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How random can you be? expunctis.com

3 kalkr 2 years ago 1 comments

Comment · 2 years ago

"Devil Daggers" has an action on release scheme, you play as a floating hand that shoots daggers with two firing modes, a "shotgun" like dagger blast, and a "stream" of individual daggers. The first, which you activate by clicking then quickly releasing, does a lot of damage, but suffers from a cool-down. the latter, which you get by holding for a certain amount of time, is good if you need constant damage.

Interestingly, the game programmed this behavior by moving the position of the hand. When you press LMB, your hand begins traveling forward. If it reaches a certain position, it will start the dagger stream. If you let go before it gets to that spot, it activates the "shotgun" and teleports the hand backward to naturally introduce a cool-down, returning to the neutral position after some time.

People figured out that, because holding the mouse down moves the hand forward, if you shotgun then re-hold the mouse button, your shotgun cool-down is much lower. Most runs will do this because it allows you to do the most damage in the quickest time, but initially learning it is really strange because you don't expect the action to be on release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrCdNFAYW4

Comment · 2 years ago

Traditional C style for is terrible compared to what you can do with iterators in my opinion, but idk if C++ has those.

    list.iter().sum()

ezpz

Comment · 2 years ago

of course it’s surveillance technology.

an iphone constantly broadcasts your location to third parties, can deduce where you work and live, understands the unique shape of your face, has a built-in microphone and multiple kinds of cameras, stores all of your conversations, stores all of your photos, stores your health information, can figure out when you go to bed.. all on a completely closed and proprietary operating system.

it’s like asking “why hasn’t anyone mentioned that we’re all using a website right now”

Comment · 2 years ago

What about Arc<Mutex<T>> ?

Comment · 2 years ago

As the maintainer he gets to call the shots, so this response is perfectly fair. It's easy for me to say "I wouldn't have reacted like this", especially since I'm kind of numb to this type of shit-slinging, but I haven't had such visceral anger directed towards my hard work, so I really don't know.

Comment · 2 years ago

You may be experiencing this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

I have read a few anecdotal experiences of people allowing these kinds of hallucinations to continue and they have reported that they can become quite vivid and even interactive. Maybe try waving your arms around when this happens to see if it goes away? That should indicate if it's sleep-related or not.