douglasg14b
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- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 3 days ago:
Yeah, location based as in you and the objects in the game are based on real world coordinates. The “grid” for the game is overlayed onto the real world
Same ingress lost its appeal after a while. The gameplay loop was shallow and repetitive. It was based around rather fast gameplay loops, that would resolve, and then you rinse and repeat.
I made some cool friends though, it was cool to meet people at capture points.
I’m aiming for much MUCH more depth here. Fundamentally different from ingress of similar games, aside from being location based. More industry and exploration, with a more typical loop around economy, growth, and advancement.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 3 days ago:
Great question, and one I’ve struggled with.
I’m a big privacy advocate, and my personal devices and home network reflect that. Which really brings me to a difficult crossroads here.
I don’t have a good answer for you right now, the best I have are the problems I’m trying to balance:
- Anticheat: How do detect and build better detection for location spoofing? This, intrinsically, requires the recording of directly associated location data. How can I balance this against privacy concerns?
- This is the toughest one here. Likely I’ll need a combination of data retention periods and anonymization. At the very least sensitive data is separated from the rest of the game data, and is encrypted at rest. Likely there are clever protocols and solutions already out there I just don’t know about yet that can improve protections here.
- Audit Logs: When a player performs an action that interacts with a location-based feature, where they where when that action was performed it is stored alongside the audit log of that action. This ties in closely with Anticheat, and also enables pattern matching to try and find oddities (exploits, cheating, bugs, and other problems).
- Right now these stay around forever, and can be used to simulate the global game state at any point in the past (really REALLY useful for debugging problems, especially when you don’t have a good repro). Eventually such state should make granular rollbacks possible in case of exploits or rampant cheating. (A game where you have to physically go somewhere to capture a mine means rollbacks have a crazy high cost, making them granular is pretty important)
- Analytics and Telemetry: Location data isn’t in use here right now. And I don’t see how it would be while also respecting privacy.
Selling the data: 😂😂😂 I’d rather light my servers on fire than stoop to that level.
- Anticheat: How do detect and build better detection for location spoofing? This, intrinsically, requires the recording of directly associated location data. How can I balance this against privacy concerns?
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 3 days ago:
Hey that’s totally valid!
I’m an avid player of Factorio and Dyson Sphere Project. Those really scratch the pure factory itch.
I’m aiming to scratch a different itch here. Persistent empire building in competition with others over finite resources is an itch that’s REALLY hard to scratch. And that’s what I’m aiming for here.
That sense that you have built something that feels more tangible than other games you’re accustomed to. There’s a real world element, you control something that someone else cannot, with that comes that empire building feeling I personally live, and want to build a game around.
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- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 4 weeks ago:
Whoosh
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 4 weeks ago:
Ah this point?
You’re own bloody country
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 weeks ago:
… Or both?
Why make a false dichotomy out of it?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
Yes because when are conversing in person you are conversing synchronously.
Only one person talks at a time and for the most part only one major subject idea question or problem is considered at a time. You talk about one thing and then you move along and talk about another thing.
This is not necessarily the case with written language. Where you have the benefit of talking about many things, changing subjects, and listing information out.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
The level of frustration from online discussions when the things you say are entirely missed or misinterpreted is a great example of this.
Even mildly complex topics that touch anything politically charged or emotionally charged tend to be subject to groupthink dynamics in a format where group think is largely just a result of poor reading comprehension.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
It really is a sad State of affairs that reading comprehension is so bad that people can’t answer questions in written form.
I mean it’s literally written down you can’t miss it.
And to clarify this is more of me complaining because I’ve experienced this a lot. It’s most apparent in online discussions, where seemingly a majority of what you say gets completely skipped missed or misinterpreted and replies often focus on just a couple words of your statement instead of understanding sometimes even just a whole paragraph.
- Comment on How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmous Khalil's case different? 1 month ago:
So, a US Person. Who has all the rights of a citizen sans voting and a few other specific things…
Not kind now till citizens end up this way
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 1 month ago:
Options:
- Very Wet paper towel on the plate, microwave the plate for 30s
- Heat it up over a flame, a ways away (ie. Butane torch under it, but like 12" away)
- If you have a small countertop over or air fryer/toaster. Heat it up in there briefly
- If you’re making toast, place it on top of the toaster (not too long, it can still break).
I heat my plates up alllll the time.
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 1 month ago:
Enjoy Ecuador!
Wish I was joking…
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 2 months ago:
Cathy is the average American.
Realize that half of the rest are even more moronic
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 months ago:
That’s only works so long as Firefox stays alive and in development.
LibreWolf relies on Firefox being funded, if Firefox dies then LibreWolf also dies.
And so does the last actual open source browser that is in competition with chrome.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
Shitty time to be alive when it’s no longer cool to shoot Nazis.
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 2 months ago:
It’s an absolute PITA in my experience.
I tried this with TD Canada. Accessing the money was problematic.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 months ago:
Wait wut?!?
Is there a source you can link to?
- Comment on Canva charges you to make a circle 4 months ago:
Not a helpful take TBH.
Canva is crazy easy and convenient. That’s what they built their business on being.
People can complain about the products they like getting worse, that’s how change happens, that’s how people get motivated to make alternatives…etc
- Comment on Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter 4 months ago:
God, lemmy.world needs to get rid of this guy…
Toxic all around
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 4 months ago:
I think you’re being intentionally obtuse here?
Your meta analyzing the question instead of just taking the questions as it is: A hypothetical scenario where most of our radio communication is jammed and unusable.
The mechanics of how the question got there don’t really matter, that’s not part of the question, it’s pointlessly pedantic to pick it apart. Just imagine the scenario with the mechanics you can consider plausible for such a scenario, and roll with it.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 4 months ago:
Connectors come loose, which makes them dangerous.
They are uninsulated points that allow water and material ingress, and can partially or fully pull apart, causing arching. Which can cause combustion.
This is the main reason these are dangerous, which the majority of this entire thread misses. The added length or connector resistance is somewhat negligible here unless you’re daisy chaining long conductors, which often isn’t the case for in-home extensions.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 4 months ago:
Distance by itself would be no different than a single cord of the same length.
However, connection points are areas of localized resistance where connectors meet. This can introduce dangerous areas.
The practical, human, problem here is important. Connectors come loose, which makes them dangerous. The majority of this thread is treating this question like a paper test problem, when in reality there are other factors that outweigh the “under ideal circumstances” problem.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 4 months ago:
Is it just me or is anyone else perturbed that the cable sizes in this infographic are all the same gauge?
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 4 months ago:
That’s… Largely a financials problem.
Steam: $8-10 billion/y
GOG: $80-120 million/y
Steam can throw 10 GOGs worth of resources at a problem and barely break a sweat. Yeah, of course they are making huge strides, that’s how consolidation of wealth works when that wealth is actually reinvested.
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 5 months ago:
I miss the internet being like this. I like this
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
By the same logic a disabled spouse doesn’t mean you get any additional consideration right?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Exactly. This whole argument is just allowing corporate greed and manufactured resource scarcity to win.
Working class trying to remove rights and privileges from the working class because the ruling class creates a situation that encourages it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Pretty much agree with the last statement.
Disagree with the first statement. Given that the survival of our species is one reliant on us not only having children but also raising them in a way that improves our world and doesn’t make it worse.
The later of course is the Crux of the problem. A society that doesn’t encourage parents to be good parents and just shits on them instead is not a society that wants to survive.
- Comment on Will Firefox die for good if Google is forced to sell off Chrome? 5 months ago:
The majority cost of Firefox is engineering.
Any cutbacks will negatively affect the ability for Firefox to keep up and will probably start a slow decline towards collapse and irrelevance.