I like the idea, but they should have called it something else instead of ‚usename‘. Maybe ‚connection string‘ or ‚discovery phrase‘. Right now they have to explain at length in what ways it’s different from regular usernames.
Wouldn't say it's "common", because IIRC that's only the case in Germany and Austria.
The French use « », Italians use ‘regular’ “quotes”, etc.
Strangely enough, this is the first time I see your style of quote, in two decades on the Internet.
,comma-backtick` whereas I wrote ,comma-apostrophe'
I copy pasted both btw. You see them both as '? I see GP as having ` and me having '
I'm pointing out that nsxwolf was wrong to ask about comma-backtick, because tcmb used comma-apostrophe.
This matches the German convention described on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German.
tcmb: ‚usename‘
nsxwolf: ,comma-backtick`
stavros: ‚comma-apostrophe‘
godelski: ,comma-apostrophe'
Though while copy pasting I see tcmb and stavros as having the same character which is different from the longer character you pasted. Seems my clipboard doesn't like that character. I also seem to have crashed OSX's emoji and symbol tray. No longer pops up if I press the button (bottom left) or select from firefox but got it back by opening safari.
Fuck man, I do not envy you people working on ligatures. Or timezones. I'm always impressed by these random rabbitholes and complexities in things that always look very simple. It's beautiful in a weird way.
Everybody's arguing, then finally all is revealed, and I learned a ton of stuff along the way about German quotation marks and the subtle difference between backticks and opening curly quotes, and low quotation marks and commas, in the Verdana font!
(If this had been a serif font with actual curly quotes the differences would have been much more obvious...)
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
Six degrees will still exist.
(funny weird thing is that with HD2's server issues due too demand, one way to harvest this would be to create a fake LFG host game and have tons and tons of accounts bang against your HellDiver-Pot - and get whatever you can scrape from that?
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OK - I actually went down this hole the other daty... you look at the reddit thread on helldrivers for LFG - or the discord...
So on reddit, you just put .json at end of thread - DL the entire thread as json, now you have reddit id, location, play style, etc, details AND their friendcode on HD2... but since they can individually generate random friend codes on any game/system that allows such... you have a breadcrump (with enough attention span to just correlate all the shared info between these friend codes and data received...
still - even with random friend codes - six degrees is still available, easily.??
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I deeply hope they do a Tech Talk on the post-mortem of this lauch success spiral - its fascinating....
But one thing I am really interested in, this is based on the Autodesk Engine, I know they co-dev-dog-fooded, but I hadnt really known of this engine at all... what little I do know, is that - its amazing...
But I'd really like to know more about the arch and overall traffic flows etc of this game.
Its beautiful see "problems" like this explode in like ~2 weeks.
What do internet traffic graphs look like since growth, per carrier?
They're currently at 394,686 players on steam alone - not including Playstation players. The servers are doing their best right now.
I apologize for not asking a clearer question. I was actually just interested in buying the game, but only if it has public matchmaking built-in for finding anonymous pick-up groups, instead of needing an external Discord server to swap friend codes on.
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then I know that youre solardev.. and we can be friends in future
(but this model is exploitable in ways, which is premise of many threads here)
At a minimum, the server would connect the tokens to players in a database. But usually I think they do more than that, such as hosting lobbies, punching through NAT, and in many cases, actually hosting the games themselves and being the authority for all the state.
In that case I don't see how tokens would save any load over matchmaking.
the additional telemetry data for such connections and also unknown tracking from the clients is what is load.
unless you know what is coming going from to each client, and reqs of that connection btwn clients on the DB... have a bad time?
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Or am I an idiot.
Its a code, inviting other people to speak to you.
My reaction to the article was that they're using a lot of words to explain this change. That suggested to me that maybe they aren't being completely candid.
I've never used Signal, because (a) I don't want to rely on a smartphone, and (b) I don't want to use my phone-number as my ID, because it's traceable. I can't work out from the TFA verbiage whether this change addresses my concerns or not. That in itself is concerning, to me.
Regarding (b), yeah that's still a bummer, though, depending on your country of residence, you can get throwaway SIM cards for free and use that.
The former C++ programmer in me wants to call them "user pointers" but that would just confuse people who haven't learned pointers.