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Instancing is a bad solution to the problem of content monopolization. It works, but at great cost. Unfortunately because it does work it's the lazy go-to solution and developers don't even try to come up with better ideas. I give Vanguard credit for trying.

copying the best game ever is a good thing WoW has a bajillion clones. People who preferred WoW's solutions have plenty of options. Give me my EQ clone and take my money

instancing is cancer

The insidious nature of exploitable bugs is players like them and revolt when they're fixed, even if they're bad for the game. Players HATE having anything taken away from them, and they're not entirely wrong to feel that way, particularly after other players have taken advantage of them before...

"maxing people's combat skills by exploiting duels with charmed pets, and no shortage of other shenanigans were hotfixed by the watchful developers." Nerfing charm that way and neglecting summoned pets able to raise combat skills, which is actually far more convenient, is such a Sony thing to...

I'm more impressed at how they were able to find artists animators and worldbuilders to sign up. That was always the biggest roadblock to indie games from what I could see

Well I am Torven so I can speak to this. The source will very likely open sometime this year and the fork has already been made and is being prepared. There is a small handful of things we don't want visible -- anti cheats and CSR messages -- that won't be made available, so we'll still have a...

I am convinced that the showrunners and everybody who claims to like this show are trolls. It's the only explanation that makes any sense to me.

By far the worst show I've ever seen. It was genuinely painful to get through. The cringe was so hard that I had to pause episodes numerous times to recuperate. I just don't have the stamina to play these episodes without interruption. I cannot fathom for a moment how this show got...

I'm guessing that Kwan and her space witches will be used to bring John's mind back. I watched a Picard ep before the Halo finale, which made the latter look like Shakespeare, so I'm not going to complain.

I'm still watching to see the humans die. Never wanted to see humans die so badly. Paramount, please subvert expectations by having Master Chief join the covenant and use the ring to wipe out humanity. I'll subscribe for a month to see that, for reals

Somebody needs to make a 'character that ruins a TV show' meme out of this

this is adorable

The show is watchable if it stays at this level. It went from "watching for the crazy woke lulz but at least it's better than Picard" to "meh, not bad. what else am I gonna watch? TV sucks now" If the writers had any sense at all, they would kill off that super obnoxious asian kid. She's...

Al'Kabor's Plane of Time was the result of Hobart cobbling together mid-2003 era data and mixing it with AK's older data. AK's Quarm was casting spells that were largely unfinished and placeholder. The encounter wasn't even close to complete. Its AI logic probably didn't work correctly...

Thanks. I was wondering when the game lore jumped the shark.

I'm spending too much time on this forum as is, so I'll check out voluntarily

Perhaps I would if I had access to it, although I try not to get too involved with political forum discussions because it's a huge time sink. My post was mostly in response to Rajaah's. I would also argue that the party in power has a large relevance to bitcoin because one is more hostile to...

I'm not the one posting that white people will be put into camps, but sorry

Meh. I wouldn't be too worried if I were a right winger. The left has gone so far over the deep end in America that it's turning a Chomskyite like me off; and if I'm getting turned off then normies are certainly getting redpilled. From Forbes...

I downloaded a hideout that stresses my GPU more than juiced maps do, but it looks pretty

13c for rituals? you should pay me 13c to do rituals

Well for starters, the June 2022 date was only recently set in December in an 'upgrade' they ironically (or appropriately) called 'Arrow Glacier' which sole purpose was to delay the 'ice age' yet again. So this timeline they're supposedly adhering to was set all of a month ago. Secondly...

In case it's not obvious, that was my way of conveying that the women on the show act like men and the men act like women (or boys); except Amos who is of course a gigachad

sounds like more kicking the can down the road to me

Oh, and regarding semiconductors: TSMC prioritizes reliable customers because they're not stupid. Hence why Apple gets to use new nodes first. They prioritize Bitmain dead last because they're not a reliable customer. Mining ASICs aren't displacing phones and cars. The e-waste argument you...

I didn't mean literally that ONLY Blackrock was responsible for home prices rising; the idea that rich people use real estate as a store of value which results in homes becoming overpriced is not only limited to the US and happens everywhere. Secondly as others have said, electricity is not...

Oh, so bitcoin is 'inefficient', but Blackrock buying up all the houses thereby pricing out an entire generation from home ownership and goldbugs digging massive pits for useless shiny rocks to use as stores of value is just fine, says the know-it-alls. The US dollar would be worth jack and...

I would think that a technology which breaks the laws of thermodynamics would be worth quite a bit

Not quite. I did do a lot of research on it and I understand it well (and I coded much of it), but the big deviation with TAKP's exp logic is that the EQMac server had some non-classic modifications done to it by Sony staff, so it wasn't the same as the PC servers and why we're not the most...

Trading is much, much harder than it looks. You can't get good at it without painful lessons. It can't be taught. To win, you have to guess right twice and earn enough to absorb fees and taxes to be worth the trouble; and you have to significantly beat what you would have made just from...

I love the ships and combat on this show. Probably my favorite of any sci fi series. It's reason enough to watch it. I appreciate the realism. What I didn't care for was: The plot was rather nonsensical. Also Amos needing to buy sex made no sense when he was apparently the only man with a...

My problem: I want to buy a token at this low USD price with BTC but the entire market is down so BTC is down with it, making it not much of a bargain. Solution: I borrowed against my BTC using decentralized on-chain smart contracts to get some USD stablecoin which I used to buy the token...

I'm still sad they killed Holden's blonde girlfriend in S1E1. Clearly it drove him crazy

Bitcoin is a net positive for the environment. People will figure this out eventually

If Ethereum were decentralized, then Vitalik's weirdness would be entirely irrelevant. If Ethereum is not decentralized, then it's just an enormously inefficient turing machine and database. Satoshi staying anonymous and leaving the project early were the smartest things he did

I googled for a way to disable automatic updates and found some obscure way to do it (registry edit or policy rule or whatever, I forget), and it worked but now Windows pops up a 'updates available' box in the bottom right corner several times a day that doesn't go away without clicking the...

At some point I expect them to genetically reincarnate neanderthals just to token cast them in films

watch out for dead cats