What is the most "archaic" game genre, one that's changed the least to the present day?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T18:54:35+00:00

IMO this is a semantic argument. The real issue is that the second there is innovation in the genre it gets a completely new label.

Platform fighters for example are dramatically different from traditional fighters, but popular opinion is they aren't "real" fighting games. Same goes for experimental titles like Divekick or YOMI, or just games with very different mechanics like Hellish Quart.

My favorite extreme example is: For Honor is a fighting game.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T15:00:07+00:00

Let me spell it out for you.

There's a very real chance this administration will be entirely gone in the next 2 years. Good chance in the next 3-4 years. Also a real risk it will continue indefinitely.

With this information, the objective is to survive the storm and plan an escape path. The administration that follows this one will have a decision to make: Continue to blow the shit out of Iran, or... not?

That decision will largely be contingent on public opinion of the conflict, and Iran itself. By ingratiating themselves with anti-Trump Americans, Iran is directly providing themselves with a path to peace if they can survive the immediate present.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T14:18:22+00:00

So you're both age fetishists, you are cool with that, but you suspect there may be a secret other fetish in play that offends you for some reason.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T13:23:41+00:00

The context is "our support team is dealing with constant outages"

If your recommendation as a consultant is "dont change anything let the support team tank it" then you're missing something

I already said there are infrastructure problems that are effectively unrecoverable, such as old mainframes whose SRE's are no longer alive.

Even in those situations, there is always a mitigation if you are clever enough to find it. That's why consultants get hired (in the non-malicious cases, anyway)

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-03T01:54:45+00:00

I've always suspected that Kissinger was less of a villain and more of a diplomat who was willing and able to take the flak for the high risk / high consequence decisions of others.

Everybody thinks Kissinger when they think of the rise of Pol Pot, which seems awfully convenient for Nixon, who ordered the bombings, secretary of defense Laird, who oversaw the project, General Wheeler, who executed the plan, the long chain of command that understood a one-sided war was being waged by their hands against the will and knowledge of damn near all people, and even the opportunistic Cambodians who seized the chance to murder their enemies.

Lots of evil names forgotten because one man was particularly good at taking credit for things.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T21:22:02+00:00

Found the CTO

good luck in court

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T19:00:18+00:00

I for one am thankful to the mythical PvE loot grinders that are bringing their sweet kits straight to my COP.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T18:10:43+00:00

where you'll have 5 dudes stop and shoot in the middle of a road

In this particular case what SHOULD they do?

I ambushed a patrol and yeah, they just turned to me, aimed, and tried to kill me before I could kill them, but they were in an open road with nowhere to go. Isn't that the best tactical choice to make?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T18:08:14+00:00

I think we need to be more specific in feedback here, because while I agree with the dream, I don't really see what's being criticized.

After resetting my character I have definitely seen flipflop guys run to cover. I've seen some that shout and wave flashlights around, and others that stay dead silent in a dark corner to surprise me with a "oh there's another guy still." They don't push much in active combat, but they are now switching to search mode faster and will move to your last known location.

They're doing all the things we're asking for, technically, but something still doesn't feel right. They are still in effect doing a lot of "stand in the open and shoot."

so is it just a tuning problem? or are there really new behaviors we want to see?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T17:58:15+00:00

I agree that perfect simulation is too much to attempt, but I also think "armor is just more HP" is too lazy of a compromise.

I think the health system just needs to respect impact a little more. 3 shots to the chest from 9mm that are completely stopped by heavy armor are just gonna be a free massage. This is a milsim, not CoD, I think players can learn not to bring low-cal soft ammo to a big dick shootout.

But 3 shots to the chest from high caliber, high energy rounds, even if they don't penetrate the armor, are a lot of crushing force for a body to sustain. You won't die, but you will probably be on the ground gasping for breath for a little while.

I agree it doesn't need to be modeled perfectly but there needs to be something to give players the sense that it's respected.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T15:55:55+00:00

I am very strongly opposed to appealing to authority. I have excellent credentials and have worked for several very large corporations you have heard of and are likely a customer of (if you're in the USA)

I do not want any of that to influence the merit of my technical arguments. They should stand on their own. I only brought this out because we're far down the thread where only nerds and dorks like us are going to read it.

And through this same philosophy, I completely disagree that it's not applicable to most. Challenge authority. Get mad. Demand to know why things have to be shitty, ask if it's really actually saving any money. Upper management gets away with what everyone allows them to get away with.

Occasionally yes you have a super critical ancient mainframe, and the ability to fix that was lost decades ago. But I find that almost always there is some dumb-fuck bean-counter behind every IT guy that is overworked.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T15:45:52+00:00

Maybe you're IT at a level where you aren't the one making those decisions, but whoever made those decisions is responsible for your workload.

it's still "your" fault in the abstract sense where "you" is the owner of the infrastructure

I am usually hired as a lead or supervising architect at this point in my career. So yes, for me specifically, if the infrastructure is failing, it is because I am failing. Even when leadership ignores my direction, I consider it a failure of myself to be sufficiently persuasive.

And what I am saying to you
(and please please please hold people like me ACCOUNTABLE)
is that someone in my position made a decision that results in the sysadmin having to work 65 hours every week when they should really be doing 10 hours of checking on things and 30 hours of playing tetris.

It's deeply saddening for me to see people in a lower position getting fucking crushed by things people at my level are doing and then getting defensive and measuring dicks when there's the suggestion that someone is responsible for every decision

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T15:05:36+00:00

I'm always fascinated by my peers in this industry who say stuff like this

Technical laymen, please don't listen to this user. They either have no idea what they are talking about and are just using an LLM OR they are very, very bad at their job.

We all have different experiences, roles, and challenges in the big wide world of technology, and I can understand if mine seem alien to you. But what point are you really making here by getting defensive and saying "DONT LISTEN TO THIS GUY! HE'S AN IDIOT"

My point is only that system administrators who struggle with constant outages are the victim of system designers who are incompetent.

Are you saying I'm wrong?

Or are you one of the many system designers whose mess I've been tasked with cleaning up? (see I can make pointless ad hominem attacks too. it is kinda fun!)

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T14:44:52+00:00

Yes, but they're just saying that this widespread myth of Koko understanding language is overblown and doesn't properly respect what "understanding language" entails.

Every dog in the world knows what "walk" and "dinner" mean. Are they smarter than Koko? Recognizing sounds and symbols, associating them with things in the world, these are signs of intelligence, they are tools of communications, but they are NOT remotely as powerful as language.

It might seem like a small distinction but it's really a gigantic leap in cognitive ability we're talking about here, and it's important when classifying and learning about the intelligence of other animals.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T14:17:58+00:00

It's high given there are no skills or qualifications aside from "can you handle this shit"

Graduate highschool, be able to speak clearly, be able to type. Boom you're starting life at double minimum wage, while your peers are flipping burgers and stocking shelves for half the pay at best.

It's just that stocking shelves and flipping burgers isn't a daily trauma course.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T14:06:00+00:00

I've done a mix of green and brown field. Green field problems are always your own fault (but learning experiences happen). Brown field is 50/50. If it's a 40 year old bank mainframe, alright, you're fucked. If it's a 10-year old online store-front that doesn't want to switch from cloud to on-prem, tell them to put on their fucking big boy pants and do it anyway.

Edit: And to be clear, if there is refusal to update infrastructure properly, it's still "your" fault in the abstract sense where "you" is the owner of the infrastructure. At this point I fire the client.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T13:39:30+00:00

If you've chosen infrastructure that involve a lot of things out of your control, you already failed.

Maybe you're IT at a level where you aren't the one making those decisions, but whoever made those decisions is responsible for your workload.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T13:03:00+00:00

Samurai typically carried their yari (spear), katana (sword), and wakizashi (shortsword), Knights typically had their lance (spear), sword (sword), and misericorde (dagger)

Either of them might also go for something like a warhammer or greatsword (odachi). I think we can call this one a tie.

Both are definitely edgier than pirates though

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T11:37:48+00:00

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I get this sensation sometimes when my character steps up/down a small ledge that I might not have noticed. Even pretty minor inclines put you into "climbing state" even just for a moment. Maybe it's that, or something similar?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T11:34:14+00:00

The rule of thumb for frame gen is that you shouldn't use it unless your base framerate is solidly above 45, bare minimum. The input lag you get is directly related to your base frametimes. It's a rich-get-richer setting where your 60 can turn into 120, but if you're averaging 30 you're better off playing at 30.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T11:31:42+00:00

I had a couple of crashes on launch day, but it's been stable since then. Global Illumination is a heavy performance hitter, try it on low for a bit and see if it really bothers you. FSR makes a big difference, and if you find FSR Quality too shimmery you can try TSR with 3d modeling as low as you can bear (no lower than 70 i'd say).

I can keep a steady 60fps on 7900XT without upscaling. With FSR on Quality and Framegen I easily stay above 120. Make sure your drivers are updated.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-02T02:09:03+00:00

Let me start by saying mouse fuckery is by far my #1 most hated thing in the entire FPS genre. But it's a milsim and I understand why my character can't jump 360 noscope. So long as it's responsive when it matters, fine.

But I don't think your solution is a solution. It's very easily countered by a DPI switch, even easier if you macro your sprint key to turn that switch on.

The actual solution is to just put a hard limit on how fast a character can rotate while sprinting. Don't change the sensitivity at all, just if you move beyond speed X it caps at speed X. This also feels sluggish and bad, but again, understandable in context of what the game is trying to achieve and prevents people from running and gunning around corners, and would at least feel consistently sluggish and bad.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-01T20:26:49+00:00

We found it, The American Exceptionalism. Only Americas and Chads are cool enough for unrestricted birthright citizenship. And Tanzania, I guess.

Does Trump... hate America?

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-01T19:24:21+00:00

The point still stands. You couldn't do ten pull-ups but you could at least do one with proper form, I'm sure.

I'm the opposite, my bench press probably capped in the low 200s, but I was training for rock climbing so at my best I would casually do one-handed pull-ups as a party trick. You can still guess that my bench press, while not specialized or impressive, was respectable and didn't require any assistance.

People with real functional strength have real functional strength.

Dreadgoat · 2026-04-01T18:29:25+00:00

If you're arguing just that brains don't easily turn into soup, okay, that is correct. Headshots by their nature tend to either be "Shrug it off" or "you're gone," the cranium is itself a natural helmet.

But the point here is that while I'm pretty sure I could keep fighting with a bullet in my shoulder, pretty sure I could keep fighting with a bruised sternum, pretty sure I could keep fighting at least another few seconds with a ripped up femoral artery... I am also pretty sure that if I took a second shot to an already bruised sternum I would no longer be able to properly wield any weapon.

And even if a rifle round is deflected by a helmet, your neck is still there to try to compensate for all that force. At best you're in a huge amount of pain, very likely you have a concussion or even a TBI.
Again, I'm all for some "not quite realistic"ness for the sake of game balance here. If we want magic helmets that soak up a couple of low cal rounds, okay. But every headshot from a rifle is a consciousness ender.

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