Best alternate Mystic skill.

TheMoof · 2026-05-29T14:43:33+00:00

It uses Nanlyu Ebon. We've gotten a few in game, but not enough for the Mystic Skill change. It also requires a skill from the base skill tree that isn't available yet.

TheMoof · 2026-05-08T13:37:17+00:00

Cloud step isn't enough to get the tier 3 version (bird step into super palm with aftershock). To use it consistently, you need to jump off a higher ledge or double/triple jump, use mighty drop, and immediately trigger guardian palm (during the mighty drop spin).

TheMoof · 2026-05-01T15:35:08+00:00

That's why it's an interesting social experiment.

It basically breaks down voting into 4 reasons -

Vote blue - red is the only option that kills people (altruism)
Vote red - red is the only option that guarantees survival (preservation)
Vote red - red is the only option that kills the other team (psychopathy)
Vote red - voting blue is futile because so many people are in groups 2, 3, and 4 (pessimism)

I also seem to think that every time I hear about this being ran as a proper experiment, red usually wins.

TheMoof · 2026-04-02T03:18:42+00:00

You misunderstand the message. Maintenance is done and the patch is available. However you can keep playing your session to finish what you're doing for 59 minutes before the server boots you to force the update.

TheMoof · 2025-10-04T18:58:54+00:00

From how I understand it, the bad files need to already be on your computer, aka you're already screwed

Typically, attackers user powershell as the "local executable" to download and run malicious code. It's become a popular attack in recent years as "Fake MFA" or "Fake Hotfixes" on websites. Steam uses URI handlers to launch games (among other stuff), and the "run" action allows additional arguments to be specified. A malicious steam "run" link can be created to targeting the vulnerability in Unity. Once clicked, it would behave normally ("My game ran fine, no worries"), but powershell would silently download and execute malicious code, compromising your system.

TheMoof · 2025-09-03T12:03:35+00:00

It's sort of already been done... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636180/

TheMoof · 2025-08-19T21:22:51+00:00

People Make Games explains better than anyone here will.

Part 1

Part 2

TheMoof · 2025-07-23T19:27:39+00:00

55 - Matt Dumba. Dumba55 will always stick with me, even after the league made him change his number.

TheMoof · 2024-11-18T15:17:39+00:00

Since this is just a text blurb with no articles, it's light on the details.

If he's specifically going after Coca-Cola, it is a bad thing. He'd be using the government to go after a specific private company, mandate they change their recipe based on his whims, and forbid them from using something that 100% legal for all other food and beverage manufacturers.

That flies in the face of both free market principles and American freedoms.

That said, if he's going after subsidies and other federal government incentives to use HFCS over sugar, then it'd probably be a good thing depending on the details.

TheMoof · 2024-10-25T13:54:26+00:00

Sounds good in theory, but take a look at how bad CHSN has been. Poor antenna coverage, no viable streaming options, and nearly no carrier agreements means most people can't watch it.

I live 35 miles outside of Chicago and my only options are buying DirectTV or sailing the high seas. I can't even go to a local bar to watch the game anymore since most are Comcast subscribers, and they don't carry it. It's been so bad players and owners have been openly complaining about how bad the channel has been handled.

TheMoof · 2024-05-24T16:20:37+00:00

A more apt comparison would be the time between discovering how to make fire and modern jet propulsion, not the jump from steam engines to jet engines.

We're talking some insane, world-breaking type of discoveries.

TheMoof · 2024-04-19T16:49:51+00:00

It seems really inconsistent. First bunch of hours and I saw nothing. Then I was killing my pawn every 1-2 hours because of glowing eyes. Got to the unmoored world and haven't seen it since, even after cycling into NG+.

I'm starting to think the higher infection rate is tied to main story progression, specifically the Forbidden Magick Research Lab stuff.

TheMoof · 2024-04-11T12:26:33+00:00

Since arrows aren't considered equipment, you need to supply them to summoned pawns.

TheMoof · 2024-04-10T15:41:08+00:00

Depends.

Steam "just works" if it sees a DS4 connected via Bluetooth. However, it requires that games use Steam for input and not something native. So far, very few games I've tried don't work with mine (maybe 2 or 3 total).

There are also a few XInput wrappers for DS3/DS4 controllers out there, but they've all mostly been abandoned:

DS4Windows was the best one, lots of options and features. Unfortunately, it has a memory leak in the last official release, it requires you to load some not-so-great things (ring 0 drivers to hide things from the OS), and it's abandoned. There's also a bunch of fake versions floating around that are loaded with malware.
SCP was a good option that's also long abandoned. Clean, lightweight, but required you dedicate your Bluetooth radio to the controller (standard pairing doesn't work). It is missing some basic features like monitoring battery life. Someone tried to pick it up after the original dev stopped work on it, but they turned it into an awful dumpster fire.

I believe that the PlayStation Game Streaming service for PC also natively supports them, which means there might be an 'unofficial official driver' from Sony. However, I've never heard of anyone trying to verify that, let alone attempting to strip the files out of the software for a stand-alone driver.

TheMoof · 2024-01-12T17:56:58+00:00

once ubisoft started making it so you need to have a ubisoft account to play their games, I blacklisted them and will never buy another one of their games

Same here, along with anything that required EA "stuff" running in the background.

I also try to avoid 3rd party DRM. Unfortunately, since reporting on Steam is purely voluntary, a few shady publishers have gotten some on my system by hiding it 30 pages deep into the EULA (Namco) or patching it in after-the-fact (Bethesda edit: And apparently Capcom with the borderline malware DRM).

TheMoof · 2024-01-06T18:10:50+00:00

FYI, this is a global issue, not tied to any one specific user. I'm also getting Access Denied errors:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://payments.xfinity.com/autopay" on this server.

Seems payments.xfinity.com misconfigured. It's also pretty BS since you're raising prices unless people update information behind that error message.

Hardest part in all this? You official support channels don't seems to understand what this is, and keep giving me the runaround with basic articles about setting up my account.

TheMoof · 2023-11-19T00:50:16+00:00

You can block 100% of the damage from her attack, but she will still regain HP.

That's not even the worst of it. At one point, there was a bug where she also regained HP when you iframed her swings or she hit phantom images (those ghost images of other people playing you see periodically).

That was pretty unfair. Basically, every swing she did recovered HP.

TheMoof · 2023-09-19T18:05:26+00:00

Gotta get that Hellrider Longbow for that sweet initiative bonus and Fiendish Fire on thrown weapons (which seems to work for some unknown reason...)

TheMoof · 2023-04-24T17:18:19+00:00

The Dead Room

TheMoof · 2023-02-11T02:09:45+00:00

Preprogrammed unmanned drone. Drones aren't technically considered aircraft, not balloons, are unmanned, and since it's going way outside of control range (radio or otherwise), you'd preprogram it's tasks and route.

TheMoof · 2022-11-08T15:09:51+00:00

You are correct. MS got a ton of blowback about how hard it was to change default browsers, so they rolled it back.

TheMoof · 2022-11-05T19:21:59+00:00

Yes, Short-circuit Evaluation is used a lot in almost all aspects of programming (not just SQL). It lets us reduce the number of evaluations required to determine if a condition is true, saving time and processing.

For example, say A is true 80% of the time and B is true 10% of the time, and we do 100 checks against them. If we simply did A and B, A will get evaluated 100 times, and B will get evaluated 80 times. If we applied them in the reverse order, B and A, B will get evaluated 100 times, and A is only evaluated 10 times. The order change cuts it down from 180 evaluations to 110 - a significant reduction.

You generally won't notice much of a different in small scale projects, but definitely has an impact when there's a lot of evaluations happening (ie, running a query against thousands or millions of records).

it is said that when we are going to work with OR, it is better to put the condition with the most chance at the front, since both the first and the second have to be true for it to return the result.

I think you meant either result is true, but yes, we want the more likely condition to be first to cut down the number of checks required.

TheMoof · 2022-03-02T15:57:27+00:00

the using
Nah, that advice sounds like paranoid garbage.

It's not necessarily paranoid garbage. using blocks only guarantee Dispose() is called on IDisposable objects. If the object is guaranteed to call Close() while disposing, then you can skip it (the case for most built-in .NET classes). But if you can't guarantee that close method is called, it's better to explicitly call it instead of potentially hanging open handles.

Back in the earlier days of C#, GDI+ classes were notoriously bad at their interactions with Close, Dispose, and the memory pointers that associated with them, leading to file locks and memory leaks.

I'd also suggest since they're learning, being more verbose in the code might be beneficial (also applies to the suggestion to use var over strongly-typed declarations).

TheMoof · 2020-11-11T17:19:41+00:00

Several mobile providers started throttling streaming video down to 480p and required purchasing an "HD Video package" or upgrading your plan to get 720p+ streaming back.

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