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I’m unironically amazed that Texas is supposedly perfectly average while California is below average. I bet it’s all the Texas engineers offsetting the Texas bigots, while the California techbros offset the California tech geniuses.
(I’m saying this as a Texan)
Sorry, wrong term. Price gouging. The market is absurd and most of it is thanks to WATA’s pump-and-dump shit.
Maybe if you weren’t scalping price gouging that shit then there wouldn’t be a market for knockoffs. Personally, I don’t care if I have a knockoff or the real deal anymore. As long as I and the console can’t tell the difference, who cares?
I’m normally against AI in commercial/political works (basically anything that is meant to be distributed), especially when it’s just a straight generation with no human additions, but please. Holy fuck, this is amazing. I love this. I can’t explain why, but the mangled bodies in the park are hilarious.
Could have been a Sims expansion with a smol filter on.
Mhm, as a former projectionist I can confirm that those files average 200~300gb.
Why would they sell them? Cinemaphiles. Your average person won’t spend $200 on a 500gb drive containing The Room, but a hardcore cinemaphile might. My boss at the theater I was working at was the kinda person who would have bought that. Well, maybe not The Room, but he probably would have spent the money for something like The Godfather trilogy.
I know, I’m kinda complaining by illustrating how difficult it is to get official movie files nowadays; especially if you want lossless, master-quality files.
You can get the files if you want, they’re just very expensive and to the tune of hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars. Also they’re typically encrypted and can only be played back on an approved projection system and you have to buy decryption keys every time you want to watch the movie. This is why theaters suck by the way, they have to pay for the movie, the ability to play the movie, the ability to take money in exchange for people seeing the movie, etc.
There are still companies that make physical copies, but typically it’s in limited quantities and sadly I’ve found that most of them (especially one of the big ones, LRG) can be pretty scummy. I think the only two I’ve found that are worth buying stuff from are iam8bit and fangamer.
Meh, give it another 10yrs and Wii games will be selling at the original prices. Rip game/vintage computer collecting. You were a fun and inexpensive hobby until the rich assholes got to it.
Jesus, that’s insane. Tbh, that’s the kinda house I’d want: unassuming on the outside, extravagant and surreal on the inside.
Tbh that’s actually pretty good for what is probably a VHS rip. They might not even be all that compressed compared to the original.
Something tells me they’re not just slapping chatGPT on the school computers and telling kids to go at it; surely one of the parents would have been up-to-date enough to know it’s a scam otherwise. At the very least, surely the students will start to get upset that they’re getting made fun of for the “facts” they’re learning from chatGPT, complain to their parents, and cause the school to get sued.
It seems like a very stupid scam to try and teach rich kids with chatGPT which is why I’m wondering if they’re using something else. They could be acting as a testbed for a new AI designed specifically for teaching. I wouldn’t put it past rich people to use their kids as guinea pigs if it meant they could save or make money elsewhere.
Unfortunately the article doesn’t mention what kind of AI they’re using though.
It seems like the big weakness of torrents is that if the front-end goes down, then no one can get new torrents anymore, making the front-end an obvious target due to its centralized nature. However, has anyone considered making an activitypub-powered torrent tracker/download site? Kinda like a hybrid between soulseek and BitTorrent. The sites in the network all get torrent information from each other so you have a billion front-ends. Good luck stopping that if they all sync their databases together.
A Dreamcast controller with a modern, moddable vmu system would be sick.
Jesus Christ what a wild story. Is it possible that Craven simply wanted to do good, but “as a white, abled man” wasn’t opening doors so they felt they had to pretend to be someone else? From what it sounds like, a lot of what they and their “”“partners”“” did was legitimately helpful. The thing that leaves me confused is that they probably could have fleeced people for significantly more money but didn’t. They didn’t have to put the amount of effort into it as they did. Is it possible they were trying to do the right thing but were going about it the wrong way?
As someone is very much not cisgender, I look at it and go “Well, isn’t every FTM going to pick Body Type A with male pronouns while MTFs like myself go with Body Type B with female pronouns? Who outside of a Far Right Troll trying and failing to be funny is gonna pick the buff bearded dude and select the she/her pronouns?”
Me! What do you have against bearded, manly ladies? They’re awesome!
It is kinda lazy to have “full masculine” and “full feminine” as your only choices while pretending they aren’t just “male” or “female”, but at the same time, I think it’s a step in the right direction. Today the options might be “not-man” and “not-woman”, but the future might have “not-man”, “not-woman”, “man-woman” and “woman-man”!
First, to make something clear, I’m not necessarily arguing for or against banning macros, I’m mainly addressing the snap tap/rapid movement change and saying that you could effectively reproduce it with a macro.
It is as you say in that 1 and -1 result in 0, but this is done in the game’s movement code, intentionally, to force players to learn to only press one of the two opposing keys at once, as a skill.
What I’m saying is that I don’t think that was originally a skill choice, but done out of necessity. It may have eventually become associated with skill, but that the choice likely wasn’t originally intended to increase skill.
Theres a reason many pc FPS players consider the source engine to be the gold standard for control responsiveness and player movement design/feel, and this is one of them.
They should play more gzdoom then. Source feels laggy and unresponsive in comparison. :p
Also I am fairly sure the macro set up you are describing to allow for the strafe cancelling is a null bind, which Valve has also banned.
Only because valve banned it in response to hardware manufacturers.
This is different than just setting your mouse dpi to be more sensitive, or your analog sticks to be more sensitive, or your whole keyboard to have less travel time.
What about deadzones? Those are used for analog buttons and sticks so players can customize how far the player has to press the buttons or tilt the sticks to register a press.
Valve’s own software allows you to set different deadzones for analog sticks and triggers. I mean, their software on steam deck lets you trigger different actions based on whether the trigger is a full press or partial press. You can have the sticks trigger things based on whether they’re being touched, pressed, or tilted.
When the steam controller was released, they made a big deal about how you could chord button presses, create macros, create action sets (which change what the buttons do) and so on. Valve’s own system allows for it.
Its getting banned now because now we have keyboard manufacturers just straight up releasing keyboards with features that exceed in speed what used to only be done by a handful of people with too much time on their hands.
And what I’m saying is that it doesn’t require a special keyboard, it just lowered the barrier of entry. As such, I see it as a skill issue, not a cheating issue. What? The player in front of you is wiggling too fast for you to track? Get good. That’s the entire point of the game. It’s not like they’re seeing through walls or automatically locking onto your head.
Then, what if everyone had these keyboards, or if windows had macro support built-in? Would you still see it as cheating?
Finally what if someone had a seemingly unnatural ability to press A/D alternating in a way that resulted in <10ms of delay/overlap between inputs, who owned a hyper-sensitive keyboard that triggers keypresses the moment a key moves? They’re able to “wiggle” almost as well as someone using one of these keyboards; except they’re just inherently that good, and their keyboard has no other special abilities except that it’s super sensitive.
Are they cheating because their natural, unskilled ability rivals that of a so-called cheat device? Would it be more fair to handicap the player with freakish ability, or to allow other players to use devices that negate the inherent difference them?
Again, I don’t care much about macros being banned; I brought that up simply to state that the fast-tapping, wiggle thing could be at least mostly reproduced via macros. It’s the outrage about new keyboards making it easier to wiggle effectively that annoys me. It comes off as a bunch of people crying because the game suddenly got harder and they don’t want to learn how to aim better.
Imagine if people complained that racing wheels and peddles made racing games unfair against people using gamepads or keyboards; or that using a hotas setup was cheating in flying games.
Like, I don’t own one of these keyboards and I don’t play highly competitive fpses anymore, yet it’s still annoying. Like, analog keyboards have a lot of potential to be really cool devices, but I’m concerned they won’t get past the “fad” stage because the analog switches will be associated with cheating.
I understand how it works (or at least I think I do) and why people consider it cheating; what I’m saying is that that’s just how keyboards usually work and the reason why they don’t always work that way in games is an intentional decision.
Don’t believe me? Open up a word processor. Hold the A key. Notice how it starts entering a line of As? Now, while holding the A key, press and hold the D key. It should start entering a line of Ds. Then, when you release the D key but keep holding the A key, it should start entering a line of As again (at least that’s what used to happen). This is the most likely to work if your keyboard has true n-key rollover, but it may still work regardless.
If that doesn’t work, try a different key combo, your keyboard may be losing inputs due to conflicting inputs (or word processors may have changed how they deal with simultaneous keypresses). Cheap keyboards will combine sets of keys to cut down on complexity and cost, however it can result in some key combos becoming impossible to input. That’s why n-key rollover is awesome.
So why does holding strafe left/right (and forward/back) result in null combinations?
I suspect that it’s due to controller support. Instead of having a series of if-then statements which directly translate a keypress into movement (something a lot of new game developers do), they’re likely translating keypresses into a 2d vector which gets applied to your character’s movement speed. An “A” press would correspond to “1”, a “D” press would result in “-1”. These get combined and become “0”.
Why do it that way?
Because controllers use analog input, so you aren’t going to get a “1” or “-1” without fully tilting the stick. However, a half-tilt shouldn’t result in a “1”, it should result in a “(-)0.5”. That “0.5” is then multiplied by the player’s move speed and (optionally) the player’s current vector gets interpolated to the new vector.
So what is the keyboard doing that stops the null state (horizontal movement = 0) from occurring?
It’s basically overriding the A key when the D key is pressed (not sure if it’s actually “lifting” the A key or just throwing away the input, either works) or vice versa; and then pressing the A key again when the D key is released (assuming the A key is still being held). You can make a macro to simulate this behavior.
As far as sensitivity thresholds go, so what? People have been able to do that with analog sticks (and sometimes analog triggers, depending on the game) for like, forever. Hell, you used to be able to mix controller, keyboard and mouse controls to get analog movement and mouse control (like those standalone “macro/num pads” with the thumb stick). I dunno if it’s still possible or if driver changes have nullified it, but regardless, imo analog keyboards are overdue. Getting mad about it is like someone getting mad about mouse-look in the 90s.
What recent events? Why don’t you tell us what these recent events are? Would you, perhaps, care to expand on what these recent events might be? Because it seems like if you’re crying about that, then maybe you’re not a nice person.