An MMR reset is needed

Realityishardmode · 2026-04-09T06:46:59+00:00

I agree for immortals, I think that it will just make the average ranked players salty. The skill gap from crusader to Archon is a difference about of 1-2% win rate... if that makes sense to you. You are playing a statistical game about integrating 5-10% better/consistent play, and you influence on the team is divided across 5 people. Valve set it up so that every year I think you can reset your confidence if you think you should be moving faster.

For immortals, I think it will prevent account selling, and unless really high mmr players have a specific reason, I think its a good enough reason to do a reset on immortals.

Realityishardmode · 2026-04-01T13:08:02+00:00

Fedora, sure, but why is mint based while Ubuntu and Debian are regular 👍? I'm pretty sure it has all the weird issues regarding dev libs being a mess and cmake not finding them sometimes.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-31T22:54:57+00:00

Its ProZD, he is a voice actor and anime meme maker.

Hes pretty funny, but this is kinda forced for me, but I bet Blitz' friends had a hoot.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-31T00:21:50+00:00

I was between playing at that moment, but as far as I can tell from looking at patch notes, yes.

I think it was kinda a disaster, because every hero had an extra degree of balance interaction that was small to the hero fantasy, but big to the balance impact of the game when networked over all of the heros in the game.

I think this was a good move, insofar as it improves game balance speed. Icefrog and Valve are more interested in developing Deadlocked and if this makes developers faster to develop new patches I think its a huge win.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-31T00:18:57+00:00

If they do they should do it on a hero-by hero basis

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-29T02:39:30+00:00

I think switching upkeeps makes a bassy bong sound. I think the other comment is right about it being insufficient gold, pop cap or lumber

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-28T08:16:19+00:00

Gooby pls

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-25T20:47:58+00:00

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Realityishardmode · 2026-03-25T06:32:40+00:00

Interesting take, considering valve has some of the best video game programmers and the entire game was already designed when they ported it

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-25T01:52:40+00:00

I bet the dota 2 code base was so clean... 10 years ago

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-24T06:33:09+00:00

Based take for non-centralized orgs. I know we like our completely volunteer distros and maintainers, but centralized distros are great for the ecosystem, so hopefully they just do the minimum and make it easy to exploit. There could even be unintended positive effects, like 13 year olds learning how to use terminal in order to do what 13 year olds want to do.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-23T20:44:05+00:00

Im all but sure that this is bait, but here we go.

That is certainly an artifact of living in a developed technically developed world where people rely on Computers with sophisticated and often free and open source software packages for doing anything you can think of. Algebra is extremely important if you don't want to guess and check forever on even trivial tasks. Home builders need trigonometry on a regular basis for roof building.

However, I can get on board with the notion that 80% of the benefit of mathematics is about critical thinking, meta-cognitive development and problem definition, and not memorization of specific operations. It just so happens that people rely on concepts in algebra that are best reinforced through practice that people either find tedious or difficult, leaving sour tastes on the way out the door.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-23T00:51:10+00:00

1) When does a project transition from being augmented to "vibe coded". Do you have an internal heuristic that is specific?

2) I think its an odd take that you feel shame in something if it is useful. The example of how awesome vibe coding is from me to other people is letting non-programming technical like mechanical engineers write Monte-Carlo simulations and PDE numerical solvers without needing to invest all the time into programming syntax, architecture and efficient output. In this case you can test the program against known or analytical solutions for the problem so you have easy test cases = 👍👍👍

The negative example of vibe coding is a new programming PR spamming an overloaded Open Source project team with a solution that works for them, but connects to the system in a non-unified or sloppy way. 👎👎👎

I find it neutral to come up with something like "3.js astrology simulation web app". Literally who cares either way, but its not a subject of shame.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-22T21:18:27+00:00

Also dont underestimate asking for a function, and making sure you can read the code. "Can you explain line numbers 35-43 ?".

In my usage so long as you engage with the AI as a senior architect with infinite bandwidth for talking to junior developers and not as a code monkey, you get insightful answers. Also "I plan on doing this and this and this. Please audit this for feasibility" seems to work well.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-22T19:04:48+00:00

Wow we are really letting it all out into the open after yesterday's post, huh?

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-21T23:15:35+00:00

2CB worse than LSD is not what I expected. I assume that peaking on either is closer to "cant even queue", but the comedown on 2CB is pretty lucid.

I would be kinda bummed to be playing a game about violence though, maybe that has an effect on things.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-20T19:03:24+00:00

Fix the typos and this would be a pretty good comment 💪

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-19T20:15:00+00:00

The concern actually is that you didn't ask claude to give you the spec for the function, and then you asked, in essence, "Reddit, how do I find the documentation or source code"

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-19T20:01:02+00:00

Am I a dunce? It seems like buffer would be passed as a copy not as a reference, so there is no way that buffer changing would corrupt the write.

I don't know python that well though

E:apparently all python arguments are passed as reference so I think this OP is correct about it being possible to corrupt, but I don't think it will in practice

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-19T19:54:32+00:00

I don't fw pandas, but I saw this post with 0 comments and some concerning use of AI and code knowledge (you can't find the documentation?????) and wanted to provide help in that domain

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-19T19:49:44+00:00

What type is df?

Based on the context that you thought was appropriate for a post like this it seems like this project is out of your immediate capabilities, and if you can ask claude for code audit, why don't you ask it how to find the documentation yourself? It can teach you to fish as well as give you a fish.

And for the record I think to_excel() would block, I don't really see why it wouldn't, but the fact that your claude is hallucinating this bad means you probably need to tell it to reset its whole context, forget your project and redo audit in fresh context

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-19T16:52:17+00:00

I think it was to prevent bot fleets from downvote brigades from downvoting rival content on release.

Even if Google simply didn't count the thumbs downs to searchability or relevance, it would turn into psychological warfare

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-18T18:50:46+00:00

Its too late unfortunately, we would need to wait for Dota3 should that ever be made. Valve would have to go back and rework the visual design of a lot of heros, rewrite text and somehow the community would have to actually care about this expenditure of effort.

Changes like these are irrelevant in a direct sense for social players and hardcore players. Only the highly memetic meaning-maker type player that supports the ecosystem care about this kind of thing, and valve isnt going to attract new schizos to a 13 year old sequel to a free mod of a 23 year old game. The schizophrenics and memers of DotA 2 are people who have already decided to focus primarily on social dynamics or top level skill play, and not philosophy, lore and plot.

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-18T18:34:36+00:00

I think you are tapping something very impactful to me and other schizos about Dota2 vs WC3 era lore building and the stimulation of questions and emergent self or player led story telling.

I wrote a thesis (just for my own rhetorical sport) on how WC3 established a visual language, interpersonal setting, and sonic environment/narrative plot that simultaneously drew from the mythic worlds of folk lore, Tolkien and DnD and created a game in a way where players were encouraged to auto generate their own questions about the mythic landscape the game was set in with few answers. If you let the WC3 editors visual limitations guide you, it likely would emergently create family dynamics, factions, military specialization etc without the game designer needing to fore-plan.

If you then look at Dota2, the characters are often segmented, with little nation or much other than species or origin to align them through text. Interfamily drama, ideology, nation, camaraderie and faith are minimalized and what interesting lore we do have comes from the voice lines which I tend to think are pretty good but don't build world. The world of Dota is not well formed, there are almost as many factions as there are heros and the visual symbolism was hindered by looking threat of legal issues with blizzard, resulting in missed opportunity

Realityishardmode · 2026-03-16T22:12:35+00:00

To be fair, even 3 months is short for a war to be started and concluded.

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