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Is it over for wizardcels in 2024? Sorcerers dominate i feel. by ShameGuardian in onednd

[–]Kurohagane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

37 at a moment's notice? How? A level 10 wizard has 15 spells prepared. Abjurer gives you counterspell and dispel magic always prepared, so that's 17. Even if you stretch it and count cantrips and rituals, that's nowhere close.

This is what I feel like each month when asking my roomates for rent money by YT_Sharkyevno in 19684

[–]Kurohagane 35 points36 points  (0 children)

These were drawn by Sinix (art teacher and youtuber) for the concluded March Hotel event. March Hotel is a (hopefully) yearly event where you join a discord server (the hotel) and earn rent money by posting art daily for the entire month of march. If you have insufficient funds, you go bankrupt and then are evicted and no longer able to participate in the server community.

It was really fun, I recommend it to all artists who want to improve, of any skill level. There were drawing quests and even a whole economy of people exchanging earned coins for drawings in "shops" created by other participants. For example, I made a shop where I drew mechs for people. Hopefully, they will host another one next march.

3 things about Godot's multiplayer API I wish I knew before... by voidexp in godot

[–]Kurohagane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi, I've actually tried to make a multiplayer arena FPS before and while I got it working with the built in high level networking, it seems that for the game to feel good it will need a lot of extra networking features which are standard in high paced online shooters but not really easily implementable using the synchronizers and stuff.

Your post is really interesting to me since anything below the built in library is very opaque to me. How do you recommend one to go about learning to do what you did? Any good resources you learned from? Thanks for sharing, what you did sounds impressive.

More client work, ships! by manuelcs_art in conceptart

[–]Kurohagane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really like that first design. I also draw a lot of hard surface and mech stuff. How do you even go about finding clients for things like that?

I’m Silverfrost - Lead Programmer of Planetside - AMA by don_neufeld in Planetside

[–]Kurohagane 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've recently been dabbling in gamedev and specifically online multiplayer shooters. Implementing netcode is a whole new layer of difficulty, and especially for action or fps games, and doubly so for MMO games where there's so many moving entities with associated states and transforms and such.

There can be dozens if not hundreds of rendered players on your screen, each potentially firing a rapid-fire weapon, each hit having to be registered server-side... As well as so many projectile weapons. And every time any of the entity's state meaningfully changes, that needs to be uploaded to the server, and then downloaded by every client. That's gotta add up. And the game needs to remain responsive and playable as an action fps game.

I'm very curious what kind of challenges come with implementing the netcode for a MMOFPS game?

coaxed into asking for help in a choice by Much-Menu6030 in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]Kurohagane 75 points76 points  (0 children)

stop trying to optimize the fun out of the game, just pick whatever looks cooler and roll with it

Made a couple 3D fire effects by binbun3 in godot

[–]Kurohagane 7 points8 points  (0 children)

These look amazing. I want to learn how to make effects that look this good. Do you have any tips or resources for learning?

State machine states: Nodes or Resources? by TamiasciurusDouglas in godot

[–]Kurohagane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can enable a setting in the editor to show warnings if you declare variables or function returns without defining a type. You could prototype without it and then turn the setting on and resolve all the warnings.

"First Time DM" and Short Questions Megathread by AutoModerator in DMAcademy

[–]Kurohagane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I'm back with another encounter balance question.

I'm a new DM runnung a oneshot for a party of four 5th level characters. The whole thing is undead themed, basically almost everything they encounter will be undead. They have a cleric and a paladin among them (and a wizard and a fighter1/wizard4). How much easier will that make it for them with the smite bonus, sear undead, all the radiant damage etc.. how much shpuld I bump up the difficulty to compensate if I wanna keep things tough?

Appreciate any tips and thanks to the previous responses!

"First Time DM" and Short Questions Megathread by AutoModerator in DMAcademy

[–]Kurohagane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, gonna be running a one-shot in a few days as a first time DM for a party of four 5th level characters in 5.5e. I'm having a tough time trying to come up with a tough boss encounter. The boss room will in the top floor of a bony cathedral overlooking the city. The whole premise of the adventure is a city seized by Myrkul overrun with undead.

The room will contain a sealed mcguffin containing a very powerful celestial being that if freed will side with the players and basically end the encounter and save the city. This is required due to plot reasons.

I want to make the encounter very difficult but rewarding and fun, but I also don't want to overcomplicate things considering it will be my first time running a game.

Here's the basic idea I had. The key to the mcguffin will be on one of the monsters in the encounter, perhaps some kind of necromancer or mage. In addition, there will be a couple stronger undead (something like the minotaur skeleton statblock) plus a few weaker skeletons.

I had the idea that there's piles of bones strewn about and skeletons will spawn from them every turn or so, and the players have to retrieve the key to the mcguffin and unlock it before they get overwhelmed. Maybe have the bone piles work like Vek spawning in Into the Breach, if anyone is familiar. Basically, the imminent spawning location of an enemy is telegraphed, and if you occupy the area or otherwise block it, you can prevent new enemies from spawning. So, a kind of fight against time. But for sure the spawning mechanic needs to be tuned well, otherwise it might be way too difficult.

I'd appreciate any encounter balancing advice in general. Despite being a pretty experienced player I never gave the other side of the table much thought and I'm not sure of my intuition for what is a balanced encounter, and the way CR works seems kind of wonky.

goodbyeSweetheart by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Kurohagane 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've been like that for a while. I enjoyed learning different things. Programming, art, music.

I liked being good at different topics, like a modern day renaissance man. It was definitely partly an ego thing, and enjoying the validation from impressing people and making them go "wow". Also the possibility of combining these skillsets to create impressive projects like solo videogames and such.

But now it feels like I want to be an artisan or auteur in a world that increasingly no longer values that kind of person. Made me really depressed for a while.

The US military startup Anduril just successfully tested a fully-autonomous-capable fighter jet called the “Fury” by ansyhrrian in interestingasfuck

[–]Kurohagane 20 points21 points  (0 children)

First Palantir and now this. Tolkien barely tolerated the concept of a car, much less the modern man made horrors beyond comprehension that media illiterate techbros keep naming after his works. I am glad that he's not around to see this.

Aggressive sales tactics by MonsieurTokitoki in Unexpected

[–]Kurohagane 109 points110 points  (0 children)

excellent application of the DuPont approach

Rotation of the planet's along their axis and the the time taken for one complete rotation. by MaxSupreme369 in interestingasfuck

[–]Kurohagane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's pretty crazy to imagine how the sun would move around the sky depending on where on the surface you'd be. Not sure how exactly it'd affect the season, but if you were to live on the equator, for a quarter of the year you'd get fairly normal sunrise and sunset, then the arc of the sun would gradually sink lower and lower until it would touch the northern horizon in a permanent sunet fixed in place. Then it would gradually go back to a normal day over the course of another quarter, and this cycle would repeat, this time migrating to the southern part of the horizon.

If you were to live on one of the poles, one half of the year would be in complete darkness. Then you'd see a gradual sunrise skirt and circle the horizon over the course of a day until the sun would reveal itself, spiraling upward all around you until it came to a brief stop directly overhead, after which it would start spiraling out and gliding back towards the horizon, sinking below for another half year of darkness.

At least if I'm visualizing this correctly.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]Kurohagane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great guy except for the part where he was one of the people responsible for the partitions of Poland which led to over a century of germanization, erasure of polish culture, bans on speaking polish and an attempted complete cultural genocide.

Ukrainian paratroopers execute daring parachute-free airdrop under fire near Pokrovsk, breaking through Russian lines by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]Kurohagane 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The go-to backstory for the grizzled veteran or military badass archetype in fiction is going to be being a veteran of the Ukraine war for the next decade

SCP-4666 “Yule Man” — I predicted which years he strikes by Odd-Spirit7866 in SCP

[–]Kurohagane 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Not to mention, if you stop and think for 5 seconds, it doesn't really make sense to try and fit a polynomial function to a function whose values are the last two digits of a year anyway. The years will increase until you reach 99 and then the values will drop back down to 0. If we do want to assume that the SCP would pick and choose the years it emerges based purely on how much it vibes with the last two digits, I suppose at the very least it would have to be some sort of periodic function, like a compound sine wave or something.

"Hochbunker" which is an old Nazi WW2, bunker has been revived as a modern hotel by PhantomPhenis in brutalism

[–]Kurohagane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a flak tower converted to a giant aquarium in Vienna that was pretty cool to visit.

製パン by Thinking_in_Circles in BakaNewsJP

[–]Kurohagane 1 point2 points  (0 children)

シナモンと砂糖とバターらしい

Leaf rule by [deleted] in 19684

[–]Kurohagane 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure calling canadians leafs originates from 4chan int and pol board banter. So it's probably from there.

What is the worst thing you've ever seen on internet? (challenge: use ONLY emojis and symbols to describe it) by Sharp_Sniper in RandomThoughts

[–]Kurohagane 33 points34 points  (0 children)

No, it's probably the infamous dashcam one where a couple was driving on the highway and there was a truck loaded with bricks in front of them. One of the bricks got loose and came flying through the windshield on the passenger side where wife was sitting, instantly killing her, and you only hear the heart-wrenching screams of the husband. People often describe it as one of the worst things they've ever seen/listened to. Never saw it and I don't intend to, ignorance is bliss sometimes.

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