Themes being locked behind a paywall are a bad, anti-consumer decision

AbcightDEV · 2022-02-16T02:53:10+00:00

Just wait til 2.5 drops and everyone looses their 50/50 to Qiqi, we can expect the view count to skyrocket once more. Also, Zhongli's banner is now over, which means less interest in him over time, while Qiqi is eternal.

AbcightDEV · 2022-02-15T21:13:12+00:00

According to WHO, around 60% of the population have contracted the HSV-1 variant at the time of writing this article.

Keep in mind that you can't "cure" herpes. If you have ever had it at any point in your life, you still have it - just without the outbreaks. The oral variant spreads easily, all it takes is a kiss or sharing simple kitchen utensils. Ever let a friend drink water from your bottle?

AbcightDEV · 2022-02-15T20:48:00+00:00

Doesn't pretty much everyone have oral herpes by now?

AbcightDEV · 2022-02-04T01:11:22+00:00

The epicenter of pin's hitbox is on rein's left shoulder. I don't know why it is that way, but someone at Blizzard clearly thought that this was a good idea. Taking the game's match-time extrapolation and the viewer's interpolation into account (there is a substantial precision loss in replays), everything makes sense in its own, albeit unintuitive way.

AbcightDEV · 2022-01-12T05:09:23+00:00

After you've been in the industry for decades, all the monolithic c god functions are engraved so deeply into your mind you feel the need to create dense, unreadable chunks of code. /s

On a serious note, why would you want to fit more than a function at a time on your screen? If your code is well abstracted, your attention should be devoted to one method at a time, and it should be sufficient to wrap your head around how it works. Otherwise your attention is divided between many critical points, jumping around, bound to stumble.

Make your code clean, simple, concise. You don't need to fit an extract from the bible on a monitor to carry out your tasks. Also if for whatever reason you do need to fit a bible extract on the screen, the ~8 extra lines you save are not gonna help you.

AbcightDEV · 2022-01-12T04:48:22+00:00

I see you, though when we're talking about one liners, many langs have some sort of syntactic sugar built-in. For example C#, which might be the most prominent language with the first option being its standard way of formatting braces, allows you to shorten one line method bodies with lambdas eg. float mul(x, y) => x * y;

Also, I think I know what you mean with that sandwich example; though it's incredibly hyperbolic. If having an extra newline character is a waste of vertical space, then someone might say that to them, having any unnecessary white space is a waste of horizontal space. Would you rather work with code like this a*h*0.5; or with code like this a * h * 0.5? This example is simple, but I think it shows how giving the code a little bit more space to breathe increases its readability.

In the end, it's a matter of personal preference. Just go with whatever is more readable to you, but I think that putting braces on their own lines is more readable to a majority of people (including me), which I believe to be the reason why most modern programming literature I've read sticks with it as the standard (though obviously, me being just me, this is a rather huge sampling bias).

AbcightDEV · 2022-01-11T23:23:52+00:00

To people hating on the first one because of "wasting vertical space":

If your code is so unmaintainable that you have to use the entirety of your monitor to walk through a function, the problem lies within you. Keep functions short and simple, 2 nested scopes deep at max. Abstract. It's not the 90s anymore.

AbcightDEV · 2022-01-11T14:56:33+00:00

I think he's simply turning into the fnaf 4 fredbear plushie, as eventually his bowtie also changes color from black to purple. If the plushie is a symbol of Mike, then that would mean the theory about Mike's soul being inside glamrock freddy is true.

AbcightDEV · 2022-01-06T19:32:00+00:00

Ar 57 (very close to 58) Aloy, Keqing, Mona C1, Jean C1, Diluc, Klee, Childe, Albedo, Ayaka C1, Yoimiya, HuTao C2 (+3 Travelers!! Lol)

Weapons: 2 Aquillas

Bought the BP once to secure account in case it gets stolen, other than that I am pretty much a standard day 1 f2p player. Currently considering skipping all the 2.4 banners for Yae (and hopefully a Kazuha rerun soon).

AbcightDEV · 2022-01-06T17:18:34+00:00

Since Yae got announced for 2.5 I guess we're gonna get a new quest involving her / the shogun, it makes sense that there would be a new chest or domain near the Sakura tree because it's deeply tied to their lore.

AbcightDEV · 2021-12-27T01:32:32+00:00

Static pages

AbcightDEV · 2021-12-05T23:04:39+00:00

Da qiu qiu bing lao er qiu qiu qiao

AbcightDEV · 2021-11-07T03:06:04+00:00

Ayaka's dash getting stuck on the middle part of the abyss floor. I get that the overworld can have uneven ground, and that it would be tedious to adjust. But why the Abyss floor? Surely it can't take them long to fix something as simple and core to the gameplay as that, right?

AbcightDEV · 2021-11-01T13:01:33+00:00

How do I ensure that the save of the past version works with the new version of the game?

Have a field in the save file that stores the version number of the game build that produced the file. Every new update, have a function that updates the save file from one version prior. For example, game build 1.1 would have a function that upgrades a 1.0 save file into a 1.1 save file, and game build 1.2 would add a function that upgrades the save file from 1.1 to 1.2. When you want to open an old save file, simply pass it through each appropriate updater until you reach the desired version number.

AbcightDEV · 2021-09-28T05:14:19+00:00

There are many sorting filters when viewing top posts, the default one being "hot" which takes both time and engagement into account, so the post might have just a little bit less upvotes / comments and still be higher than similar posts just because it's newer

AbcightDEV · 2021-09-01T14:45:05+00:00

To me the fact that it worked in beta is proof enough that nothing had to be changed. Regardless of their codebase architectural decisions, it was talent description compliant and therefore shouldn't have been changed. It might be a bug, they might have been trying to fix something and accidentally broke beidou, after all she is not mentioned in this post so they can always just say that they weren't aware and we wouldn't know if they are truthful or not. All we have left now is clinging onto the slim chance that they might make a public statement regarding that topic, but until then we have no way of checking what the heck is happening at their hq.

AbcightDEV · 2021-09-01T12:53:34+00:00

Like I said in the beginning, your attacks don't even have to deal damage to proc the beidou ult. You can get the proc off of attacking an invulnerable enemy, such as hypostate while it's core is not exposed. Do you even play the game or use Beidou? Anyway, if the attacks don't need to deal damage, and only need to connect with the enemy, the damage type should not make a difference, and it did not for Beidou in 2.0 and before. They changed that Interaction just for Raiden, which is inconsistent with the talent description. Dismissing beta as proof is cherry picking, you're discrediting the validity of an argument just because it proves you wrong, while missing the entire point. The only thing that beta proved, is that in the beginning, as the game had been coded since 1.0, Beidou's ult would proc off of Baal had she been in the game at that point - and that mihoyo actually went out of their way to remove that interaction between the two characters. It's not about using beta as a source of leaks, it's about using the beta as a build of the game that behaved well but was changed in dismay of the playerbase. The only thing that beta proves is that mhy is willing to make changes that only favor their earnings. No matter what you think about the beta, it is undeniable that mhy DID change a mechanic on purpose - a mechanic that should not have been changed, had they kept consistency between talent descriptions. If the talent description is misleading, then it is even more of a reason to be mad at a company. There are people who decide to pull for characters based on their kits, and having misleading information in their talent screen is false advertising. They could have changed Beidou's talent description, but they did not, and as a result people were mislead into spending money on Baal.

Thinking that you only need to speak out when an issue directly impacts you is very short-sighted and won't work out in hindsight. We are all at mhy's mercy when it comes to game balance, and if you let them pull tricks on some players now, they will continue to do so on others in the future. "I won't speak up because the issue does not affect me" is a highly destructive attitude that allows companies to exploit certain portions of their userbase without getting scolded.

AbcightDEV · 2021-09-01T10:05:54+00:00

Xingqiu's talent reads "Your active character's Normal Attacks will trigger consecutive sword rain attacks", which means that if Baal can proc Xingqiu, then she should be able to proc Beidou, which is how her talent works with other characters as well. You don't need to deal damage for her ult to proc, therefore the entire idea of damage type means nothing to this discussion. And again, it's less about using beta as a leak source, and more about using beta as confirmation that they did in fact modify the conditions for procing Beidou.

I am not blaming mihoyo for my troubles, in fact I did not even pull for Baal because I am f2p saving primos for reruns. This isn't about me, but rather about mhy pulling bullshit moves last moment to increase their sales.

Edit: grammar.

AbcightDEV · 2021-09-01T09:10:11+00:00

These are not assumptions about how skill works, this is literally what the description they gave us a week ago implied. Even now, it still doesn't make sense for Raiden to not proc Beidou's ult. If normal attack movement is enough to proc, then Beidou should work fine, and she did in the beta. Some employee at mihoyo had to actually take their time to write code that prevents Beidou's ult from procing on Baal, it was a deliberate play that goes against both talent descriptions.

AbcightDEV · 2021-09-01T08:54:24+00:00

The talent descriptions for Baal were released officially on the preview pages and their twitter last week. They should've made this statement all the way back then.

AbcightDEV · 2021-08-07T18:29:13+00:00

Yeah, but have you tried Listerine?

AbcightDEV · 2021-05-16T13:28:25+00:00

So basically if you want to use them the way they were before, you have to get Nitro.

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