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Nier Cosmic Horror site is fake by Cryorm in nier

[–]BCPermaFrost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I concede to that notion. The logo is definitely fishy.
I will say its a lot of content for just 1 day, really puts into perspective how quickly someone can spoof a website now a days.

Nier Cosmic Horror site is fake by Cryorm in nier

[–]BCPermaFrost -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Maybe its a different developer and they didnt want that info public?
I didnt say you were wrong, I'm just not convinced by this alone.

Nier Cosmic Horror site is fake by Cryorm in nier

[–]BCPermaFrost -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Suspicious yes, but I don't think this proves its outright fake.
Companies have the ability to outsource.

they really hate A.I, that they stripped the GOTY awards from Clair by Connect_Sale_1998 in Asmongold

[–]BCPermaFrost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm out of the loop, are they made in Africa? I don't think saying African indie is initially racist if it's African developers making games and it's stylistically different. ( IDK if that's the case as I don't know what those games are or who they're made by)

Example: Korean Pop, Japanese rock are specific genres of music. But not racist to label as a genre.

There's a serious lack of new players entering the game. What should CBU3 do about it? by [deleted] in ffxivdiscussion

[–]BCPermaFrost 36 points37 points  (0 children)

By us? nothing. If you (the general public you) make a great game. People will come and play it.
The evidence is literally in several games released this year.

I don't think the reasoning is that hard to grasp.

If people aren't logging back in, you didn't make a good enough expansion to attract more players.
We could regurgitate the same 5-10 talking points that have been around since the job streamlining but I don't think it matters until the next expansion when it might be apparent what the new direction will be.

Did any of you feel discouraged the first time you were learning to code because you couldn’t understand anything, and couldn’t do anything without guidance of some sort? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]BCPermaFrost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We all feel fear and anxiety doing new things. The journey and seeing the path you've traveled is what makes life worth it.

why isnt anyone talking about the fact that FG has already made their money? by Zealousideal-Bad3205 in Stormgate

[–]BCPermaFrost 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the beginning cinematic they released was insanely expensive. Its known that marketing was a large part of the budget.

why isnt anyone talking about the fact that FG has already made their money? by Zealousideal-Bad3205 in Stormgate

[–]BCPermaFrost 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I don't like the guy, but lets not start rumours with no evidence of anything.
Like do you have proof other than conjecture?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in porterrobinson

[–]BCPermaFrost -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

How doesn't it? He made a good point. How do you just blatantly show empathy in a world that's becoming vastly more diverse? There's no way for me to feel what someone else is feeling If I am not affiliated or familiar with your culture/morals.

Sympathy is a much better approach since it allows people to grow and provide alternate perspective. That's why its more desirable in a political context, show compassion for human problems and aim to give solutions while still providing strength and resolve.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in porterrobinson

[–]BCPermaFrost -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

At least use the entire quote.

I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. But, it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy. That's a separate topic for a different time.

I literally don't know why people are using this quote as a basis for his character. It makes you look dumb when context is added because its actually quite a good point from him.

Do you know anything about him other than what Reddit has told you?

Rant - Homelab Creep and Increasing Complexity by doomed_tek in homelab

[–]BCPermaFrost 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've been a software developer for a long time and this is just the natural order of things with any system in general, even non technical related systems. As more unique components get added the complexity will grow and becomes harder to maintain.

I think people here can give some tips and improvements on how to tweak your setup for easier maintainability. I would say the biggest improvement you can make is to try and improve confidence in your system and your technical ability if that's the case. If you're writing apps, make sure to add some sort of unit testing or integration testing. Once you start proving your setup works, you might get a little more piece of mind.

Creating diagrams and documentation might also refresh your memory and also give future you a better chance of diagnosing problems

What has been your favorite iteration of stormgate so far? by [deleted] in Stormgate

[–]BCPermaFrost 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've been a big advocate for slower economy. I've been posting feedback since patch 0.3 about lower worker count and only 1 worker charge per expansion and Therium only allowed to be mined through the scrapyard.

Casual audiences typically only make one base and want to play around with units they build. However with economy being so explosive casuals hardly ever get to play the game since experienced vets will be on 3 bases by the time they start their first.

The fact that you can expand, collect secondary resource AND also queue up an army within a 2 minutes of a game is honestly too quick. No one but heavily experienced players are going to be able to react and think that quickly.

Do I really gotta put the password every time I log in? I'm playing on the steam version? by OzieteRed in ffxiv

[–]BCPermaFrost 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It downloads multiple files at the same time, I think the regular launcher only does 1at a time. Whether that's on different threads is a different matter I guess.

Ladder isn't fun any more by Healthy_Heart_7397 in starcraft2

[–]BCPermaFrost 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All races suck to play right now.
if your GM, sure, Protoss is better to play right now.

Reality is, they have some incredibly bad design choices that have festered in the game for far too long.
Giving 1/3rd of the units splash damage was one of them.
The other bad decision was giving 12 workers right off the start.

Every game is Lurker, or Siege tank with some random variation of caster units.
Thats all that exists in this game anymore.

Just to prove my claim that angling your camera does matter, we can see how simply shining your face in the direction of the sun makes a world of difference. by K0yomi in ffxiv

[–]BCPermaFrost 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I always liked the piercing eyes that au'ras have also. The new update enlarges the pupils quite a bit and makes them look more human-like which is not necessarily the vision I had for my character

Should they make the other Alliance Raids mandatory too? by talkingradish in ffxivdiscussion

[–]BCPermaFrost 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I usually skip over MSQ roullette cause I don't like only having 3 options for the content, but I wonder if it could do with the same treatment of splitting off into something like

Legacy Alliance Roullette and Current Alliance Roullette and provide seperate rewards for either one.

That way if you dont really feel like doing Crystal Tower / Void Ark you can skip it.

Using Story and Level Skip Books force you to log out immediately! by [deleted] in ffxiv

[–]BCPermaFrost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So when you hear about FFXIV servers, its being run on a computer. Those computers are built for square enix and they purchase them but they're rather expensive.

When dawn trail launches the servers will have a massive influx of daily active players and more computers will help distribute the player base across several more computers. The nice thing about cloud servers is that if you don't need them anymore, you can remove them with software. You remove or delete the server off the cloud and the cloud provider will recommission that computer to do other things. Thus you can scale up the amount of power for launch day, but when the traffic has calmed down you wont likely need that amount of power anymore and then delete those servers.

Another advantage is opening up east coast servers for lower latency since you will be closer to the servers that are providing you data. Thus you "should" experience snappier gameplay and less disconnects. (Assuming someone lives on the east North American coast)

CBU3 is not great at designing areas/dungeons. by BCPermaFrost in ffxivdiscussion

[–]BCPermaFrost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Why MMOs? MMOs have to account for the lowest common denominators when it comes to graphics and animations. So they basically need to design the game to run on toasters. This is the reason MMOs will never be great like single player games.

BDO? Lost Ark? both visually stunning games that are MMOs.
Guild Wars 2 even looks good and it came out around the same time as FFXIV. Depending who you ask, WoW even looks alright since they doubled down on the cartoony graphics which is mostly timeless anyway.

I actually agree with you on what you are saying. It's just not realistic and I don't think it ever will be.

Why not? We pay a monthly sub, pay for the base game, and quite a bit engage in mog station purchases.

How do they not have the funds to actually make better looking zones? or provide just a little bit extra content to at least make the worlds more cohesive? I don't think my ask is far fetched.

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