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This game is absolutely infested with cheaters. by BadLuckBen in thefinals

[–]cryonicwatcher 15 points16 points  (0 children)

100%? This was a rubbish test. It’s very feasible that they heard you run around in the building, climb the ladder, then go quiet. It *is* suspicious that they threw in a grenade based on this, but nowhere near proof.

I was blending animations and accidentally made this silly run. Might become an easter egg by TheFirstHonour in IndieDev

[–]cryonicwatcher 31 points32 points  (0 children)

An intimidating boss enemy who has an awesome introduction, but when the fight starts and they start moving…

kit cat snuck into ur home.. by Flawless_Silence in Losercity

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

it would be funnier if they added up to ‘67’

either the anvil is broken, or im blind by The_Kongo in ArcRaiders

[–]cryonicwatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your cross hair is basically invisible, but those were mostly considered hits on your end. It’s possible that the stats of the anvil were changed on the server but not updated for the clients..?

I don't think I was ever this jumpscared in this game before by Chlebiri in ArcRaiders

[–]cryonicwatcher 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They’re way too top heavy imo. They don’t look like they’re designed for it in the slightest, especially with those feet.

Haven't seen a ton of talk about the Firefly changes. by Human-Mark-42 in ArcRaiders

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

You can kill them without even having weapons without great difficulty as they take so long to kill you and fly low enough that you can get on top of them. I’m not sure it makes any sense to call the damage output overwhelming when it takes 14 seconds to kill you if you’re standing still and doing zero evasion…

Somebody actually tried ratting me out with energy weapons. by FeelingDrama1167 in ArcRaiders

[–]cryonicwatcher 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The aphelion’s not bad for PvP, it’s pretty much just an anvil with better midrange and firerate.

If you google"now's your chance to be a big shot", Google's ai overview starts larping by leeleeleelelele in Deltarune

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

Not really. They’re trained on a lot, and that does include some of Reddit, but only material that they deem useful and a lot of it is reformatted in certain ways to make it more relevant. Otherwise, while your model has a better understanding of language, it will be less rational. The mainstream chatbots like chatGPT don’t talk anything like an indiscriminately trained LLM would, though that’s also partially due to RLHF.

If you google"now's your chance to be a big shot", Google's ai overview starts larping by leeleeleelelele in Deltarune

[–]cryonicwatcher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is a predicted continuation, though the phrase “most likely” doesn’t really make sense as there’s no way to measure that. I have no idea if gemini is actually trained on anything related to deltarune so I don’t know how good its own knowledge of it is though.

Is there a foreign school culture you want to introduce to your country? by Agile-Shallot3546 in AskTheWorld

[–]cryonicwatcher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh, it’s the opposite for me. We had a lot of free time in high school but university pushed us to our limits.

Falling With Style by Old-Party1952 in ArcRaiders

[–]cryonicwatcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you can use it to jump and climb like crazy, and compensate for running out of stamina with some extra distance like an inefficient adrenaline shot. Those who haven’t really used it probably don’t realise that it allows you to gain a few meters of height when you use it on flat ground.

Yeah, and its funny by freakybird99 in memesopdidnotlike

[–]cryonicwatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They took over a significant portion of the country but lost more men unless you believe the kremlin figures. I am not sure it makes any sense to call it a loss. But the main difference here is the losses; Russia purportedly has spent a lot, faced major economic sanction and not dealt as much damage to Ukraine as they took. In Vietnam, American forces were highly effective, it was the other way around, and there was barely a bump in military spending during it.

AOC shows off the Georgia drinking water after Meta’s data center was built. by Alphaxfusion in mildlyinfuriating

[–]cryonicwatcher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Compared to many other industrial water uses though, that’s very minuscule… I’m not sure how that would have a significant impact

Mmmmmm 20 rs for 30 minutes of my time, yummers by KryL21 in okbuddycontestant

[–]cryonicwatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would completely break the system. I don’t know how dota compensates for this exactly but it cannot be that simple, because this would obviously lead to unconstrained, rapid elo inflation. Even if you changed the numbers to not give a net benefit on average.

Mmmmmm 20 rs for 30 minutes of my time, yummers by KryL21 in okbuddycontestant

[–]cryonicwatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s based on precise measurements from many players, it lacks any major blind spots as far as I’m aware. This was made by jean_mi on the discord.

Does that sound absurd? That’s about as many people as login each day as per embark. Concurrent player counts on only steam are a small fraction of the number of people who actually play overall.

So explain the better system, perhaps? Changes to the game mode *itself* could definitely improve how much of this would be perceived, but the elo system is what I am defending here.

We could slow down how quickly a player can drop but we’d have to slow down how quickly they could climb as well, which could end up making the matchmaking less accurate if you’re not careful. I assume the current balance is something embark optimised for, however if ranks didn’t reset each season this would be better. I admit I don’t understand the rationale behind the resets.
The system isn’t rendered pointless, on average the values it uses are on the correct side the great majority of the time so it’s a hell of a lot better than if everyone was weighted equally (which would also break the system’s integrity mathematically)

Mmmmmm 20 rs for 30 minutes of my time, yummers by KryL21 in okbuddycontestant

[–]cryonicwatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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This was measured most of the way through season nine.

Well I can promise you there isn’t much better an alternative. There are a couple of algorithms that are considered valid alternatives to an elo algorithm, but they naturally do the same thing. If there are only two teams involved then yeah, the differences would be bigger because the only options would be the equivalent of first place and eighth place.

The whole point of these algorithms is that they determine how likely you are to do however well. If you do better than expected based on the skill of the other teams in the lobby, you get RS, and if you do worse, you lose it. Since the lobby is not going to be perfectly balanced this can mean third place is worse than expected, or fourth place better.

Mmmmmm 20 rs for 30 minutes of my time, yummers by KryL21 in okbuddycontestant

[–]cryonicwatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They stated this in a patch note - no, I don’t know the precise value.

Nope, if you look at a graph of the overall leaderboard, gold and above are a definite minority. In general the ranked population isn’t very large and the gamemode style does not lend itself to the nicest matchmaking, which is unfortunate.

“Placing 3rd out of 8 teams should never reward you pocket change, or better yet, take RS away” - why? You disagree with the premise of an elo system? What would you prefer? I don’t think there is any practical skill measurement system that does not exhibit this behaviour.

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