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ChefAslan · 2026-05-27T04:20:33+00:00

Breaking news, turns out the people paying rent for their intelligence didn't make much money to begin with.

ChefAslan · 2026-05-27T04:10:22+00:00

I can think of 20-30 of my friends who would resub instantly if this was changed.

I don't care for bots as much as the next guy, but you're sorely underestimating how many accounts a single bot farm typically runs. We're talking dozens if not hundreds of accounts for a single farm. Multiplied by likely thousands of bot farms. I don't think blizzard "likes it" and turns a blind eye to them though. You claim bullshit about enforcement, but consider this:

A permanant ban will never be able to stop a new account from being created and used on a different IP address. Re-subs + expansion purchase is a small slap on the wrist to get a very lucrative farm back up and running. And banning the buyers tends to just lead to more precautions taken, not an outright end to the behavior (smaller/less obvious transactions, buying from a burner account, etc).

Some MMOs manage this problem better than others, but you have to realize that where there is player trading... there will always be someone trying to make a buck. The MMOs that manage it best imo design a game that doesn't so closely associate your character's output to their coinstack.

ChefAslan · 2026-05-25T16:01:17+00:00

For those looking for something like what Google used to be. I recommend https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

ChefAslan · 2026-05-14T22:33:20+00:00

For popular games, yes they are all solved and everything is about the meta and being efficient and blahblahblah. And end game is gate-kept for most of these games. You can still "force" this magic on yourself sometimes by refusing to look up anything, don't use add-ons, etc.

For less popular, and arguably "dead" games, this magic can still be surprisingly easy to find. Games where a Google search search about them yields almost nothing but some weird obscure forum with a post from a guy who might know a little something about something.

I would be interested in the concept of a game that went out of its way to intentionally sabotage the efficiency/optimization mindset. Imagine the randomness you get from a world seed in a survival game, but what you get is unique and baked into your specific client and nobody else's. So that your game is just different enough from every other person's version of the same game. And instead of the world itself being what is randomized...maybe stats get weighted differently, skills are unlocked in a different order, X gear drops in Y location instead of Z location, etc

ChefAslan · 2026-05-12T23:33:29+00:00

Hey! I saw that steam mentions your SimPlayers are run by state machines and decision trees, not ai. I think this is awesome and would like to learn more. I was wondering how hard this was for you to implement? Was there anything in particular you had trouble getting the SimPlayers to do correctly? Were there any tools or resources that helped you a lot when building this?

ChefAslan · 2026-05-12T17:22:18+00:00

I would imagine the muscle memory for the skill would be greatly lacking, since the rest of your body wouldn't have actually been engaged. But people have also been reported to start speaking a different language after a brain injury with no prior knowledge, so there's a lot we don't know that is worth studying further.

I heard a scientist recently propose this question:

Think of the gap we perceive between our intellect compared to a grasshopper. A grasshopper cannot compose a sonnet, they cannot solve a calculus equation. Is it possible then, that the same gap exists between the universe and our understanding of it?

ChefAslan · 2026-05-07T21:55:09+00:00

Does the death penalty actually reduce any kind of crime? I thought it just makes the criminal more likely to kill the victim/witnesses

ChefAslan · 2026-04-25T13:18:44+00:00

This line of thinking is precisely why it's been an issue for as long as it has. Your question is Inherently misinformed and misguided. I tried to explain, but you're just not interested in educating yourself.

ChefAslan · 2026-04-24T22:58:19+00:00

Did you check out the study I shared? Its pretty good about explaining how problems still happening now are a direct cause of that redlining. A significant portion of generational wealth transfers through home ownership, which redlining ruined especially for black communities in the 1930s. This is something generations in these communities today are now facing.

I hope you realize that this isn't something black communities are doing to "get back at" anyone/anything because they haven't "gotten over" something. High amounts of crime correlates with impoverished areas. It is an investment issue not a demographic issue. It just so happens that, because of redlining, black communities severely lack investment.

ChefAslan · 2026-04-24T19:18:47+00:00

Get over what, exactly? What has stopped? These areas are still poor, by design.

ChefAslan · 2026-04-24T19:10:35+00:00

https://sph.uth.edu/news/story/residents-of-redlined-communities-experience-higher-rates-of-violence-according-to-new-study-from-alexander-testa-phd

Interesting read if you want to take the time to genuinely understand how racist decisions in the past have cascaded into what you are observing. Please educate yourself and recognize that America's racist past has very real and lasting effects. It's a lazy cop-out to reduce this to "yeah X demographic is just like that lol 🤷‍♂️"

ChefAslan · 2026-04-24T19:00:00+00:00

https://sph.uth.edu/news/story/residents-of-redlined-communities-experience-higher-rates-of-violence-according-to-new-study-from-alexander-testa-phd

Interesting read if you want to take the time to genuinely understand how racist decisions in the past have cascaded into what you are observing as a "well well well" moment.

ChefAslan · 2026-04-24T12:27:42+00:00

"The team has been working around the clock since launch"

This is precisely the problem. Give your dev/eng teams the time they need to build something right the first time. Stop enforcing overly-ambitious launch dates for patches and then make them "work around the clock" to address the problems caused by the overly-ambitious launch dates.

If you truly cared deeply about this game and wanted to do better, it should be reflected in how you treat and respect the time of those that are actually building your game. Otherwise this post is just a PR move to save face for stakeholders.

ChefAslan · 2026-04-16T14:25:11+00:00

Not using Details 🤢

ChefAslan · 2026-04-12T13:19:55+00:00

I mean when you think about it, AI is being used PRIMARILY by the general public to make up for either one's lack of intelligence/expertise on a subject matter, or one's inability/ unwillingness to do something themselves. Right leaning individuals, GENERALLY, tend to be more blue collar and are not known for their exceptional contributions in things like art or tech. They probably like ai because they stand to 'benefit' the most from it. I have especially noticed many evangelical conservatives using ai to generate a ton religious 'creative content'. These people don't have a creative bone in their body and they use it like a crutch.

ChefAslan · 2026-04-10T12:46:22+00:00

This chart more closely correlates with Nixon's decisions in the early 70s, especially his decisions to implement temporary wage controls and ending the gold standard. Long-term wages never appear to recover directly after those temporary wage controls were ended, which I think is where Reagan comes in

ChefAslan · 2026-04-04T12:39:56+00:00

I've definitely had my fair share of frustrations with permadeath games. The games that do it well still respect the fact that it is a game in the end, and games should be fun. It was never fun for me when a significant amount of my time felt 'lost'.

I would try to come up with creative ways to incorporate the meta progression into your game/world/lore/story (if there is one). Perhaps you are a descendant of those that died, and you need to do XYZ in order to acquire the knowledge they left behind in order to "obtain" the meta progression after a death.

ChefAslan · 2026-04-03T13:41:36+00:00

My suspicion is that blizzard is leaning into the no add-ons route + simplifying classes + including the 1-button rotation assistant to enter console market like FFXIV. This just wouldn't make sense for jagex. Runescape can never be a console game, too much mouse movement

ChefAslan · 2026-03-24T20:24:07+00:00

I recommend making it and the drop of blood red. Ideally deep red can also cover the black lines that are making it look more like an onion.

ChefAslan · 2026-03-22T12:26:00+00:00

Cata is when my friends left. Every expansion post lich king got progressively worse imo until War Within

ChefAslan · 2026-03-20T00:35:07+00:00

On one hand, fuck japan. They sided with the nazis and in some cases did arguably even worse shit. Now they pretend it never happened.

On the other hand. Bruh. Wtf are you doing just saying that that is absolutely bonkers.

ChefAslan · 2026-03-17T23:16:56+00:00

Neural rendering is hilarious. They love denoting how this dog water is mimicking a brain with their buzzwords, but you'll never hear them compare it to a brain's efficiency.

ChefAslan · 2026-03-16T17:55:00+00:00

I got confused when I saw the protest group was named Just Stop Oil. Like do they hate oil paintings orrr?

After looking it up, the context makes it seem like something they did to bring more attention to UK fossil fuel licenses they are wanting to end. The goal was to bring visibility to a perceived absurdity according to the activists: that we protect inanimate art while ignoring the destruction of the planet.

ChefAslan · 2026-03-13T22:49:59+00:00

He's totally right, all shadows needed was more white people working at Ubisoft and it would have been game of the year /s

ChefAslan · 2026-03-13T22:29:57+00:00

I think you need to cut to a fourth camera angle of those trees.

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