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  1. Tuco

    Crowfall

    People are getting beta group assignments. No word on what it means.
  2. Tuco

    Crowfall

    I'd argue for different protection for different sizes of bases. Let's assume an average player can mine 100g an hour without having any assets and not taking any risk. This is sort of the baseline where anytime a player isn't making at least 100g an hour or equivalent they're unhappy...
  3. Tuco

    Crowfall

    The other aspect that exacerbates this issue is that people are notoriously bad at counting enemy players. Sometimes we'll get a stream of enemy communication where they rate our numbers at 2x what they are. I come down on this pretty hard when I'm leading and a scout says, "50 reds at this...
  4. Tuco

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I wouldn't. Another aspect to hiring is that if you hire someone who turns out to be a dud you get some egg on your face. The fewer check-boxes they checked during the hiring process the more embarrassing it is. If you hire someone with a degree from a reputable college and they don't know...
  5. Tuco

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Electrical, not computer science. There's a few other issues like you say but in the automotive engineering sector almost everyone hired as an engineer has a degree.
  6. Tuco

    Crowfall

    Oh and just to reiterate what I said before, I played in Cyrodiil pretty hardcore in ESO for the first two months, so my experiences were contained within that time period and I don't know how it evolved afterward. Like Vitality said the best pvp was in 10-20 man skirmishes where people would...
  7. Tuco

    Bethesda plans its first ever press conference for E3 .. wtf

    I think they'll announce FO4 or another big game! Fallout 4
  8. Tuco

    Crowfall

    I like the art style of the female templar too. So tired of exaggeratedly feminine characters and armor. Even as the person at the top directing strategy I agree. If this game is to be successful the majority of pvp needs to happen in the 3 - 15 player range. However, the most important battles...
  9. Tuco

    Fallout 4

    Bethesda Softworks on Twitter: Save the Date for #E3 this year where we're welcoming our first-ever #BE3Showcase!Bethesda's First-Ever E3 Conference: Save me a Seat! | Bethesda Blog.
  10. Tuco

    Crowfall

    I'm also down with the art style. At this point the first thing I look for in pre-alpha engines is, "Ok how is this going to handle 100v100v100 people at a time?".
  11. Tuco

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    This is an important point. A close person to me worked for a big company for 28 years. He started out as a technician working a line, then worked his way up to being a respected engineer. He lost his job during the automotive layoffs and now he is stymied because he doesn't have a degree.
  12. Tuco

    Soylent!

    Disappointing that they aren't allowing press into their facility. That only gives us a reason to assume their process is still very amateur. $120 for food per month is really low. I feel like I personally eat more than $120 in steak a month! Do you just eat rice all day?
  13. Tuco

    Crowfall

    This is pretty well thought out. EQN had some very good ideas to move the genre forward and even had a playable demo. Crowfall has nothing but good ideas so far.
  14. Tuco

    GoFundMe - Good friend's teenage daughter: Harvard award trip

    haha looks like I lucked out.
  15. Tuco

    BattleBots

    If anyone wants to build a battlebot, I'd be happy to watch a youtube video of you compete so I can laugh at your skills. One thing that always annoyed me about watching these fights is that at all levels the controllers seem poorly trained. They bumble around the arena like a freshman unhooking...
  16. Tuco

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I merged your thread. To give you more info we'll need a bit more information about you and you career. Why did you switch from CS to Polisci for law school? A CS background isn't bad for law, especially patent law. Why did you choose CS? Why are you going back to CS? What's your technical...
  17. Tuco

    The F*** Cancer Thread

    sorry to hear, Ender.
  18. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Yeah Mobiglass looks awesome. IIRC the guy who did the Ironman UI did it and all their docs look great.
  19. Tuco

    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    Kenshi at its core will probably never support group tactics the way that M&B does. The group combat is more of a... wrapper around a dice roll than anything. I say this because as you guys have seen, two groups will basically choose their targets as evenly possible and engage in a sort of dance...
  20. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    Yeah she competed at 154lbs sometimes, definitely not her 'natural' weight class in MMA terms. I wonder why she chose that instead of staying near 135.
  21. Tuco

    Soylent!

    Yeah I'd like to see another journalist take a tour through their new area. They've certainly gotten enough funding to improve their facilities.
  22. Tuco

    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    It'll always be consistently difficult to time and control your M&B guys well because it takes so much time for a line of 30+ horses to line up together and then charge and because the timing is so critical. It could take 2 minutes for your horses to get into position, but if they hit the enemy...
  23. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    It's not so much that I think all the current champs are doping. It's that I think it's likely and just assume they are and am not surprised when they get busted. Anytime I hear of a pro-athlete coming out and giving a % of people in his sport that are using it's like 80%. Only ones I...
  24. Tuco

    Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

    Oh man 50 people is way too many unless they massively increased the mob spawn size and subsequently improved the engine. I don't know if I posted SS in this thread, but I added spawns of 100+ dudes running around and would waste them with my 20 killers. The engine would start to choke...
  25. Tuco

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    You make a lot of assumptions here. I haven't banned Kedwyn and Vitality. Then again the version they played a year ago in alpha was more up to date than the version I'm playing now in release, hahahaha =(
  26. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    I think there is little reason to think that Crocop wasn't using steroids in Pride. CC wasn't the hardest kicker in human history, but man I doubt we'll ever see another kickboxer in MMA with the reputation for leveling people with a LHK. There's not much value in arguing whether a...
  27. Tuco

    Soylent!

    After reading the above interview I remembered more and more of what I learned when I read up on this a year ago or so. The difference between what soylent is doing and what MRE/meal replacement shakes do is he's not necessarily trying to make a convenient replacement for eating meals, he's...
  28. Tuco

    Bill Gates Says AI Will Be As Dangerous as Nukes

    I think I understand your point though. We're talking about 3lbs of flesh and blood that do something we can't even theorize how to do with as much computing power as we can build. To me the biggest gap involves the fact that the brain isn't a static physical entity that changes electromagnetic...
  29. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    I think every single person who is in contention for GOAT used banned substances at one point or another in their competition, and likely used it during their prime that we're using to compare them to each other with. That includes GSP, A. Silva, JJ, Fedor.
  30. Tuco

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Yeah I've used kcachegrind to visualize valgrind output, I think it looks really beautiful and is a different and visual way to look at your codebase: Useless optimization is a huge sin in computer science, but sometimes it's fun to spend time taking routine that runs in 10ms and figure out...
  31. Tuco

    Crowfall

    I really hate the character art direction in EQN. It's like all the annoying things about cartoony characters. I mean why is his knee as thick as his waist?
  32. Tuco

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'd also he interested in learning more about static analysis. It is something I've wanted to try but never had the time budget for.
  33. Tuco

    Bill Gates Says AI Will Be As Dangerous as Nukes

    I'm not a neuroscientist but isn't the entire mass of the human brain considered computing mass? I mean if my cerebellum is just doing low-level muscle memory routines to ride a bike it seems like computing. If my occipital lobe is inversing images from my fucked up upside down eyes, it's...
  34. Tuco

    Crowfall

    I hope EQN's ip survives. I didn't pay much attention to it but a persistent online world with player control over the geography would be amazing.
  35. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    ah see it hits it no problem.
  36. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Sorry, I didn't do a sanity check on it so I don't know if 10 meters is too close. If so then make it 30 meters
  37. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    GSP's game was to ground and grind opponents. Silva's game was to bait them into attacking so he could counter attack. You can fault GSP for not being aggressive, risky or powerful enough to stop opponents. You can also fault Silva for not being aggressive enough to initiate confrontations...
  38. Tuco

    The Elder Scrolls Online

    ESO? No it's not as good as DAI, but they're different games.