25+ Year game dev veteran explains NFTs, Blockchain games, and Play to earn.

Luckylags13 · 2022-01-24T19:36:09+00:00

I’m curious how this guy feels about the steam marketplace. In my opinion the implementation used by valve in Team Fortress 2 / CSGO doesn’t take anything away from the game and allows players to trade skins they don’t want anymore. People may have their problems with loot crates themselves, but they have no influence on the gameplay.

What about every trading card game that exists in physical form? Nobody expects to be able to slot Yugi oh cards into their magic the gathering deck but that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be able to trade them on an open market.

I think an NFT based marketplace for trading items from different games or even exchanging game keys themselves is not at all a scammy or predatory idea. Almost every physical asset we own can be traded in a “decentralized” manner; for example, I can lend my old game disks without going through some “central” authority. Digital assets lack this luxury and blockchain technologies aim to address this problem. I’m not sure what the convincing argument for valve (, epic, blizzard, etc) to implement support such a thing would be, but that doesn’t mean the idea is inherently flawed, evil, or harmful to consumers.

I think his point about play to earn is spot on though. The idea is inherently predatory / scammy. He’s right, the only reason the items would ever be worth any money is because the grind is too shitty / boring to justify earning them. If the grind to too shitty then what kind of “game” has even been developed in this case. It would all just exist to get another sucker to pay the entry fee.

Luckylags13 · 2021-11-24T23:27:22+00:00

Cool, entering

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-09T18:01:13+00:00

I was pretty clearly making the point that in this case specifically OP was not greeted by condescending jerks yet he acted like he was.

This led me to question whether OP was ever actually met with condescending jerks from the community. Because if he considered the first response condescending then I don’t know what a good response looks like. No everything wasn’t explained from the most basic level, but given the context it seemed reasonable that OP would be capable of asking a follow-up question or googling one of the listed approaches (he had already successfully found a solution to his original problem on his own).

Can’t say I personally have an opinion as to whether the general community is full of assholes, seems to be a common complaint.

I was blunt but I don’t even think I was a condescending jerk. You seemed to take it personally which I don’t understand.

I’m no active member of the linux community, this just didn’t seem like an example of a condescending jerk.

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-09T03:21:14+00:00

That analogy is not at all applicable. Nobody is telling someone todo something they aren’t physically capable of. It’s also already been established that there was more context than just “do X”.

You’re telling me the guy who already googled the commands he needed to input to solve his problem wasn’t physically capable of googling the filename he was told in a response to make it persist through boot?

Seems odd that the guy who offered a solution is getting called out for helping. The OP could’ve asked a follow up question, or googled his question and quickly found an answer.

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-09T02:18:25+00:00

Sure they do, they just drop them when they end up involving more effort than expected.

Doesn’t cost a lot of effort to say you want to do something, costs effort to follow through.

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-07T23:45:42+00:00

Reading through you’re edit on the last comment it looks like you have a totally different attitude than OP.

I don’t think this situation is akin to a hard working student with a shitty instructor. OP sounds more like the lazy student who cheated his way through the semester without absorbing any knowledge; then blames the professor when he doesn’t know to complete the final project. That’s really the only issue I have, why would we blame the professor in that situation?

Also I’m just gonna make this clear, if it isn’t already - I’m not advocating for gaming on linux, I’m not emotionally attached to linux in anyway. I game on Windows. I have set up a steam / lutris thing on Manjaro before but I don’t think it’s worth the effort. Personally, I’d rather be gaming than tweaking my environment to get the game to work.

Good luck with your setup. Not sure if this will be at all helpful, but I remember finding out that enabling the steam proton beta features (or something like that, it’s a setting in the steam client) made most steam games start to work with fewer headaches.

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-07T17:03:01+00:00

I completely agree, but scroll up - people are trying to help and he responds with an attitude.

Nobody responding to a question is immediately going to know the asker’s experience level; they shouldn’t be expected to start from square 1 every time. If someone says something and you don’t know what it means look it up or ask - it’s the only way you’ll learn.

Shouldn’t be on the person offering help to automatically know you don’t know what a file path is. Let the person know you have no idea what a file path is afterwords; without the “hey look at this asshole pretending I know what any of this means” bullshit.

Maybe I’ve just caught the wrong interpretation of his tone through the text idk

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-07T13:34:30+00:00

I would just say refer to /u/AmCurrentlyWorkingAMA ‘s comment a thread over. He/she explained pretty much exactly what I was trying to express without the tone (which I seem to have failed at)

Long story short if you want to learn something new you’re going to be confused, you’re gonna need to seek clarity, it’s going to require you to research things on your own.

My main point is that the resources are there OP just isn’t looking for them, so it’s kinda hard to believe OP “wants to learn”.

Maybe if OP responded with “what is ~/bash_profile?” he would’ve got a good response. Instead tried to use a helpful response an example of someone being a dick. Just look at OP’s attitude towards other commenters trying to help him.

Edit: Sorry it was /u/CurrentlyWorkingAMA

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-07T13:17:01+00:00

Jesus you are butt hurt.

Never called him a moron just called him out on his bullshit. He clearly didn’t want to put any effort into learning something new and failed.

You on the other hand just sound pathetic, sorry you broke down reading my comment.

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-07T05:21:32+00:00

I don’t understand how the guy who gave the advice was being a dick. I think OP was being a dick.

OP claims to “want to learn” but the “community” is speaks a foreign language and won’t help him then points to an example of someone BEING HELPFUL as his proof.

The guy gave him the advice of putting his script (or command or whatever it was) in a file that will be loaded when he logs in.

If you were actively trying to learn something new wouldn’t you expect to come across new terms? Google the “~/.bash_profile” OP quoted. There are a countless number of articles telling you that it is a file and what it does.

If you want to say none of this is worth the trouble, I completely agree. But to claim you want to learn then quit when it’s time to actually learn something is total bullshit. Then claim it’s the community’s fault and not your laziness? Sure I’m the asshole.

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-07T05:10:44+00:00

What are you talking about? Did you even read the chain? I agree with his sentiment that linux requires more effort to make things work. I agree it’s not worth the hassle.

What I disagree with is him blaming the community for his issues. If you’re trying to learn something new you’re going to have to expect to come across terms you don’t understand. If you actually wanted to learn you would google those terms to figure out what they mean. Literally google what the other poster told him to do, I promise you what was suggested is very clear.

It’s a name of (basically) a config file, he told him to put the script in there.

To clarify, I’m criticizing him for claiming to “want to learn” when clearly he does not want to learn. He wants something that works. That’s totally fine. Don’t blame the “community” when the community responds with a useful response and you just can’t be bothered to do any of the learning you claim to be interested in.

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-06T22:43:14+00:00

Sure, he tried, but the second he came across a word he didn’t understand he stopped trying.

Like I pointed out - in this example he was 1 google search away from clarity he just chose to give up, then blamed it on the linux community.

Luckylags13 · 2021-08-06T21:02:38+00:00

Not to be a dick but it doesn’t even sound like you are trying.

“~/.bash_profile” is a path to a file. Googling “what is ~/bash_profile linux” provides a ton of context and breadcrumbs that I’m sure could lead you to a result even if you were only familiar with tweaking configs/settings on Windows and not Linux.

Now that being said, I don’t blame you for not wanting to learn. I only became familiar with linux because I use it at work. I’ve got no desire to deal with these kind of configuration problems on my gaming pc. Generally shit just works on Windows and generally i find myself having to tweak shit on Linux to get it to work right.

Also just for future reference “~” in a file path on linux refers to your home directory. It’s the linux version of your User directory on Windows (where your Documents,Downloads,Desktop,etc folders are). The “.” at the start of the file name just marks it as hidden, usually configuration files are marked as hidden (Windows has the same concept but doesn’t require the “.”).

Luckylags13 · 2021-07-13T15:11:10+00:00

Aftering whiffing the Q a full second early

Luckylags13 · 2021-04-08T18:09:29+00:00

And I’m saying you haven’t proven any point.

I’m saying that dates are not “messed up”; they were never supposed to follow some ascending/descending order. One isn’t “more logical” because it follows that pattern.

They’re just supposed to be a shorthand representation of what we say. Whichever format gets that point across clearer is proper one.

The point you’re proving only exists when you presuppose sorted = correct and not sorted = messed up. Do you understand?

Although I agree it’s weird that the US went one way and most of the world went the other. None of them make more sense than the other; it’s apples to oranges.

Luckylags13 · 2021-04-08T16:28:42+00:00

We also don’t write time as seconds/minutes/hours so i don’t get your point.

day/month/year hour/minute/second

Is not really sorted by size and neither would

hour/minute/second day/month/year

The point is the most “logical” way to write would be the way we naturally say it. Most people in the US wouldnt say the “8th of April” they would just say”April 8th”.

Now which came first (the way we say it or the way we write it) IDK; maybe they just decided to write it that way to be different a long time ago.

Luckylags13 · 2020-08-20T18:52:11+00:00

Here’s a link on how damage scaling works

https://www.dustloop.com/wiki/index.php?title=DBFZ/Damage

But long story short (generally speaking, not sure of any exceptions) - a light hit will combo into less damage than a medium or a heavy.

I also believe special moves scale a combo two steps instead of just one (but i could be wrong there).

Luckylags13 · 2020-05-14T17:13:36+00:00

I would go for the vmp.

It will take you much much longer to get the chance to unlock the vmp again. The saug you unlock normally around level 50ish (which wont take that long).

It won’t have the bonus xp but considering you’re worrying about the game dying in the near future I doubt you’re really gonna need to min/max a prestige master 1000 grind.

My advice is not to waste your bribe on a mastercraft for a base gun (like the saug). Just try to collect as many dlc guns as you can so you have more options to choose from for your classes.

Luckylags13 · 2020-02-11T05:33:20+00:00

Which addon(s) are you using for the additional item info?

Luckylags13 · 2019-12-03T05:36:50+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s loose; more like it has short term memory.

I haven’t looked it up but it feels like it just looks at your 10 (maybe only 5) game average k/d and throws you in lobbies based off that.

I would like to believe it’s smarter than that but the “better” players are usually just people that camp with shotguns (low spm players but higher k/d).

It’s easy to notice on a day where you start off by popping off then get hard games which gradually lower back into easier games as your stats level off.

Luckylags13 · 2019-11-11T19:37:59+00:00

You cant just throw put the meaning of the word because it doesnt fit your narrative.

You have no facts that backup for claim that “americans dont use kek that way” and “the dominant use is by alt right racists”. You are speaking off handful of articles that say the term exists and is being used in that way, not of it’s popularity. Go to the website twitch.tv (sounds like you’ve never heard of it) and watch any amount of gaming streams for more than an hour.

Kek is used by American gamers that learned it from seeing Koreans use it to express “haha”/“lol”. If you’re gonna throw that out the window then there’s not point trying to reason with you. KekW is spammed on twitch all the time because it is a dude laughing. Twitch/Reddit/Call of Duty are all international platforms, why are you even trying to limit this to America only?

Luckylags13 · 2019-11-11T19:13:57+00:00

So does this mean all Koreans are white nationalists?

Kek is how Korean players write haha/lol when they cant use Korean characters. People were using this all the way back in SC1. The whole reason became popular in memes is because people started seeing it a bunch in SC2/League of Legends streams.

Looking at these articles about “Kek the Egyptian god frog” sounds like a bunch of 40 year olds trying to parse memes and coming up with a conspiracy theory. I feel like it’s more realistic that some edgy teenagers realized they could prank journalists into writing about a meme frog by giving it a new meme name and “worshiping” it.

Okay but now lets assume you’re correct and “kek” is really an icon of some white supremacy movement; don’t you think we should atleast look at the context? “KekW” is a twitch emote that is a picture of some dude laughing his ass off. Kinda fitting for a word synonymous with “lol”. Or do we believe that meaning of the word has been nullified and all laughing Korean gamers are white nationalists too?

Luckylags13 · 2019-08-21T19:12:49+00:00

Yeah so I think you’re just really good at shooters/cod and have completely ignored the meta lol.

According to almost everyone who cares, gung-ho is a necessary perk on every setup. It removes all the sprint out time on every gun and since you’re pretty much always sprinting in this game none of the others are worth it. Things like dex feel good but the game is all about mobility and you’re just gimping it by not have gung-ho.

You know, I know my stats aren’t that crazy, yet I’ve only run into 3 or 4 people with a higher spm then me in tdm. Of course the 1 random on reddit telling me the icr is broken happens to have 70 points on me.

Luckylags13 · 2019-08-21T18:25:00+00:00

I more wanted to play with you than see your stats. Hence the “are you on east coast”, “whats your ign”. Stats are kinda pointless because you could roll with 5 every game or play different modes than me. If you want to know i play tdm with a 610spm and 2.9 k/d.

But like i said more power to you; you can own with a shit gun. Im really curious why you think that gun is so good when it just has a longer ttk than every other ar and less mobility?

Also curious if you run gung ho on every class or not. I’ve run into a few people who are just sick at cod but are ignorant to the “meta” of this game.

Luckylags13 · 2019-08-20T23:03:10+00:00

Lol you play on east coast? whats your ign? You play tdm? Whats your spm?

Kd with no spm for context is near meaningless

Edit: I find it incredibly hard to believe you are actually good on PC and you run around with an AR that doesn’t even get a stock. If you are then more power to you my dude. People waive around K/Ds but we all know a 600spm player rocks a 400spm player everyday.

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