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  1. Tuco

    SimCity

    Yeah that's exactly what they need to do and they claimed they had done it (Or something similar) in their pre-release technical discussions. That kind of behavior carries its own set of disadvantages (It's harder computationally and memory wise to process and store that information) and...
  2. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    Originally I thought he was saying that the UFC is painting him as a wolf and GSP as the shepherd in order to sell tickets, but apparently 'wolf tickets' is an African and African American slang for 'talking shit in a way that avoids a fight', which really doesn't make sense.
  3. Tuco

    SimCity

    I'd say not taking congested roads or road type into account is a huge problem and it's exactly what they've done. It doesn't matter what algorithm you use if you betray the algorithm by not giving it cost.
  4. Tuco

    Saints row 4

    Most annoying trailer ever. can't wait to play a biotic in SR4.
  5. Tuco

    SimCity

    Basically the first few path search algorithms a CS student learns are more advanced than what is in simcity. A typical algorithm would assign cost to each block of road (from intersection to intersection) and the agent would search through the paths to find the lowest cost. This is like...
  6. Tuco

    SimCity

    I can only assume that the massive marketing campaign in the last month demanded they not do the delay they should have. Either way they fucked up and it's ridiculous the game is in the state it is.
  7. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    holy shit this presser is hilarious. Nerdy super athlete who is susceptible to getting his jimmies rustled vs pothead super athlete who needs medication to be functional but can't because of the athletic commission.
  8. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36YMv...ature=g-subs-u "they're selling you wolf tickets" GSP is looking around like, "Man everyone here understands Diaz but me" I just don't understand how you can be mad at Diaz. He's obviously a socially dysfunctional person who just wants to be a...
  9. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    fuck that's not as good as a bet as I remembered... none the less your day of reckoning is at hand.
  10. Tuco

    SimCity

    I know these guys are professionals but when I read shit like It makes me wonder wtf they were thinking. Cost-based pathing is graph theory 101. I've literally never seen a real pathing algorithm that doesn't take cost into account and I have no idea how one could ever implement a city simulator...
  11. Tuco

    Spartacus

    yeah the kid is retarded and I hope they stop putting him on the screen.
  12. Tuco

    SimCity

    It's tough to say. On one hand Amazon may likely foot the bill for these returns, on the other hand they're generating a lot of good press and a lot of people are wishing they bought it from Amazon. Amazon is a fucking giant, but I'm sure they like the profit they make on digital sales as...
  13. Tuco

    Skyrim

  14. Tuco

    SimCity

    I'm getting increasingly excited by the idea of crackers being able to let you have one city that encompasses the entire region.
  15. Tuco

    SimCity

    IGN put out a review and gave it a 7, which I think is a fair grade since parts of the game as so good and most of the big problems are fixable. And I'm not sure if the initial high scores are because journalists are shills or because they're under so much pressure to review a game within a...
  16. Tuco

    Pope Benedict XVI resigns

    He's Italian Argentinean! the prophecy survives!
  17. Tuco

    SimCity

    It's very unlikely the server is capable of offloading the simulation at that level. There's just no reason to do it. And yeah, a limited offline mode is around the corner, but building a fully working server implementation that a user can build their own region up in a competent way is not...
  18. Tuco

    SimCity

    That's not true. The pathfinding is bugged for a variety of reasons listed in detail above. (sims don't evenly distribute among the resources, they all dogpile on the nearest one, and the pathfinding takes shortest path rather than lowest cost path). This stuff is all detailed as working in the...
  19. Tuco

    [Manga] Bleach (spoilers to current)

    This is my bet.
  20. Tuco

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    It's been a while but he had a much bigger presence in the shows than the books. And yeah, he was a badass warrior and war leader who was put in charge of a kingdom during peacetime. All the other shit with Cersei, Eddard's sister etc was just secondary to the fact that Robert Baratheon was...
  21. Tuco

    The Walking Dead

    show sucked. Merle/Michone/Karl/Daryl spin off plz.
  22. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    ameraves bro it's time for prefight shit talk. Whatever bet we made I made the correct choice.
  23. Tuco

    SimCity

    New simcity DLC announced http://www.simcity.com/en_US/buy
  24. Tuco

    SimCity

    http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comm...tarted_basics/ I guess the javascript/json based UI is more or less open source as if Bethesda released it (maybe more so). This tutorial shows you how to display the true population of your town (not that it matters really).
  25. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    I forget, who bet me that GSP wouldn't be able to control Diaz most of the fight?
  26. Tuco

    Pope Benedict XVI resigns

    fanaskin, I guess I'm more interested in whether Pope Francis I took this oath than whether jesuits used to take this oath.
  27. Tuco

    Pope Benedict XVI resigns

    Fanaskin, do the Jesuits/Catholics ever claim the Extreme Oath of the Jesuits or is that just some bullshit conspiracy theorists made up?
  28. Tuco

    SimCity

    I wouldn't be surprised if now that the game is playable a lot of the devs took their post-release vacation and began handing off the game to the B team.
  29. Tuco

    Pope Benedict XVI resigns

    What did he do to stop it? Because if it's anything like making a statement saying gays shouldn't marry I dont' think you should be that surprised or disappointed.
  30. Tuco

    Kick-Ass 2 trailer

    There's something less entertaining about a 15yo girl beating up people than a 10yo one. I'm sure a lot of pervs will feel less guilty about being attracted to hitgirl now, though.
  31. Tuco

    Kick-Ass 2 trailer

    Cool, I loved the first one, but how could they possibly replace Nicholas Cage with another silly actor known for doing silly over-acted roles? Oh... Oh I see. Carry on.
  32. Tuco

    SimCity

    Some slides on glass box. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...Y5ZTMwNzYzOTNk I haven't read it to make a determination on how much of this was left out / buggy but I do know that slide 49 shows that the sims should route correctly to two objectives. The slide describes ten sims going to...
  33. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I feel pretty good about that but I wonder if, like all bureaucracies, there isn't corruption to sidestep the process that are done by the more connected labs.
  34. Tuco

    SimCity

    haha straight to your momma jokes. I don't hold it against people for returning simcity as long as they didn't play it that long. It's one thing to buy it, make a city, realize some of the surprising flaws then read this thread expressing how fundamental those flaws are and decide the game is...
  35. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Do you mean extinct in the wild or extinct period, as in not even zoos can save them?
  36. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Maybe I'm naive but I'd like to think that researchers only use chimps over mice when they have to because of their higher cognitive abilities and that destitute lives are necessary for whatever research rather than less costly. But I really am ignorant of what that type of research considers...
  37. Tuco

    SimCity

    http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comm...ial_zones_are/ Someone created a city in a new region and only populated it with residential and it got to 200k np. I feel like there's a massive city just outside your region with thousands of sims, jobs and shopping just waiting to pour into your...
  38. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Anyone ever use http://en.spaceengine.org/
  39. Tuco

    SimCity

    It would not be trivial to do that and is a much more challenging problem to solve, both computationally and algorithmically. It's something they should have attempted instead of this half-assed system they have now.
  40. Tuco

    SimCity

    Just did a quick test: Basically I created a handful of 'self-sustaining' towns in the city with a balanced RCI brick. The test was to see how well the sims would stay within their own area. As you can see from the fucking traffic jam it didn't work. I probably won't be playing much...