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by Dove 12y ago
Another thought! From experience . . . If you're worried about popping, make sure you drop out-of-order position packets. In my experience, the 33 ms of player input between normal packets is negligible . You get popping in theory,
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by Dove 12y ago
That's one way of doing it! I suppose it all comes down to what your players expect. Mine viscerally hate lag, whether they can see it or not -- but especially if they can't. I think if I built 100ms of lag into the client, I&#x
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by Dove 12y ago
It's all over UDP, but there's some reliability built on top of it. Most irregular events -- chat messages, weapon pickups, door openings -- are sent over and over, until they're acknowledged. Shots are an exception. By th
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by Dove 12y ago
I forgot to mention -- about PPS -- most modern high-speed connections can handle a 30 PPS 8-player Descent game just fine, but there are a few players stuck in rural areas with very old connections, who can't. I'm guessing -- fr
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by Dove 12y ago
Just a few months ago, I did an overhaul of the network code for DXX-Retro[1] -- a source port of Descent. Descent worked much better over the (laggy, lossy, bursty) net than DOOM, and -- if you're looking to mimic old school games --
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by Dove 12y ago
he'll take one look at your 14 hour challenge and laugh These things shouldn't be designed to take 14 hours. They should be designed to take one, maybe two or three . . . if you know what you're doing. One of the other p
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by Dove 12y ago
I love this approach. I am good at what I do, and appreciate the opportunity to prove it directly. Spending a couple hours solving a technical problem or writing an essay is much easier for me, not to mention sending a more reliable signa
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by Dove 12y ago
This statement can actually be made stronger. Not only are the vast majority of real numbers irrational, they are transcendental [1] -- indescribable in algebraic terms. The numbers we can actually talk about and name are the countable a
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by Dove 13y ago
how did it effect you? How did you recover? I was warned against D&D, violent video games, and various harmless television shows. It was a bit silly at my house; violent games included Scorched Earth and Starcraft , and inappropri
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by Dove 13y ago
I don't think it's propaganda. It's a result of the same feedback loop that gives you the morality of soap operas, the absurdity of reality television, the voyeurism of talk shows, historically the extremity of circuses and
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by Dove 13y ago
If you liked Myst and 7th Guest, you should take a look at The Room, a game that I would say is somewhere between the two both in tone and in puzzle style and intensity. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?i
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by Dove 13y ago
In 1961, JFK would have been president. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, when an American U-2 was shot down and the pilot killed, he chose not to retaliate. Not to. Just let the Russians shoot down one of ours, and did nothing. He did th
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by Dove 13y ago
No one "felt like" going to war during the Cold War. Avoiding war was the top priority in everyone's mind. And I mean everyone -- leadership, public, on both sides. That's why it was a cold war. If anyone on eithe
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by Dove 13y ago
We already know the answer. There were several close calls during the Cold War, and while the powers involved always chose to respond (they had to, it was doctrine at the time), they always chose to respond cautiously. Both sides wanted t
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by Dove 13y ago
I would be intrigued to hear Jesus Christ's thoughts on a $190 million church As would we all. But I'll say this, the Christian relationship with money and with power is strange and counterintuitive, and the numbers don't
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by Dove 13y ago
My best friend in elementary school had the misfortune of a hyphenated last name that was exactly sixteen characters long. The systems at the school evidently limited you to fifteen characters, because I saw her name printed in a lot of pl
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by Dove 13y ago
Yup. I have a cousin whose initials are RLC3.
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by Dove 13y ago
Well, there are 366 dates of birth, and 9999 last 4 digits in SSNs, so approximately 3.7M combinations. If you drop 380k users into 3.7M buckets, that's only ten times as many buckets as users. A lot of the buckets will be shared.
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by Dove 13y ago
I couldn't disagree with you more. There's a rich tradition[1] in the creative world of improving a product through self-imposed restrictions. Sure, you don't get any artistic credit just because you did something in a diff
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by Dove 13y ago
I meant manually hunting. I usually wind up with more teeth and scales than I can use without particularly seeking them out. Though I guess I don't buy things with them a lot. The one time I did buy alien alloy from the store, I didn
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by Dove 13y ago
Okay, so I finally get to see what baited traps do: they double the output of the trap. And I finally get to see what traps drop! So now, I can label the trapper (assuming I have 9 traps and check them regularly (trapper can't make ba
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by Dove 13y ago
Oh, I see. I misread the "100wood" one. You're right.
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by Dove 13y ago
There's either a bug or an easter egg with the Mysterious Wanderer / 100 furs. The rest of the mysterious wanderer encounters have expectation zero. Give 100 wood, 1/3 chance of 300 wood, 2/3 chance of nothing. Same wi
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by Dove 13y ago
it's incredible there are people on HN like you. i'm a little shocked to be honest. Yes, I was also sure this site was populated exclusively with ferrari-tweaking experts. I'm a little shocked, too, but there it is. ;)
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by Dove 13y ago
Did the thrift shop pay the charities a portion of the proceeds in exchange for the boxes? Sort of. It would have been impossible to track that, but corporate did have some idea what the average box (from a particular source) was worth,
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by Dove 13y ago
It's not just drowning. There's actually a whole category[1] on TV Tropes for things portrayed in dangerously misleading ways. The misleading portrayals of heart attacks and first aid in general are some of the things that worry
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by Dove 13y ago
Ah, well, since I have your attention, I'll give you the other side of the coin. The key to getting good stuff from people is how you make them feel about giving it to you. Most people think thrift stores sell the stuff people drop of
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by Dove 13y ago
Bourbaki!
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by Dove 13y ago
I used to work at a thrift store. The amount of value we could extract from the average box of stuff dropped off to donate . . . was nowhere near $10. In fact, a lot of it couldn't be sold at all -- it just got thrown away. Broken to
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by Dove 13y ago
Casu marzu[1] comes to mind, though wikipedia indicates that it's legal(ish) again. Not that I think it would be that great a loss to society if it were unavailable, but there you go. Kind of an extreme example, though. I don'

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