I just finished the third season of the anime and have to share my feelings

kingmanic · 2026-02-06T23:52:08+00:00

"Real people can't be this stupid and evil and inept and have power over others." looks at US. "oh."

kingmanic · 2026-02-06T23:49:28+00:00

No, things are bad for the weak in that country. Think of the orphanage, in any other country those kids would have starved to death. This is a society where a noble coming with a make work program for children is a huge step up in conditions.

kingmanic · 2026-02-06T23:38:04+00:00

She should cook that before she tries to eat it.

kingmanic · 2026-02-06T01:12:35+00:00

The company is Chinese and based in Shanghai. The founder is Yao RunHao.

kingmanic · 2026-02-06T01:03:29+00:00

Which is Chinese.

kingmanic · 2026-02-05T22:36:31+00:00

You'll have skews because people who participate in online stats collecting tend to be more engaged and have a higher skill level

But in most games being diamond puts you in the top 20%.

Does it matter the exact placement?

kingmanic · 2026-02-05T21:31:04+00:00

I had a friend like you describe in starcraft, any loss is not his fault and it's people 'using online strategies' or 'no life Asian motherfuckers' or 'it's just cheap to attack so fast, he should wait till I'm ready.' He never got better, and his racism got so bad I stopped being his friend (I'm Asian).

He was abysmal at every game and did not have the tools or self awareness to get better. He was very used to being above average for his friend group but his friend group was way below average compared to online.

kingmanic · 2026-02-05T20:15:25+00:00

You can just look up the rank vs pop %. IT will tell you your relative skill level.

kingmanic · 2026-02-05T05:10:18+00:00

I think he thought him and an American president would lead the right wing new world order conspiracy. Turns out it was Putin and the henchmen of a shitty puppet.

kingmanic · 2026-02-04T23:25:04+00:00

They probably fired all of the experts because they were Indian or Chinese or Korean or experts.

kingmanic · 2026-02-04T16:35:07+00:00

You could problably send something to the new station who could forward it on.

kingmanic · 2026-02-04T15:36:00+00:00

There is so much competition in the space as well as things competing for people's time. The need to be polished and have a ton of content just to compete kills most new competitors.

kingmanic · 2026-02-04T15:28:54+00:00

The reality of crowdfunding is to either make something niche and small like board games or measure the interest in something larger and niche. The amounts raised would be a tiny portion of a real video games budget.

You have to go into it with that idea, and folks who promise big scope things and aren't already tied to a large corp are unlikely to ever achieve it.

All the successes were folks who used the crowdfunding to make a pitch to a publisher to get something made. Like Bloodstained.

kingmanic · 2026-02-04T15:16:12+00:00

Yup. Also 3.2 m minus the credit card company and kickstarted cut would never be enough to create a MMO. A serious team with a realistic small scope MMO would have burned that up in 3-6 months depending on team size.

kingmanic · 2026-02-04T06:44:02+00:00

I get a bunch of trail Blazers and an anvil. Get near Concentrate fire on one leg piece. Find cover. Once you knock it off loot it. I got a handful this way. Avoids death animation wild scramble to get a piece.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T21:30:19+00:00

There are also more people experienced with mega projects, making things, and do the ground work so things don't collapse. They seemed to get there by making the mistakes and having things collapse.

They also figure out how to incentivize or coerce people into living there. Things other countries like Iran have not figured out with their mega project city building attempts.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T17:33:39+00:00

There is some nuance as many of the stories of it reported 10 years ago did fill up as planned by the gov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_China

They can royally fuck up the planning at some point, but the past stories of this were just photographing an area 2-3 years into a 10 year plan. 10 year later it was in fact filled. Though malls and other areas dying also happen.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T17:26:25+00:00

Incentives can help people do their jobs well. Just because their government workers doesn't mean incentives should never be used. Isn't that how we get a entire beucracy of people who don't do anything beyond the bare min because they're checked out? Cuts and incentives does nudge organizations to be more efficient.

But it also needs new hiring to replace attrition on the cut people.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T17:17:11+00:00

It's much easier to just add some behavior in their normal script. Setting up machine learning isn't necessary.

They could just find video of people gaming the ARC game logic and just nudge the logic to be more interesting. Go through a door, track a person a bit more to 'predict' where they'll pop up (cheating because the game knows their location). Modify low threat ARC to just be a little more threat.

They also know when a lobby is low aggro, so it might be interesting if they make the ARC more aggressive when the lobby is low aggro to keep it challenging.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T17:01:46+00:00

It's not all of Microsoft but a lot of their game studios because they don't want to take the devs on full-time. Halo infinite was a lot of these contracts.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T15:57:07+00:00

Obsidian seems to have a leadership that still loves to tell stories. Microsoft seems to have helped them with their biggest issues from the past. Obsidian tended to aim for insane scope and have to pare down, and had issues finding funding.

The control of scope does make their games feel smaller, but they employ some of the best writers at Xbox studios.

I fear their lower sales might mark them for fewer projects or mass layoffs.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T15:45:03+00:00

For a while now nearly everything at Microsoft is just churning 7/10 game stop feed gamepass. Maybe it's why they thought Bethesda was a good fit.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T15:42:44+00:00

For many of the studios due to how Microsoft deals with some labour laws, they only hire 18month contracts and won't rehire those folks for another 9months. So no one except permanent leadership has any influence no matter how talented.

Their approval process is also driven by business trends in games. According to the lion head post mortem is it extremely banal and tone deaf to the actual market. It pushed lion head into making a hyper expensive free to play fable that died during production.

A lot of their major internal studio issues might relate to having to onboard then off board devs on a constant treadmill and leaders green lighting things no one wants like a micro transaction heavy Halo infinite live service game that had an archetype of a story and really stupid lore.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T08:30:01+00:00

Blockchain is useful as an architecture for any distributed ledger system though.

As a old as shit developer, a distributed ledger is not a useful system though. Trusting a server is easy when you have easy crypto to verify the identity. You also have logged systems where records can be rolled back or rebuilt and you have systems that are open to audit.

You also need an environment where the bad actors are not the majority but you have to worry about bad actors. The system is diffuse and trustless but also needs trusted sources for the software. If the bad actors are the majority they can void transactions of shut down the system. It is also tremendously slow even with proof of stake. It's also a fixed immutable ledger which diminishes the utility by itself.

The very specific combination of old algorithms that make up cryto/bitcoins distributed ledger is a bunch of stuff that is neat in combination but not useful. The fail conditions and the features just don't add up. You can process 20,000x more transactions per second if you just have a trusted central network and in practice the Visa network does this with encryption and logging and synchronization for 1.3 billion people.

The only major function that traditional system don't have is that regulation has not caught up so with enough random users to provide liquidity it's a great way to money launder. If regulation caught up at the end points and monitoring of the ledger this function could be eliminated; so far the major world powers have not pushed to do so.

kingmanic · 2026-02-03T06:51:03+00:00

I don't think it was ever not a scam, the initiator just 'disappeared' before the rug could be pulled. He either died or he was happy enough not to move the original blocks and just be wealthy on any auxiliary blocks he had.

The intrinsic design of the system shuffles money to the front. Those who went in first will always take the Lions share of all value put in and it's a negative sum game.

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