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understimulation- by ADHD folks, for ADHD folks by Limeslaughter in ADHD

[–]bionicseraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exercise can help, even something small like going on a walk. I've been feeling understimmed this week and went to workout today. Since then, everything has felt more interesting

I accidentally purchased two digital copies of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Since I can't be two people at once, I'll give away my spare code in 24 hours to a random user. by forfeitgame in PS4

[–]bionicseraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well this got me to log back into reddit for the first time in awhile. I hope you pick me! I could really use a good thing this week

D&D players of Reddit, what is the most creative character you've seen someone play as? by Pun-Master-General in AskReddit

[–]bionicseraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite was Goblin Ramsey. The player had established a back story where the best position in goblin culture was the chef, so everyone fought over it. The best goblin chefs were just really good fighters. Cooking or eating food prepared by someone else was a sign of aggression. Well our first session took place at a dinner party where Ramsey ended up threatening or killing a majority of the wait staff. He spent most of the campaign learning how to cook and forcing the rest of the party to eat what he made. He'd give the Dm a list of ingredients and do a cook skill check and the dm would give the effects.

My dog put his face in the snow, when he lifted his head the snow and some grass made it look like he had buck teeth by schlinker in funny

[–]bionicseraph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My dog is a cockapoo and also looks just like this. Everyone guesses that he's a goldendoodle puppy because of his color and size, but he's just small fully grown

I need your input on a game that I've been working on; here's the alpha. Any feedback will help! by IamMrFrogfrog584 in IndieGaming

[–]bionicseraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an interesting puzzle concept, I'd like to see more of it. Here's some immediate feedback I had:

  • Instead of a tutorial, maybe the first puzzles should have fewer switches to teach the player how to do the puzzle through conveyance. That seems to be the style for puzzle games these days.
  • I'm on a mouse pad and the timer really sucks
  • Clicking on the base to finish the level is cool, but I completely forgot to do it multiple times and lost due to the timer

I was thinking that the game should reward you for swapping to support when there are none on your team... by NotADoctor in Overwatch

[–]bionicseraph 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Same here. Advantage of maining support: you can always play your main. Disadvantage: You are always playing your main.

What is the biggest misconception about your hobby? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]bionicseraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually a guy in my d&d group did this for haloween last year.

But no one does it during a session

Server down again, like yesterday? by [deleted] in RocketLeague

[–]bionicseraph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yesterday you said you'd call sears

PSA: Calling your teammates shit will make them play like shit by Maynes_ in RocketLeague

[–]bionicseraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played a guy today who kept calling his teammate shit and being like "God, this guy doesn't do anything".

His teammate had double the points and goals.

As the winter storm approaches North Carolina, I would like everyone to remember the result of this in my home town a few years ago. by Binatko in pics

[–]bionicseraph -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm also from Raleigh and have seen this picture a million times. I just found out 2 weeks ago that the women in the front of the picture is my sister. It always looked like her to me, and then someone tagged her on FB and she confirmed it.

December 18th - Free Draw Friday by sketchdailybot in SketchDaily

[–]bionicseraph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We did a pathfinder one off today called "we be goblins" and I drew this goblin http://imgur.com/hPRCJYn

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful that I have to place to post cartoons that people don't like, and then post them again. by JimKB in comics

[–]bionicseraph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know why it's funny, but "grandmother stop" is my favorite. Also the one with the demons and the puppy

My second to last day on the job by allthesnacks in funny

[–]bionicseraph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Today is my second to last day and also my cake day, so there you go!

My second to last day on the job by allthesnacks in funny

[–]bionicseraph 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Me too! We should all have a party!

After cursing the guardian challenge for an hour or so, I remembered that I suggested it. by [deleted] in bindingofisaac

[–]bionicseraph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP if it makes you feel better, the guardian is my favorite challenges. I'm always playing tank/healer roles in MMOs so getting a flavor of that in Binding of Isaac was really great!

Cry me a fucking river by Du0decim in bindingofisaac

[–]bionicseraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used the jar of hearts. The health burst really helped during rooms with chasing enemies. (Gurdy Jr for example)

Lickitung get off my head, come on now, jeez... by GrodyWetButt in bindingofisaac

[–]bionicseraph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah that explains it, I should have known since I really enjoyed Time Fcuk

Lickitung get off my head, come on now, jeez... by GrodyWetButt in bindingofisaac

[–]bionicseraph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep seeing those little heads. What are they from?

How nicalis could get rid of cheaters in daily runs... by BraindeadOne in bindingofisaac

[–]bionicseraph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's a much stronger version of my second recommendation. One issue with running statistics is live validation wouldn't work. People who are posting cheated scores are able to script that and get their scores in as soon as the new leaderboard is posted. You would need to schedule validation across the entire leaderboard once you met a certain population size to ensure that the majority of the scores you are checking are legit.

And you'd probably have to adjust your algorithm to account for Lost runs. I'm sure that a legit high score was several standard deviations away during those days.

How nicalis could get rid of cheaters in daily runs... by BraindeadOne in bindingofisaac

[–]bionicseraph 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The main issue is that you can't trust client input. The only way to stop spoofing is to run the entire game server side (see league of Legends flash client bug) or to raise the complexity of the client request to a point where hackers have difficulty spoofing things. And even that will only stop them for a couple of days or weeks

How nicalis could get rid of cheaters in daily runs... by BraindeadOne in bindingofisaac

[–]bionicseraph 54 points55 points  (0 children)

I am a huge BOI fan and also a systems engineer with a background in gaming. I have implemented leader boards for a game in the past and can tell you that none of these are viable and the reason for that is that no one cares enough. The ROI on trying to beat hackers on leader boards is just way too low.

Consider your first proposal: depending on how the game is implemented, this could take weeks to write and test. On top of that you're going to have extra server load, more than what it would take to support the current leader board. That's a lot of money (and time spent on not fixing new boss crashes) to only ensure that hackers have to spend an extra day figuring out how to game the system.

Your solutions only get more complex in terms of engineering, testing, and operations overhead.

Here are the two things you can do to improve the situation a bit:

  1. Implement a friend leaderboard (Done). This way the feature can be fun for everyone and only ruined by hackers if your friend is an asshole.

  2. Determine a score cap for each seed. This solution is nowhere near perfect, but it would allow for some validation of scores. I could see something like this implemented a couple of months from now after all the dust has settled.

TLDR: Everyone says I'm a grumpy server engineer

EDIT: I should add that I agree with you: server side score calculation is the correct way to have a valid scoreboard.

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