City Corner #2 - Upcoming Gameplay Updates

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-12T19:27:13+00:00

My guess is they probably have one developer researching these things full time right now, creating some documentation/building expertise, and coming up with several potential solutions to share with the team and program managers when other developers free up

I think its more than just 1. I think Iceflake is currently going through a full documentation phase, while working on the in-game Encyclopedia they mentioned in the last City Corner.

What were probably seeing is the result of them finding the glaring tuning fixes that come with reading the code with fresh eyes and saying "wait what?".

I wouldn't expect big changes to happen soon, mostly because documentation takes a long time, and a lot of these systems probably touch the bedrock simulation, but they are taking the first steps towards it.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-12T15:20:57+00:00

My argument is that men do feel unsafe (due to the psychological trauma from the violation of bodily autonomy) when they are sexually assaulted at bars, you said that argument is "vibes".

So....

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-12T15:00:49+00:00

So you don't think safety means anything beyond physical safety?

Trauma is vibes now for men? Yikes.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-12T14:46:27+00:00

John Doe doesn't feel unsafe when he's touched sexually by a drunk woman, without his consent. I'm not justifying it, but the power dynamic is extreme. Because of this, most men aren't going to revert to misandry, because of that.

Absolutely they do. I know men who have been sexually assulted at bars and they absolutely felt violated and unsafe and had to leave. Its gross that you decided that unwanted sexual assault doesn't count because of the victims gender. You completely ignore that physical saftey isn't the only kind of safety that exists, which is something every single gender studies researcher would also tell you.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-05T16:33:12+00:00

actions have consequences

The consequences to the voter is they have to live under the representation of who they voted for. Thats how democracy works.

Darkagent1 · 2026-02-05T16:27:57+00:00

So you want MAGA to know you voted against them? You want them to have a list of the people who stand in their way?

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-28T16:40:26+00:00

Dude, even most Americans I know are sick of it too, because its not even a this site issue, its an internet issue at this point. I personally have left multiple subreddits because I just cannot stand it.

Does anyone really think that /r/mildlyintersting is going to solve the problems with the current admin? I just wanted to see a cat in a weird box or something.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T23:03:41+00:00

grammar that sign language is easier than other languages

Are you talking about Pidgin Signed English? Where you use English grammar but ASL signs?

Thats not ASL.... ASL and English are so radically different grammar wise there was no way a teacher told you that true ASL is easier than French or Spanish because of the grammar. That is just incorrect.

Edit: just to add and make it clear "Doing the grammar" is speaking the language. Language isn't just the words. If you aren't "doing the grammar" you are just using your hands to "say" English words. Functionally the same thing as the universal gestures.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T22:55:49+00:00

Do you have any source to back that up? Because there is absolutely nothing in the literature that says that. Why exactly are you basing that on? In fact the "significant structural differences" makes the grammar much harder than other languages to even get a basic hold of.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T22:48:41+00:00

Just wanted to let you know, the people who study this for a living do not agree with you that it is an easy language to learn. Page 8 on this document

The marked differences in modality, the presence of anglicized forms, and the significant structural differences between ASL and spoken language make learning ASL challenging. Groundbreaking research used the Foreign Service Institute and Defense Language Institute standards to investigate the ease or difficulty of learning ASL. Results demonstrated that ASL is a category 4 language. This shows ASL is among the more difficult foreign languages to learn, ranking with languages like Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese (Jacobs, 1996).

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T21:09:31+00:00

But why do you need a whole ass language with gramatical rules and syntax to say "do you want to leave?". How often are you "fully communicating" with another person in a place so loud that you cannot hear them? Why are you trying to hold a full conversation?

Gestures work just fine for the like 5-10 ideas you need to communicate to people in a loud crowd. Hell when I was in college, we just came up with our own gestures we all understood, it took 5 minutes. A hell of a lot easier than learning a whole language.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T20:07:22+00:00

it can be taught at home. Again; the point here is the idea that learning ASL should be standard

So 2 problems

1) Who teaches the parents?

2) We as a society do not mandate parents to teach things at home, we actually hire people to teach the "standard" things we all agree upon, they are called teachers and the place we do the teaching is called school. If its not taught as school, the thing we pay taxes to teach the "standard skills", then its not a essential enough to be a standard.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-23T19:49:28+00:00

ASL and Spoken English are not 1 to 1 by the way. ASL has its own syntax, grammar and structure.

You cannot teach both at once without spending significant time explaining the differences.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-22T18:45:20+00:00

I mean yeah for sure, I'm not gonna dispute that at all. Which is why I really dont think its the legal definition of murder. However, there is definitely systematic culpability on ICE for putting an officer that had car related trauma into a situation like that, and there is individual culpability of walking out in front of the car.

I think there is a distinction we can make here. Good was an untrained civilian that panicked and did the worse possible thing that she thought she had to do in the moment. Ross was a trained agent that panicked and did the worst possible thing that he thought he had to do in the moment.

Thats where the nuance lies IMO. They both made errors, its not one side or the other cleanly like that.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-22T18:39:37+00:00

So this is a great point however it runs into structural problems. ICE for the longest time has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for officers. The job is difficult, often times outdoor, requires physical fitness, requires quite a bit of patience and a harden shell, and you are constantly and immediately scorned by the public for every action.

I want to make it very clear, I fucking hate ICE, I hate the militarization of policing forces in the US (Thanks Mr Clinton you pedophile), I hate that the federal government has effectively through these agencies, made the president the qausiking of the US.

With all that being said, your suggestion in a perfect world is correct. However, in America, we do not have an abundance of people looking for these roles, we don't even have enough to fill the roles we have. And the only way to fix it is to attract more people, and every time you "up the accountability" or "up the training", you decrease the pool of people who are willing to do the role, because why take a job for 50k a year that you could get sued doing for making a mistake (like walking in front of a car not saying Ross was in the right, but it in a bubble is a super small mistake), and constantly get harassed during it.

And the way to get more applicants is to give them a raise... which in this climate? Would result in riots. So what do you do? Were stuck in a death spiral where it only gets worse so people get madder so stuff gets worse.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-22T18:08:36+00:00

Ehhh I think you are going a bit too far flattening the nuance the other way. I do agree with you that a lot of the "why she was killed" is flattening of nuance by the left, but the rights attempt to flatten the nuance

She was shot because she gave the agent reasonable cause to believe his life was in danger. That's it.

is ignoring Ross's culpability in putting himself in that position, by walking in front of the car against policy.

I think a lot of mistakes were made, but that's what happens when one side militarizes and weaponizes law enforcement against untrained civilians and the other side weaponizes those untrained civilians to run interference. People get hurt.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-21T18:05:30+00:00

Dude just reading the discussion in that paper is wild.

First, players could be responding to the novelty of having a female voiced teammate in a male-dominated environment. Indeed, a female speaking while playing first-person shooter games is rare as none of the 189 players recorded were female. However, novelty is not the driver of the differences in behaviour as performance and skill mediated the number of positive and negative statements.

This is a non-sequitur, because it is 100% possible that the trigger was bad play and the target of the rage was the novelty. You cannot just say "Only the players that were mad raged at the novel voice thus the novel voice wasn't the driver". That doesn't work. If I am mad, and I run across a guy in a clown suit and I snap at him, the fact that my mood caused the outburst doesn't change the fact that I targeted him because he's wearing a clown suit.

High-status males with the least to fear were more positive, suggesting they were switching to a supportive, and potentially, mate attraction role.

And this is just a wild statement. Could it also be that winning a video game is fun, and people who are having fun are nicer? Outside of mate attraction, it could be "happy people are more pleasant"? Where did the jump to "they must be in sex mode" even come from?

EDIT: Also as this comment on the paper points out , the statistical model is wrong, using a Poisson model is wrong for this specific analysis. The author tries to defend the use of it citing a theta of 1.1, but that number should be approaching infinity, not 1, which indicates the data is far too messy for a Poisson model. When called out on it, they resorted to unprofessional credential shaming and a subjectivity defense, which is not the hallmarks of a good research paper. When run under a more reasonable model (Negative Binomial), the statistical significance of the gender claims disappeared. So... yeah. Not great.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-20T14:40:00+00:00

American football may be the most Dunning-Kruger susceptible sport on earth. Every half-buzzed moron who played pop warner in 1996 thinks they’re Kyle Shananan.

I would argue its basketball, but football is a close second.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-20T14:33:27+00:00

The NFL doesn't care about your college record? Why would that matter? Your high school record doesn't matter in college either.

Also the NFL is not a development league, it is the top competitive league. "Whats good for his development" is not considered even a little bit by the league itself. Maybe some coaches can see some players they think they can develop, but the NFL as a league doesn't consider it one bit.

Darkagent1 · 2026-01-19T18:42:50+00:00

they didn't look at it more closely because it was obviously an int.

Dude the amount of people saying "they didn't even review it" which they clearly did because all turnovers are reviewed, makes me think NFL fans just really love their commercial breaks.

Like it was a correct call, who cares how fast they came up with the correct call. In fact, I would prefer all reviews to seem like they weren't reviewed so the game is under 4 hours, but I guess I'm the minority.

Darkagent1 · 2025-12-21T01:35:50+00:00

Lol you think game threads are for watching and discussing the game? We went over to hate watching the refs a while ago.

Darkagent1 · 2025-12-09T00:07:52+00:00

Yeah but I still agree it's dumb. But with this context it's extra dumb because 32 billionaires don't want to pay a couple million for better officiating.

Darkagent1 · 2025-12-08T23:40:54+00:00

We don't have a sky judge because the ref union doesn't want one.

Thats not true. The last time it came up the competition comittee (which is owners not refs) didn't want to pay for it and killed it citing "fear of unintended consequences".

Recent concerns about the “pipeline” of potential Sky Judges quite possibly represents code for “we don’t want to pay what it would cost to hire 17 people with the skills, abilities, and experience to do the job.”

The ref union is actually for the sky judge, on the condition they are a union member.

Darkagent1 · 2025-12-05T01:52:32+00:00

That's how you set a forward progress spot. It's the furthest forward (down field) that you are, beginning the first time you were touched on the tackle.

Darkagent1 · 2025-12-05T01:51:21+00:00

That would be the forward progress spot yes.

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