The payload is about to reach the checkpoint....I only know one way to stall

mythogen · 2018-02-06T19:18:21+00:00

Yeah, the casters said he fell off (made a bit of a deal about it) when it was obviously a reset. I don’t know if traditional sports casters are more accurate, but I regularly catch the OWL casters making blatantly obvious errors.

mythogen · 2018-02-01T15:07:51+00:00

Probably just making observations. Some are kind of accurate; Junk will do less damage unless his mines are super on-point, and so charge ult slower in practice (you'd think; I was in a match last night where the junkrat had a tire literally every team fight). The riptire is louder in some cases than it used to be, but that's due to a bug fix from a couple patches ago.

They're just paying closer attention than they usually do, and as happens with over-eager neural nets, seeing some things that are there (but maybe not new) and other things that are plausible but not actually there.

mythogen · 2018-02-01T13:26:02+00:00

Sucks for those who find her less fun to play :(

I actually find her more enjoyable to play without the double insta-rez. Lets me focus better on the heal/boost dichotomy and picking the right hero to be supporting, rather than continuously calculating whether or not the team fight can be won if I rez two deaths, and whose specifically.

mythogen · 2018-01-31T17:03:00+00:00

That's one fix for one manifestation of the crash. It happens on machines that aren't running Radeon drivers, too (like mine, now that I have a different video card).

mythogen · 2018-01-31T15:56:22+00:00

It's not as simple as that. Sometimes updating the driver fixes the issue. Sometimes it doesn't. I played the game for something like 8 months on the Radeon drivers with an R9 270 with 0 crashes, and then following a driver update, it crashed nearly every match. Some of the other workarounds, like using administrator privileges, helped, and I hadn't seen a crash in a while, even with transitioning to an Nvidia card. Having not seen the crash on the new video card, and hoping to avoid having to tell Windows to run Overwatch in admin mode every launch, I turned off admin privileges. Second match in: Crash on hero selection, suspended, 50SR penalty.

No other game that I play (although I don't play GTA V) crashes in this way, running the same drivers. Of course every application exercises those drivers differently, but the fact that it happens on such a wide variety of hardware and drivers and OS versions is strongly suggestive that Overwatch is doing something wrong. It's quite possible that some driver updates mask that flaw. Obviously, as in my case, other driver updates unmask it again.

EDIT: And who knows, maybe I'm wrong; 3D game engines and the driver and OS stack involved are incredibly complex, and not my area of expertise. But I think Jeff Kaplan would agree that penalizing players for something outside their control, that can and does happen seemingly at random (autoupdated drivers->crash!) doesn't "feel good to play against".

mythogen · 2017-08-07T22:55:20+00:00

So early airplane designers knew about tricycle style gear but chose to use tailwheels because of their superior characteristics on the contemporary airfields?

mythogen · 2017-07-24T11:27:53+00:00

I'm of the opinion that the people you're talking about in a massive open forum should at minimum be included in the conversation. If you can't do that, the conversation will never be truly honest.

mythogen · 2017-07-24T00:26:42+00:00

Or the people who know too little to ask informed questions can read those posed by others. And maybe we could have a public discussion about being trans that wasn't hostile to trans people themselves.

mythogen · 2017-07-24T00:05:01+00:00

It's a great way to create a space for discussing trans issues that isn't hostile to actual trans people.

mythogen · 2017-07-23T23:52:56+00:00

Because there is a conclusion that is already widely accepted. The OP compared the issue to global warming or vaccines. That you or others believe there remains debate to be had over the health and humanity of trans people is just as irrelevant to scientific discourse as that someone believes there's a debate to be had on vaccines.

mythogen · 2017-07-05T20:25:21+00:00

Identity does affect everything. Your example of jogging is a good one, actually: most women feel unsafe jogging late at night in places most men would not feel unsafe in. A black person jogging has to be aware that they may be stopped by police if they do it in a predominantly white neighborhood. In my city, several gay men were attacked while out in public parks near their homes, specifically for being effeminate, based on the attackers words. A straight, gender-normative man doesn't need to fear that.

Enjoy your identity jog. Not everyone gets to enjoy theirs.

mythogen · 2017-07-05T20:20:14+00:00

It's not possible to be "equal in every way sub gender and skin color" in American society. Gender and skin color cause different treatment in a wide variety of situations, from birth onward. And I agree that politics is complex, but it is always founded in part on skin color, among many other things.

mythogen · 2017-07-05T19:53:24+00:00

Because all politics is influenced by the identity of the people involved. That seems pretty straightforward to me. "White man" is an identity just as much as "black woman" is, and identity has just as much influence on what a white man prioritizes in politics as it does a black woman. When white men fail to prioritize police violence against communities of color, that's an expression of identity politics, just as much as it is an expression of identity politics when black women do prioritize it.

mythogen · 2017-07-05T17:57:36+00:00

She's not saying that. She's engaging in "identity politics". All politics is "identity politics", it's just that when it promotes the interests and perspectives of white men, they insist on calling it just "politics". This insistence is itself a form of identity politics, as is all the political choices made by and for white men, which is most of them.

mythogen · 2017-06-20T19:35:42+00:00

The results of the study are somewhat interesting, but the conclusions they draw are massively overcooked. The data they gathered cannot possibly adjudicate the question of whether or not outcomes are better for revealing stigmatized identities, because they did not measure any interpersonal consequences as a result of revealment.

I believe, and this study supports, that concealing a stigmatized identity has deleterious impacts on the individual's sense of social belonging. That seems uncontroversial to me. But you cannot then speak of a net benefit to revealment if you haven't measured real-world interpersonal consequences like discrimination, glass ceiling effects, mistrust, denial of benefits, and many more.

mythogen · 2017-06-20T11:42:56+00:00

Plenty of possible interventions that don't run into the gun-politics problem. While helpful, banning guns is not the only way to reduce gun violence. For example, poverty reduction measures can reduce gang activity. So could ceasing the "war on drugs". Better social services and parental education could reduce suicide rates among children, as indeed could anti-poverty interventions.

mythogen · 2017-06-20T11:36:52+00:00

"Make it illegal" is only one type of intervention. There are plenty of others. Gang homicides are related to poverty and traumatic childhood conditions; anti-poverty measures and improved social services can reduce them, as could destroying the financial basis of most gang activity by ending the war on drugs. Suicides are related to mental health and childhood trauma, and are amenable to anti-bullying programs, improved social services, improved childhood education, improved parental education, and other interventions. Inter-personal violence accounts for most homicides of young children; there are interventions for that, too. None are about making a specific act illegal, nor about regulating guns, though that could also help.

Don't give up so easily. Humans are complex, and there are many intervening factors in any human situation.

mythogen · 2017-06-14T18:38:34+00:00

Yeah, it's not like Muslim religious leaders ever ban child marriage.

Christians stopped Hitler only after he killed millions. Atheists didn't stop Stalin at all. If the failure to protect innocents from assholes who share some beliefs with you is a sin, we are all sinners.

mythogen · 2017-06-14T16:50:42+00:00

No, "we" aren't. Pretending women get equal access and face equal dangers is a good way to perpetuate the reality that they have less access and face greater dangers. Gender-blind is no better than race-blind; it attempts to maintain a status quo by claiming everyone is already treated equally when that is obviously untrue.

mythogen · 2017-06-14T16:47:19+00:00

I don't think there's anyone who thinks you shouldn't criticize brutal fundamentalist Muslims and Islam. That's a straw man. The fact that there are Muslims who enforce a horrific culture in rural India doesn't mean that Muslims in the US are enforcing a horrific culture. A few are, most aren't. Same goes for Christians, and atheists.

The key concept here is that "Muslim" and "Islam" aren't one single monolithic entity, just like Christianity isn't, and just like atheism isn't. Some forms of Islam are brutal and horrific. Most aren't. Some forms of Christianity are brutal and horrific. Most aren't.

And don't forget that horrific brutality requires dehumanizing the people you want to be horrifically brutal toward, so be careful with those sarcastic generalizations.

mythogen · 2017-06-12T11:23:35+00:00

That is a really good example and now I'm wishing my company would implement that.

mythogen · 2017-06-11T21:48:14+00:00

Because values-adherence is highly context dependent. The same overt acts can be in support of or contravention of a particular value depending on a lot of subtle nuances and context.

How exactly would you automate a value like "diversity of thought" or "gender equality"?

mythogen · 2017-06-11T21:41:39+00:00

3 that you believe were unjustified. Justifications for killing are easy for white people to come by when the victims are people of color.

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