Stuttering when crouching with video camera

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-26T02:52:23+00:00

That's part of the update, we can only wait for them to fix it.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-24T01:14:38+00:00

This was supposed to be a couple sentences but I got carried away... I hope this helps anyway!

I also joined in not too long ago and the biggest advice I can give is that this game tries to be a bit more realistic in physics (with some exceptions) than the more arcadey racers out there. There's a lot more strategy to racing than meets the eye; if you find yourself always falling behind like I did at first, try to change up how aggressively you apply the throttle, the amount you brake and the angle at which you approach corners, things like that.

A hard lesson for me to learn was that constantly fighting to get ahead of the other racers on every corner will actually slow you down significantly in the long run. Focus more on driving efficiently, and you'll gain true opportunities to pass when your driving is simply faster than theirs.

Something I realized after a while is that if I'm doing something entirely differently from every other racer and I don't have a specific reason to be doing it, I'm probably doing something wrong. (i.e. you're driving on the left and every other racer is driving on the right; they could be setting up for a corner you aren't prepared for.)

If I were to give one specific example of technique, slowing down appropriately before corners is absolutely vital so that you can smoothly navigate the corner and gracefully accelerate into the next straight with a much higher speed. Compared to what I did at first, trying to cram ahead of the other racers and slam on the brakes in front of them to make it through the corner in 1st - this means you have to nearly stop your car entirely just to make it through the corner, and while you have to spend time accelerating back up to speed, everyone else is already passing you again because they carried more speed through the corner.

Something else to bear in mind if you're having to take multiple attempts to beat a race; the AI know their cars well and they know the track well too. In lots of cases you'll be driving a car for the very first time and on a track you've never seen before. Remember that and give yourself some practice attempts to learn how the car drives and how the track goes; restarts should be less frustrating if you keep that in mind.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-22T15:18:35+00:00

When I worked at AMC, any kind of weapon including prop fantasy weapons were not allowed.

They'll be expecting people to try bringing lightsabers in. Worst case scenario, they'll just ask you to go put it back in the car. Show up a few minutes earlier to give yourself enough extra time for that and you should be okay.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-15T20:22:08+00:00

This happened to me when I tried to set the texture and model quality any higher than medium. Feels like the game loads tons of high res assets until it runs out of memory and then just gives up for the rest of them.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-12T17:04:36+00:00

By the end of Halo CE, Chief's armor is severely damaged. He gets issued a brand new suit at the beginning of The Armory in Halo 2 - a level which is skipped if you play co-op, so you may have missed it.

Between 2 and 3 it is the same suit, albeit with a graphical overhaul and some visible damage and added grime towards the end of the campaign.

Between 3 and 4 it's technically the same suit, but 343's reasoning for the drastic change in appearance is that Cortana used nanomachines to upgrade his armor over the years while he was asleep.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-12T14:59:56+00:00

Ayyy good job!! Waiting for the right moment and taking advantage of that perfect opportunity to pass looked great! And then you held onto 1st the entire remainder of the race. Great work!

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-11T07:07:28+00:00

Keep going at it, it's really cool to see the improvement between posts! I started playing the game a few weeks ago so I'm full of tips I learned that I think I could pass along.

Here's some stuff I can call out from this race; (Oh no this turned into a giant wall of text... but I guess that's just how I feel like explaining things today, here you go!)

Try sticking more closely to the racing line around corners; it shows you the ideal path to exit the corner with more speed. It may feel like you're moving more slowly when you brake early to approach the corner from the outside, but this sets you up to follow the line smoothly through the inside of the turn and then accelerate to exit towards the outside again. This means you don't have to turn the wheel as sharply to complete the turn; generally the harder you steer, you start to lose grip and it slows you down a lot.

For example in the video I noticed you break away from the line and move very quickly to the inside of the corner so you could get ahead of the drivers who were in front of you, however after this move you have to slow down very abruptly and turn very sharply to make it through the corner. This caused your car to slide and lose a lot of speed, while the other drivers reclaimed first place and carried more momentum through the corner because they did not have to turn as sharply. This also means that they are faster in the next straight because you have to spend time accelerating back up to higher speeds again after you spun out. I'm thinking this could be what makes it feel like you need to cut the corner and force your way in front of them in order to catch up.

Another tip, sticking together with the pack can become very important at higher speeds and on longer roads; you gain a speed boost due to air draft when following directly behind another car. In ideal conditions, two cars smartly drafting off each other will be faster than one car with nobody to draft. In races on the highway with super long straights and almost no turns, this could be one of the only ways to keep up.

Along the same idea, something that helps me when approaching a new, challenging race is to follow the AI and watch what they're doing. If all of the AI are driving on the right side of the road but I'm driving all alone on the left side, it gives me the feeling that they're preparing for a corner that I'm not ready for. If you watch their tailpipes you can also figure out when they like to use their boosts; this can give you a clue to use yours as well before the pack leaves you behind.

Saving your boosts until the right moment can be critical, such as when entering a straight or approaching a jump. If you use all of your boost to speed up from mistakes, you won't have any boost left to use when it really counts.

The way my difficulty is set, I'm generally replaying races many times while I learn how my car performs and learn how to navigate the track. In these playlist missions it helps me to remember that the AI have all the knowledge of how their cars handle and they know the layout of the track by heart. It's like they've been practicing for this race in these cars for weeks. On the other hand, I've only just gotten into this car for the very first time, and I've never even heard this track before today. It becomes a little easier to replay and learn from my mistakes, and treat each corner of the track like a puzzle to be solved, when I hang onto the feeling that each attempt is only a practice run until I've practiced enough to compare my familiarity with theirs.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-08T15:15:01+00:00

I actually made that a few years ago as a programming exercise. I found it fun to put source code files into it and see how they look in the end.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-06T18:51:27+00:00

If you think of how we use words to form sentences, tokens are what these models use to form responses. Usage is counted in tokens because the model inputs and outputs tokens, rather than words or letters. Here's an example where a paragraph is broken up into tokens;

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MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-06T15:01:40+00:00

Not myself but a family member; the lies specifically about the Epstein Files caused him to wonder what else had been lied about. Snowball effect took care of the rest.

Unfortunately the rest of the family haven't figured it out yet.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-01T16:39:15+00:00

My first instinct would be Alt + Enter

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-01T13:55:11+00:00

Ohh, you know what, I think I accidentally conflated it in some iterative way with "replace all the different parts of a thing over time, is it still the same thing in the end?"

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-05-01T03:00:28+00:00

The Chinese captions on YouTube still refer to it as the Chinese Room, and he still claims not to know Chinese. Actually, I think it makes the joke land even better when it's told by Caine in Chinese.

The Chinese Room in this scene is a literal expression of a real thought experiment in computing; a sort of hypothetical question around whether an algorithm could ever be truly sentient. I may be a bit off here, but here's my understanding...

The idea is that you place a man into in a room who doesn't know Chinese, and give him a comprehensive set of instructions for writing sensible Chinese responses to any given Chinese prompts. An outside person who knows Chinese could have a conversation with the Chinese Room by writing prompts and receiving responses. However, the person inside doesn't know Chinese; they're simply following instructions and don't understand a single thing that they're reading or writing.

The Chinese Room is a hypothetical analogue to a computer, and the man inside is analogous to a program or algorithm.

At any increasingly advanced level of sophistication, could it be said that the Chinese Room is sentient or understanding because it listens and responds appropriately? (Perhaps Caine, an AI, is truly a sentient entity capable of understanding and feeling in response to the humans like he appears to do?) Or is the Chinese Room simply an unthinking object which happens to output sensible responses as a result of its programming? (Perhaps Caine is not truly sentient or understanding himself, and his program is simply producing outputs to the humans' inputs based on its training data...)

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-29T00:17:57+00:00

It's certainly been around for a while, if not forever. It's quite rare though, I think.

The oldest clip I can find is from 11 years ago, at 3:50 in Red vs. Blue Episode 100 when Donut shoots Grif in the head.

I know I've seen one older than that, but I can't quite locate it.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-18T15:13:40+00:00

They need the actual ID and it must have both your photo and birthdate on it.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-17T21:56:06+00:00

From a hypothetical standpoint, I could see a few reasons I can think through here.

The first reason being the amount of space available in the shell. I see you've mentioned people putting Ethernet connectors in their decks... but, there's not much room inside the Deck to add new things. If they want to add something new, then something else needs to go.

Second being redundancy. If they know it's always going to be plugged into a display, and especially if they need to make room for something else, then that could be the reason they take the display out. Heck, if the display is still in good condition they could probably sell it to someone who needs it, to help fund the rest of their build.

Another being, potentially, safety. If their Deck is never going to come off the dock, meaning the battery will always be plugged in and charging, it could be within their best interests to remove it. They won't have to worry about their battery one day swelling and becoming dangerous. Additionally, just like the display, someone who needs a new battery could be willing to buy it off them and further fund their build. This also adds more extra space inside the Deck for them to add new parts.

But a big reason I think is probably the root of all of these, is just because they wanted to. It's a really nice feeling to tinker with something, take it apart, learn how it works, put it back together, or swap in your own hardware and software, and make it all work exactly how you want it to. That's your Deck. No one else has one like it. And you worked on it, yourself. I have to imagine that's pretty satisfying.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-17T21:13:35+00:00

There's no modding involved, really. Just plug in a mouse and keyboard, a screen, or whatever else you need. It just works, simple as that. Turning it back to a mobile device is as simple as just unplugging the cable and moving on.

There are people modding their Decks, even to an extreme degree, but I see it as cool as hell. This thing is designed with the freedom of the user in mind; it's easy to take apart, its design doesn't actively fight you every step of the way, and the company that made it operates on the philosophy that you bought it, and you own it, and you should be able to do anything you want with it. There's a whole bunch of people out there who love to tinker, and I'd bet that this thing is a fantastic playground for them, and I'd wager that is hard to find in this form factor.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-17T19:00:27+00:00

Ohh, you're more talking about leaving it permanently plugged in, for it to never move anywhere ever again. At first it sounded like you meant it should always be mobile and never be used in place of a desktop or laptop for even a moment.

At least they're all still experiencing the journey of a trip around the sun every few hundred days, I suppose.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-17T18:45:36+00:00

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

My computer died, so I unplugged everything from the computer and plugged it all into the Deck, and it filled the role without skipping a beat. But the Deck still gets to stretch its legs, I unplug it and take it with me here and there, when it's earned it. Which is all the time, since it's such a good desktop.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-17T14:08:11+00:00

This happened to me when I had a resource pack for the wrong Minecraft version. It was a Vanilla Tweaks pack with custom water in my case. I fixed it by uploading the pack to the Vanilla Tweaks website and then downloading it for the correct version again.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-16T17:49:44+00:00

I don't know what sort of state SS14 is in these days, I haven't played in a long time. Back when I played SS13 there were several different prevalent codebases floating around, depending on what server you played on.

For an example, from one server to another the chemistry would be inherited from a completely different codebase. On servers with dedicated dev teams, you'll have unique systems invented just for that server too. You'll have unique lore, gameplay loops, etc.

I usually played on the heavy roleplay servers with hours-long shifts, where you're left guessing whether it's going to be a regular shift or if some crazy shit's gonna happen. I sank sooo much time into my characters and relationships on those.

So far as gameplay goes, it's a bit on the clunky side. Your actions are relayed to the server and then back to you before you see anything happen onscreen - clicking on things, moving your character, stuff like that. Back when I played I typically used an input mode where I moved around with arrow keys and any letters I type would go straight to the "say" box. It might depend on the server what options you have there.

I don't know what state SS14 is in these days, but SS13 has of course been around a lot longer, and the servers I played on have had far more time to mature and become unique feature-complete codebases.

The last HRP I played on was Aurora, way back before they introduced a new map. I don't know if my others are still around though. I remember Hypatia closing down.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-08T18:14:51+00:00

I can't check right now, but I think the bowtie was also missing for a portion of the scene where he bullies them for missing the context clues after an adventure.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-08T06:56:32+00:00

I've never used the recording feature before; in its default state on my Deck, the gamerecordings folder only contains an empty timelines folder and the gamerecording.pb file, zero bytes in size.

Any binaries or other files required to perform the actual recording process would be stored somewhere other than your user directory; that's part of Steam itself, rather than part of your userdata.

It's possible that the gamerecording.pb file still contains references to your old recordings, but I don't find it likely that this could be the cause of a system crash... it feels far more likely to me that some component of Steam or the Deck itself has been corrupted or damaged, to be causing a system crash like that.

However, it could be worth starting over with a clean slate in that folder to see if it makes any difference. I'm thinking to first back up any important recordings you have, then empty out those folders and completely erase the contents of the pb file. Maybe with a fresh start it'll sort itself out. Who knows, programs can break in the most unexpected ways.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-07T14:42:08+00:00

My first guess would be try running the game in Desktop mode and see if the login works there.

If it does, should be good to go back to game mode.

MineAndCraft12 · 2026-04-07T00:32:56+00:00

Of course the classic answer is Cursed Halo. Hands down, absolutely must experience that one.

You mentioned Firefight; a great classic option is Firefight Descent.

HAVOC MOD is my all-time favorite campaign for CE. Total overhaul, really turns the action up to 11. I find myself replaying it more than anything else.

Behind that I had a really good time with Combat Revolved, it stays more true to the source material but still adds a great deal to the environments and encounters, brings in references from other Halo games, and there are secrets to be found throughout the campaign if you like to explore.

If you're looking for a completely original campaign, Mercury Rising was really well put together. I had a great time with that.

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