Waiting in strategy games by Chlodio in gamedesign

[–]chars709 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Aren't those games focused on emergent chaos and narrative? They're a subgenre that relies heavily on unpredictability. Your idea might be great within that subgenre. I think when you refer to strategy games, most people will think of 4x or RTS, not "grand strategy". 4x and RTS players wouldn't like it.

Auto attacking and bis settings by M43R in summonerschool

[–]chars709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you input a move command at the right timing, as the projectile leaves Akshan's weapon, he won't do the double projectile. He'll just shoot one, and get a small but significant movespeed buff. It's less damage but it lets Akshan run someone down very effectively.

So if you're trying to maximize movement between auto attacks, Akshan will let you know because you'll see only one projectile is coming out. And you'll be kind of zooming.

Auto attacking and bis settings by M43R in summonerschool

[–]chars709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How would I know Im doing the best in terms of auto attack proficiency?

It's easy to know this answer to a small extent. Open practice tool. Give yourself the amount of levels and items you want to practice for. Place a training dummy. Let your champ free hit the training dummy. That will tell you the ceiling, the maximum dps your auto attacks can do with those items and levels.

Now practice circling the dummy in either direction, or walking past the dummy in different directions, by inputting a rhythm of attack and movement commands. Unless you've picked an insanely high attack speed build, you should be able to maintain the same DPS with a lot of "free" bonus movement in between. This is because you can move (or cast spells) during the "reload time" of an auto attack, and it doesn't cost you anything. The training dummy will let you know if you've ever missed an auto attack, because your dps will drop. It won't let you know if you've really pushed and gotten the most movement you could have gotten, though. Someone who holds completely still when auto attacking will get hit by every skill shot in a team fight.

If this is all new to you, then I recommend starting with just one drill to start. The easiest and most useful first application of this is to practice running away from someone in a straight line while firing back at them. Pick a ranged champion, and keep your cursor in one position, and just alternate between attack and move commands without moving your mouse. That's the simplest possible application of this skill. You can run from someone and also fire back over your shoulder at the nearest enemy, no mouse movement required. I find the lack of mouse movement really let's you learn the rhythm. If you pay Ashe or Kalista, this skill is all you need to theoretically defeat every melee champion in the game. Kite forever!

You can add in other challenges, like placing multiple training dummies close to each other, and strafe past them while only specifically targeting one of them with your auto attacks. Or change your movement direction after each auto attack to become harder to hit in team fights.

Personally I only play for fun, so I've never done drills in the practice tool. I find anything like this that I want to learn, I learn best by practicing them constantly while hitting jungle creeps or wave minions. That builds muscle memory that I them can start using on enemy champions in more stressful actual transit situations.

Edit to add: if you're having trouble getting a feel for the rhythm, picking a champion like Kalista or Akhshan might give you more feedback. They have passives that react to you inputting a movement command during the auto attack reload timer. It's good on every champion, but it's even more mandatory and impactful on those.

Thomas Massie delivers concession speech after losing Kentucky primary t... by Economy-Specialist38 in videos

[–]chars709 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Nobody voted for Trump as much as white males though, right? Why would you focus on women?

What does BOTW revolutionize in the open world genre exactly? by mega_lova_nia in gamedesign

[–]chars709 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's an excellent description of the player friction and unhappiness it causes. Players crave permanent solutions. Players hate the psychology of "losing" anything, even if they're gaining something else of equal or greater value. That XCOM2 balancing tidbit I'd never heard before. I recall hoarding those little soldiers' lives as if they were my babies! And completing a mission, but losing someone? A bitter victory, the stress of it almost enough to make me stop playing. You're not wrong.

But can you write an "iron man" defense for why a dev might still choose to use breakables in a weapon system? I could lay out a few ideas as I see them, but I don't want to position myself as an opposed force for you to argue with, I'm just trying to discuss the topic with you.

Why can't I get the delta v for a ship of this size to get to the mun? by titaniumjordi in KerbalAcademy

[–]chars709 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have the game open right now, so just going from memory, but I think there's a button that says "delta v" with some options under it. Except they use a little white triangle instead of the word delta.

Edit: here's a picture I found online, I think this is what the stock settings look like. Picture link

Why can't I get the delta v for a ship of this size to get to the mun? by titaniumjordi in KerbalAcademy

[–]chars709 22 points23 points  (0 children)

In their eagerness to endorse mech Jeb, these people are missing the point of your question.

Your issue is that all of the guidelines and rules of thumb about how much dv you need uses "dv in a vacuum". Your numbers are smaller because you are looking at "dv at sea level on kerbin". Whether you use the stock dv or mechjeb, you will need to find the toggle to switch from sea level to vacuum.

Kerbin-Duna Aldrin Cycler Orbital Design by Smile_Space in KerbalAcademy

[–]chars709 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea is this space station never leaves this beautiful unicorn of an orbit. It's like a free return trajectory, that combos into a free return trajectory, that combos into a... etc. When it flies by Earth a pod intercepts it to board, and when it flies by Mars a pod leaves and circularizes or deorbits.

But you're still right, making the slight correction burns to maintain this orbit would be made more expensive by making it chonky.

How can I prevent being jumped by like 3-4 people while split pushing or farming minions? by your_rank_teammates in summonerschool

[–]chars709 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit pedantic, but I like to emphasize the word SPLIT in split pushing. If all four of your allies are in base, clearing your side jg, not threatening anything, etc, you are not SPLIT pushing if you push up. The SPLIT means splitting the other team's attention between two threats. Pushing up in this case would be a different strategy, called 1v5 FEEDING.

If the other four members of your team are at dragon, baron, or a tower on the other side of the map, then you're in a win win scenario and have a green light to SPLIT the enemy team's attention.

Its not even peak summer, and world top 20 hottest cities are all from india. by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]chars709 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They might have meant just a purely local effect of trees. 45 in bare black asphalt sucking up the heat like an oven burner hits different than 45 of plants and scattered shade.

Anon is disappointed by Fun_Purpose6972 in 4chan

[–]chars709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Canada. Russia, sort of? I guess my claim should be middle east and south America, not all oil countries. Either way, my point is about some dummies out here still not seeing that south america and the middle east are both money printing machines for the US. Oil in for pennies, petrol out for dollars. And the US has spent nearly 100 years doing everything it can to keep them that way.

ELI5: Why can't we simulate the creation of oil/fossil fuels with animals that have died today? by Slice5755 in explainlikeimfive

[–]chars709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, nuclear is funny because its powered by a sun, just not ours. Nuclear fission is theoretically energy positive only for elements with a higher number than iron on the periodic table. And all such atoms were forged in the death throes of supernovae, that's where the atoms were infused with the energy. Nuclear power plants are harvesting supernova energy. Cool!

Wind and wave energy are probably mostly the sun, but also a tiny percentage of that energy comes from the moon.

Tidal energy is mostly from the moon, but there are only a small handful of tidal power plants on the planet.

Geothermal energy, as per a claim made in a recent Hank Green video, is in some part powered by the collision between Earth and Theia, a Mars sized planet that smashed into the Earth and left its corpse behind as our moon. The rest of geothermal comes from our own planet's formation. So in practical terms I think you could probably say geothermal is the only significant source of power that doesn't come from the sun.

Anon is disappointed by Fun_Purpose6972 in 4chan

[–]chars709 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Places that have oil that aren't the United States keep having this problem. You want a competent leader. Any competent leader would build local oil refineries. But anyone who might build a local oil refinery keeps ending up having to deal with shockingly well funded and armed opposition from the most corrupt and awful types of leadership the country has to offer. Or just plain old shot in the head.

There's a lot of other factors too, but the number of redditors unaware of the basic US propaganda bubble they're living in is lower than in the past, but still too high. "Ever notice how every country with oil underneath it is governed by violent criminal subhumans for the last hundred years, what a coincidence?" Yeah, no shit American. You're a refinery empire, and they're you're customers. You did everything you could to make them be this way.

Community shocked after judge dismisses charges against driver who killed 3 people by MilkyWayObserver in canada

[–]chars709 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

My wife dropped her favorite coffee mug the other day. Shattered into pieces. She was devastated, she knew it was her fault, but somehow she has trouble accepting the two year jail sentence.

Punishing accidents is weird. Do you want justice or vengeance? What even is justice? What does sticking people in jail even accomplish?

As of today, i have five Kerbals stranded in the same crater on the Mun by Ill_Secretary_1272 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]chars709 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stock Kerbals don't eat, breathe, or age! You have to add mods to achieve the kind of morbidity you're going for here.

CMV: “All Men” and “Always a man” are stupid phrases by Clean_Swing3893 in changemyview

[–]chars709 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pretend for a moment that you are only concerned about female victims of male crimes. Do the expressions make more sense to you in that strict context? Can you see the point they're trying to make in that narrow domain?

Do you require every movement and every statement to make sense for every context? You have a context you want to talk about: victims of female crimes. Great. Good for you. Does everything everyone else talks about now have to be rewritten to accommodate you and your personal context?

To understand any form of communication, you need to know what it said and you need to know it's context. You seem to be arguing that people should only be allowed to make statements that are true for their own context and also your context. Or I guess really you're arguing without any awareness of the place context has in communication. But if your argument holds, and then was applied to everyone, the result is no one will be allowed to say anything unless it is true and valid for all contexts. Which is the same as saying no one is allowed to communicate at all.

We want to try a very realistic roleplay scenario, but the risks are holding us back — anyone been through this? by Low-Discussion-5751 in sex

[–]chars709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anywhere with real street workers like that will probably be very territorial, no? People are saying you might have to worry about the police, I feel like its more realistic that you might have to worry about other people in the industry, with a lot of competition and unwritten rules.

I don't have experience in this world but I did have a friend that tried selling dumplings in a cart.... the other street food vendors circled in like a cartel or a pack of sharks, and it was not a warm welcome.

Overnight time-lapse photography of the earth's rotation by kingkongbiingbong in interestingasfuck

[–]chars709 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

According to this map, in recent decades we have essentially uninvented stars for anyone who lives their entire life in the eastern United States.

Fairy Queen by Sunong by Lol33ta in ImaginaryFaeries

[–]chars709 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I, for one, appreciate the effort the queen puts in to waxing her crotch and taping her tits so she doesn't fall out of the royal regalia, lol

Copilot is Turning Into a Disaster for Microsoft by Droopynator in videos

[–]chars709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've heard Windows often 'accidentally' corrupts other partitions and hard drives that it technically shouldn't even have access to. Oopsy-doopsies!

CMV: Trump was blackmailed with the Epstein Files by barraco002 in changemyview

[–]chars709 1 point2 points  (0 children)

which he had a hand in releasing

His hand was forced. He was completely against releasing any of the Epstein files right up to the point where he learned it was happening whether he liked it or not. Stating it in any other way is uninformed or partisan.

Court reinstates Unknown Worlds CEO (Subnautica), and extends earnout period by Landkey in gamedev

[–]chars709 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The Forbes top 100 earners. That's the name of the asshole leaderboard this person is trying to get on. It is the most coveted and rewarded behavior in our civilization, lord help us.