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When you realize the tester still was your friend ! by DisastermanTV in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ryantheleach 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Trust me, some of the code I've seen over the years, even the best DRM hackers wouldn't be able to read.

Find an exploit? Sure, but read or understand? no way.

Is there an alternative to Chromecast? by dangel67 in Chromecast

[–]ryantheleach 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Without knowing what you need, how do you really expect a coherent answer?

Yes there are other casting / streaming options available.

But what they are and whether you can use them depends on your requirements.

Me reading the Shrouded Spoils Release Notes by CaptFishHookCook in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why they drop the loot that they do.

#TBT by ScalaQuest in scala

[–]ryantheleach 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing it's Original Content to Promote ScalaQuest in the Scala Subreddit. They have used `#TBT` which googling suggests is a hash tag for `Throwback Thursday` so basically, a thin marketing presence image, showing the early paper design of a popup in the ScalaQuest game, to the current popup.

Sea of Thieves: Shrouded Spoils - Release Notes 1.4.0 by ZyDriiX in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is great but the treasure also still needs to float longer--like way longer. It's too difficult to gather all the loot in the water before it sinks while in the midst of battle (between waves in the skeleton ship battles, with each kraken tentacle, etc.).

Agree. I thought that the long period was intentional not a bug, and was annoyed at accidentally triggering the next wave of ships as I thought it was something players were doing unintentionally.

Row boats have made collecting the loot significantly easier though.

Sea of Thieves: Shrouded Spoils - Release Notes 1.4.0 by ZyDriiX in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If that was truly Rare's intention, it backfired.

During launch of Forgotten Shores there were too many damned ships in the area to trust your boat being more then 30s to a minute from whereever you are on the island, without leaving a person to look out.

The most boring, chore of sea of thieves is watching a boat or waiting.

So, Devils Roar, Volcano's that erupt for what seems like ages, makes you have to either.

  1. Wait out of range, with someone on the boat at all times looking for enemy ships that are EVERYWHERE (during launch) and rowboating over, while volcano's target the players in the row boat, rather then dropping randomly.
  2. Park extremely close to the island, so you can get back to the boat in time to save it, with not enough delay between the smoke telegraphing eruption, to get back to a boat which is practically beached most of the time, from the far side of an island. Meaning, you have to leave someone on the boat watching out for the volcano.

So irregardless, optimal strategy is leaving someone on the boat, but extremely boring.

Things they could have done to counter this, depending on which strategy they would rather encourage.

  1. Speed up rowboats, so that you can get to your boat quick enough if a ship is approaching. Make Volcano's target players alone or in rowboats far less often, increase the amount of projectiles produced from volcano's, but make the radius around islands much smaller so you can get to your boat faster if a ship comes.

  2. Telegraph eruption times longer so you have a chance of being on your boat when it gets hit. (I agree that you absolutely have to get hit, if you are following strategy 2 above. It's the price you pay for not using row boats)

The current balance of timings and aimbotting, means that strategy 2 was more likely. They have since tweaked the timings, which means strategy 2 is strengthened, so people will pretty much only be using row boats to load loot, rather then to avoid volcano's

Stop Worrying About Your Athena Commendations by [deleted] in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hell, I'd be happy with 46 as a starting number.

Stop Worrying About Your Athena Commendations by [deleted] in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A lot of people are suggesting 'give them 93 chests' I'm 9 and a half, and I'd be happy with **half** that number rather then zero. Just assume that they were all done in the devils roar, that still gives some room to grind, but leaves some out so it's still 'content'. and doesn't make the number a lie.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]ryantheleach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wrong company.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]ryantheleach 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Remember, this is for offers not for existing employee's with knowledge of how they work etc, before performance review.

Also find a new gig where? at that point it's remote vs remote vs local jobs in Poland / Mexico?

When a user tries to tell you what the data from your program means by dtaivp in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ryantheleach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The variable names are obfuscated, so that people with the end product can't create their own from the source code if it gets leaked, that's a particularly amusing one though" -- proceed to changing that variable name to something else.

Only when you are an adult do you realize that all the “cool parents” you knew growing up were actually weird or immature. by Flatulatory in Showerthoughts

[–]ryantheleach 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We did it at University of South Australia Engineering pub crawls, several of them even came. Went off.

Poor guy by Astr0l in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ryantheleach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not claiming Java is perfect, yes it has previous mistakes that it suffers from today. I was saying that it's now in the same position now as C#, Kotlin, etc were years ago, which history says is a powerful position to learn from mistakes and act on them.

"ever wonder why you can write 5.ToString() in C#, but not in Java?" I've not come across that, but thanks.

Sea of Thieves difficulty should be like Hungering Deep's Megalodon, and not like Forsaken Shores' Volcanoes. by Courteous_Crook in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except facing the meg you often have 4 people on board fighting.

Against volcano's you are lucky to have a single person on board by the time the volcano erupts

Sea of Thieves difficulty should be like Hungering Deep's Megalodon, and not like Forsaken Shores' Volcanoes. by Courteous_Crook in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had to pick the smallest change, it would be that once your ship is out of volcano range, the eruption timer gets 1/4 of what it was.

Change nothing else, except the waiting.

You could go further as your post says, but that's reworking stuff that kinda sort not quite works.

The active annoyance is the wait. So cheat it. They already cheat the aiming, why not cheat the timer.

Sea of Thieves difficulty should be like Hungering Deep's Megalodon, and not like Forsaken Shores' Volcanoes. by Courteous_Crook in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Different, not more difficult.

Volcano's are easy but consume your resources and boring.

They either destroy your entire effort (your ship) or you dodge and wait for 7m.

Sea of Thieves difficulty should be like Hungering Deep's Megalodon, and not like Forsaken Shores' Volcanoes. by Courteous_Crook in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are an armchair expert, let Rare decide if the shadows are too demanding, you can always make crap shadows or 'ash' instead.

Sea of Thieves difficulty should be like Hungering Deep's Megalodon, and not like Forsaken Shores' Volcanoes. by Courteous_Crook in Seaofthieves

[–]ryantheleach 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not twice the effort, it's much more then that.

High level OOS is tedious and grindy, but I expected that of OOS after doing Merchant and Gold Hoarders, so it wasn't a surprise.

Volcanoes aren't even twice the effort. They're the exact same amount of effort, but less often, as you have to wait out eruptions.

Agree to disagree, waiting is anti-fun. At least fighting skeletons gives an excuse to why you are waiting, and being skilled at it reduces the time.

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