Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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You know, you can find something evil in just about any politician's policy depending on your personal perspective.

So let's just not vote, because we shouldn't choose. We should just morally abstain from having choices because making no choice is the only way to make a choice.

Do you realize how absurd that sounds?

If you want to protest genocide, then GO DO IT, don't throw away a vote because that's not a protest, it's a pathetic excuse.

Your vote is not your consent; that's some nonsense made up to get people to not vote.

In your metaphor, you vote for one your family dies, you vote for another your family and another family dies. You refuse to participate in the system and both families die.

You didn't consent to that, but you allowed it to happen via your vote of INDIFFERENCE which is what not voting means. It means you don't care which way things go, because that's all it can mean to not make a choice.

I really don't think head sets will ever be absolutely insane products.

Lots of people just don't want to strap a display to their face.

It's really not that noticable. I played destiny PVP with mouse and keyboard on there. Maybe a pro player would be able to tell, but your average gamer would not.

Their technology was way better than what Nvidia has on GeForce now; it was truly insanely good.

The user experience on stadia was by far the best cloud gaming experience. They also had the most consumer friendly business model.

What stopped them was interest rate hikes. What their biggest issue before hand was though was bad PR from a questionable launch where a bunch of people were like "but does it work on shitty office Wi-Fi!? No, well this is trash."

Followed by the GPU shortage and the PS5 launch which put their hardware (which was better than PS4 hardware) behind.

Yes, sure something like that cheat could work... Since it's information the game is already giving to the player, it's kind of hard to stop. It's also not a major cheat just a little assist.

In any case, you're talking specialized hardware that's harder to get a hold of and may be detectable (these capture card companies likely don't want to get sued so they'd likely cooperate pretty quickly with game developers and publishers).

Here's another point I'll make... there are new anticheat approaches that come into play with algorithmic reactions.

You can for instance, modifying the rendering slightly in a way that wouldn't mess with the player much if it all if you're suspect of a cheater, but would act as a "honeypot" for cheaters (similar to how some developers have come up with "AI poison pills" to embed in images).

I have pretty high confidence that cloud gaming maybe wouldn't totally solve the problem. However, removing access to the game code solves a lot of the cheating problem overnight.

Basically the only thing you can do reliably is subtle aim bots, no wall hacks, no spin bots, no mapping hacks, no packet reordering, no ping abusing, no malicious packet injection (e.g., spawning a bullet in front of everyone's heads), invulnerability hacks, teleporting/movement hacks, etc.

A lot of that stuff can be blocked with just well designed net code, but with cloud gaming the net code design becomes much much less relevant instantly. Cheating in general becomes less "fun" and less ridiculous.

I think you're massively overplaying "a lot."

Maybe the cutting edge R&D of cheats uses that technique; AFAIK it's far from mainstream.

Not to mention entire classes of cheats that require manipulating the rendering engine (e.g., wall hacks) just don't work.

Also with Widevine DRM you can leverage all the crypto crap that the MPAA has forced into our computers over the years and protect the video stream between the GPU and display. That would more than likely screw over 99% of those capture cards.

The big problem seems to be that with current interest rates, breaking into cloud gaming with a whole new platform is just not profitable.

It stopped Google and now it's looking like it's stopping Netflix.

Gamers just don't want to spend money on new platforms or platforms where their friends aren't.

It's a shame to some degree because Stadia was a cheat free paradise. There will always be latency concerns but I think streamed competitive gaming has a future, particularly as kernel anticheat fails to deliver and high end hardware gets more and more expensive.

I remember it being explained as the twin towers "hung" somehow, so the central spine makes sense.

The older buildings were basically just steel beams like you see in cartoons. Lots and lots and lots of steel basically in cubes from what I recall. So there was just a lot more to catch the load. In some sense they were overbuilt.

For local elections, I try and consult local papers covering the candidates.

No, they don't. I actually think the biggest harmful thought the wealthy have imposed is a sort of learned helplessness and apathy "it doesn't matter because the rich control everything."

They want you to think they're untouchable because if nobody ever tries nobody will succeed.

I kinda think instance blocks at the user level are the right way to handle this. If you don't want to have your content federate with my rather small server... I mean okay, but I'd mostly just be annoying it required me to fulfill that request manually rather than it being something you did.

Very very different crashes.

The planes that hit the twin towers were bigger, going faster, and had more fuel.

The twin towers themselves were also built with a different skyscraper design at well that used fewer steel beams. I don't remember what the names of the skyscraper design types were but I remember a 9-11 history channel program going into it.

Interesting, I'll have to check it out.

Well that's not good... I'll have to find some other way to keep my phone in sync...

Maybe proton drive's sync is finally good enough...

What would a negatively full cup look like?

Literally remember people saying they didn't vote for Clinton in 2016 because she didn't pay attention to their state. That was their excuse anyways.

People are wild.