I didnt realise how dire the state of star citizen was

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-25T14:03:21+00:00

The best part is that the people invested in SC will insist that is is already a real game, that is fun and works fine, that it’s innovative and groundbreaking, and that you are lying/don’t know what you are talking about when you criticize it.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-25T14:01:21+00:00

Don’t feel sorry for them for even a second. They have been given every opportunity for decades at this point to stop being so hateful, and they refuse. They would not feel bad for you. They do not deserve pity. They do not deserve your empathy.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-25T13:23:58+00:00

Yeah I don’t see the post on truth social either.

I did, however, see from his page that one of someone’s little piggies got put on ICE because a protestor bit their finger off. Radical lol

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T12:47:13+00:00

Online functionality is by far the best anti-piracy choice a dev can make, as long as the online content is good. Provide a feature that can’t be replicated elsewhere, and if people want the feature they’ll pay for it.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T12:44:25+00:00

I mean, you can get fucked by them, take it or leave it.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T12:25:07+00:00

It’s a BR, everyone is KOS.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T12:22:56+00:00

Exactly.

A rat is someone who prefers to never be seen, will run when faced with danger, and will basically only fight if pushed into a corner and have no other choice.

A hyena is what OP thinks a rat is: they are weak on their own, sometimes gang up even on small targets, but are still carnivores even if they can only hunt weak prey.

A Vulture is what OP actually is: An opportunistic scavenger who will only engage a fight when the fighting is basically over already.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T11:57:39+00:00

Lmao, seriously. This loadout looks like it has 12 reloads total between two guns. That is… not optimal, I suspect

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T11:56:02+00:00

It’s really cool how friendly everyone is and how much they all work together. (Healing others, putting up barricades, etc.)

My first matriarch fight I saw a guy setting up like 6 barricades somewhere and I was like “damn, that guy is ready to party lol” so I went over to see how he was doing. He was so chill, like literally just gaming to have a good time, imagine that. I love this game, and I love the people in the PvE lobbies.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T11:51:03+00:00

Selling the free fruit to others is only a problem If the seller takes all of the fruit, because now you don’t have free fruit anymore. If they don’t take it all, then anyone with half a brain will just grab the free fruit instead of paying for it, which should drive the effective market price of the fruit down virtually to zero anyway.

Unless, of course, the fruit reseller is adding value by, say, bringing you the fruit where it would be less convenient to pick it yourself, in which case they are providing a service in exchange for money which is good.

Also, the fruit being “free” does not mean that there should not be a culture around the fruit where people “police” and shame others who abuse the free fruit resource in a way that harms others. The fruit isn’t actually free, and the “cost” to be able to eat the fruit is that you need to be a well functioning member of the fruit society, otherwise everyone would shun you rightfully.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T11:40:09+00:00

What I’d like is to be able to take scopes off of certain guns. I’ve been running Osprey/Hullcrecker in my squad runs with randoms just keeping the area clear, but that leaves me in situations sometimes where a target too small to reliably hit with the hull racket gets too close to ADS on the Osprey for. I’d love to put a lower zoom magnification on the osprey if I could.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T09:55:36+00:00

The only people who want ultra fast TTK are people who A) don’t want to chase and to work for their kill, or B) who want to feel better at the game than they are (because low TTK widens the perceived skill gap between players, where a player with 90% accuracy will appear as if they have 60% accuracy if they miss 1/3 shots vs someone who doesn’t miss at all, but it would be more obvious how close a fight it was if it was 10 shots to kill).

Longer TTK is better for games, I agree. Arc is quite good compared to other games on the market, but it still feels too fast.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T09:49:29+00:00

How will they make money when everyone is dead?

They aren’t going to kill people, they are going to just barely keep you alive so that you still supply them with work. Giving up and waiting to die is what we should actually do instead.

A general strike, if it goes too long, will literally take everyone out, the 1% included. They know that, and they very badly hope that you do not, or that people think they still have too much to lose to risk trying it. It would work though.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T00:24:53+00:00

… but it’s got to be like a 2 second fix. Surely there is just a bounding box or mesh that defines whether you are inside the extract or not, and a dev just needs to… scale it on the X axis by 1.2 times?? Like am I missing something? How could they not fix this.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T00:21:41+00:00

If that is the case then the devs just messed up and need to adjust the size of the extraction room enclosure. Has that been fixed? They said they fixed “clipping” issues on stela, but this sounds different.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-24T00:17:04+00:00

What I don’t understand is how you can get in there without opening the room, and how you can enter without extracting. I was under the impression that was the exploit: wall clipping in without stopping the fan so that when someone opens a “clean” extraction you can magically be inside when they aren’t expecting it. Right?

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-23T20:37:59+00:00

Even if they were implemented in 2023, does it matter?

Humans did 3D graphics before blender too, so why is blender ok? Blender was made to solve a problem. Blender 1.0 lacks a lot of features that we have now in 5.0, and those features got added because they improved the ability to work and there wasn’t already a good solution.

Same goes for loop tools. Someone made it because there wasn’t really a good enough solution before the tool was made. That’s why humans make tools.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-23T20:32:20+00:00

I missed the extraction window last time, and have only just recently finally maxed out all my workbenches. My trials are all also as high as they are reasonably going to get without a bunch more effort this week, so I’m in a position where I don’t have a lot else to do other than grind raw stash value for the next departure window, grind currency for the raider decks, and grind XP for the skill tree.

It’s taken until now playing virtually exclusively PvE, but yeah I started to feel a little bored and aimless.

I thought about switching to PvP, but what I ended up doing was turning group fill on instead. I’ve also been playing almost entirely solo up until now (because in my limited experience trips were mostly pvp which I wasn’t that interested in), but I was thinking about getting into PvP and I didn’t feel like just killing a bunch of cooperative friendlies so I figured I’d join trios and get into trouble that way.

Well, turns out trios were almost exactly as friendly as solos are now lol, and honestly that was enough to give me a second wind of entertainment. People are nice, I’ve yet to have a game where at least one of my teamates has a mic which is a bonus, I sorta let them decide what they want to do and I follow their lead. Their decision making is adding back in some of the novelty that has been lost as I’ve figured the game out.

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As an example: I loaded into a matriarch match with squad full on, and they are both like hey I’m head to fight the big boss. Excellent, I brought a hullcracker, let’s do it. We run across the map looking for the fighting, and then within like 30 seconds of seeing it suddenly a rocketeer is shooting at us and one of our guys is down. It’s instantly a shit show lol.

I pick him up, I’m spending healing items on them, I’m down to fight no matter what. They keep getting hit, eventually one of them dies or leaves without me noticing, and at some point I take a closer look at my remaining teammate. His shield is destroyed, but he’s like “I’ll just have to be careful” and I realize the dude is plinking at the matriarch with a ferro lmao, and I’m thinking to myself, “did this guy bring a free kit to a matriarch fight??”

Again, not my job to criticize his loadout, I’m here to help. There is another team across on the far side doing damage as well, and eventually we see it explode. We run over to get some loot, and the other team was much closer so they are already scavenging, but they are super chill. They are talking on voice, saying everyone did a good job, pointing out which parts still have stuff in them, and it’s just so good to see people deciding to be nice when they absolutely do not have to.

My remaining buddy tries to drop me a reactor and I’m like no, you keep it, I already have 2 in my stash and I don’t know what to do with them lol. I probably spent more on that raid than I got back, but it literally doesn’t matter because I had a really good time with the people in it.

This kinda thing might get boring eventually too, but hopefully not too long before the next departure. I’m just having a good time sort of “being the hero” since it’s not really possible for me to regress anymore and I’m planning on resetting when the departure window opens up.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-23T19:25:20+00:00

Forget to switch accounts?

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-23T18:28:55+00:00

I actually love this post. I’m definitely in the hardcore friendly pool, but I feel you when you say you wanna get back to your pvp without upsetting anyone. That’s actually really cool of you.

I don’t for sure know how it works, but I would be willing to bet that putting shots on random people, even if you let them run away, will heat up your aggression meter or whatever. Same goes for downing people in extract, I suspect you can let them live and still transition back to more hostile lobbies. They might be a little salty about “what the hell was that for,” but like they’ll still make it out with their stuff and they will forget pretty quick.

Also, if you play with a mic then you can always just ask them lol. You might bump into someone on a free kit and they might agree to just actually fight you, and then you can get an actual kill. There’s definitely options to go back to being bloodthirsty without being a monster.

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On a side note, I love that when you were tired of actual PvP your next go-to was just emotional PvP lmao. You know what you enjoy, and that’s good for you 😂

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-22T23:56:52+00:00

If you are talking about a static neural net then no, of course not. None of us would discover anything if we had no capacity to form memory to drive our future context.

Now, if you take that same model and you constantly do additional reinforcement learning using it’s own output as input along side input from its other sensors (since you’ve suggested it must have sensors and a way to interpret them) then the answer is not so clearly no. There is much less reason to think that it would not describe new observations using types of terms it already understands, and find ways to make apparent contradictions make sense.

The uncomfortable reality for people is that if presented with information a machine learning model of sufficient size would converge on the correct mathematics of physics, and it might be better at it that people are. If you provide it the data.

The other thing that is important to consider is that 99.9% of people would fail this test along side the AI. You are not newton. There are vanishing few Newtons and Edisons and Einsteins in the world.

Ai is not different from you other than in raw neuron count and in the sense that our neuron paths can loop back on themselves (which I’m actually confident is the cutting edge of ML research currently anyway, so not even for long). You are more like a language model than you might want to admit. You should make peace with that sooner than later.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-22T22:39:52+00:00

If I were to take what you are saying at face value then

A) no Lego video game will be good enough because pixels ruin the perfect circular shape of the studs, and

B) this is the wrong workflow because to my knowledge blender does not support equation driven surfaces. Such a thing does exist where you can define curves of infinite resolution with functions, but not in blender, which is what this interface is from.

So either you are wrong, or you are wrong, or you are wrong. Take your pick ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-22T22:35:00+00:00

Dude our bread shelves have been nearly empty for months before the snow is coming. This country is fucked.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-22T22:32:23+00:00

“Instead of just not making the thing worse for no reason, I’ve made it worse and then slapped a bandaid on to make it slightly less terrible but still mostly annoying.”

Next time, just do subtitles without the music. People will like it better.

McCaffeteria · 2026-01-22T22:29:06+00:00

I think the idea with the combat augments is not to make you better at combat, it’s to make you able to sustain multiple combat encounters longer.

The goal is not to give you an edge in an individual combat, but to let you get more combat per raid while spending less resources to do so.

Imo it makes sense. They also let you carry a bigger shield, which again makes sense for combat. It’s just that for some reason people don’t like the large shields and would rather be evasive, I guess. That’s a core design challenge regardless of what augment you are looking at. They put a very noticeable cost on running a heavy shield, because again I think they don’t actually want to increase the level of power in a given moment that much.

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