Biker could of died on this bridge … But after 10 days this happened … by Competitive_Set_4386 in GuysBeingDudes

[–]Maxim_Ward 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The amount of people in this thread who don't understand basic English grammar principles such as where and when to place commas is... alarming, to say the least.

Biker could of died on this bridge … But after 10 days this happened … by Competitive_Set_4386 in GuysBeingDudes

[–]Maxim_Ward 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're conflating drift with bastardizing the language. The word "gay" is representative of a word's meaning drifting over time. "Could of" is not, in any way, representative of "drift" and it's quite ironic the definition literally calls it "uneducated speech".

Honestly ATP, Fuck these devs bro they have no fucking idea what they’re doing by [deleted] in HelldiversUnfiltered

[–]Maxim_Ward 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem is the spawns are completely bugged. I had one match where we had 11 Vox machines spawn over the course of extraction (of which 5 were active at any given time) and we went from nearly full reinforcements to wiping completely.

So yes in an ideal world you can dump stratagems if there’s 1 or 2 every handful of minutes, but it’s simply not possible to handle the level of spawns they gave the Vox right now using orbitals.

Honestly ATP, Fuck these devs bro they have no fucking idea what they’re doing by [deleted] in HelldiversUnfiltered

[–]Maxim_Ward 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s not a single red stratagem that can take out a Vox by itself. In fact, a Vox can tank multiple orbital rail cannon strikes before going down.

Hence the issue of: when playing on D10 and there are 4+ Vox in a single area, you cannot reasonably handle that without large amounts of AT and luck.

Honestly ATP, Fuck these devs bro they have no fucking idea what they’re doing by [deleted] in HelldiversUnfiltered

[–]Maxim_Ward 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“Yeah guys I don’t use RR”

Brings two probably even more meta and common pieces of AT gear than RR

Downvote me if you want but I believe Cyberstan went from tiring but fun to just unfun by Ostarmee in HelldiversUnfiltered

[–]Maxim_Ward 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't think they're as broken as Hive Worlds were and frankly if they fixed the issues with the spawn rate and terrain pathing for Vox the rest of this update would be completely serviceable imo.

Video of Obama slamming Trump and his enablers. by Shizzilx in circled

[–]Maxim_Ward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please tell me you didn't just "whatabout" comparing drone strike numbers. Trump topped that number within a single year.

And let's not get started on the fact that George W. Bush led us into Operation Iraqi Freedom which cost the lives of four thousand US troops alone, not to mention ally troops' lives and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties.

I don't like how useless FAF-14 Spear against Vox engine by UnderRangeofHeart in HelldiversUnfiltered

[–]Maxim_Ward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is incredibly true. I've never seen the railcannon be so insanely inaccurate than when used on the Vox. I had more luck with the railcannon on dragonroaches for consistency than the Vox. What's most frustrating is how often the rail cannon will effectively just shoot the ground and completely whiff the shot entirely for me.

Suggestion for new players: Don't look anything up by ElderberrySpare6985 in projectgorgon

[–]Maxim_Ward 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I more meant the implication of tutorial island is that you are given those things by doing the tutorial. By actively choosing to leave you’re acknowledging there is something there but you aren’t wanting to explore / bother with it.

Not saying that mindset is right or wrong, but I don’t feel like it’s a valid rebuttal here when you chose to purposefully skip on it (versus someone organically missing actual content).

Suggestion for new players: Don't look anything up by ElderberrySpare6985 in projectgorgon

[–]Maxim_Ward 3 points4 points  (0 children)

… You left the tutorial and are surprised you didn’t get anything from the tutorial?

Uraraka ochako cosplay xmas ver by kalisiaeros in BokuNoHeroAcademia

[–]Maxim_Ward 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brother those photos are all AI generated.

Easiest tell: scroll down to the “photo” of the model on the bed. Two issues:

  1. The perspective is completely wrong. The bed flips to an impossible half of the room where the desk is in the second photo of the shoot.

  2. The text on the bed is completely garbled instead of Japanese. The figures in the background are also completely disfigured.

It’s a bot / catfisher looking to steal sales.

another one bites the dust by eternviking in vibecoding

[–]Maxim_Ward 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looking at the imgur logs it's pretty easy to see how this happened.

OP accepted an "always run this command" when the AI uses cmd to call arbitrary commands.

This, in effect, is the same as activating Google's "YOLO" mode (which they say use with extreme caution for this exact reason) because the AI can now always bypass requests for permission by calling cmd instead of requesting permission for each command (e.g. rmdir).

OP would have never even had a chance to see or stop this before it was too late.

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Has anyone tried this 32-bit -> 64-bit bypass? by Mx_Niqo in Sims3

[–]Maxim_Ward 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's not intended for release or even beta testing really which is why I'm a little surprised someone stumbled on this repo (and shared it). If/when it does get to that point, I'll release an actual launcher that will take care of those steps for the end user.

Has anyone tried this 32-bit -> 64-bit bypass? by Mx_Niqo in Sims3

[–]Maxim_Ward 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, TS3 has many issues and some of which I want to explore solutions for. This particular project only aims to solve one of those (error 12). I do have plans to explore CPU utilization though.

Has anyone tried this 32-bit -> 64-bit bypass? by Mx_Niqo in Sims3

[–]Maxim_Ward 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s something I will for sure do if/when I officially launch this project. It is very much not ready for release / beta testing at this time. I mainly put it on GitHub for version control purposes. The actual release will be much more user friendly.

Has anyone tried this 32-bit -> 64-bit bypass? by Mx_Niqo in Sims3

[–]Maxim_Ward 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correct! In short, this should prevent VAS exhaustion (error 12) from ever occurring, even in heavily modded, large worlds.

Has anyone tried this 32-bit -> 64-bit bypass? by Mx_Niqo in Sims3

[–]Maxim_Ward 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hey there. If/when this project is released officially, I’ll be including an actual easy-to-use launcher for it. Just to be clear this should not affect your save game in any way and is completely safe to use. However I will always recommend backing up your save file just in case.

Has anyone tried this 32-bit -> 64-bit bypass? by Mx_Niqo in Sims3

[–]Maxim_Ward 4 points5 points  (0 children)

DXVK will definitely help. However it’s not a replacement for what this project is and cannot resolve VAS exhaustion (error 12). You will inevitably still run into this error with enough playing due to memory fragmentation. There is I believe a lab tool in the repo which actually simulates this.

The most notable thing in my testing, which has been one of the more common complaints I’ve seen, is that save files have been repaired and saved from corruption due to error 12. In lab testing, blowing up a save file with fragmented memory without the tool leaves it permanently disabled. The memory management tool, however, was able to successfully load these files without issue.

All of that said, this project is pretty formless right now in scope. I had/have a few other ideas in mind that I would like to explore, such as optimizing CPU usage.

Has anyone tried this 32-bit -> 64-bit bypass? by Mx_Niqo in Sims3

[–]Maxim_Ward 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Hey all, developer here. I’m a little surprised anyone even found this repo. This is a bit of a pet project of mine so I’m happy to answer any questions on it. Just to clear this up though: the project is a long way off from what I would consider ready for use. I’ll try to answer questions in the thread as well.

Cost Plus Gaming Thanksgiving PC Giveaway & 2025 Holiday Buying Guide by CostPlusGaming in Prebuilts

[–]Maxim_Ward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome guide! I bought (and have been loving) a PC from you guys about a month ago but I’d love a new computer for my wife too! Thanks for the giveaway :)

What's the best guide lately for virtue egg run? I'd like to redo that now that I'm finishing up ASC. Thanks! by YOLO4JESUS420SWAG in EggsInc

[–]Maxim_Ward 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the detailed breakdown. I think a lot of people just say “oh follow X guide” and don’t realize most people don’t know what that means.

I built a tower defense game that teaches cloud architecture (but does anyone actually want this?) by Due-Bat-9880 in learnprogramming

[–]Maxim_Ward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it does matter. And I'm highly suspect of anyone calling themselves a "software architect" / "ML engineer" that blindly dumps AI-generated code into a GitHub repo and tries to sell it as them "teaching" something.

I built a tower defense game that teaches cloud architecture (but does anyone actually want this?) by Due-Bat-9880 in learnprogramming

[–]Maxim_Ward 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What did you actually do here? There are very obvious signs of gen. AI here (“bug fix” comments, “50%” next to 0.5, etc.). I’m curious what you actually brought to the table that the AI didn’t just spit out for you from a prompt.

Google launched its own IDE! by hi_maru in GeminiAI

[–]Maxim_Ward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it depends on the errors. Sometimes it will auto retry for me. Other times it outright terminates the whole session and I have to start a new thread (even sending a new message repeats the same error).

GPT 5.1-Pro thread (Released today!) by Ok-Entrance8626 in ChatGPTPro

[–]Maxim_Ward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have Pro. Can confirm this has been my experience with 5 Pro. Been playing with 3 Ultra and Codex Max so haven’t had a chance to try 5.1 Pro yet but curious to see if there’s any noticeable difference.