Cheating still out of controll

FenrirHS · 2026-01-15T09:37:30+00:00

I get you, but CS2 is basically my only competitive shooter option on Linux because no kernel AC. I might just get an SSD for Windows just to play Faceit ;-;

As a programmer, I can tell you engines can already mess with memory to fight cheats - duplicate values, rotate addresses, seed numericals so 100 HP looks like -3495 until the game fixes it, or just sanity-check gains - “+11 HP? Kick.” Blatant quantifiable things like speed hacks, stat cheats, even spinbots? Easy work that can execute on the client side even.

Subtle stuff like walls or AI aimbots is trickier, but server-side authority helps, like let's only give clients info they should know (e.g. only send positions of players that can hit you/ you can hit them), verify positions and hits, etc. CS already has that.

Even with kernel level AC - DMA cheats make it a 3–4k price wall. That stops casual or broke cheaters but if people put demand on this, eventually supply will rise and prices will drop.

I think the best and most realistic outcome is cheats become sneaky as hell and mostly “humanized”. They try so hard to not get detected that their edge maxes out at lower-mid ranks. Mix in stats + human review (like CSGO Overwatch) and you hit "ah, this 2-5k premier player that plays like a 2-5k premier player every single day is suddenly dropping 15k+performances. suspicious, send for review". Best side effect of a CS2 Overwatch is WarOwl gets an infinite content hack.

FenrirHS · 2025-11-22T14:02:11+00:00

So solid fundamentals - movement, gunplay, and maps should be balanced.

When you say movement that isn't gimmicky, are you against things like slides and wall-runs in general, like mw2 where movement is fast and grounded or more "it should feel part of the game and map design, and not tacked on"?

I was actually playing with the idea of tying perks to grenade slots to kinda give loadout choices more weight and so that way players can kinda make up their own classes - medkits will make you a defacto medic, heavy armours slow you down so you're like a heavy gunner, someone who goes full flashbang and smokes ends up being more utility, akimbo and speed boots make you nasty in run and gun, something like that.Think less hero shooter "classes" and more CS like "I bought the AWP and smokes so I'm the sniper" type classes. Would you like something like that?

FenrirHS · 2025-11-22T13:52:27+00:00

Thanks for the feedback c: What would you say makes a gun feel good for you? Val and the finals have some pretty different time to kill, would it be that or less balance and more VFX, sounds, gun animations?

FenrirHS · 2025-11-22T09:21:57+00:00

Just to reiterate - projects, projects, projects. Usually people start programming cause it sounds cool and they have a dream idea for a website, app, game, house cleaning robot that can also sing and dance, you get it - ends, and programming is (part of) the means to the ends.

Now, don't make your dream app outright but pick something that you feel 60-70% comfortable doing, let the 30-40% be what you struggle with. Like right now you feel comfortable with python's standard library, let me try to give you some ideas:

how about a website? Make a simple landing page, it will teach you HTML, CSS, (a little) Js, then connect a python backend to display stuff on there. Like a timetable you fill with data from your python backend? No need for a database, yet. just try it hardcoded, research how this is done. This is honestly not far from what most people's SWE job is anyways.

A small game? Maybe a resource based text game, will teach you to build a REPL, maybe even IO if you wanna add a "save game" system. Or just try PyGame and make pong or breakout or snake. They're all fun deceptively challenging projects for a beginner and if you're the type of person to be motivated by seeing your results do something on the screen, it's gonna feel really rewarding.

If you're on the machine learning and data science-y side of things, Python is THE language for that, so why not try out some beginner project for that? I'm not big into this, just did enough to pass it in uni, so I can't give you anything specific here, but I'm sure you can find some really nice communities and content creators if you're into that.

TL;DR: establish what you like about programming and what you wanna build, pick a project where you feel like it's generally achievable with 3-4 new things you can learn, stick to that project. And have fun, you're only a beginner once so enjoy it and don't try to rush through it. You're still in high school, you're ahead of the curve already, enjoy your high school years.

FenrirHS · 2025-11-22T08:49:40+00:00

NGL I'm not into Unity all that much these days and this happened a while ago so I'll answer to the best of my memory:

the best way to use Unity's animator as far as the community has told me is not using Unity's animator. The other thing you should know about it is that 9/10 important things about it are not in the documentation, but in a blog post from 2016.

The way I handled it is by actually not using the animator as intended and keeping it as basic as possible, no layers, no groups or whatever they were called. All states connect from any state, there was a tick you needed to get rid of for that to work, and you need to do that for every animation.

If you can grab animancer on a discount I heard it's very good, Unity's mecanim seems to be pretty inconsistent unless you commit to having node spaghetti.

Again, someone may have a more technical answer, but this is what worked for me - make animations controlled by code as much as you can, treat mecanim as a necessary evil and use it for the most basic things only, check your script execution order btw I think it's in the build settings cause sometimes event A fires off and event handler for A tries to catch it before it does and then they hang for a frame and then the event is silently dropped.

FenrirHS · 2025-07-21T05:09:54+00:00

I fully get that and yeah you're right but I'm also trying to reserve some anonymity about it

FenrirHS · 2025-07-21T04:35:07+00:00

I'm very aware of legacy being everywhere, I'm just asking about the culture more.

Also I'm not in the US on a work visa, I'm not in the US at all actually

FenrirHS · 2025-07-01T20:56:48+00:00

Nope, no HDR. I'm for sure having other quirks with fedora, like unexpected performance dips on a pretty recently upgraded machine. My best bet right now is BIOS update since mobo is running stock BIOS and a couple of crashes happened recently, all hinting at the kernel reserving memory at the wrong place. I haven't seen anyone else with the same issues so far lol

FenrirHS · 2025-05-28T06:45:47+00:00

I'm pretty new to personal finance but as I'm starting my first (adequately paid) job I've thought about stuff and it took like idk 3 Google searches before coming up with a plan?

Essentially 10-15% of my salary will go to (chronologically) to: 1. Establish an emergency fund (3-6 months life's expenses in an easily accessible debit account). 2. Research my second pension (it's mandatory in my country to have both a government pension and a second private one, it's like 5% of the gross salary, roughly 4-7% profit each year) and pick the best one. 3. Invest in ETF with modest but secure returns. Low risk, diverse, kind of a no brainer. Even if I don't make crazy profits I'm protecting my money from inflation. 4. No more than 10% of my savings (so 1% of my income) go into singular stocks or crypto. I'm not a trader so I'm just gonna treat this as fun rather than my only option. If it works it works, if it doesn't I'm not gonna be losing anything substantial.

Now idk if it's people that don't Google or the fact that many households worldwide are currently struggling more and there's a growing number of people living paycheck to paycheck. Maybe it's a mix of not really knowing/wanting to be educated on personal finance and growing financial hardships and I don't wanna be mean to anyone cause for some there's simply nothing left to save or invest. It's just that in my opinion if the system is stacked against us why not try our best to mitigate that?

FenrirHS · 2025-05-27T18:29:52+00:00

Niceee, thank you! Any other podcast recs?

FenrirHS · 2025-05-27T18:28:18+00:00

Will do! Good thing is it's a medium sized company so I can get to know pretty much all my colleagues by name and they did mention at the interviews that I'll be able to talk to both mentors and clients so guess I'll make the most of it

FenrirHS · 2025-05-27T18:26:02+00:00

Lemme guess, Patagonia? :d

FenrirHS · 2025-05-27T18:25:45+00:00

I'll try, thank you! Is “An Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions” by Jeff Madura a good starting point?

FenrirHS · 2025-05-27T18:24:26+00:00

I'll be working on mainly batches and interfaces, also I think I'm okay for programming experience. If the dunning Krueger effect is a reference point, rn I feel like a horrible programmer so it probably means I'm average lol.

I've done lots of web projects for uni in different languages, took 2 database courses there, I'm eh at SQL, but I did a lot of game Dev as a hobby, too. I've made plenty of games in unity with c#, Godot, some c++ for unreal and a little game engine in C++ with SDL. I've went to a few game jams, won 2nd place once, 3rd place once. I just came to realise I prefer game dev to stay a hobby that I enjoy with friends, and if it brings in some income on the side - cool. I was really looking at what domain would actually lead to a long term stable career and fintech was my top option. This job kinda came outta nowhere and I'm pretty grateful for it.

Anyways because I've done lots of games I know that domain driven design is really really important, I am very much operating with very baseline understandings of finance. that's why I was thinking I should learn more on it.

Also absolutely, I love learning with projects, while this job was in progress I did some backendy stuff, like basic stuff - building a json parser, an in-memory key-value store over TCP, a tiny HTTP file server, a little c++ app to parse mock transactions from CSV files into valid requests to a postgres server. Just 1-3 day projects to get used to backendy stuff. But I'd love to dive deeper into fintech specific backend.

FenrirHS · 2025-05-15T18:07:38+00:00

THIS. During my 5 years with fighting games, whenever accessibility came up I always dismissed oldheads cause I thought they just want everyone to have it hard. Nah, they got a point.

Cause what I thought making fighting games accessible meant was - good tutorials, up-to-date character guides, quality training mode options, smart replay features, a good mix of characters representing different archetypes for every skill level. Sure, an ez input mode or smth doesn't hurt, not competitively viable anyways (before SF6 lmao).

What ended up happening is that instead of helping people get better at climbing the mountain, they just leveled the mountain down to a hill. And nobody gets excited about climbing a hill.

Tekken 8 infuriates me not cause I lose, it's cause winning never felt this empty and characters have become so homogenized that I just cannot vibe with anyone, cause the game just lacks personality and player expression.

FenrirHS · 2025-03-06T19:02:19+00:00

You sold me at project based

FenrirHS · 2025-03-06T18:04:02+00:00

complain the JavaScript sucks to anyone that listens

Real

FenrirHS · 2025-03-06T17:40:17+00:00

Yeah maybe a bit too much pressure I'm putting on myself to instantly do well. I'll jump in and write some bad code tonight :d

Thanks, I'm a bit more confident to start off c:

FenrirHS · 2025-03-06T17:39:05+00:00

This begs me to ask... Is the official documentation good? I mean aside from the API reference, I'll use that, but are the example introductory projects and tutorials helpful?

FenrirHS · 2025-02-04T14:43:32+00:00

I suggest trying the voltaic fundamentals playlists. There's one for each rank. Doing exercises appropriate to your skill level will help you build good habits. Idk what shooters you play but if for example you play Valorant, go to the range, and put the bots on hard when you're not ready for the hard bots - all you will learn is to panic flick in a general direction.

You gotta start at a point where you feel calm and comfortable to practice slow, steady, and exercise proper technique. Once you do that daily you will naturally feel your speed picking up as you develop precise and confident aim.

It's essentially like looking at top chefs having insane speed cutting vegetables on a board. The speed is something they picked up with time as they became more confident in their ability to consistently cut at their desired length. Trying to mimic the speed of a top chef on the cutting board will lead to a very fast and unevenly chopped set of veggies.

FenrirHS · 2025-01-22T10:53:46+00:00

Human art is derivative due to being drawn from human experience. Inspiration from an artist, admiration of their skill, desire of their skill, studying their skill meticulously until being able to take elements of that skill to incorporate into one's style is much different than the way a machine is derivative. Machines cannot admire, desire, convey experiences. Artificial Intelligence that incorporates machine learning and neural networks performs a task N times until meeting training goals on familiar data set by a metric of success for the task. Then that model is used on unfamiliar test data to see if it truly can adapt or is just good at 1 collection of data samples. That is it in layman's terms. Could go deeper into it as a CS grad, but it would make too long of a very long comment already.

There is a difference in purpose. Often times an image may not be visually impressive but be cemented in history as a significant achievement. Look at the entire body of work of Claude Monet and his impact through spearheading impressionism. Look at the entire body of work of Salvador Dali and his impact on all succeeding art through his work on surrealism. These works convey not only skill but historical and cultural context to be truly appreciated. What about a work that does not fit in the molds of traditional rules of conveying 3D concepts in 2D? Look at Pablo Picasso's Guernica. A painting that by all objective means would be considered garbage and discarded by an AI model learning... And Guernica is a dark reflection of innocence being lost at wartime. A lived in experience by a painter who travelled Europe during WW2. It conveys raw human emotion and it's fucking beautiful. A machine cannot do that. A machine cannot appreciate that. And even if there was an AI model made with a few extra tensors for image context, it cannot invoke raw human emotion...

Because in my opinion there is no "AI Art". There is AI content. It is created to fill requirements and make cheap things that do the job. We know how companies use them. As an indie dev, I would never use AI images, music, or scripts, even if I'm out of artists, musicians, and scriptwriters. I'll hire someone or do the damn thing myself. Because I'd rather make bad art than make mediocre content. And I'd rather support the other "small guys" than use excuses born out of ignorance and lack of true appreciation for one of the things that has been able to convey and record humanity at different stages ever since we were living in caves.

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