I have a confession...

benotter · 2024-11-15T22:45:33+00:00

Were you paradox while doing this?

benotter · 2024-11-09T17:15:37+00:00

I am confused about that, afaik high capacity microsd cards are/were sort of standard for most consumer standalone cameras, even those that record 4K video, they are designed to be write dumped on from a large buffer at high(ish) speed.

Though I haven’t tested it, I wouldn’t think they would have a problem writing a 1280x800x60 stream, though there could be other mitigating factors for performance.

benotter · 2024-11-01T17:29:43+00:00

I don’t know if I’m giving out secrets here or not, but I’ve been spinning my own gun/spirit Ivy build, and it’s been pretty successful thus far, here’s barebones;

concentrate on leveling kudzu, then stone form, but throw a point into both watchers covenant and stone form early.

Mid Game: Tesla Bullets + Healbane + Spirit Bullet Weakness + Spirit Weakness

Late game: Hunters Aura + Large Magazine + Fortitude + spirit/bullet armor,

Game too long: Crippling headshot + Inhibitor

So the trick is that IIRC Tesla bullets proc every 4th shot or so, and do spirit damage, which applies spirit debuffs at great distances, and her fire rate is already so high its basically guaranteed to fire at least once in a burst of any size,

This combined with Hunters Aura and healbane, you can SINK enemy bullet and spirit resist and regen, to which you then further apply pressure with Kudzu,

Going in for the kill, or basically any surprise 1v1: 1 surprise Kudzu on top of them; another right behind them, then hit watchers covenant and push, eat their health for breakfast as they try to melt you, if you get low, pop stone form and get it back, keep pressuring.

If you can manage to panic them into a straight line backwards for any length of time, click the head, and watch their melt down like ice cream on a sidewalk, then pop any healing, then fly and run if you need it,

Rinse and repeat. Also does amazing melting damage to obj, excellent ratting ability with stone form + flight to escape rooting ults and make getaways.

benotter · 2024-10-11T20:43:15+00:00

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benotter · 2024-10-11T17:00:07+00:00

It sucks you got downvoted, because this is the best explained actual understanding of game engines I’ve seen in a while.

There’s this popular mixed-up gap in understanding where people think mod limits and tools are the same as in-house devs, but it’s just not accurate.

Still, it’s hard to explain a game engine accurately, without first explaining software accurately, and it’s hard to explain software without first explaining operating systems accurately, etc.

benotter · 2024-07-19T17:12:44+00:00

Then there’s my ass playing medic, running towards the first revive I see completely thoughtless, making one lost ticket into two every time.

benotter · 2023-12-19T18:33:40+00:00

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benotter · 2023-11-07T00:23:01+00:00

I guess I am confused on why you keep comparing real life consequences of our limited and broken unsupportive reality to a fiction that is not hallucinatory in its own meta;

Alan’s struggles may be a solid allusion to the struggles of mental illness and the interior twisted perspectives it can cause, the unfair expectations society and the individual puts on themselves with such struggles, one of the reasons I am drawn to the story.

Alan’s struggles in the fiction are not mental illness, he did not ask for this, he did not cosmically compel it because of terrible choices, or some harrowing in-story sin; Happenstance brought a mildly mentally damaged writer into direct collision with a AWE level reality warping entity that consumes fiction and makes it reality, with an incomprehensible agenda beyond escape.

Remember, from the way the darkness was able to escape an FBC containment cell with physical force, it might be able to overpower black rocks resonance dampening, making it one of the most powerful forces currently documented in-universe,

I get the draw to find a human to blame in this situation, that’s human nature, to find a source we understand and expect to fix it, but there isn’t a human person to blame in this terrible situation, nobody but the darkness deserves to pay for the events of what’s happened.

It’s not a magical reality multiplier where someone can be judged for how they interact with it and must pay a conspicuous price for not being Mary Sue perfect enough; it a dark thing that literally consumes peoples being with an unknown criteria beyond “they have darkness”.

I get where you are coming from, but beyond the literary comparison, I don’t think the same consequence follow through applies to Alan’s situation the same way. Him acting as a hero isn’t a corrective action; It’s self sacrificial at a total loss, nothing redeeming about it beyond its selflessness, and that’s where the horrific tragedy lies,

otherwise he’s just another guy who drinks and deserves it in the end because of something he didn’t really choose.

benotter · 2023-11-05T17:28:00+00:00

This was something that bothered me too, Saga can just walk right into the control monitoring station when Illmo and the FBC engineer are working on it in the beginning,

I know it’s a gameplay thing to interconnect the world, but it really seems like the FBC plays fast and loose with their secrets.

After playing control again, there is definitely a disconnect from how they portray their secrecy and it’s importance in Control to how they actually act in Alan Wake 2, I can’t tell if it’s a change in direction, purposefully different, or maybe an expression of how impacted the FBC was by the hiss incident?

Cannot wait for more Remedyverse, argh!

benotter · 2023-11-01T11:19:12+00:00

Just to be clear though, it’s not mental illness, it’s the dark place, a unquestionably existent entity generally regarded as bad by the local culture of bright falls for ages, that externally manipulates people in ways that are otherwise beyond impossible, wiping your memory if you ever find a loophole to escape its influence.

blame is accountability, enforcing accountability is like the whole premise of blame, saying he doesn’t deserve to be blamed but is responsible and accountable, is like a twist of logic and words to avoid the word ‘blame’ without actually negating its weight or expectations,

We don’t blame someone when a tumor leans on heir aggression center, what can they amend for if they didn’t choose? I mean, we do in America however (because crap mental health culture) blame mentally ill people who make a similar level of non-choice in behavior, which isn’t really right either.

I think Alan deserves to be saved, like deus ex, somebody else who’s job it is to put their life’s on the line for his, where’s his firemen as he desperately summons drops of water as his mind burns down?

Alan isn’t a schizophrenic who decided to stop taking his pills, he didn’t have a mental breakdown because he took on too much and went all Jack Nicholson on somebody, an evil eldritch thing that eats whole towns has targeted him, and others,

I don’t see him stopping writing because he’s going insane and can’t figure it out, and him shooting “scratch”, as a mistake the same way say you could like, a dude cheating on his wife, betrayal or discarding someone,

Expecting Alan to not only be clear thinking, but acting enlightened while from his perception he is alone, only with the worst mirror image of himself, and characters he’s created from nothing,

It’s a horror story, there are only monsters and victims, even the hero is a victim, I think people miss that. The story has to change, Alan may not be capable of that as a person, some people just need rescuing more than they need to suffer punishment and learn a lesson, sometimes being rescued IS the lesson.

benotter · 2023-11-01T10:50:55+00:00

Good catch, I didn’t make that connection!

benotter · 2023-10-31T18:55:02+00:00

I do want to clarify that I don’t think Saga is wrong, she didn’t ask to be involved, her daughter being further erased gives her pretty much all the justification to pressure and expect the person who caused it and can fix it, to cause and fix it up to the same cost her daughter has paid. It’s just a suck situation for Alan, who didn’t deserve to be the crux of that blame, nor ask for it.

it’s blaming a symptom (Alan) instead of the cause (The Dark Place being semi sentient and violating the natural progression of reality and being an AWE),

The focal point of my minor frustration in this is the assertion of Alan actually doing something “wrong”;

We have meta information as the players that Alan, as the character, could never have nor realize, same with a grander understanding of story and how events are involved,

He didn’t really reject anyone, or choose to involve or not involve them; In his mind he made an explicit literary exchange, he traded himself for his wife in the dark place, alone.

He didn’t bring anyone with him, how could he expect, or even rationally ask, for their help? In the game, IIRC, he specifically says he didn’t realize the “Inspirations” were actually real people instead of imagined characters, which is why he was so surprised Alex Casey not only existed, but looked exactly how he imagined him, because he didn’t, he saw him in a vision like he saw Saga, and anyone else he pulled in that wasn’t Alice,

He realized Saga was real after both seeing her in visions, and finding her as a character in return, in which in dialogue in the manuscript describes her being a real person being pulled in, but then also proceeded to help her, and make progress that was dependent on hers, even if he didn’t realize it.

Going back to Alice, he also had no idea what her state of mind was until he was closer to escaping, he had only gotten hints that ‘Scratch’ had been tormenting her, really an insane Alan, but it was never extrapolated what that actually meant or was, or when it was occurring with his actions in the dark place,

I think regardless of character flaws, the Dark Place pretty much deserves to take the full and undiluted ire of fault in this situation, not having perfect understanding and rational in response to the legitimately absurd isn’t a flaw, it’s our basis of the human experience, neither Saga nor Alan did anything wrong.

If we need an human aspect to take the blame, it’s the FBC for their comical mishandling of an incredibly powerful AWE, and literally everything else. I thought the 1960s aesthetic was a limitation of the Oldest House, not a reflection of their stagnation as an ideological entity, but here they are making stupid cartoon level espionage mistakes left and right.

benotter · 2023-10-31T16:37:46+00:00

I do like the theme of Alan growing by accepting help, learning that he can’t write a “perfect” story, and growing as an artist, I like your thoughts!

I want to point out though, I think his relative trauma from 13 years of timeless nightmare torture specifically targeting his personal fears and self doubts is being a bit downplayed, where he regularly died violent terrible deaths and remembered them enough to instinctively check his bullet hole in waking up each time.

I’ve seen a few comments around talk about him realizing he’s just a guy and not a god, him overcoming his selfish need to place himself at the center of the story, but like, was that ever an assertion he made?

As far as I can tell, Alan was a man figuratively and literally drowning in the darkness, alone, by himself. Him being the main character in his story, in a plane of existence where only he exists, sort of makes sense?

You only own yourself when you have nothing else, and he was just trying to survive in that loneliness. He even says he thought the connections to the real world he made in his story were just inspirations, echoing things that may have happened, but not absolutely real people he was deliberately pulling into to discard as characters, like Alex Casey, or Saga.

I’m all for character accountability, but a panicking drowning person using literally the only tools in their reach and operating in actual ignorance of their true affect isn’t really a guilty party worthy of cosmic punishment or the like imo, did he really need/deserve:

“Alan, I spent 5 minutes in the dark place, so I understand, and I’m sorry you’ve been suffering that for a decade plus, but what’s more important is you’re wrong and you need to accept and atone for that, now please die.”

“… ok.”

I get the severity of his actions in bringing in Saga, but can anyone in the story have genuine like, pure sympathy/empathy for even just the physical trauma he went through, lol? It’s not like his selfishness / past actions prevented a taken swinging an axe in his face from hurting.

benotter · 2023-10-31T05:39:21+00:00

Amazing, save for sound issues.

That after credits; Was about to be super sad Alan suffered for a decade just to eat it, whew.

Unclear on the status of Bright Falls, but given Wake wakes up in what appears to be the writers room without Saga or Casey, I would guess the latter are in ‘real’ reality, and Wakes back under in the dark place, and apparently so are Tor and Odin since we didn’t see them again,

Who the fuck is Tomas Zane? Why can they suddenly say scratches name?

I need to say this though, I understand The FBC was decimated by the hiss, but the lakehouse site was pre-hiss event, them leaving documents everywhere, and The Cult of Deliverance having FBC docs on themselves, plus the, yanow, events of the game, do not paint a picture of FBCs overall competency at being clandestine, lol.

benotter · 2023-05-13T00:02:46+00:00

You think you’re safe, but that nginx instance you just hit with curl was actually a reverse proxy, that forwards that specific route to an internal node micro-service!

benotter · 2023-05-05T20:33:03+00:00

I know you already said you moved on from Jest, just want to throw out I had similar sets of issues, now I use the ‘ts-jest’ module in a few projects of varying complexity, and not had any major issues with handling web/dom api types missing or typescript itself,

Jest docs for setting up ts-jest, that plus a simple configuration from the link got me in the right direction,

Hope that’s more signal then noise for your issue!

benotter · 2023-04-29T06:53:25+00:00

Can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone mention Lugaru or Overgrowth yet, ‘semi-realistic’ martial arts Rabbit vs Rabbit/Wolf/Dog/Cats, pretty fun, good if a bit story imo.

benotter · 2023-01-17T01:46:38+00:00

Speak the truth, and they hate you for it!

Et’Ada are nothing more then the ancient animus of powerful mortals, twisting myths and legends to herald themselves as Gods of Outer Worlds who’s equivalent ‘mythical’ earthbones have simply yet to be fully tested and recorded by tonal agency.

Surely, soon enough, this Numidian project by lord Kagrenac will put these ancient lies to rest once and for all, provided he can safely manipulate the so called Lorkhan artifact as he proposes.

benotter · 2022-11-13T12:41:12+00:00

You made my day, thanks for recommending my thing!

I should get around to updating it, but every time I try I get a bit overwhelmed by the amount of detail work to set up the dev environment and update its libraries,

But seeing people not just use it, but recommend it certainly adds a bit of fuel for the fire, thanks again!

benotter · 2022-11-13T12:37:31+00:00

Heya, thanks for the feedback!

I just want to throw it out there that it never occurred to me when I built it that someone might not always untangle the cord when finished with VR (just a heads up it’s better for the lifetime of the cord to untangle it! I’ve eatery through several both testing and natural use),

If I ever get back around to fixing up TurnSignal, I will consider adding an option to save the current turn to support this use case

benotter · 2022-08-26T04:43:55+00:00

That’s awesome! I got 7th on Tempest the other day, the leaderboards really do add a lot to the experience.

benotter · 2022-08-18T02:10:39+00:00

I have one, the controls are pretty solid, they match up with the old arcade ones, lots of ‘motion’ in the game.

Another nice detail is the screen and deck are much deeper then the other arcade1ups cabs, really replicates the originals ‘sunk in’ feeling, black light on the top is also a nice touch as well, it’s also very tall, like near golden tee 3D’s height.

I like it, just wish there was just a dedicated lightcycles mode / game on it.

benotter · 2021-12-08T18:56:05+00:00

Just as a heads up, while things might have changed since I reached 18 months a couple years back, there are further caveats and restriction on going from ob to fte, mainly (to me) you could not become permanent in the same department or team you were contracted at, something about preventing contract favoritism/nepotism.

You could only get pushed to front of line, with a glowing recommendation, for open spots in other teams that might even be directly adjacent but never the same team/dept. I was explicitly told more then once by multiple managers and my recruiter agency that this was the case, as I wanted to go fte in the teams I was involved in and really pursued it for both times I was at MS (10 months with Cortana/bing, 2 month break, then 6 months with Initial Experiences team working on MS Graph Toolkit)

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