WhereIsTheTruth

not every 'cheats' are equal, some lets you get an unfair advantage in PvP

but for most people, its because it provides some nice quality of life improvements, example:

- improved inventory management

- auto loot

- quest tracker

- enhanced HUD

I've never been a fan of "banning" users, make your server authoritative if you care about that kind of things, or better, listen to your players feedback

The process of modding a game and using cheats is the exact same: DLL injection, or MITM proxy for packets manipulation, so don't assume everyone has evil intentions only because of a open port ;)

Example of well intentioned modding community for Online games:

TrackMania: https://openplanet.dev/plugins

WoW: https://www.wowinterface.com/addons.php

> You would have the US just.. give Taiwan over to China, against the will of Taiwan's own people

According to this article, Taiwanese still want to do business with China, so your suggestion is to prevent Taiwanese to do business with China, against their will? wait, something doesn't sound right, i can't pin point it just yet!

> Expand those security requirements to international technology partners. If it's a race, incentivize partners to support our interests.

Well, again, according to this article, Taiwanese wants China as partners, at a least as business partners

You keep contradicting yourself.. oh wait...

> incentivize partners to support our interests

oh right! your interests above theirs! now it all make sense! thanks

> We can't even secure our key technologies. Security at TSMC being a consideration, but not just them.

TSMC is not yours, is Taiwan sovereign or not? According to you, it's not, but when China claims it, it suddenly becomes sovereign? very conveniant

> There are constant reports of industrial espionage, both within the US and all along our critical supply chain internationally. Admittedly, it's a lot easier to steal from an open society than a closed, homogeneous one. But where are the armies of advisors to assess critical infrastructure or even help assess threats on an ongoing basis. We should _almost_ be treating our and our allies high tech industrial infrastructure like they are weapon and munitions factories in a wartime environment.

Right,

https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/290615/revealed-m...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...

You are being engineered to support the idea of a full scale war with China, it won't go well for americans if you decide to choose that path

And Go compiles very fast, very few understand how important this is

Not only it is important for fast iteration, but it also contributes to the fun, waiting for compiler to finish is not fun

To me there shouldn't be any new language made without hotreload and incremental compilation

It's 2024, with the HW we have, we shouldn't have to wait more than 1 second to compile code

Fun fact, my game written in D (30k LOC), fully recompiles in 0.4 seconds (Intel i3 10400f), if i can do it, you can too

Downvoter, go check this: https://wiki.vg/Protocol, let me know if that's a good way to sync a lot of fast moving entities across a TCP network

This is why people struggle with their servers, not because the game was written in java

i wish minecraft was open source, i'd be able to fix their inefficient protocol

Notice the change in tone when it is Microsoft or Valve vs the competition

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/sony-ubisoft-sca...

Not sure if that organisation is making progress, sounds like a smoke bomb, to please people who care about these meaningless rewards

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/385216...

A language that is slow to compile can't be the future of anything

Waiting for your code to compile in order to be able to see how this new color looks, or this new font or this new title or this new game player speed feels, just is BAD, very BAD

You don't have to trust what i say

You can however trust facts

Here a real world example to verify that fact everyone can test at home

Clone this popular open source game written in Rust:

https://github.com/veloren/veloren

Compile it, `cargo build` easy

Insert "... an hour later .." meme

Nice, you got it to compile

Now change any value, just like a gamedev would do when he iterates on its game

Here for example, the strength of the lighting effect:

https://github.com/veloren/veloren/blob/master/server/src/cm...

Again, `cargo build`

Let us know, how long it took to compile on your machine

It took 17 seconds for me, 17!!! seconds!!!, just because i wanted to change the look of the lighting effect

Is this how you view the future of GPU/gamedev programming?

GPU/gamedev programming deserve better

Even gamers are sick of slow compilers

https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/04/07/shader-compilation-...

When fraudsters and propaganda takes over tech, that's what you get

it's not 'fractured', it's just fragmented, and it's not necessarily a bad thing, it gives plenty of room for R&D and experimentation

if something doesn't end up working well, you pivot

I was right since the beginning, the cryptocurrency fad was a test, to both harden and crowdfund the development of a CBDC

To make people perhaps want to "want" it

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/publications/t...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...

What's interesting tho, is Brazil (Lula's administration), let Visa acquire their crypto fintech Pismo last year

https://investor.visa.com/news/news-details/2023/Visa-to-Acq...

Just use D?

The point is not to use something else, but to improve what they already use

When you see FUD, you see FUD, but you chose to ignore it, i can't be the only one to see it, it's in plain text, in the title

Something tells me you are a brit living in CZ. Am I wrong?

It's not about being "cool"

It's about the motives

"it's open source"

"it now works on linux"

it all doesn't matter if they'll go after your ass if you dare build tooling with their debugger (jetbrains)

or when they want to remove a feature overnight to make it exclusive to visual studio windows and behind a paywall

https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247

it's this kind of things that makes it hard to recommend it to people, and Microsoft can't be trusted

WGSL was a mistake and hopefully they get rid of it, it negatively impacts WebGPU's adoption, at least it did for me, the syntax is one of the worst ever created, just horrible

I ended up participating and contributing to open source instead ;)

The industry is mostly run by opportunists, I refused to make career despite my appetite for low level programming

I have no desire to contribute to this whole circus full for fraudsters

Perhaps your friends don't like video games and are just wanting to kill time out of boredom

Expecting that all games should become like this because that's how "you" like them is selfish and dangerous

There is room for all kind of games

Who doesn't like free manpower to kickstart your VC backed startup?

"We only have 2 employees btw, we are so good"

The one you own

Anything else needs to make money, either by injecting ads, or by selling your data

Learn to self host your stuff

They should slap "AI" on it, and they'll get a free pass, like Microsoft

Congrats, always great to see stuff built for handheld consoles

I'm surprised at the file size though, you'd think having a device with such a low res and without colors, you'd be able to shrink down assets more

Comparing to a Densha de Go rom from n64, the difference is huge and yet it had colors and 2x the res

How is preventing a color revolution "authoritarian"?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/brazil-...

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240540.shtml

You'd want the white house to do the same if China would want to do something similar with, let's say, TikTok ;)

It is technical if maintainers need to maintain code written in a language they are not familiar with

If you are not happy, you fork the kernel

billion dollar company, infinite cash, blind trust from government, and that's what they come up with?

insane

i'll say it again, if the west goes all in with microsoft, it'll collapse

You are right, I was too focused on the gamedev argument that it made me use an incorrect statement

SDL is for gamedevs, it supports consoles, wgpu is not, it doesn't

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, X(Twitter), Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp

They all cooperate with governments: https://www.engadget.com/authorities-reportedly-ordered-goog...

In fact, google is partly CIA/NSA

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

There is a precedent of US spying on its allies with both cloud, telecom and bank transactions

- https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...

- https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/290615/revealed-m...

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/denmark-helped...

If anything, Starlink increases US's spying capabilities, let's not be ignorant and blindedly stupid here

Typical "China Bad, US savior" propaganda

That's how you build global giants, you get the press to spread FUD against the competition