Dark Arc

Unfortunately, yes, “Git gud” is the answer because the LLM isn’t going to cook the food for you.

God help you if it ever attempts to do so.

Yeah we also just REALLY need to protect every game company at this point because Tencent seemingly has infinite pockets and China sure isn’t upset about that.

If you’re going to print with any infrequency get a laser printer as well. The stability of toner is the huge selling point for me. I wasted so much time on “cartridge cleaning” print cycles every time I went to print when I had an inkjet because I print so infrequently my ink cartridges would dry out (and I’m sure HP considered that a feature not a bug).

It would probably be more appropriate to compare a brother inkjet… But yeah.

FWIW if you’re reading this and you’re sick of wasting tons of money on ink because you just print a handful of documents in black and white every year … Get a Brother TONER-based printer. I bought mine almost 5 years ago and I’ve yet to have to change the toner or waste a single page on a bad print. When I need to print it just works, no “clean the cartridges” nonsense.

Toner is just a better printing technology, both for high and low volumes of printing. The only people that win out on inkjet are maybe the rare folks that print like a handful of things every single week.

Yes, they did give that exact example just with the opposite political framing.

Yeah I’m with you. Just reinforcing the cockpit doors is enough to take care of the majority of the problem.

They can bomb a plane but they can also bomb a bus or a subway.

As someone that was 6 when 9-11 happened, I think this country majorly overreacted and made the state itself one step closer to an authoritarian nightmare.

Yeah this is captured by the “need” with a bunch of up votes in this thread… The average person just doesn’t “get it.”

Gamers do this stuff – what feels like – all the time now. I don’t get the DLC hate. Not every instance of “give me more” needs to be an entirely new full price game.

That’s not really true. A good high end PC can still last a solid 5+ years of the latest releases if you’re willing to stop running everything at max settings.

That’s pretty much exactly how it was back then too…

Yeah I was about to say … anyone that’s got a problem with UE5 should take a look at Remnant II.

I mean, fishing is more comparable to mining in RS2, there are other skills (typically refinement oriented skills) that have more down time between clicks.

Combat I definitely feel needs refinement. Though, I actually do like the fact that combat is not “I have a bow and I’m shooting something 1 tile in front of me and/or safe spotting.”

The skills are only trained in one area, but they have interactions across areas. You use resources gathered in the forest in town and in the mines. The weapons you make in the mines can be tuned to any other location (etc…)

Andrew does a pretty decent job of explaining the thought process here if you’re interested: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2791440/view/4442331835939160237

A lot of this is to solve the long time MMO issue of “new content is released but it’s only for high level players and long time layers in general have a ton of advantages in the new area.”

You should try Brighter Shores.

The original RuneScape developers and owners (i.e. Andrew Gower and his brothers) are back with a new game, at a new company, with an industry shattering $5.99/mo subscription price for all content.

No micro transactions, no pay to win, no outrageous DLC pricing, no bull shit … just a fun game with many similarities to OSRS but also modernizations, formula improvements, and lessons learned.

The problem is a hash algorithm is exactly the sort of thing that copyright would be horrible at protecting. The source code is hardly relevant at all, it’s the operations that matter.

A big part of patents is to allow private sector research to occur. RCA failed and maybe patents should just fail too.

like the umbrella wedge/spring to make it open automatically.

That to me is a very specific algorithm. It’s a simple mechanism but putting it together might be a bit tricky.

That’s very similar to SHA, it’s a fairly simple set of mechanisms but the actual composure of those ideas into something that works as well as SHA does takes very specific research experience. It’s not at all an abstract idea, it’s a very concrete and specific set of operations that you invented first.

Imagine if the patent was “an umbrella can open itself with the push of button” no further details. That’s close to the level of detail some software patents are argued at and effectively what the “put a game in your loading screen” patent was awarded on.

You can’t patent the idea that “an umbrella should be able to open [somehow]” so I likewise think it’s ridiculous that someone was able to parent “your game [somehow] runs another simpler game before it runs.”

Patents should be to protect very specific research so that the private sector can do said research and profit from it. Patents should not block out broad concepts. The patent in the video game situation was and should’ve been ruled as bogus. It’s not the type of thing anyone needed to research or think about, you just literally go “what if I added a game to my loading screen” and you’re in violation.

I think software patents should really only apply to extremely tricky algorithmic “discoveries” (which I would consider inventions, as someone that’s written a SHA256 implementation from reference material, nobody is “just coming up with that”).

“Ingenuity patents” like that loading screen game are everything that’s wrong with software patents. It’s not all that crazy of an idea to add a game while waiting to play the main game. There’s no radical research required there, just an idea.

I don’t think vague ideas like “a game in a loading screen” are sufficiently creative to warrant a patent.

Or at least the bar should be much much higher. Like if you’ve invented the SHA algorithm… Fine.

However, if you’ve just invented “a way to purchase something over the network via a phone”… That is not patent worthy.

God I hope so

I would be so upset if Hunt Showdown did this.

Hell, I’m mad Apex Legends did it and I have very little time invested in that game.

I really wish game developers would stop with this kernel level anticheat nonsense that doesn’t even work. Everyone in every gaming community just points the finger, people that play games using Easy Anticheat say Battleye sucks and vice versa.

If kernel level anticheat actually worked, there would be a definitive answer to which games have good anticheat.

Yes

No they really haven’t. They’ve given no numbers to quantify the problem.

This reads like “we don’t know if they are cheating, it’s hard to tell, and it’s getting harder to tell, so we’re just done.”

This reeks of a decision based on a feeling about the direction of cheating vs a significant move to reduce cheating.