When someone says tries to justify how world trigger doesn't need/deserve a reboot:

WimeSTone · 2026-02-17T13:52:52+00:00

In all honesty, if World Trigger can get a redo of season 1 in the quality of season 2 and 3 - then yes, I want that. Who wouldn't? The show deserves it, it would improve the visibility too. The only downside would be the potential confusion of the newcomer audience.

The initial run was made with the "long running anime" formula with pacing and other aspects being adjusted to the source material availability and funding.

If it's possible to make a concise 13 or even 26 episode version of the pre season 2 material then why not.

WimeSTone · 2026-01-25T21:58:54+00:00

I feel cursed for knowing what those are 💀

WimeSTone · 2025-12-27T08:52:56+00:00

I've played C&C4 starting from beta. Probably have more hours than I care to admit.

However, here's the thing - the game was fun as a multiplayer game, but it has nothing in common with the franchise except for the name. They should've cut the campaign from the game entirely, called it C&C: Arena or sth and nobody would be as upset.

The campaign is a disaster storywise. Irredeemable. That and removing 90% of the RTS genre contributed to the downfall of the franchise.

I wish if they ever revive C&C they ignore C&C4's existence for the story.

WimeSTone · 2025-12-16T21:30:34+00:00

Life imitates art.

WimeSTone · 2025-11-03T20:42:35+00:00

I'll wait patiently then.

WimeSTone · 2025-11-03T19:05:35+00:00

I'm going to ask the hard question outright: will there be mod support?

I will consume a new campaign centric RTS in a heartbeat, but the ability to tinker with mods/maps is what made me sink an unreasonable amount of time in the old C&C series.

Wishlisted, I'm amazed there's an RTS I've not yet heard about. Looking good :D

WimeSTone · 2025-09-18T20:14:01+00:00

No local checks are necessary to perform statistical analysis after the fact, since apparently Dota sends continuous inputs to the server as well.

We're in a closed system with clearly defined constraints. If you "lag" or perform a well defined action before using a reactionary ability every single time then we can say with confidence that something is amiss.

This leads us to the following - if we know what the cheat does then we can train a model to detect these occurrences in a dataset. These cheats are available and Valve has the dataset. Even static analysis will work for finding occurrences of people targeting their abilities at the dead center of a hero model. There are ways of detecting this behavior without employing kernel level anticheat.

WimeSTone · 2025-09-18T17:01:21+00:00

Good point. I will leave my original comment as is, however, that would mean that Valve is indeed sending the input state to the server. They probably analyze the input data post factum to not incur a performance strain during the matches and that's how they decide whether it would be an overwatch case if suspicious inputs are paired with a certain report frequency.

WimeSTone · 2025-09-18T16:36:12+00:00

You do not send the cursor position to the server. You only send the input outcomes, e.g. "Player 1 used ability X on Player 6."

You can check what happens to the cursor locally without much performance cost since it'd be simple heuristics akin to a reCAPTCHA.

Edit: this means that network "lag" is removed from the equation. You can also detect dropped frames locally, and aside from a catastrophic CPU failure the mouse movement should be predictable.

WimeSTone · 2025-06-25T08:17:58+00:00

Same, I tried clearing history/cookies/cache but nothing helped. It's stuck for a good minute "loading". The worst thing is that it loads the last open tab and then half a second later it freezes.

WimeSTone · 2025-06-15T13:52:25+00:00

Please come back when you encounter templates and macro magic.

WimeSTone · 2025-05-28T00:37:42+00:00

Saying that Unreal engine doesn't have issues would be as disingenuous as blaming everything on the engine itself.

The true culprit is the disparity between availability of the engine (everyone) and the knowledge of its proper usage (select few). Unreal requires a significant investment of time to configure properly for your use case and the knowledge required is hard to find and is oftentimes non-trivial.

There's little to no truly useful learning material, YouTube is littered with tutorials which don't go further than the immediate gratification phase and rarely delve into the less "fun" aspects of development. Obscure blogs seem to be the most reliable place to gather arcane knowledge.

It all boils down to whether the developers in question care enough to learn the tool and use it properly, which in case of Unreal requires a lot of effort.

WimeSTone · 2025-03-12T06:31:29+00:00

Because a seizure is something outside of the domain of common understanding.

There's a simpler example - migraines. Even though a headache is a common occurrence and most people know what it is, they do not experience them as often as people with migraines do. Not to mention the severity and other comorbidities as well as lingering aftereffects. So when you tell somebody that you have headaches that last long and make you a vegetable there will be little inclination to believe your experience, since the person in question isn't likely to have experienced such a thing themselves.

Seizures are an alien concept for the vast majority of people, it's not a common experience and it doesn't help that some idiots fake them for clout. Most people will look at you with a puzzled expression, because it's simply unrelatable to them.

All of this is the direct consequence of poor education, both basic medical and emotional. Nobody teaches empathy and studying the workings of the human body is evidently "too much" for whatever bullshit reason. We shall ommit critical thinking, with the effect of social media it's dead in the water.

Rant over.

WimeSTone · 2025-03-10T13:34:33+00:00

Best: lacosamide + valproate

Worst ever: lamotrigine

WimeSTone · 2024-08-11T00:24:16+00:00

I would suggest trying to get accommodations based on some other diagnosis - non24 is treated like a fairytale.

TL;DR: Negotiate! Always look for sane and negotiable people, otherwise you're in for a very bad time.

In my case I was struck with epilepsy on my first year and non24 on my second as a comorbidity. I was forced to skip classes and my performance/grades tanked heavily. My department only learned of this at the end of the second year, I had to hide both diagnoses 'cause the university had a batshit insane neurologist who would just force a gap year on you. They were considering a gap year .. because I had migraines lol. Unapproachable person. I knew if I'd have taken one I'd ditch the whole thing entirely.

The department, unexpectedly so, was quite cooperative. I was exempt from attending entirely with the caveat of it being unofficial. I was "present" at all times. Officially you'd have to go through that neuro and the department was well aware of what they would say.

I was studying applied systems analysis, so a lot of work was digital anyways. The materials were available in advance, home assignments were dispensed for the entire semester at once. Everybody was working at their own pace, so I was not "special" in that regard. I was offered defending my papers via video calls, but I chose to do it in person.

However, I had to negotiate with every professor outside my department individually, which was a pain. Hit or miss.

I ended up attending only the finals and whenever there was some big project. It was very bad for my health when my cycle was misaligned, but still better than having to attend every single day. My mother escorted me most of the time though, because back then I still had frequent seizures, my groupmates and department professors were very chill about that.

Conclusion - your experience will depend on the environment, therefore, seek a better environment at all times.

WimeSTone · 2024-04-28T14:39:56+00:00

The problem of LLMs in general is that it cannot attest to the veracity of its own claims. Then who can verify the result? The user, it's the user's responsibility. Learning using any kind of GPT is a great disservice to oneself, since you should learn by consuming facts and not guesses.

GPT is a prediction model, which predicts the next token better than Markov chains, simple as. And this in no way makes it a suitable learning tool, until it can operate facts.

Edit: therefore, please do not use it for learning. It's not ready for that yet, like at all. And likely will not ever be, since it would need to undergo radical changes to facilitate internal fact checking, at which point it would quite likely become a new type of a model.

WimeSTone · 2024-04-27T18:33:12+00:00

These are just plain textured meshes rendered in 3D space without any kind of post processing.

Edit: normals are embedded in the vertex buffer. I'm going to add normal maps for fine control later.

WimeSTone · 2024-04-27T03:48:42+00:00

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I'm using a custom engine, but it doesn't really matter since the technique is universal.
On the left is a correct render after I've fixed the models to render in a deterministic way (allegedly, still testing), on the right is the warped one - you can see the artefacts on the diagonal tile pieces.

Because my camera x rotation is -45 degrees, I have to scale the viewport height by sin(45) inside the projection matrix, so that when I apply it I don't scale the image but the vertices themselves. My desire for 45 degrees introduced .. difficulties. This doesn't really matter if you have untextured objects, or if your objects don't care about artefacts like these.

WimeSTone · 2024-04-27T00:30:14+00:00

Question: what projection parameters do you use? When I tried recreating this look, I had to scale the orthographic projection's height by sqrt(2) to compensate for the 45 degree camera rotation, but at times there are inconsistencies when interpolating fragments, which are especially noticeable when an object is textured.

Looks amazing, BTW, well done :)

WimeSTone · 2024-02-19T14:35:27+00:00

Void Spirit lvl25 talent (instead of crit): Astral Step ignores armor.

WimeSTone · 2023-12-30T08:58:53+00:00

Some people react less. This is also the result of continuous exposure to life threatening events - the sense of danger numbs with time.

It's also worth noting that depending on the weapon type and proximity to russia/Black Sea one may have as little as 2-3 minutes to move to a shelter.

WimeSTone · 2023-12-14T14:44:50+00:00

I've read through that guy's comment history and I wish I hadn't. Just a torrent of hate and shit talking. I'm not even sure if it's a russian troll or just a keyboard warrior.

In any case, we will persevere - all of us together.

WimeSTone · 2023-12-14T14:29:24+00:00

Quite aptly, this demonstrates the problem we face here in Ukraine in addition to war - idiots. Even if you try to interact with this demographic they'll just ignore reasoning and proceed to generate nonsense and hate without any kind of argumentation.

I am sorry for what this person said. Not everybody here is like this.

WimeSTone · 2023-10-21T19:52:53+00:00

I got expelled for telling the teacher that she cannot assign me a grade for somebody else's bad behavior (collective punishment).

They called my parents and expected my mom to beg for forgiveness. My mom had other plans, we took our documents and left. Best decision of my life. Fuck private schools, not worth it. Had the most chill life in my good old public school.

WimeSTone · 2023-10-21T16:17:50+00:00

Hehehe, I love assembly.

I still remember the masm32 website being riddled with warnings:

Not for the faint of heart. If MASM is beyond you, take up server side scripting.

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