, but here’s just one: if an enemy player is really well camouflaged but technically visible, then they would be rendered on the client side, but a human player would have to be very observant to spot them and kill them.
A cheater can replace the enemy character’s texture so that, on their screen, the enemy’s camouflage is useless and the player can spot them with no effort.
From everything the server can see, the cheater’s gameplay is legit. They could just be really good at spotting enemy camouflage. Only by looking at the client side render output, you can spot the cheat.
Unless the server is actually rendering the game for each player (which, spoiler alert, isn’t the case), most cheats are not detectable nor preventable on the server side.
While I agree with you (and upvoted to match), I also acknowledge that not every game is suited for that kind of server structure. Competitive ranked games, that rely on a fair matchmaking algorithm and consistent server performance, simply can’t just route matchmaking players to a random community-hosted server. And communities can’t really form that way, either.
Or to make it short, esports can’t do this while maintaining their esport status. And those are the games that need anti-cheat the most.
Me personally? I don’t even like those kinds of games. I barely play multiplayer games at all, and when I do it’s because I’m playing with friends, and couldn’t care less about my rank (if I even get one). So for my kinds of games/scenarios, community or self-hosted servers are the obvious choice with zero drawbacks. But I can still acknowledge that it’s not a solution for all cases.
Lo and behold, most multiplayer games do run on Linux!
Thanks, I needed that clarification. But I’m still not super sure what I’m looking at… is the skin in the second panel supposed to belong to the huge dragon in the first panel? It doesn’t make sense. Presumably there’s a huge body attached to that head, the shapes just don’t make sense.
Yes, that’s Katy Perry from April last year: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cly57zxevg7o
But more to the point, it’s a popular(-ish) meme format for when you have to go do something you hate (or end up hating) and then you’re so freaking happy to be back to your comfort zone. I.e. exactly how it’s used in this post. Who she is and the whole backstory of how it happened is really not important, I believe the feeling she was conveying is real, even if the act of actually kissing the ground was just a stunt for the camera.
There are better things to be angry about.
This reads as sarcasm but is generally valid points…? I guess that explains why people downvoted it
Right, I guess that’s what turns me off from it, somehow you put it into words better than I ever could. But it’s still nowhere near “slop”, and I don’t like it being slandered. It’s entertaining (for those who enjoy it), it’s harmless, and the smoothness of the animations can even scratch a “competence porn” itch. I really think they’re going for an ASMR kind of thing, and it’s working. And I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.
I can also guess that that’s why they’re going for those kinds of subjects in most of their videos. Anything that is even a little bit controversial or political can turn people away, so it’s safer to stick with things that are a bit detached from the world. … Or something like that.
Not to mention that any topic that doesn’t call for cool animations is immediately out of the running. The coolest animations come from the exact kinds of topics you described. Something on the cusp of science and science fiction.
How is it slop? I occasionally watch it, and my bullshit detector never went off. They do a good enough job simplifying complex topics into very approachable and fun-to-watch animations.
I really don’t see anything bad about what they make. I’m not a huge fan, but that’s only because it’s not precisely my jam. But I get the impression that it’s well researched and, obviously, very well produced. No slop in sight.
Took me a while to understand what you’re warning against. Allow me to rephrase, and tell me if I got it wrong.
The || will execute what’s after it in two cases:
rm) never ran because of an earlier &&OP’s code relies on the 1 case, but wrongly assumed that the 2 case will never happen. That’s the footgun.
This is the relevant quote:
“In the current state of things, mangaka are not allowed to use AI. But using AI actually drives up the quality by a mile. So doesn’t that mean it would be best to not draw the manga now? Maybe they suddenly lift the ban [on AI] next year, so it might be better to start drawing after that happens. I’m currently on standby in that sense,” Asano says. Though he didn’t elaborate if or to what extent he hypothetically plans to use AI, he said that using it could significantly speed up the modeling process.
If you’re in the CachyOS Discord and have a lot of patience, this is where I dumped all of my complaints and feedback on the day that I really tried to use it: https://discord.com/channels/862292009423470592/1500254688380063934
Keep in mind I was pretty new to Cachy/Arch and coming from Linux Mint, make of that what you will.
More specifically, this is what raised the alarm for me: https://discord.com/channels/862292009423470592/1500254688380063934/1500507281840668852 and following messages.
Basically, I tried to install openrgb-next-git from AUR using Shelly. The operation failed but was reported as successful. And the Shelly dev I was chatting with didn’t really seem to acknowledge the severity of the issue. After many more attempts, I eventually gave up on Shelly installed the package using paru. I don’t remember if there was any problem during that installation, but it did get installed in the end, which is more than I can say for Shelly.
This exchange was 2 months ago, so it’s possible that things have improved since then, but that’s not enough time for me to give Shelly another chance yet.
What I’m about to say is pure speculation, and I have no concrete evidence, just my gut: I think Shelly, or at least its GUI, is vibe-coded. Too many things about it are half-baked but with the appearance of polish. Windows and dialogs that look pretty but are too small for their contents. No way a human developer would push that if it was tested even once.
A Shelly developer explained to me that it’s not a wrapper for pacman or any other tool, instead they re-implement the functionality provided by pacman using a lower-level library. To this I say: Shelly has not earned my trust in their code to manage packages on my main PC. When it’s more mature, when it has more eyes on it, and when it doesn’t give me the half-baked vibe, I’ll happily give it another chance.
CachyOS now ships with and recommends Shelly, and just from trying to use it I get the feeling it’s fundamentally flawed (both in the front-end and back-end), but I don’t know enough about package management to know for certain.
Thanks, didn’t know about Heroic Launcher, will try it out for GOG games
Honestly I have to disagree. All my recently purchased appliances: microwave, washing machine, dishwasher and induction cooktop, had detailed instruction manuals that were genuinely useful, especially where the finer details aren’t obvious from the device itself.
Heck, even my wireless earbuds had a little bit of useful info, like how to force them into pairing mode.
Of course, all those manuals contained those nonsense safety warnings too (and I read every word of course! :P) but that’s neither here nor there.
https://xkcd.com/566/