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Yeah this being just as easy on bb forums or literally any webpage with a public comment section was my first thought as well…

Isn’t most of the internet scraped anyways, by the internet archive? The concerning part is that this is 100% going to be used to train some coomer brained AI. Scraping, botting, scamming: all those things are going to happen on large public communities.

I’m glad for Laidlaw not getting stuck on Half-Life. It’s been a long time, people grow and move on. Imagine him feeling like this about Half-Life but writing for the sequel anyway out of a sense of duty, completion or other silly reason. It would be a total disaster. Half-Life: Alyx was fantastic, and felt like just another entry, a natural fit, in the Half-Life universe. This is not in spite of, nor because of, Laidlaw being absent from its development. There are simply a bunch of amazing people putting their heart and soul into these games.

I do hope the next Half-Life entry will be a regular PC game though. I wouldn’t wish it upon people who don’t own VR to miss out on another excellent game.

On a sidenote its crazy we got a Love Death & Robots episode based on Laidlaw’s first book. Definitely gonna watch that.

endof10.org seems like a good website to direct people to via posters in your local community center or church. Or you can call a repair club in your area to ask if they want to be listed. Those are likely to have some Linux enthousiast members and already have a location.

Haha yeah you definitely don’t want to do that. It was meant as a slightly ridiculous hypothetical. There are definitely better suited UI libraries it there.

Bit barebones reporting. Here’s an article that at least quotes portions of the interview: https://wccftech.com/epic-games-launcher-is-indeed-clunky-admits-epics-tim-sweeney/

I can only partially empathize with the argument that Steam is better because of 15 years of refinement. Yes, they have a big featureset, amazing APIs, developer kit, the workshop, the list goes on. There are a lot of technical challenges here.

However, what cannot be excused with this argument is the Epic Launcher UX being this clunky, lmao. Yes, making a bunch of UI is nontrivial and takes work, but its also not rocket science. The layered and staggered loading of different UI elements and overal slowness of the whole thing cannot be explained by the lifespan of Epic Launcher. Steam was just as responsive on my old Windows XP back in the day as it is now. Throw something like Dear ImGui at a bunch of juniors and they could make something that is snappier than what the Epic Launcher is now.

Google made a bunch of useful metrics called Core Web Vitals that represent responsiveness pretty well. I’m sure they would score awfully on all of them.

That is some amazing performance. 400 CCU on a single server. The zoning system and dependency graph with rollback are impressive as well.

Sadly people are already running automated scripts on it. I saw the black knights of 3 adjacent boards moving simulataneously to kill the white kings everywhere.

Ah yes, solving design problems by asking players nicely.

In a traditional MMO like World of Warcraft, it’s not like you build a base in the starter zone and leave it there for a week, because imagine how many bases would be stacking up. [But] that’s kind of how our game does work because you can end up with a lot of bases.

I’m pretty sure most people dislike destroying their own stuff or alternatively, cleaning up. If you’re gonna let them have multiple bases instead of just one, what do you expect?

Just speculating but: it sounds like they only tested this with small groups, and that worked. If that’s what you’re going for, you have to set up the game to play in small groups, not as an MMO… In hindsight they might wish they had put player bases in separate instances.

Lmao what is Synology smoking. I have used their hardware in the past, now I’m so glad that I chose a Nextcloud setup for my home storage solution.

Also why does the nonsense reasoning for these limitations always include “security”. That’s a rhetorical question btw, I know they are just making shit up.

This comment by Frodo Douchebaggins in the Ars Technica comments sums up my newfound disrespect for Synology pretty well:

Suck a turd, you enshittifying sons of bitches.

They’ll have to pay for the cellular connection themselves because I’m not gonna enter my wifi password into the tv lol. Been using a pc hooked up to the screen for ages. Screw “smart tv” features, slow and inconvenient as hell.

Facebook and YouTube weren’t as good at recommending things back then. It’s not the internet as a whole that’s the problem, it’s what social media has become. Addiction skinner boxes. It’s not ok for kids to grow up using that.

This is solving a systematic problem. The problem of social media companies having free reign to make kids addicted. This will give french kids more freedom to think and do actual things with their life.

Ah yes more paperwork is certainly going to make your employees more productive. Why don’t you also require them to prototype if kicking a rock against the wall 10 times does the job, instead of actually letting them do the job?

So chain of thought is an awful experiment that doesn’t let you know how an AI reasons. Instead of admitting this, AI researchers anthropomorphize yet another test result and turn it into the model hiding their thought process from you. Whatever.