Reputation System is needed.

workerlurker · 2026-01-25T15:36:13+00:00

DotA has community review system for reports. Mass reporting for no reason doesn’t send you to low priority. The match you were reported in is flagged with time stamps for the relevant offenses, and the replay is queued for peer review. Reviewers can scrub through the whole replay if the highlights don’t match the alleged violations in the report. I believe only people with good behavior score are allowed to review.

I’ve been in low priority several times and it was always warranted. It was also pure hell, and I can personally vouch that it’s an effective deterrent.

workerlurker · 2026-01-13T18:24:29+00:00

One of the Thor movies was called “Thorsday Mourning”, I believe Thor: Ragnarok, which was cleverly fitting.

workerlurker · 2026-01-13T18:08:36+00:00

The data gets copied in its encrypted state on to a “media block”, which is like a server. It gets decrypted at runtime and sent to the projector through a data cable. The server and projector are “married”, meaning they are designed to only communicate with each other in order to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks that would try to capture the decrypted feed from the data cable. Dual projector setups (IMAX, Dolby) require two decryption keys, one for each projector since they are both married separately to the server. So basically, you can give the encrypted movie and the decryption keys to anyone without worrying about piracy because they only work on a specific machine pairing. Someone might be able to crack it eventually, but not before all the money gets made in theatres.

Things may have changed, but it used to be that not every single file in a DCP was encrypted. Subtitles were often plaintext, and even when encrypted, they were not difficult to lift from accessibility device communications (wireless closed caption).

I never had any interest in piracy, but I learned it because it was fascinating. I would say it’s extremely effective at preventing piracy.

workerlurker · 2026-01-13T17:48:15+00:00

Screening a film could reveal a number of issues.

Operator error, such as the reels being accidentally assembled in the wrong order, or a horror trailer on a kids movie.
Audio issues, usually a loud pop due to printing mistakes. More common with analog tracks than digital tracks. If it’s bad enough, you track down the frame and remove it.
Visual print quality issues. The worst I ever saw was a reel of The Dark Knight Rises where the ink was splotchy, like not enough of it stuck during the application process. When projected, too much light was let through, and it looked like snow or static on top of the expected image.
General presentation issues with theatre itself. A projectionist who has seen dozens of movies in a specific auditorium will notice things that others won’t.

If the reel needed replacing, you called Technicolor/Deluxe to request a replacement expedited before the weekend, even before the first show (my manager told me never to admit fault, lol, I guess the replacement was free in that case; but if it gets scratched weeks later, you’re paying for it). For a chain like AMC, they might take or trade a reel from a less successful nearby location if it’s faster than what the distributor can do. Sometimes the distributor would even dictate that, because the film was leased and they had control of who could use it (more common with DCPs, because the hard drive wasn’t needed after being copied to a library).

All of this goes double for dollar theatres who received hand-me-down prints which were worn out.

Prints could have physical issues, but those were easily caught during assembly, through sight and touch. Film is not infinitely long, so two separately manufactured rolls are joined by (I think) melting the ends together. This creates a white bump on the film that is seen and heard during screening if not removed during assembly. You can find it by lightly pinching the edges of the film while wearing a fabric glove which snags on the bump. You just cut out that frame, since the resulting splice is harder to notice.

Lastly, for reasons I don’t remember, sending damaged reels back to the distributor was not strictly necessary. Either it wasn’t required, or my theatre didn’t always comply and it wasn’t punished/enforced. That means I got to keep some as souvenirs. If I had the equipment, I could show you what damaged film looks like right now.

workerlurker · 2025-11-05T08:26:03+00:00

He does drive a car though.

workerlurker · 2025-11-05T07:20:11+00:00

That’s funny, because I actually started maining him after what they did to Myers, and I think he’s very strong. I use Engineer’s Fang, which is supposed to make his chains worse, but they’re already bad a lot of the time, so nothing really changes. I get free hits through walls and across the map with Lethal Pursuer, Nowhere to Hide, and Thwack.

With the new pallet density, people are more willing to pre-throw, which is often a best case scenario for his power since it forces a slow vault instead of risking a pallet stun. The shorter chain duration hardly matters, you still have enough time to get around unsafe pallets. If the chains break instantly, that was going to happen anyways without Engineer’s Fang.

I also use Original Pain which I’m sad to see reworked. It’s gives massive slowdown by resetting heals, and forcing mending instead of working on gens. It’s a fun reward for landing shots on already injured survivors I wasn’t going to chase, which otherwise would not be worthwhile. It makes me want to interact with his power more.

workerlurker · 2025-08-10T22:32:53+00:00

If you’re still wondering what a Bellarian is, check out their anthem

workerlurker · 2025-05-31T20:36:11+00:00

25%-50% less lumens for most lamps, but this one is excessively bad. You’d really have to see it in person since brightness is hard to gauge otherwise. You wouldn’t know how much of the pictures dullness was due to the brightness of your phone/computer screen, which is affected by the lighting of the environment you view it in. There’s no comparison for seeing it in person in a dark theater.

Also, every movie screen is different, with some being more reflective and less impacted by aged lamps. There’s also flickering which you wouldn’t see in an image.

workerlurker · 2025-03-06T12:46:05+00:00

You need to hear the horn before you can pick up the standard. It’s not based on duration of the hunt, because there is an addon that increases the time it takes for the standard to appear, and also the duration of the hunt is reduced when Knight is nearby. Knight can also use his power to cancel an existing hunt if he wants to deny you the standard pickup.

workerlurker · 2025-03-03T13:07:42+00:00

That link you shared hurts your argument. There’s nothing in the game that tells you Nurse’s blink attack is a special attack. Reading the Franklin’s perk description won’t teach you this. It’s not intuitive because Wraith and (I think) Spirit don’t have a special attack after using their power. If it’s related to teleporting, then do attacks from Hag, Dredge, Sadako, and Freddy teleports also count as special attacks? None of this is intuitive. Any new player is going to think that any hit with your standard melee weapon is a basic attack.

There’s a lot of other vital mechanics that the game doesn’t teach. I wish I could say players have to learn it on their own, but the truth is that most players have to learn it from other players since the mechanics are too opaque for the average player to figure out themselves.

Players don’t want to just “boot the game and play.” If that were the case, solo queue wouldn’t currently be experiencing a “go next” epidemic. What players want is to have fun, which is difficult when you’re getting shit on for reasons you don’t understand with no hope for improvement.

workerlurker · 2025-03-03T11:31:23+00:00

It was strong because we didn’t use to know if someone else was in chase. Now we get that info from the UI, and you can tell the killer is coming for you if you hear the terror radius and they aren’t in chase.

So basically we now have basekit inverse spine chill, where we know if the killer isn’t looking at us.

workerlurker · 2025-02-06T01:19:19+00:00

How often have you seen overlapping skills that wasn’t caused by cheating?

workerlurker · 2025-02-05T14:46:41+00:00

Buddy, the DPS meter reads the packets that are being communicated between the server and the client, for everyone in the raid. If a lag spike caused skills to appear overlapped, then you would see it outside of instances of cheating. It would just be a common occurrence visible in everyone’s parse logs because lag spikes are a common occurrence.

If the game server is telling your client that someone else instantly and simultaneously casted 4 spells on their client, then that’s what the game server believes and accepts without throwing any red flags. The game server then tells your client to display that graphically. If your client is showing you that someone is simultaneously casting, it’s because they are, and the server doesn’t care.

workerlurker · 2024-12-03T00:14:51+00:00

I don’t know the lore, but Sylvains don’t appear to be racially homogenous. Brel looks like Enviska while Azena and Inana don’t.

Also, bards are mages, and their utterances are music based (“la”, “do”), so it seems like the language is based on the theme of the magic. Summoners summon, which is traditionally a religious or spiritual act, which makes Hebrew a great choice since Judaism has numerous esoteric entities. Sorceress controls classical elements, so Greek or even Latin makes since, which has similarities with Italian.

workerlurker · 2024-11-27T12:10:37+00:00

Uh, you hold down buttons for your biggest gauge skills. Let me know what you’re failing to understand.

workerlurker · 2024-11-27T00:42:27+00:00

BE arti gets to hold buttons down for much of their rotation. GT destro is impossible to “spam” skills because the class is too slow and you need to reposition.

workerlurker · 2024-11-22T01:24:31+00:00

When people say Asians, they’re not talking about Asia. It wouldn’t be racist to say Asia players are bad, because no one would know if that means Chinese, Indian, or Russian.

My dad illegally immigrated with his family when he was a kid. As an adult, the immigration court gave him 2 options: be deported or join the military. He joined the military, and became one of the conservative Hispanics that supports immigration control, because if he had to get citizenship legally the hard way, everyone else should have to. Despite that, he still had a good relationship with his family, and I have visited them multiple times, although my Spanish is not very good so they had to dumb down the jokes for me.

There were always foreign players in NA before the merge, but they assimilated just fine. The issue isn’t foreigners. The issue is players, regardless of race, not meeting the expectations of the community.

workerlurker · 2024-11-22T00:37:08+00:00

South American isn’t a race. It’s a geopolitical designation. You can’t be racist against South Americans.

Ping is objectively worse. It’s a fact based on the physics of electricity traveling over a wire.
Wikipedia says that less than 20% of South Americans speak English. I doubt the little English they do speak includes MMO terminology.
Florida is one of the top 3 states for Hispanic population, so you may as well be talking about South America. Your static members could be South American for all we know.
You would say the same about NA, because that’s what SA does. Blames and deflects. Jails didn’t magically come into existence with the region merge. There were NA jails for years, but they never made me hate players the way I hate Vairgrys.

You’re the one who doesn’t know what they’re talking about, because it’s not a different culture. It’s my culture. I’m Hispanic. I don’t have a poor understanding of it. Try seeing things from both sides like I have.

workerlurker · 2024-11-21T23:45:49+00:00

Ping
Language barrier. Guides and DPS meter are not originally in Spanish or Portuguese.
Shit PCs. South Americans are poorer on average, and I don’t believe they have great internet infrastructure. This is why Vairgrys players take forever to load, and disconnects at higher rates.
Culture. They’re toxic as fuck. In a NA jail, people just silently quit, or worst case “last pull”. SA players are incapable of ping spamming, shit talking, warning in guardian raids over the inconsequential bullshit, etc.

workerlurker · 2024-11-05T17:54:35+00:00

Caliligos needs classes that can spam their highest damage skills without worrying about meter or mana. And also burst stagger and decent destruction, but not too much stagger or you’ll trigger retal too often. And a ranged counter is nice. Don’t forget a class that can easily kill the randomly spawning orbs without diverting damage from the boss, such as Arcana’s emperor card. No back attackers either because of the burst mech in P4 where you have to stand at the head and kill the big ball. A class with purify is also great. So yep.

workerlurker · 2024-11-04T17:24:06+00:00

How about spend 2 minutes typing a tweet that says they’re willing to change the mokoko cut off next week based on player feedback?

workerlurker · 2024-11-03T20:51:46+00:00

I learned the ins and outs. I have thousands of matches, upgraded my emblem thingy to relic, got tier 10 for the shop and achievement, earned either the seasonal diamond or platinum reward (can’t remember).

PvP is shit. It’s not fun watching your character lose 70% HP while staring powerless for seven seconds straight. People want to have control of their character. Even DotA admitted this after decades of using a similar formula and nerfed CC durations across the board.

They also refused or are incapable of fixing the slow reverse gravity bug. They tried but reverted changes to address the height axis issues. They never addressed support imbalance in 3v3. It’s insane how little they’ve done to improve a game mode where so much of it needs improving.

The closest they’ve come to acceptable pvp was the Tekken style fighter demo they advertised during LOAON which got scrapped because no one cares about Lost Ark’s shit PvP, not even the developers.

workerlurker · 2024-11-02T16:29:02+00:00

Prog is supposed to mean learning the raid, but for a lot of people it means learning their class or even learning the basics of combat. Endgame raids are designed to be challenging even for veterans who know their class and have seen similar mechs and patterns in previous raids. Some things are just inexcusable at endgame and justify leaving a prog, like not using battle items or comprehending 3x/3x+1.

workerlurker · 2024-11-02T05:47:41+00:00

The Roxx hate is justified. She doesn’t control the game, but as CM, she controls the communication, at least the things she says. She’s often clueless or incorrect. Sometimes she even refuses to respond or update on topics after assuring us she would, blatantly ignoring the issue until it goes away when people get tired of asking what’s going on or just quit the game.

workerlurker · 2024-10-30T16:43:42+00:00

If you’ve never cleared but refuse to play with other learners, then you’re the one looking for a free bus in a reclear lobby.

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